This morning we wake up and continue our work on the mural. The breakfast at the hotel Berkhana is awesome! I keep getting the fried eggs and the woman who runs the cafe keeps making awesome homemade bread!
James and Anna are at the gallery already doing work. James and I go to the coffee shop [...]
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More Progress…
Posted in Life, Work on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Daniel’s Diary – SEPTEMBER 26th
Posted in Life, tagged art, graffitti, kazakhstan on September 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have a full nights sleep. I wake up around 7 am and start doing some writing on the computer. Around 9 am the door knocks Davon opens the door and it’s a film crew from one of the local television stations. I’m still in my boxers I tell them to wait for [...]
Daniel’s Diary -SEPTEMBER 25th
Posted in Life, tagged kazakhstan, travel on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So we arrived in Almaty around 5 am in the morning and we are quickly met with this embassy liaison who is there waiting for us with a sign with my name on it. There is another name and I quickly learn there is another American on the flight besides myself and Davon. We [...]
Daniel’s Diary – SEPTEMBER 23rd
Posted in Life, tagged kazakhstan, travel on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The flight from San Francisco to Almaty was quite long but it was fine since it was a KLM flight direct to Amsterdam. I landed in Amsterdam and waited to meet Davon.
We both agreed to meet in the airport terminal where we’d take off from. I watched the news and after a couple [...]
My return to Almaty
Posted in Life, tagged art, kazakhstan, travel on September 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Exactly one year later after my fifteen-month-stay in Kazakhstan (see my diaries), I am about to embark upon another trip there. This time, Vladimir Filatov of the Tengri-Umai gallery proposed a collaborative project involving graffiti. His vision has been to do something outside gallery, in public space.
My origins are in the art of spray paint. [...]
five must do things in KAZAKHSTAN
Posted in Life, tagged Food, hopes, kazakhstan, records on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
1. Eat as much food as possible. Horse sausage included.
2. Record shopping. Kazakh breaks!??! Yes, please!
3. mixtapemixtape!!! stickering. Promotional opportunities never cease.
4. Taste as much local beer and vodka as time allows. And there’s always time for alcohol.
5. Dispel the myths of the fat, [...]
inshallah
Posted in Life, tagged art, kazakhstan, travel on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TEAM KAZAKHSTAN met for the first time last weekend in Oakland, CA. I had been in email contact with Daniel for sometime but this was the first time we had met in person and the first time Daniel and James had seen each other in over 10 years. It was a festive occasion.
As [...]
