STICKER BOOK EXAMINES SOCIOPOLITICAL IMPACT OF GRAFFITI STICKER ART IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE.
THE DEFINITIVE STICKER BOOK, BY DB BURKEMAN AND MCA, FEATURING THE ARTWORK OF MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II, HAS BEEN EXHIBITED IN MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND ART FAIRS INCLUDING ART BASEL MIAMI WEEK.
STICKERS: FROM PUNK ROCK TO CONTEMPORARY ART (A.K.A. “Stuck-Up Piece of Crap”) traces the visual and social history of the sticker art medium.
STICKERS, EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP THAT ARTISTS HAVE WITH THEIR PIECES AND HOW THEY COMMUNICATE WITH PASSING PEDESTRIANS.
The subculture and once deep, underground world of graffiti and street art, has recently been enthusiastically welcomed by fine art galleries, opening their doors, and embraced by art collectors, opening their wallets, to works of art that were once plastered, illegally, in cities throughout the world.
SHEPARD FAIREY AND THE MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II MANIFEST THOUGHT PROVOKING STREET ART IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
“All of this chaos and darkness fit my mental and emotional state perfectly.” – DB BURKEMAN
NEW YORK TIMES GRAFFITI STICKER TAGS.
“Stickers: From Punk Rock To Contemporary Art”, begins with Andy Warhols Banana sticker for the Velvet Underground and punk stickers in the mid 70’s to early 80’s.
CHINATOWN STREET ART
The Library of Congress and University reference book, “Stickers: From Punk Rock To Contemporary Art”, chronicles the development of sticker art through different eras, such as: Californian skate culture, early Hip Hop, infamous graffiti tags, Techno/Rave culture in the late 80s and early 90s, recent political and controversial subjects, right up to contemporary art and street art today.
STREET ART YBOR CITY
“STICKERS: From Punk Rock To Contemporary Art” spotlights “celebrity” artists who are not necessarily known for stickers and graffiti art, such as the Modern Art Music Movement™ founder, fine artist and award-winning filmmaker, Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca II.
STICKER TAG
A section of the book focuses on non-traditional sticker mediums like: wheat pastes, tape, tiles, postage stamps or anything else an artist chooses to work with that utilizes adhesive materials.
THOUGHT PROVOKING STICKER ART
“Whether printed or stenciled or painted or drawn with a marker, stickers confront the inequity of the mainstream artworld. Their presence declares that here is a spontaneous form of artistic expression that does not fit into the prescribed definition of art.” – Stikman
MIAMI GRAFFITI STICKER ART
Themes from branding to political activism are explored in the visually stunning book, “STICKERS: From Punk Rock To Contemporary Art”.
STREET ART MIAMI BEACH
“STICKERS: From Punk Rock To Contemporary Art” contains essays from Carlo McCormick, Shepard Fairey, and many other artists and collectors.
“IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT PAPER AND VINYL WITH ADHESIVE BACKING CAN DO SO MUCH.”- SHEPARD FAIREY: STICKER BOOK INTRODUCTION.
“Just like the people I knew then, very few stickers made it out alive.” – DB BURKEMAN
“A LITTLE STICKER CAN BE A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS, AND DO A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS.” – SHEPARD FAIREY: STICKER BOOK INTRODUCTION.
“Also that year, every time I got into the back seat of a cab I noticed that it had been hit with a silver foil sticker that read NEON LEON’S RAINBOW EXPRESS in orange lettering.” – DB BURKEMAN
SOCIOPOLITICAL STICKERS- STRONG MESSAGES ON A LOW BUDGET.
“Allegedly Leon was a pimp. ” – DB BURKEMAN
CHICAGO STREET ART
“He gave all the girls he was running his stickers and they went up and down the city hitting the taxis. – DB BURKEMAN
Miami Beach Street Art
“I would wander around downtown and marvel at the decay-and what was about to be called street art. -DB BURKEMAN
St. Petersburg Street Art
“With what was going on in the world, everybody was complaining and asking ‘Why?’ when in fact, the question should have been, ‘Why not?'” – Stewart Stewart
COCONUT GROVE STREET ART
In 1982, Stewart Stewart was arrested by the anti-vandal squad while hitting a NYC subway car.
MIAMI STREET ART
The arresting officers and prosecuting judge asked Stewart Stewart for autographed stickers.
