Hiphop Started in the Park Photos

Yesterday was “Hiphop Started in the park” an event up in the hilltop which was about community, education, and fun. Of course all of the local media outlets were not there to cover it. hmmm wonder why…

Anyways it was lots of fun, music was good, MC battles happened, kids were dancing, and people were educated about all of the wonderful hiphop education programs in Tacoma

Aug 3 Hiphop in Park 2008 - 253hiphop.com from 253 hiphop on Vimeo.

Urban Arts Festival A Success

Weather could not have been any better for this years Urban Arts Festival. Located at Firemans Park in downtown Tacoma hippies, goths, rockers, drunks, kids, grandmas, and even stilt walkers converged. It was an event that truly brought together people who care and love Tacoma. The stages this year looked amazing, I thought the greenery worked really well. Next year I would like to see more local food establishments taking part though. Sure the taste of Tacoma was the same weekend but the quality of the carnival food that is offered at the Taste is terrible. Great job everyone who helped make this festival a success.

Urban Arts Festival 2008

June 29th, 2008 is Urban Arts Festival, we went last year and had a great time not familiar with what the Urban Arts Festival is? Heres some blurbage from their homepage:

The Urban Art Festival is an all ages celebration of music, DJs, performance art fashion and hand crafted goods.While showcasing some of the best pacific NW talents, the UAF is a wonderful opportunity for emerging artists and performers. Consider the Urban Art Festival your outlet for artistic desires. It’s not uncommon to see a Glassblower or Graffiti artists creating live at the Tacoma’s Urban Art Festival. Did we mention it’s FREE! Come spend the day with us at Fireman’s Park in downtown Tacoma.

Tollefson Plaza Conquered: Secrets Revealed

Inspired by the Frost Park take over I rallied team In-Tacoma and we made our way down to the cement deadzone in Downtown Tacoma Called Tollefson Plaza. We decided to hold an experiment to see what would happen if Tollefson Plaza was turned into a real world wiki for a day. (A wiki is website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively.)

With a large bucket of chalk in hand we began to draw in the center. I created the message “imagine.” very large in the center to get people to start thinking about this space and with the period its quite actionable. We then created a defined chalk area with the word “free” around it and a simple task of “Have Fun”.

We were interested to see if people would actually participate.

Leaving the park we came back 2 hours later to find that people were indeed participating and I had to add more chalk for people to use. We did this throughout the entire day.

Conclusion:

• People are ready to use this space
• People do some pretty wild things in this space like, take off there pants and jump in the fountain.
• Over 30 people participated and only one chalk penis
• People that wrote inappropriate things were moderated by others
• Security won’t stop you from chalking
• People created waypoints to help people find things in Tacoma, arrows pointing to the cupcake place for example.

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Cultivating in the Graffiti Garages

Not to long ago you might remember reading about the cover-up of “The Tacoma Graffiti Garages”. Well I’ve been keeping a close eye on them so you don’t have to.

Presenting the new and improved Graffiti Garages:

Previously on In-tacoma

Hotel Murano - Tacoma, gets fished eyed

An extremely wide look at Hotel Murano, in Tacoma Wa

City Targets Tacoma Hiphop, Rottweiler Records responds.

Don’t be surprised if you see some people out in front of the Pantages voicing their support.

embellish Graffiti Wall Photos

Once again the mural on the side of embellish has changed. Saturday and Sunday writers Kegs, Charms, Auras, Ksra, Dkoy, Foes, Pubs, Jrat, Letgo, Yuk, and Clone left their mark. The ever evolving wall is something more businesses of Tacoma should look at. Many of the murals in Tacoma get stale and just start to look bad why not switch it up every few months?

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Embellish Mural gets a Makeover

Last evening I was driving down to Pacific from Tacoma avenue to grab some food and i look to my right and to my shock and horror, the Embellish mountain-scape-graffiti mural was being painted over with a gray background. I pulled over, I barely had the ability to park because i guess i was very confused because a new piece is going up right at this very moment!
There were several guys finishing individual pieces at standing level and they told me to come back today (Sunday) because i’ll be able to get better pictures and it’s going to be the bigger of the 2 day makeover.
Let’s hope it’s as hot as the last one! who wants to tailgate this thing with me?

Tacoma Wayzgoose Video

I know a few of you sitting over at blackwater didn’t leave that place all day so heres the video of what you missed.

Wayzgoose from Intacoma on Vimeo.

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