INTRODUCING: Alec Monopoly [an American street artist, graffiti artist, and painter]

April.27,2013
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{Sth African Model Nedine Vos]

Alec Monopoly is an American street artist, graffiti artist, and painter.

He is known for his satirical spins using the Monopoly man, in reference to contemporary styles or situations


On Aspect of
ABOUT Vandalism:

When asked by Complex Magazine about his brush with the NYPD Vandal Squad,
and jumping through a garbage chute in an effort to avoid them, the artist had this to say:

“It didn’t hurt, but going down [the garbage chute] was kind of nasty, being in all of that garbage.
I was so paranoid, I thought they were tapping my phones.
I actually still think they were tapping my phones.
When we were setting up the gallery show, there were like four cop cars outside the building,
and if the gallery hadn’t been connected to a hotel, I wouldn’t have gotten out of there.
I got out and into a cab and laid down in the back seat.
That’s the good thing about New York, once you’re in a cab you can be invisible.”

Although graffiti continues to be conveyed as a crime,
in his feature in Juxtapoz Magazine,
the artist discussed his best efforts to avoid the vandalism aspect of the street art world:

“I stay away from mailboxes, highways, freeways,
and basically any federal and government property.
I like warehouses and abandoned buildings.
For example I would never hit a coffee shop like the one we’re in: they [the owners] are trying to make it just like I am.
I try to be as positive as I can about what I put out there and I try to do it with imagery everyone can identify with.
Most people walking by my stuff are not graffiti people or art people,
so figuring out a way that everyone can identify with my work is important.”

MY SUPER-CUTE YOUNGEST SONS: NOA & LUCA

April.27,2013
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SUPER TOKYO – 1,000 people meet Hello Kitty

Love this picture of my 2 younger boys Noa & Luca by fashion photographer Leslie Kee.

SUPERMODELS ~ MY MEMORIES

April.27,2013
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At the time of this photo I was living in Europe,

and I had no idea that I was going to be the Director in Asia for IMG Models

the agency that represented almost these 5 girls later on…

I represented Stephanie Seymour while living in Hong Kong.

She was a very nice girl with an incredible body!

If my “autistic-children” could sing, this is how they would sound and what they would say….

April.26,2013
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If my “autistic-children” could sing,

this is how they would sound and what they would say….

I also feel so different most of the time.


(If I post this right now, is because I just woke up and I still remember my dream very well…. I was seeing a “different” teenager being openly bullied by others and nobody around moved to protect him. I took him in my arms, and drove him away in a safe place. I felt i would always protect him. Then I turned and saw so many more “different” kids to protect. I smiled and I took all of them in my arms. The bullied disappeared. They at the end they came back in my dream to help me. I woke up…. and decided to give a voice to those who cannot talk, cannot share emotions, who were born “with less” but have so much more inside of them then most of us, because they have internal purity.

[At home with my big-children in Phonm Penh, Cambodia]


“You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day,

being yourself when no one likes who you are.”

Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

 

[Visiting the handicapped children, section of PSE (Pour in Sourire d'Enfant NGO),
when they reach 18 years of age, we (ACH) take them with us, instead of them being put back in the streets]