NEW YORK STREET ART
“Years later, after officially giving up drugs and the fantasy of being a photographer, I felt like I’d been given a second chance at life and was filled with a new unstoppable energy.” – DB BURKEMAN
NEW YORK STREET ART
“What is it about stickers that some people find so intriguing, while others either don’t notice them or just think of them as stuck up pieces of crap?” – DB BURKEMAN
CRACKHEAD JESUS IS COMING ON WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH HATERS
“I fiended for the stickers that came in bubble gum cards.” – DB BURKEMAN
CHICAGOSTREET ART
“I feel that the people who love stickers think of them as tiny, portable works of art.” – DB BURKEMAN
CHICAGO STREET ART
“At first I thought it was just geeky OCD types like myself that were into stickers, but I’ve found so many different kinds of people with sticker collections and stories; even some of the artists I’m in awe of.” – DB BURKEMAN
MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT STREET ART
“Kids, in general, I think, are much more open to absorbing art in a profound way when it’s on the street and not in a sterile gallery.” – DB BURKEMAN
SOUTH BEACH STREET ART
“I came to a peaceful place, thinking that the artists would probably be happy to know their stickers will last a lot longer in a book.” – DB BURKEMAN
STICKER SLAPPING
“Topps are the American Sticker Gods” – DB BURKEMAN
STICKER TAGGING
“Topps ‘Wacky Packages’ and ‘Garbage Pail Kids’ set the standard for kids with warped senses of humor.” – DB BURKEMAN
STREET ART BETHLEHEM
“During the French Revolution, in the late eighteenth century, propaganda posters were stuck up in the streets, in order to hammer home the ideas of the revolution to the public, portraying images of King Louis XVI as a drunken pig and of Marie Antoinette in sexually explicit positions.” – DB BURKEMAN
STREET ART YBOR CITY
“It’s always appealed to me when an artist uses the medium of stickering as a way of dealing with personal issues: exorcising their inner demons and using the streets as their free therapist or confessional.” – DB BURKEMAN
STICKER BOMB
“It’s anti-media, anti-established art world.” – Poster Boy
SLAP TAGGING
“Guess he’s just an asshole in an art lover’s suit.” – DB BURKEMAN
NEW YORK STREET ART
R. Stanton Avery created the first self-adhesive sticker in the 1930’s.
ADHESIVE STICKER ART
In 1946 the first self-adhesive bumper stickers were produced by Forrest Gill.
NEW JERSEY STREET ART
“Since their inception, bumper stickers have played a role in every political election, religious ideology and social uprising in the United States. ” -Ken Harman
STREET ART CHICAGO
“Stickers rule.” – Shepard Fairey
STICKER TAGS
“When I pause to think about it, stickers have changed my life.” – Shepard Fairey
STICKER SLAP
“Repetition works and stickers are a perfect medium to demonstrate this principle.” – Shepard Fairey
STICKER BOMB
“Stickers were evidence that I wasn’t living in a total void.” – Shepard Fairey
STICKER TAG
“I wanted stickers as badges of my culture.” – Shepard Fairey
STICKER BOMB
The Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca II moved form New York City to Newport, Rhode Island in 1988 to attend the United States Naval Academy Prep School at The Newport Naval Base War College. That same year, fellow graffiti, sticker, artist Shepard Fairey moved to Providence, Rhode Island, to attend the Rhode Island School Of Design.
CHICAGO STREET ART
“Providence had a tremendous art and music scene compared to what I was used to, and stickers were everywhere. – Shepard Fairey
NEW YORK STREET ART
“There were tons of band stickers, political-cause stickers and most interesting to me, a few art stickers and ‘Hello My Name Is…’ stickers.” – Shepard Fairey
MIAMI BEACH STREET ART
“A lot of the art stickers begged the question: What is this about?” – Shepard Fairey
CHICAGO STREET ART
“It was at this point that I began to ponder the sticker as a means of expression and communication for an individual, instead of just representing a band, company or movement.” – Shepard Fairey
STICKER BOMB
“I liked the idea of having my own sticker, but couldn’t think of anything clever enough to be worth executing.” – Shepard Fairey
CHICAGO STREET ART
“I paid very close attention to stickers and I would try to figure out who and what was behind any sticker I saw.” – Shepard Fairey
SLAP TAGGING
“During a museum trip to New York that freshman year of college, I saw graffiti in risky places that gave me new respect for the dedication of the writers.” – Shepard Fairey
STICKER SLAPPING
“Just as I had been made curious by many of the stickers I’d seen, I now had my own sticker to taunt and/or stimulate the public.” – Shepard Fairey
CHICAGO STREET ART
“Once the first domino fell, I was addicted and had my sights set on world domination through stickers.” – Shepard Fairey
MIAMI BEACH STREET ART
“It amazed me just how liberating and easy sticking was.” – Shepard Fairey
STICKER SLAPPING
“Every sheet of stickers I printed felt like I was making the world a little smaller: I mean, all those stickers were gonna end up somewhere.” – Shepard Fairey
CHICAGO STREET ART
From 1989 to 1996, Shepard Fairey hand-printed and hand-cut over one million stickers.
