Stephen Powers & Joey Garfield host a series of collaborative Valentines.
A LOVE LETTER FOR YOU seamlessly mixes documentary and narrative, love and loss, community and solidarity, art and crime, to paint a compelling portrait of two artists and their impact on the neighborhood they grew up in. It was filmed in concert with a series of 50 murals, painted around the city of Philadelphia in the summer of 2009 when ESPO returned to his hometown and wrote a love letter across the rooftops that can be viewed from the ride on the cities elevated trains.
Collaborators will be prompted to co+create a series of Valentines on collaborative platform ThumbScribes that begin with the words from the A LOVE LETTER FOR YOU murals. Join in and add your own 300 character ode to love at www.thumbscribes.com starting Sunday February 13th at noon.
The writing will continue through Valentine’s Day – allowing lovebirds to create a collaborative card, which will evolve and change before being published to share with the world.
Stephen Powers is a former graffiti writer, artist and Fullbright Scholar, and the mind behind the conceptualization, design and painting of the mural project. Powers has shown at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, The 49th Venice Bienalle, Deitch Projects and had his first museum solo show at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in 2007.
Joey Garfield is an award winning documentary, music video and commercial director. Joey's feature length documentary BREATH CONTROL: THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BEAT BOX has won several awards and continues to screen all over the world. Joey also directed STYLE WARS REVISITED, is a founding father of the Barnstormerʼs artist collective, and a contributing editor of Juxtapoz Magazine.
Ghost robot is a creative production company based in New York City, which makes and distributes content across all platforms. Ghost Robot is the producer and sales agent for the film.
A LOVE LETTER FOR YOU seamlessly mixes documentary and narrative, love and loss, community and solidarity, art and crime, to paint a compelling portrait of two artists and their impact on the neighborhood they grew up in. It was filmed in concert with a series of 50 murals, painted around the city of Philadelphia in the summer of 2009 when ESPO returned to his hometown and wrote a love letter across the rooftops that can be viewed from the ride on the cities elevated trains.
Collaborators will be prompted to co+create a series of Valentines on collaborative platform ThumbScribes that begin with the words from the A LOVE LETTER FOR YOU murals. Join in and add your own 300 character ode to love at www.thumbscribes.com starting Sunday February 13th at noon.
The writing will continue through Valentine’s Day – allowing lovebirds to create a collaborative card, which will evolve and change before being published to share with the world.
Stephen Powers is a former graffiti writer, artist and Fullbright Scholar, and the mind behind the conceptualization, design and painting of the mural project. Powers has shown at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, The 49th Venice Bienalle, Deitch Projects and had his first museum solo show at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in 2007.
Joey Garfield is an award winning documentary, music video and commercial director. Joey's feature length documentary BREATH CONTROL: THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BEAT BOX has won several awards and continues to screen all over the world. Joey also directed STYLE WARS REVISITED, is a founding father of the Barnstormerʼs artist collective, and a contributing editor of Juxtapoz Magazine.
Ghost robot is a creative production company based in New York City, which makes and distributes content across all platforms. Ghost Robot is the producer and sales agent for the film.
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