Well, we were mentioned again in the newspaper (City Paper). Damn paparazzi everywhere! But this time we were mentioned alongside Shepard Fairey, The Corcoran Gallery, and a host of other awesome people! Owwwwww. Check it out!
“My Name Is Jason,” Hillyer Art Space
Two friends who share a first name joined forces to become the Jasons, a moniker that sounds like it could be for a crime-fighting duo or an indie-rock band. Instead it’s a collaboration between a young poet and a painter who began working together at the University of Maryland. Jason Reynolds, the poet, evokes twentysomething dudeliness in some of the words he contributes to Jason Griffin’s graffiti-inspired images. Art? Art. displays a rapid-fire dialogue: “Gas? Sh*t.” “Horny? Uh-Huh.” “Hungry? Chips.” When they tone down the swagger, the Jasons’ art-poetry combo is clever and lovely in its simplicity, especially in this verse: “I like to think my poems/are like picnic potato chips/lightly salted slices/0of heaven/but there’s always/a few burnt ones/in the bag/this is one of those.”
Here’s the link to the actual article!
2 responses so far ↓
1 myisha cherry // Jan 14, 2009 at 3:24 pm
AWESOME
2 Rach H // Jan 26, 2009 at 11:50 am
little does he know that you indeed ARE a crime-fighting duo And an indie-rock band.
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