GRAFFITI STICKER ART
To date, over, 25,000 black and white “Crackhead Jesus is coming” stickers have been distributed to global audiences at Modern Art Music Movement™ Happenings across the United States from New York City to Las Vegas during the 2005 and 2009 Modern Art Music Movement™ tours.
STICKER TAG
The Crackhead Jesus is coming sticker has appeared all over the world including Sydney, Australia and Paris, France, at Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise beside the grave of The Doors, Jim Morrison.
THE DOORS, JIM MORRISON, GRAVE.
The deluxe limited edition of “Stickers: From Punk Rock To Contemporary Art” comes in a clamshell box with a folder of die-cut stickers, some of them signed by the artists, and sells for US $350.00 US / Can $400.00.
THE “STICKERS” DELUXE LIMITED EDITION SOLD OUT AND IS NOW A COLLECTORS ITEM.
The iconic, “Crackhead Jesus is coming” sticker, has appeared on television, in movies and music videos as well as in magazines and newspapers.
CRACKHEAD JESUS STICKER ON POLE AS SEEN ON FOX 13 NEWS TAMPA BROADCAST WITH EVAN AXELBANK.
During the live-on-the-scene evening news broadcast of a gruesome kidnapping and rape story in Tampa Bay, Florida, the “Crackhead Jesus is coming” sticker appeared, over the shoulder, of newsman Evan Axelbank, throughout his report.
STICKER BUM
“Crackheadjesus is coming and he doesn’t pull out.”
-MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR HUGO VACA II
THE MUSE WITH THE MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II AT THE GRAFFITI SUMMIT IN FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA.
ARTIST CREATES A CONTEMPORARY ART CRACKHEAD JESUS MEME
Memes are a great way of communicating an idea with strong words and visuals.
MEANWHILE, AT THE UNITED NATIONS.
The meme evolved organically into the fabric of digital art, from pop artists like Andy Warhol, who took the banal and forced it into the worldview of art curators and wealthy fine art collectors.
THE CONUNDRUM
Memes blur the line between content and art.
UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA
Whether or not you think memes are contemporary works of art, at the very least, it’s impossible to discount them as creative, historical, digital artifacts.
HILLARY CLINTON OLIGARCHY
Teachers use memes as classroom tools that serve as powerful conversation starters.
DID GOD MAKE MAN OR DID SPIDERMAN MAKE GOD?
The May 2011 edition of Smithsonian Magazine featured an article in the Arts and culture section titled, “What Defines A Meme?” By James Gleick.
WELFARE STATE
On June 16, 2013, “Time” magazine published an article titled, “The Meme As Art: Painter Sophisticates Cyberculture”, by Samantha Grossman.
BUT I THINK YOU’RE A CUNT
On June 23, 2013, Kate Knibbs article, “Are Memes The Pop Culture Art Of Our Era?” was published in “Digital Trends”.
DONALD TRUMP VS. HILLARY CLINTON
Many galleries showcase Internet-based art. In 2012, Gallery 1988 featured an exhibit called “Memes”.
UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA WAKE UP
On April 12, 2012 “The Verge” published an article titled, “Are Memes Art?” By Tyler Gold.
LOBBYISTS
Meme-lovers embrace the idea of communal ownership.
CONTEMPORARY ART MEME
On Saturday July 18, 2015 The “Independent” U.K. published an article by Richard Jinman titled, “ A Los Angeles Art Museum Is Turning Classic Works Into Memes And Sharing Them On Snapchat For Youngsters To View. One ‘snap was viewed more than 60,000 times.”
THIS 2ND AMENDMENT MEME WAS CENSORED BY FACEBOOK BECAUSE THE 1ST AMENDMENT DOESN’T APPLY TO PRIVATELY OWNED SOCIAL NETWORKS LIKE INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK OR TWITTER: HOWEVER, THE AFOREMENTIONED SOCIAL NETWORKS, DO ALLOW TERRORISTS TO BE RECRUITED ON THEIR PLATFORMS AND RAPES TO BE BROADCAST LIVE.
