David Choe

Lord of the streets SABER ONE releases
PEPPER’S WORLD (pepper is the unofficial mayor of skid row L.A.)

*Size 29.5″ x 38.5″ (78cm x 98cm)
*68 Regular Edition,
*18 Hand-Painted Separations, 28 Colors, 4 Split-Fountains (1 of which is 6 colors), 1 Reductive Stencil and a Gloss spot-varnish.
*Each print is hand-titled “Pepper’s World” and signed by Saber.

**Interest in the HPM’s, use contact@saberone.com

$300.00

awesome interview SABER interview here

The reviews are in !!!! and it’s obvious everyone is in love with this cinematic masterpiece and having the best time at the movies ever! go see the movie everyone is talking about
Only in theaters in los angeles for less than a week!!!!
Dirty Hands: The Art and Life of David Choe
April 30th through May 6th
Laemmle’s Sunset 5
8000 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, 90046

see what all the critics are raving about!
“David Choe is clearly an asshole.— Choe is not the most verbally compelling subject. His over reliance on profanity and a fundamentally slacker dude based lexicon make many of his commentary sections unfocused and repetitive.—– Consequently, much of the lighting and sound is spotty, and some captions — done in an especially difficult to read font — dissolve before they can be fully digested.”-current.com

“San Francisco-based distributor Upper Playground shouldn’t expect much coin from this one, since its appeal is limited to art vampires and graffiti bombers who’ll just illegally download the movie anyway. — It looks like it should be screened in a basement littered with empty beer cans and ornate bongs.—- And there’s video of Choe punching himself in the nose so he could use his blood as paint. It’s all quite renegade, in that self-aggrandizing, subcultural way.”–boxoffice.com

“Choe’s humor can be sly, but his expletive-rich ramblings often put the viewer on the wrong end of a one-way conversation. The film spends far too much time on his relationship woes.— The resulting documentary is alternately illuminating and dull, energetic and repetitive. Fans of Choe’s work — stylized, vibrant, ornate and vulgar — will appreciate the inside look at the self-described man-child, but his struggles to grow up are more tiresome than compelling.”-LA TIMES

“Dirty Hands deftly segues between Choe’s personal and professional adventures, weaving together his family background, steadily ascending career, sexual addictions, criminal behavior, mental illness and fledgling attempts at becoming a born-again Christian to create a complex and open-ended portrait. Though nowhere as singular an achievement as Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb, the agreeably rough-and-tumble Dirty Hands recalls that documentary’s willingness to explore its subject’s less-savory personal qualities to question how those traits both feed and undermine his distinctive art.– If Exit Through the Gift Shop is a witty, subversive satire on the rock star–ification of underground graffiti artists, Dirty Hands is a sober, loving snapshot of one troubled soul within that milieu.”—LA WEEKLY

“it may not attract crowds of admirers, let alone the art establishment. Prospects for Dirty Hands are limited.— director Kim doesn’t give us enough of a reason to see Choe as any more than a fratboy-style prankster, particularly since his post-jail persona does not seem that different from his earlier incarnation. (He still swears profusely, simulates urinating in public with his buddies, and draws pornographic pictures using nude female models posing in degrading positions.)—- Sadly, neither before nor after prison does Choe make an overt political statement or even a Duchampian critique of the elitist excesses of today’s art scene. Though Choe leavens his jaded, monotone detachment with tongue-in-cheek winks and nods, it is hard to ascertain his true position, which might be his own postmodernist ploy. But except for a colleague’s remarks about the unabashed sexism in Choe’s writings and pictures, Kim’s film is entirely reverential (the director is a childhood friend). Even Terry Zwigoff’s equally intimate Crumb (1994) maintained a more detached tone about the troubled pornographer-cartoonist, Robert Crumb.—–Despite an eyeful of some challenging artworks and an earful of interesting stories about the man behind them, Choe’s movie portrait produces only modest results.”-FILM JOURNAL

