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12ozProphet found footage, Dirty Dozen in Brazil

[ Posted on 30 March 2010 By Katya LaRoche ]

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For those of you who don’t know (don’t feel bad, they’re fairly new to me as well) The Dirty Dozen is an eclectic group of about 20 street artists, hipsters, fighters, writers and globetrotters. I stumbled on this clip while looking for street art collectives and was fortunate to find some South American footage from a trip 3 members, Os Gemeos, Raven and Sonic, took in 1997, attacking the streets of a city who knows street art as well as it does crime. Check out 12ozProphet to see more videos like this and learn things about the street art world you never knew, website: http://www.12ozprophet.com

12ozProphet Presents… Found Footage: 1997 Brazil Graffiti with Os Gemeos, Raven & Sonik from 12ozprophet on Vimeo.

First Thursday, From Radishes to Compounds

[ Posted on 07 August 2009 By Katya LaRoche ]

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Every month Portland has a first Thursday and last Thursday art walk. First Thursday is in the hipper downtown Pearl District, which has over the years bleed into the general area around Pearl as well – last Thursday takes place on the more laid back artsy Alberta street. I haven’t had a chance to go in a while but I was invited to check out the party going on at Radish Underground, a cute little boutique with a pretty great location on 10th st (This may not mean much to you if you don;t live in Portland, not many of you do, but lucky for you you can shop them online). Radish Underground was hosting a little party featuring Erhart Streetwear, a local, and totally awesome designer I just happen to speak about quite often.

Chelsea Erhart of Erhart Streetwear in front of her feature wall wearing her own design (of course!).

Guests wearing Erhart spray paint shirt & Hubble Dress. Hot!

Free drinks, great fashion and plenty of well dressed people later we ended up on a miniature shopping spree at Radish and one of my favorite stores in the entire world (no lie) Compound Gallery. Not only does Compound carry two of my favorite designers of all time, Stussy and Hellz Bellz, they also carry my beloved Dunny’s and tons of other toys, rare import Nike’s, hard to find art books, graffiti collections, specialty art & designer magazines – and they feature talented Japanese artists every month in their gallery. I spend at least 2 days a week either eyeballing the front window or meandering around inside wishing I had $1000 to blow. Ive been going there so long and regularly that the owner recognizes me no matter what I’m wearing or what color my hair is – even when I moved to Argentina for a year his response was “haven’t seen you in a while, where you been?”.Â Today the store won my battle to save cash and we came home with 3 Stussy shirts and a Nike fanny pack. As soon as I get paid I’m going back for some kitchen kitsch for my RV (which I am redesigning to the max).Â Check them out, its a win win for everyone.

The Stussy finds, $26 for the blue shirt! Im so going back for more – and hey, goes perfect with my feathers. I’m loving this southwest trend – new fashion feelings blog coming up!

Mexico City Street Art

[ Posted on 06 July 2009 By Katya LaRoche ]

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While in Mexico City and surrounding towns, the people I was with, who live there, didn’t often understand my obsession with street art and fashion. Since they were driving this meant that they only stopped for me to take photos of these things when it was convenient for everyone – understandably since many neighborhoods were not the types you stop in or traffic and parking just didn’t allow that sort of thing. I basically mastered shooting from the car. Here’s a few shots of street art and tags i got – some walking, many from the car. These are all digital, more film ones to come (aka better quality or generally more awesome).

~ Katya 2009 Mexico city

The Graffiti Backdrop

[ Posted on 12 March 2009 By Katya LaRoche ]

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Some people say it’s too busy for street fashion photos but I love it. Then again, Im a little obsessed with street art so, it just mixes two things I love, and there’s nothing wrong with that.