"Art is anything you can get away with"

The title of this blog post is a pretty famous quote from Andy Warhol. I have heard it before but I never really thought about it in any kind of distinct way before yesterday. I saw it framed at a trunk show that I attended in the bishop arts section of OC. The atmosphere of the whole event musta had my brain open because I started to think about that quote and a lot of other things while I was there. The trunk show was put on by Daniel Perez of Caviar Club menswear. I believe that he was debuting his line of mens accessories, such as bow ties, lapel pins, handkerchiefs and such. I have to admit that I have never worn any of these items but they looked great on the people that where wearing them at the event. He had classic bow ties, some a lil funky and some just plain elegant. Same goes for the handkerchiefs....but his items where not the only thing there. There was a photographer/graphic artist there showing and selling some of his pieces as well. His name is Daniel Driensky and his drawings were really dope. His pictures were of various things that he is interested in. The sriracha sauce bottle, miller lite can, robo cop vhs tape, and walkman where my favorite selections, the later of which I purchased to hang in my crib. It was so90's Dallas son! You can find Daniel on Instagram....Ya'll know that I consider myself pretty knowledgeable on the Dallas music scene so I have to speak on the sounds. Vinyl Fantasy was manning the 1's and 2's and he had me when I heard him spinning that Shaft, memories of my dad and his friends in our basement while I was stuck upstairs trying to sleep. Any DJ that incorporates 70's soul in his set has a fan in me.....So far it's looking good right??? Classic cool menswear, chill sounds, graphic art.....man, but there was so much more in this small studio. They were offering shaves for men, "menicures" by Vanessa Quilantan who I think is @pronailprincesa but I don't know for sure because of my social problems :), free chocolate mustaches, free TATS!....yall don't hear me tho!, FREE TATTOS! After my two Jamesons on the rocks, I was itching to get a tat on my forearm, but my friend who attended with me @verniciav talked me outta it. I'm not a virgin to ink but none of it is visible with my clothes on, last night I was willing to change that. Maybe it was the art in the air, I'm not sure.....@debdoingdallas hipped me to the party and that was really cool. It kinda represented the vibe that I got from the trunk show last night. People willin to reach out to one another for art's sake. I'm not into posturing and fake shit so it was refreshing to smell realness in the air. Like Andy Warhol said, "Art is anything you can get away with", well the artists last night got away with some really fresh items that will resonate with me for quite some time.


-tshurn