High quality images taken by Few&Far photographer Erin Ashford & Hannah Greene.
This is our first calendar we are excited to share with everyone!!
The images in the calendar consist of our murals, events, skate Jam, train yards and our latest creative photography. Available on Few&Far’s Store
This photo shoot is an ERIN ASHFORD & MEME Collaboration called “Distant Travelers”. Meme (graffiti Artist) had the idea to capture the extraordinary beauty of the freight trains. As well as tell a story of two different, groups of people with a lot of the same morals and ideas about life. Gypsies and Hobos had an nomadic way of living with the freedom to travel openly. While living only on basics to survive, their friends and family were the their main reason’s for living.
Thanks to Erin Ashford’s amazing talents with photogrhary, we were able to tell our story of the Distant Travelers. Models include: Jenny Looper, Raven Mystique , Nicole Ellsworth and Mj Parr.
Hobo (ethical) code
An ethical code was created by Tourist Union #63 during its 1889 National Hobo Convention in St. Louis Missouri.[13] This code was voted upon as a concrete set of laws to govern the Nation-wide Hobo Body; it reads this way:
Decide your own life, don’t let another person run or rule you.
When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.
Don’t take advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable situation, locals or other hobos.
Always try to find work, even if temporary, and always seek out jobs nobody wants. By doing so you not only help a business along, but ensure employment should you return to that town again.
When no employment is available, make your own work by using your added talents at crafts.
Do not allow yourself to become a stupid drunk and set a bad example for locals’ treatment of other hobos.
When jungling in town, respect handouts, do not wear them out, another hobo will be coming along who will need them as bad, if not worse than you.
Always respect nature, do not leave garbage where you are jungling.
If in a community jungle, always pitch in and help.
Try to stay clean, and boil up wherever possible.
When traveling, ride your train respectfully, take no personal chances, cause no problems with the operating crew or host railroad, act like an extra crew member.
Do not cause problems in a train yard, another hobo will be coming along who will need passage through that yard.
Do not allow other hobos to molest children, expose all molesters to authorities, they are the worst garbage to infest any society.
Help all runaway children, and try to induce them to return home.
Help your fellow hobos whenever and wherever needed, you may need their help someday.
If present at a hobo court and you have testimony, give it. Whether for or against the accused, your voice counts!(Taken from Wikipedia read more HERE).
Gypsy Culture: Every living being has a soul.
Every soul is potentially divine, with innate qualities of infinite knowledge, perception, power, and bliss (masked by its karmas).
Therefore regard every living being as you do yourself, harming no one and being kind to all living beings.
Every soul is born as a heavenly being, human, sub-human or hellish being according to its own karma.
Every soul is the architect of its own life, here or hereafter.
When a soul is freed from karmas, it becomes free and attains divine consciousness, experiencing infinite knowledge, perception, power, and bliss.
Right View, Right Knowledge, and Right Conduct (triple gems of Jainism) provide the way to this realization. There is no supreme divine creator, owner, preserver, or destroyer. The universe is self-regulated, and every soul has the potential to achieve divine consciousness (siddha) through its own efforts. (read more HERE).
Few & Far X Ironlak Road Trip Tour 2012 from Lea Bruno on Vimeo.
Awesome video by Nick Lea Bruno.
- Trip organized by artist Meme
– Featuring artist: Reds, Meme, Mags, Dime, Tatiana Suarez, Erin Yoshi, Erin Ashford, Amanda Lynn, Beth Emmerich, Glow, Hops, Siloette and Agana.
Read More on Tour HERE
Huge thanks to our sponsors!!
Ironlak Spray Paint
MaryJane Clothing,
Sino Tequila, PLDM Trademark,
Layover, Brammo, Erin Ashford
“A few weeks back I got the news that someone painted over the recent all female, Few & Far production on Gower Street in Hollywood. This was a real surprise to me especially since I have been organizing the painting of those walls for so many years.” Rime-
(above) SONY and Zippy Downing covering the Few & Far mural for a commercial.
(above) An attempt by locals to paint over the SONY mess
If you feel that this type of unprofessional cut cornering is wrong please reblog / retweet this.
SEE MORE HERE ON RIMES BLOG
More photos from TOUR HERE
Thanks Rime for fixing the mess!
Come join us we have wine, cupcakes and amazing art to check out!
Well One Year today, we started our wall in Oakland. Meme and Ksra worked together to get five ladies together to paint.
On our 1st wall: Lady Mags, Rachel Pelican, Beth Emmerich and Miss Reds. Then the others where added like Toofly, Siloette, Myla, Dime, Hops, 179, Muse and Agana. We are happy to say that this year and next year we have some major protects in our future plans!
Now we have 20 amazing girls in the paint crew.
Thank you for supporting us and sending your love!!
Not always do we have the pleasure of getting a box car nor knowing that tonight the workers time coming into the yard has changed. Waiting, watching listing to them work through the brush and trees. Hoping that tonight as I sit quietly alone I wont run into any writers. Hoping and dreaming tonight that an ARMN, IBOX or a small ridged CXS BOX or something exotic will be sitting clean for me. Or I’ll get to paint since last week there was only OIL TANKERS and HOPPERS…
As I walk in quietly hearing all of my surroundings, I have grown accustomed to creeping around into the night without being seen or heard. Knowing all my ends and outs I’m ready for anything to pop off, For most men wouldn’t even come to these places alone. The night whispers, as the frogs singing back forth from one puddle to another.
Here I’m at peace. -Meme
All photos by ERIN ASHFORD
Amandalynn gets ready for the Flora Fauna Art Show at Cassel Gallery:
If you are in the Bay- you can’t miss this event: on June 9th, tons of talented men and women are showing off their stuff at Cassel Gallery in San Fran. Among them, is the show curator: Amandalynn. She is known for her detailed and unmistakably stylish paintings of strong, beautiful, sexy women. Get a sneak peak at some of her work for the show right here.