In 2016, “Art Pulse” Published “What Happens When Contemporary Art Turns Into an Internet Meme?”By Domenico Quaranta.
THE CLINTON MACHINE DEFIES THE RULE OF LAW, CREATING ANARCHY IN THE USA.
On June 19, 2013, “Relevant Magazine” published an article titled, “The Fine Art Of The Meme”.
PUBLIC TRUST IN AMERICAN NEWS OUTLETS NOSEDIVES DUE TO WEAK INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM AND LAZY FACT CHECKING.
“People are creating images and sharing them with strangers to communicate their personal experiences? That, my friends, is art.” – PBS Idea Channel host, Mike Rugnetta, citing Tolstoy and Aristotle.
HAPPY MEAL
“When in doubt about the Golden Rule, ask yourself: What would Crackheadjesus do? Because we all know what Jesus Christ would do.” – Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca II
“It’s not about race, it’s about state of mind, Meiniggas.” – Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca II
INSIDE WELLS FARGO CENTER IN PHILADELPHIA THE UNDECIDED VOTER SEES WELCOME CULTURE WALL STREET DEMOCRATS STAGE DNC CONVENTION BEHIND 8 FOOT BORDER WALL OUTSIDE THE CLINTON MACHINE.
The Undecided Voter observes mainstream media outlets, owned by a small number of Caucasians in the top 1% tax bracket, hire excessively obedient, servile journalists and minority reporters, to serve as Uncle-Tom’s-against-logic, by whitewashing over the fact, that the so-called party of inclusion is so blatantly raping the Democratic process in favor of bailed out big banks on Wall Street, that it is holding the DNC, at The Wells Fargo Center, with a fence perimeter keeping Bernie Sanders protestors, four miles away from the Too-Big-To-Fail-Bank’s venue.
“THE CLINTON MACHINE: STOP MONICA LEWINSKY STAINS BEFORE THEY START” BY VICTOR HUGO VACA II
Democrats convene, like hypocrites, in a convention center whose name, Wells Fargo, symbolizes the greatest bank heist in human history, perpetrated on every American taxpayer and Constituent, for seven generations forward, by President Bill Clinton who manifested, “The Too-Big-To-Fail-Bank Bailouts”, by undoing and completely dismantling the, if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t fix-it, Glass-Steagall Act, also known as The Banking Act, while Hillary Rodham Clinton besmirched Monica Lewinsky in public, for performing oral favors on her adulterous, presidential, bank-friendly-husband, Bill Clinton.
“EMANCIPATE YOURSELF FROM LEGAL SLAVERY” BY MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR HUGO VACA II
The Clinton Machine manipulated the United States Justice System and politically-correct mainstream-media news outlets, to create a real world, where blow jobs, are no longer considered oral sex, so as to fit the honest framework of Hillary Clinton’s husband and his testimony under oath, when President Bill Clinton stated emphatically, to the American public, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.”, and in so doing, changed human history, for generations to cum.
“UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA FLAG” BY MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II
And “poof!”, like that, The Undecided Voter realizes the documented but unreported power of The Clinton Machine in history and wonders out loud, like some well-groomed-pervert, at a Starbucks, reading Hustler Magazine inside of a Wall Street Journal: “If the Clinton Machine can make a blow job, not sex in the real world, by Rule Of Law, and dismiss the leak of Top Secret information in emails, as not violating any Rule of Law in America, what can the Clinton-Machine possibly do, in collusion with Uncle Tom’s disguised as journalists, raping public, trust in favor of money and ratings if Hillary Clinton wins the 2016 U.S. Presidential election?”
TPP Trans Pacific Partnership By Victor Hugo Vaca II
“The Democrats holding the DNC at Wells Fargo Center is like the NAACP and #BlackLivesMatter holding their convention at The General Robert E. Lee Center or The General Stonewall Jackson Arena.” – Victor-Hugo Vaca II
Maverick Artist Victor Hugo Vaca II
“It’s not, as Michelle Obama says, that a woman can be President Of The United States; it’s that crooks, like Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, can become President of the United States.”- Victor-Hugo Vaca II
The Sellouts: Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren @ The Wells Fargo DNC.
The Story Of How Bernie Sanders Revolution Jumped The Shark Over Undecided Voters & Millennials In The New World Order.
