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.
Tracking a serial-killer is like trying to put together a moving jigsaw puzzle. Serial killers leave crumbs of evidence in plain sight because they can’t fight the urge to want to get caught. For most people, the hard part is seeing the crumbs for the clues they are but intuitive artists, detectives and investigative journalists often see past the truth. After all, what good are all those brilliant crimes if no one takes the credit?
In a world where the Washington Post, NPR, NBC and other news outlets have focused on long term character traits and behavior patterns for morning show hosts, and Hollywood producers, should people worry about an elite spinal-surgeon, described in news publications as a slum-lord who according to government officials, almost ran an airline into the ground and female subordinates claim is a sexual predator serial-killer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dujFVJqTjZc
“Capicua 3:1:3 – The Long Arm Of The Law (The Story Of Alleged Serial-Killer-Spinal-Surgeon, Charles C. Edwards MD)” By Victor-Hugo Vaca II.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Is Baltimore/D.C. Area Surgeon Charles Edwards MD, Ted Cruz’s favorite alleged serial killer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgIP4cnm7dc
MODERN-ART-GONZO-JOURNALISM : TO CATCH A SERIAL KILLER – Ted Cruz Ponders Favorite Serial Killer On Jimmy Kimmel Live After 55 Year-Old Italian Nurse Arrested As Tuscan Hospital Serial Killer: Awkward moment captured on film makes voters wonder if Charles C. Edwards MD, is the Canadian born Republican U.S. presidential candidate’s favorite alleged serial killer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T63oEG5-wSM
In this telling interview, United States Presidential candidate, Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz, who was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on December 22, 1970 and remained a Canadian citizen until he officially renounced it on May 14, 2014, eighteen months after taking the oath of office as a U.S. Senator, stumbles into an awkward moment on Jimmy Kimmel Live, that raises several questions about the alleged serial-killer-spinal surgeon, Dr. Charles Edwards, operating out of the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area and Senator Ted Cruz, whom some allege to be the Zodiac Killer.
Infamous Ted Cruz Favorite Serial Killer Moment On Jimmy Kimmel Live Highlights Apathy Manifesting Global Hunting Grounds For Alleged Serial Killers And Terrorists Who Live In General Public Disguised As Figures Of Public Trust : The Grim Sleeper, Serial-Killer-Spinal-Surgeon, ISIS And Ted Cruz Open Serial Killer vs.Terrorist Debate in 2016 United States Presidential Election.
For 30 years, from 1985 to 2007, Lonnie Franklin Jr., a 63-year-old former police mechanic from Los Angeles, California, allegedly killed over 180 victims; though, some crime analysts estimate the final body count attributed to him, may be over one thousand murdered. After a victim survived his attack in 1988, Franklin Jr. took a break from creating ghosts, until 2002, when the urge to murder became too strong. Because of this break in his killing spree, Lonnie Franklin Jr. is nicknamed, “The Grim Sleeper”. Franklin, according to prosecutors, was invisible, and able to blend in perfectly amid the chaos of a city which was blighted by crack cocaine.
In the award-winning film, “Crackhead Jesus: The Movie”, art imitates life. Inspired by curious allegations of Washington D.C. area stalked by a serial-killer-spinal-surgeon that surfaced from individuals close to Baltimore area investor, airline owner and doctor, Charles Edwards MD. According to an F.A.A. insider, Charles Edwards MD, allegedly purchased Kiwi Airlines to run down maintenance on airplanes as acting CEO, in order to get away with murder, since Airline CEO’s don’t get arrested for murder after fatal plane crash disasters. A Federal Aviation Administration report found Kiwi Airlines planes to be unsafe to fly and the company was shut down by the FAA because Kiwi Airlines planes were found to be in “unairworthy condition”.
The Story of Alleged Serial Killer Spinal Surgeon Dr. Charles Edwards
Growing allegations that Charles C. Edwards MD, described by People magazine as, “a uniquely inventive orthopedic surgeon who has added radical new techniques to skeletal reconstruction”, could feel empowered to act, in the Age of Harvey Weinstein, to kill unsuspecting tenants, patients and customers, on a grand scale, by using lawyers to manipulate a broken two-tier justice system, that affords corporations like GM, CEO’s like, Don Blankenship and allegedly well connected serial-killer-spinal-surgeons working for Sisters of Mercy to hide behind publicly perceived protection and receive immunity from punishment under corporate shields, inspired the New York born Hispanic artist, Victor-Hugo Vaca II to create a Modern-Art-Graphic-Novel titled, “Redemption: The Story Of The Crackhead Jesus Trials”.
Redemption
The work of modern-art-gonzo-journalism explores circumstances behind the allegations that a world renowned spinal surgeon could be an alleged serial-killer flying under the radar for decades emboldened by weak investigative journalism, corporate greed, corrupt government and a broken justice system in the United States of America during a year of election.
Charles C Edwards MD- Alleged Serial-Killer-Spinal-Surgeon
The work of art titled “Capicua 3:1:3 – The Long Arm Of The Law The Story Of Alleged Serial Killer Spinal Surgeon, Charles Edwards MD” inspired the award-winning independent short-film produced by the Modern Art Music Movement titled, “Crackhead Jesus: The Movie”, directed by Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr, at the 2009 Delray Beach, Florida Film Festival during a seventy-two hour film competition.
