Category Archives: sage collective

Trenton St. Patty’s Parade

Published in 2012, graffiti, irish, leprechaun, new jersey, parade, sage collective, st patrick, street art, trenton on March 18, 2012

Many thanks to RAIN and the Art All Night people for bringing out the SAGEs to paint live on the AAN float. It was sooo much fun! Check the video to catch what I could capture while painting on a moving vechicle (which is admitedly harder than I thought). Something like 4k people flood Hamilton Ave and turn Trenton into a sea of green New Orleans for a few hours.

RAIN and LUV1

LANK and KASSO

GARDEN VARIETY SHOW : AGRI-CULTURE

Published in garden variety, sage collective, trenton, trenton atelier, will kasso on February 15, 2012

Saturday, Feb 25th.

N.N.S. B/W S.A.G.E. Present:
Garden Variety Show!

Performing:

Rich Quick

Mr Fickle & Yehudah Nabiy w/ DJ King Islam

Omega Ice

Skrewtape

Black collar biz

Yasin

Willie Dynamite

Moe Fit

King don

Jynxx Kilah

+The Open Mic Cipher!
Featuring Beats By Divine Drummah and Gov Mattic.

Hosted By Edobeci

DJ’s J. Gainey DJ Ahmad on the wheels!

Doors Open 9pm

MLK Day of Service

Published in jersey cares, mc pollock, sage collective, trenton, will kasso on January 31, 2012

The Bonner Center at TCNJ asked me would I be interested in working with my former high school during the MLK Day of service lead by the community service organization “Jersey Cares”
www.jerseycares.org/. The day would consist of graffiti cleanup and mural restorations at the school. I was asked to to design 4 mini murals which were painted by volunteers of Jersey Cares and students and faculty of TCHS and The Bonner Center. Each mural was designed with the intent to inspire peace…hence the imaginary of the Doves. Below each Dove is a quote by Trenton Central Alum Shawn Carter, better known as JAY-Z, influential Hip Hop artist, music mogul and business man.

It was a great time and the community support was awe inspiring. Thanks to the Bonner Center for the opportunity to give back to my alma mater. I’m looking forward to doing more events like this in the near future!

-WILL KASSO

“Jersey Cares” volenteers painting the “Dove” murals I designed

Finished product

SELF TAUGHT

Published in cail bound, graffiti, luv one, sage collective, trenton, will kasso on January 20, 2012

First blog post of the new year! Been slacking somewhat on the write ups and such…getting things in order for 2012 can be taxing, but no worries. Luv1 and myself produced our first wall of the new year earlier this week. We decided to set our sights on an abandoned building on the north side of Trenton.

We had no set plans…we just wanted to shake the dust off and take advantage of the unusually mild weather we been having recently.

Luv kicked things off with his abstract works, but this time using a limited pallet and I produced a portrait of a child with my abstract “kasso circles” following after. I also chose, like Luv, to keep my colors limited. Luv had the idea for us to keep most of the raw center block and brick unprimed..to give the production a most rugged feel.

We blazed out the entire wall in 4 hours. Other than the massive mounds of dog feces we had to maneuver threw..and I mean MASSIVE AMOUNTS, we had a great time producing this wall.

Special thanks to Shawn of CALI BOUND PRODUCTIONS for documenting this project and producing this awesome video! Check it out:

Peace.

-KASSO

THURSDAY THROWBACK: "CONCRETE ALCHEMY TOUR..2008"

Published in albus cavus, delve, graffiti, ny, philadelphia, sage collective, will kasso on December 15, 2011

KASSO and DELVE..along with 13 other artist from the east and west coast were apart of an aersol artists tour called CONCRETE ALCHEMY sponsored by “Albus Cavus”. For two weeks in the spring of 2008, these artists painted 4 large scale murals in 6 days…coinsiding with 3 gallery shows, which spread from NY to Maryland. All of the artwork for the gallery shows was also done on tour.