“If you just happened to walk into the pop-up art gallery in Beverly Hills where David Choe’s “street art” is currently on display, it would be hard to sense the street cred behind the artwork. The spray-painted human figures, akin to George Condo’s lycanthropic orgies, carry their severed heads so they can rim their own asses and turn fellatio into a masturbatory practice,—Dirty Hands contextualizes Choe’s work, which could be seen as gratuitous transgressiveness, turning him into an unsettling hybrid character/icon of what is terrific and terrible about what we have come to call the American Dream: the genius American artist on prescription medication so he doesn’t go to jail before making it to his gallery opening.— In the course of Dirty Hands, which took eight years to make, Choe plasters graffiti whales throughout Los Angeles, punches himself in the face to use his blood as ink, cuts Christian crosses onto his forearms to guiltily prevent himself from shoplifting, is jailed in Tokyo for three months, buys a slave or two in Congo, and makes the case for an anti-academic, stream-of-consciousness, museum-without-walls art that feels so refreshing it’s easy to ignore its political implications. But as with any kind of passionately irrational project, it easily breaks down when perceived through a non-egotistical lens. And as much as Choe’s art claims to be about people who “don’t give a fuck about art,” it’s mostly about his Peter Pan/Robin Hood self (the forever child-like Choe steals from the rich to give to the poor, which, in this case, is himself). Yes, one can ask how else may a poor Korean-American kid from the ghetto take ownership of his city but by defacing the very architecture that makes Choe’s story a barely possible exception. But his spray paint turns out to be better at becoming personal profit than achieving something beyond angry sloganeering.”—Slant magazine

“This is an imperfect documentary of an imperfect man and in that sense, they seem perfectly fit for one another.” – chasingchan

LOS ANGELES





Jamming with JJ



CHOE brothers




CHOE’S


Casey Zoltan from 7th letter

Dante Ross, Johnny Granado, Joe Hahn, Andrew Hosner

Mark the cobrasnake


Lulu and Daniel Freedman





Tricia my Camp Counselor from Camp Conifer, where i met Harry kim when i was 13



Gary Baseman, Adam Wallcavage, Mark Dean Veca

Elliot Roberts and Teagan Quin

Bobby and Ben from theHundreds

Estevan Oriol


Horny Kim




James Jean and Alice

Paulina and JoeTo

Mari Inukai, Audrey Kawasaki

LAZ

NORM,SABER,PUSH,RETNA

Kevin Hayes

JC and JJ






Mr. Hahn



Mom


Eli Roth, Nikki, Eric Nakamura


Peaches Geldof, Eli Roth, Nikki, Mickey Avalon

PM Tenore from RVCA and Aki from GOODSMILE japan

Omar Doom

John Pham

Topher



Remi Kabaka from the Gorillaz


Joe To and Rob Sato

Retna ,Eriberto Oriol

Dr. Romanelli, Tim Biskup, Brian from Weezer

Alphonso and Tara tarantino



Yoshi Obayashi

Zell Dragonette and Harry

highschool renunion

SNOOP420.COM (snoop’s got my shit hanging in his crib, why don’t you?)

COACHELLA
Sasha Fierce and JIGGA






SAN FRANCISCO
GRIME





INLAND EMPIRE

PHOTOS by Eric nakamura, bobby hundreds, Lindsey Byrnes,Yuri Hasegawa, ken harman, Martin wong, brandon shigeta, alex pak, willie-t, and mark the cobrasnakke

you already saw the art show

you got the t-shirt

you got the hammerhead deck

and you already shoplifted 3 out of the 5 Juxtapoz covers

whats left? go watch the fucking movie that will probably never come out on dvd
this week in L.A.
DIRTY HANDS
for those of you who already seen it in film festivals, this is a new version re-cut to new music, director harry kim will be at the last show on friday and saturday night, to answer all your stupid questions and give out free posters

to the first 100 people who ask for one. the movie is only playing for a week and then heading to san francisco,
just for you, because i like you, here are 2 deleted scenes from the movie


If you want to see the scenes that weren’t deleted and are in LA, you should go to the Sunset 5 theater between April 30th and May 6th to watch the entire movie, available to the ticket buying public for the first time, and if your in the bay it’ll be up there next, check here and upperplayground.com for details