Lady Liberty and Francisco de Miranda. Francisco de Miranda was a freemason.

Nineteenth Century. The Century of War.

The fight for the precious Black Gold that we still see today.

The dictarorship of Perez Jimenez and his National Police.  A tough time for everyone. Many were kidnap and never seen again by the National Police.

The Guaicaipuro Indians are original natives of these parts.

Check out Queen Elizabeth and King Ferdinand.

This is the rising of the “Pueblo”; the people rose against the Conquistadores. I’ll post the best part of this mural later… Stay tuned for part 3.

We are a few weeks away from the new Drake album although I am sure that you have already heard every track. I wasn’t a fan of the Canadian child star at first but picked up the So Far Gone mixtape anyways. It turned out to be pretty good. Here are a couple tracks from his new album….

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This ones not on the album but here is the Fed Up video…

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You can thank me later.

Here is more of the XX which I mentioned in a previous post…

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Great for hangovers!

I just started listening to this one. I’m either really early on artists or really late. Cooler than me by Mike Posner…

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Cudder is BACK! This is a dope video because it looks like Cudi was just messing around when he made it.

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And just for fun here is a Crank That cover by I Set My Friends On Fire…

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Not so great for hangovers.

From Tucacas, Venezuela we head out to Aruuuuuba! Aruba is a Dutch island located just about 15 miles from Falcon, Venezuela. Back in the colinazation days, Venezuelans fled to Aruba to escape the Spaniards, Portugues, and many other invaders that during that era where trying to conquer everything they could. The locals speak English, Spanish, Papiamento (mix of dutch, spanish, english, and God knows what else) and Dutch.

Aruba’s slogan is: ONE HAPPY ISLAND… They are not lying about that!!! Everyone here is actually very happy. The community here is a mixture of everything from Argentinians, Dutch, Americans, Venezuelans, Uruguayans, Mexicans, Dominicans, Colombians. I saw people from everywhere… It was amazing!!!! NO BORDERS HERE!!!

We were preparing to go out scuba diving. The locals love their ocean and nature. They enforce the laws and rules to keep it clean. One of the pier workers said it best: “We don’t own the ocean… The ocean owns us. She was here first.”

NO THIS IS NOT A POST CARD!!!. This is real!!! That’s a sunset on the beach in Aruba.

At the FM headquarters we work hard but also play hard. Since we´re in Venezuela, we cannot die before seeing the beautiful islands that the Caribbean has to offer us. We got a chance to see the Tucacas Islands located in the Estate of Falcon. Barely touched by the human hand, you have take a small boat to reach any of them. In this flick we took a tour around an island made out of only vegetation. There is no flat land at all. Here a multitude of birds come and do their thing.

This is a great shot from our small boat. Nature at its best!!!

This is one of the islands where you can come and enjoy nature and escape the stress of the city.

Do I need to say more? Lets take care of our Mother Earth.

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Venezuela is a huge catholic country. The first week of April is Semana Santa (Holy Week or Easter) so severyone gets usually a 4 day weekend. I took my 4 day weekend to enjoy the beach and  take some videos of the Graffiti scene in Caracas. Writers and highways have a special connection. The bigger, the more exposed, the better. Doing a piece on the freeway is always a great feeling… Well I leave you a short vid of some of the freeways here in Caracas. I will try to get better angles and shots next time. Stay tuned cause there are many more to come!

Last night at about 8:30pm while I was making a salad for dinner I heard three gun shots, then all of the sudden three more. As usual I did not pay any attention to it since in my neighborhood that’s something usual. As I walked into the living room with my delicious salad ready to chow down I heard an ambulance siren… I was like hmmm… Intrigued, I looked over the balcony of my apartment and see lots of people crowded around in the corner. Curious, I went down and I asked what had happened? A middle age man tells me that a guy was eating a shawarma (Arabian taco) on the corner and two guys on a bike roled by and shot him point blank then rode away. It was unfinished business!!!

And to think I had just walked past the shawarma stand just 5 minutes ago…

New FM tees came in today. I’ll have them up in the cart soon so stay tuned. We’ve also been working hard on some up coming projects for 2010.  We will continue to keep you in the loop for all of our trials, travels, and tribulations. As always, thanks for the support. We couldn’t do it without you.

As the kids say…

I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that all Summer FM Tees are going on sale tomorrow for $20 each. The bad news is that they won’t last. Once they are gone, that’s it. So don’t sleep or you’ll miss out.

The new FM Fall/Winter line is trickling in with the first drop arriving in the store today (See that shop FM Button on the right over there? Click that). We will continue to release tees throughout the next few weeks so keep your eyes open. The new product is even more limited this time around. Scoop it while its still there.