The integrated methods of S.A.G.E. Collective were seeded on this tour. All the walls were fully integrated and multi layered. SAGE collective philosophy about the intuitive creative process also was founded within “Concrete Alchemy”.

For more info about the tour, follow these links and check out the video:

Photos of all the walls produced via ARTCRIMES: www.graffiti.org/ca/index.html

CONCRETE ALCHEMY INTERVIEWS:
www.albuscav.us/concretealchemy/

CONCRETE ALCHEMY VIDEO:

Rocking Out

Published in graffiti, luv one, luv1, new jersey, oil tank, rock, sage collective, street art, usa, will kasso on December 12, 2011

This past sunday, Luv-One and myself took a trek threw the woods of rural New Jersey to..drumroll…PAINT ROCKS! I know..sounds a bit weird. Luv contacted me earlier within that week to ask if I would like to join him on his nature adventure. At first I was like…paint a rock?! We should rock a wall! Then he told me that some of the rocks were as big as five feet wide! When I heard that…I was like “Yooooo, this can be great!” Lets do it!” If I cant paint a wall…then a wall size rock sounds pretty interesting!

Luv paints these quirky lil’ characters. He’s been doing them for years on canvas and other materials. I believe he said most of the inspiration for these characters comes from his son’s drawings and that the two of them do this all the time simply because it’s fun! So thats was the idea for the day; to paint a rock or two and keep it fun…like a child would. While we were out there painting, I at first thought this was a bit juvenile, but once u do your first one it becomes an instant addiction…u want to do more!

You want to find the rock with the most character…the most personality…and bring it to life! What I thought would at first be a waste of time, became a time I would never forget! What we were doing was reliving our childhood. Taking nature and turning it into art! Using what’s there to create something new! I swear, it was like being 10 years old again. We were adding “character” to nature; giving it a personality..and making it our own. It made you wanna seek out new “rocky” terrane, while at the same time taking in the beauty of the breathtaking country side. In doing what we did, it made us appreciate the beauty of nature even more so than before. We both agreed that this day was something epic..even if just for us. It literally planted the seed of new ideas and possibilities! It made me see that sometimes you have to strip layers away and revile whats inside to find something new. It showed me not to judge a situation buy what’s only on the surface, and if you want something of value, you have to seek it and dig for it. We sought and found….and who would have thought a rock in a hard place would move creative mountains! You cant spell “nature” without A….R….T!

Checkout the pics below to what we “rocked out”.

Peace.

-Will Kasso

KASSO

LUV1

KASSO

LUV1

KASSO

LUV1

Thrusday Throwback: "BORN WITH LESS"…2009

Published in luv1, s.a.g.e., sage collective, terracycle, trenton, tupac, will kasso on December 8, 2011

This wall was produced in early February, 2009. S. A. G. E. was still in its infancy as a crew…pretty much just consisting of myself and LUV1. LUV contacted me that morning asking if I was willing to come out and paint. It was an unusual day for the middle of the winter. We had a freak 70 degree day! We decided to jam out at Terracycle and do something small and non ambitious.

What started out as something with the intentions on being light heart quickly grew into a full blown mini-mural jam session. LUV had some references from newspapers and one in particular stuck out to me. It was an image of a young woman holding her son during “Hurricane Katrina”.

I choose to do a representation of it while LUV painted an image of Hip Hop icon “Lauren Hill”.

As usual, we jammed out the background with our abstract works…which at the time we were still developing. We also had very lil paint to work with due to it being the off season. This wall was literally done with scraps of paint.

Half way threw LUV had to leave to pick up his kid from school, so I decided to stay to finish up the wall. While I was finishing up, the rap song “Smile” by Tupac and Scarface kept playing in my head. Ever since I saw that pic from the hurricane, I couldn’t get it out of my mind. So i went back to the beginning of the wall and put a quote up from that record….part of Tupac’s verse which reads “Born with less but your still precious”. I figured it summed up the feeling of what the image(the mother and child) conveys.