Crackhead Jesus: The Movie Review
Alleged serial-killers like Lonnie Franklin Jr. and Charles C. Edwards MD are alleged to have tallied a high victim count. Republican, Ted Cruz, let it be known to Jimmy Kimmel in front of a startled live audience, that in fact, the Canadian-Born-Christian-Conservative, not only has a unique favorite breakfast cereal, he has a favorite serial-killer too.
Is Charles Edwards MD Ted Cruz’s favorite alleged serial killer?
The following quotes from newspaper articles fueled rumors that Charles C. Edwards MD had allegedly set his sights on being the most prolific serial killer in history by using money, influence, profession and a shield of corporate lawyers to protect his murderous ways:
MIAMI HERALD ARTICLE Grand View Palace North Bay Village, Florida
The Baltimore surgeon who owns the Cherry Hill Apartments filed a lawsuit yesterday against the township, seeking to stop Mayor Susan Bass Levin from completing the condemnation of his property.
“The suit, filed by owner Charles Edwards in Camden County Superior Court, seeks to block township officials from declaring the 41-year-old apartment complex on Route 38 a redevelopment zone”
“The apartments were deemed “unfit for human habitation” in early August. Its 61 residents were evacuated and placed in other apartments in town.”
THE GRAND VIEW PALACE & CHERRY HILL APARTMENTS – SAME, SAME BUT DIFFERENT.
“The Cherry Hill Apartments are in desperate need of rehabilitation,” Levin said, adding that the Township Council is set to vote Monday on repossessing the property. “I suggest he stop hiring lawyers and do something to make the buildings safe again.”
“township officials had told Edwards several times about their concerns over the buildings’ condition – which led township, county and state agencies to cite Edwards for violations ranging from faulty lighting to dead animals on the premises.”
Charles C. Edwards, the surgeon, acquired the buildings in 1995 but could not come up with the capital to rehabilitate them, and the township threatened condemnation. A 1998 township report called conditions “deplorable,” and the last 40 tenants were evacuated. Viking acquired the buildings in 2002.
Each building has 217 apartments. Together they constitute the third-largest high-rise housing complex in the township.
Susan Bass Levine, the mayor of Cherry Hill, said the structures fell into disrepair before their current owner, Charles C. Edwards MD, of Maryland, bought them about four years ago; Edwards has not been able to turn the property around.
“It’s currently a building in crisis that could be a shining star,” she said.
The township will give the current owner, a surgeon who Morgan said did the residential development of Pier Three in Philadelphia, a few more weeks. After that, if he does not sell it or take action to do the improvements, the township will take steps to have the high-rises condemned and taken over.
HIGH RISE HELL – THE GRANDVIEW PALACE
A day after Kiwi International Airlines thought it had won a reprieve from a Government-imposed death sentence, the Federal Aviation Administration yesterday grounded the struggling carrier, saying that it was unsafe to fly.
KIWI Airlines – Unsafe To Fly
It was the first time the Government had shut down a scheduled carrier since Valujet was grounded in 1996 after one of its DC-9’s crashed in the Everglades, killing 110 people.
The F.A.A.’s order cited a series of maintenance and safety violations that it said resulted in Kiwi flying airplanes that were ”in an unairworthy condition.” In one case, Kiwi flew one of its four jets for two days in late February without fixing an oil leak in one of its two engines, the agency said.
When reliable sources contacted modern-art-gonzo-journalist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. with verifiable facts and information regarding an alleged serial-killer spinal-surgeon living and working in the Baltimore, Maryland/Washington D.C. area, the multimedia artist rewrote the script for, “Crackhead Jesus: The Movie”, to include the serial-killer-spinal-surgeon theme as a subplot in the controversial film that would go on to become a cult classic in the age of OJ Simpson.
Crackhead Jesus: The Movie Film Slate
Public trust in police and newspapers has reached such a low point in human history, that victims and witnesses have turned to modern-art-gonzo-journalists to “paint the news” being ignored by financially strapped mainstream media news outlets and police forces, in the hopes that someone, will do something positive with the clues and information presented in works of art inspired by actual events.
Recently, Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. was contacted by Sean Welsh, an editor at the Baltimore Sun, regarding modern-art-gonzo-journalism. Supposedly, Welsh passed information along to staff writer Christine Jedra, an investigative journalist, who contacted Victor-Hugo by phone for an at length interview from Las Vegas, Nevada. When all was said and done, Christine Jedra, who claimed to work for “The Capital Newspaper” in Annapolis, Maryland, admitted that she was new at the job of reporting news and that she had no idea what to do with the information she had been provided.
So, if you come across a spinal-surgeon from Baltimore, named Charles C. Edwards MD, be forewarned, he is an alleged serial-killer and if you have faith in what you hear on the news, realize that public trust does not top the list of priorities for cash strapped news outlets, trying to survive in the age of OJ Simpson.
Charles C Edwards MD- Alleged Serial-Killer-Spinal-Surgeon
The following archived articles from The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The North Jersey Media Group, The Record, and The Asbury Park Press referencing Charles C. Edwards MD, Director of The Maryland Spine Center at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, make sharp investigate journalists, FBI investigators and serial-killer-spotters go, “Hmmmm.”
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