The Undecided Voter and Millennials realize that, if the DNC server was hacked by Russians, to expose a rigged “Democratic” election system in the United States, fueled by the corrupt, “Clinton Machine”, under the blatant leadership of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in the crackheadjesus state of Florida, in the United States of America, the “dangerous-to-national-security-for-constituents-allies-and-trade-partners-personal-server” kept beside, U.S. Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton’s toilet, when she was Secretary Of State under President Barack Hussein Obama, was probably hacked too.
Think – Club NY Graffiti
Now, that Bernie Sanders has lost all credibility by backing corrupt oligarchy and status-quo-plutocracy, over a fresh new beginning, to inspire hope and freedom for seven generations forward; The Undecided Voter and Millennials must now, examine the definitions of: democracy, oligarchy and plutocracy.
Bernie Sanders Kow Tows To The Clinton Machine But Not Voters.
Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
Graffiti Speaks Truth To Power
Plutocracy is a country or society governed by the wealthy. Plutocracy is an elite or ruling class of people whose power derives from their wealth.
The Clinton Machine
Oligarchy is a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
Trump vs Clinton
Remember, whether you are Republican or Democrat, black or white, Jewish or Muslim, Roman Catholic or Satanist ; a vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, is a vote for the death of democracy.
Welcome back, to those around the digital universe who visited www.vhvii.com, www.victorhugogallery.com and www.crackheadjesus.com when the internet was still spreading its wings and searching for purpose amongst artists and muses looking to interact with and redefine the creative process. No doubt, you noticed the award-winning websites were shut down or hacked and redirected at the peak of popularity, suddenly and without explanation.
Maverick Artist Victor Hugo Vaca II – The Censored Artist
Through over 1,000 works of impactful, thought-provoking, fine-art and graffiti, representing a diary-of-the-world-on-canvas and movie-story-board, for a forthcoming major motion picture series about the birth of modern-art-gonzo-journalism, you will learn, over time, the incredible events that manifested the creation of, The Victor-Hugo Collection.
The Victor-Hugo Collection
For those of you who thought The Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo had wandered off never to return, you were wrong. He’s back, with the Modern Art Music Movement™ to share with you, if you wish, “The Strangest Love Story Ever Told”.
“City Nights”, Cult Film, “Crackhead Jesus: The Movie”, Behind The Scenes of 72-Hour Film Competition.
FOX BUSINESS NEWS: FINE ART AND FILMMAKING WITH MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II
“When I talk about artists, I’m talking about actors, I’m talking about musicians, I’m talking about filmmakers and writers: I mean, we all are one community and our purpose, is to tell the story of our existence, for future generations.” -Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr.
2009 Delray Beach Film Festival The Modern Art Music Movement Billboard
Filmmakers Forum City Nights Interview With Award Winning Director and Screenwriter (Crackhead Jesus: The Movie) Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca II [PART I]
MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR HUGO VACA II
“As an artist, I take that and I digest it and then what you get is, Crackhead Jesus : The Movie.” – Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr.
When the artist, also a landlord, tries to evict his tenant, Mr. Rogers, an aging high-school football star going through severe midlife crisis, who believes he is the Second Coming of Christ, after getting high on Crack with his mistress, at his influential law firms Christmas Party, the protagonist artist, discovers that, his art patron and landlord, may be a blue-blooded serial-killer-spinal-surgeon, hiring unsuspecting creative types, to manifest mementos drawn from the blood of his murder victims, mixed in paint, he willingly provides to his mysteriously dwindling collective of artists, to capture, in works of bizarre, captivating and surreal art on canvas, created by inspired visionaries on stages, in front of large audiences, in sold-out iconic venues around the world, his vicious crimes, for personal posterity and as historical record, in the maniacal spinal surgeon’s quest to become, the most prolific serial killer of all time.
A cloak and dagger conspiracy of evil witches disguised as attorneys and judges try to stop the artist and his creative friends from exposing the wicked covens plot, to undermine the U.S. justice system and bring down government, by breeding home-grown judicial-terrorists, to create chaos in courts and society, through Rule Of Law. The first 18 minutes of the planned seven movie series introduces the main characters and plot lines of “Crackhead Jesus: The Movie”.
“Redemption: The Story Of The Crackhead Jesus Trials” the modern-art-graphic-iNovel that inspired the cult film, “Crackhead Jesus: The Movie” is, a “Harry Potter for Adults” created for the Lied to Generation by Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca II.
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