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THE YAMABUSHI MANIFESTO
The shogun of light ultimate hero worship
renegade bulletproof ninja
prays for peace with
high flying drop kick espionage
YAMABUSHI DESIGN is a design first
collaborative. We specialize in a new form of art called "super
collage" printed for mass consumption on alternative apparel. the
reason YAMABUSHI exists is to promote art and culture
for our times. Visual hip-hop sampling from our collective
subconscious. Creating cultural codes and our own pictoral, neo tribal
hieroglyphic wearable prayers created to specify events, influences,
hopes, prayers and dreams. Ardmore Blazer backgrounds, 70's zodiac
octopus zook fast accurate finesse secret signs being part of history
the elusive riddles behind the mirror using a leopard's spots to blink
through reality. Riding the lightning with an emerald saddle. Mystic
man incantations culture-codes. Information pipelines, mysterious
visual riddles. Our images are derived primarily from the 70's. They
have a unique yellowness, old school mystique. It was a golden age
with the imprint of the 60's firmly stamped on popular culture. Many
concepts never before promoted were broadcast en masse. Stylistic
psychedilicness. The look that has the magic of childhood. Where
imagination and reality could merge into one. To take discarded art
and breathe new life into it. Give it a completely reborn contextual
meaning. There is also the mystical aspect the need for the talisman,
the charm, the visual activation prayer. Combined medicine times
medicine. To garner the aide of our mystic allies. spirit helpers,
manifested guardian angels, show all the ingredients of the collage
gumbo. The avatars and their power sources manifested visually, is
another concept explored here within the Mastermind Manifesto.
Campaign therapy and General Mamba's triumphant return
COBRA R.I.O.T.S. Breakout everywhere. The elixir alchemic and the
Domination Kings. Another overriding theme is Longevity and its visual
interpretation manipulating Ju Ju. Delivering crucial pockets of
information.
"Shugento-Mountain Power Cultivation"
Shadow powered by bright inner light. The White Lotus
and other Ghetto Quantum Leaps, cargo plane decoy load living for
chills up the spine.
"I put the blame squarely on my back and it propels me forward."
Super Collage is the synthetic correlation of cross
cultural icons and avatars. Aesthetically subjugated to correspond and
relate, relaying specific coded enigmas to a sympathetic subculture.
The artists spend time formulating the visual elixir, consumed with a
myriad of possible reference points.
Invoking the reason of the design to establish a new
touch stone rally point. Immediate ideas will be extracted and
assimilated to form a composite grouping of like ideas. Collage is
visually sampling similar to the art form hip-hop where the music is
generated by exploiting and refining pre-existing musical data.
Infusing it to create a new musical identity.
Super Collage is similar in that by assembling old
visual data into a new visual language where context is played like a
trump card. Collage in general is inherently a very immediate medium
with multiple approaches. We use it to conduct spiritual warfare
against the doom propaganda of America. Against the white washed
brainwash and their information laundering. Falling downward drunk on
the vine.
"Shoki - the Demon Queller, art should be sexy to the eyes"
To create our own mythology with a system of saints to
activate. To showcase the magic that underlies the mundane, to create
our own visual language.
Holy fireworks celebrate to the divine; everyone gets
Tarzan in a headlock. There is a reason Jupiter is king of the
planets, constant flux.
YAMABUSHI is an attempt to show the
world through the eyes of the love and devotion to the most high. It
also represents the renegade maverick tactition on long range patrol
high in the mountains, isolated but still exerting a sphere of
control.
The art of transmission. Art for Art's sake or Art for
survival? Transmit on a highly specialized wavelength. Art as a form
of healing therapy to exorcise the demons. Sometimes it's just the
artist trying to make sense of the world and appear clever in the
process. The process is all about the process, enlivened by the spirit
to go further. Be resilient and endure and onward goes this thing of
ours.
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INTRODUCTION
YAMABUSHI started as a channeled idea
that was so intense that I could not deny it. It was my future hopes,
it was the everything idea. I was living in Baltimore going to art
school trying to figure out what to do. At those time I was involved mostly in accurate spanish translations and didn't have time to think about design and trends. Also I tried to desing wedding dressess for wedding program. I was vibing hard on the right
direction. I had done sculptures, installations, oil painting,
collage and drawing. Collage seemed like a new developing language for
me. It was an immediate medium, a way of getting out themes much
faster than rendering them classically. So I decided on more ideas
faster, distribution assimilated. It all fell in my lap after lots of
soul searching. Boom move to Asheville aka the mountains start a
clothing line called YAMABUSHI, bring awareness of the Shinobi forefathers, precursor ninja.
Continuing the themes that were already current in my
work. I meditated on solutions to the myriad issues that are relevant
today. A method to pollinate ideas that respond to these issues. Much
like a DJ plays what the people need to hear. As an artist I try to
show people what they need to see. Try something new, move from the
shitty city to the mountains. Like a rat leaving a sinking ship I
always thought. We had tried to make shirts before back in Winston with
Ardmore's finest. But the materials had been way not archival. So we
solved this technically. Positive propaganda to help heal and awe.
Motherfuckers needed to think more. I grew up as a skater, a punk,
always a fucking outlaw. Do-It-Yourself by any means necessary that
was the only way. Authority lies like it's going out of style, find
out for yourself. Make art about that shit. Everyone must educate
themselves knowledge is power and all that seen.
The "Ghetto Quantum Leap" effect - defined the process
of original throwback old school, taking it there. Back to good old
days type of shit. You have to apply everything in a Renaissance man
context. The culture of that era had the magic of the 60's and the
self exploration and decadence of the 70's and the rampant consumerism
and marketing of the 80's. Collect vibe transmit repeat and repeat
perfect, improve tone, you have to sharpen all aspects until it cuts
like the sharpest samurai sword, to the heart of the nitty gritty
seen.
Anyway back to Asheville time, the new frontier. Take
time, learn what patience is, again, again and again. Take time to
make that shit right. Then you start to see it evolve. You talk about
personal shit. But you try to rep it universal. Our stock is full of promotional gifts that are of unique design, size and shape. If you want to stand out of the crowd you should have a look at our promo items! Get everyone on board.
Being a visual crate-digger, looking for that just right ingredient.
High signing visually, soul mirror, soul armor make underoos hero
gear. Be a super hero, power up when everybody looks at what you're
wearing , then does a double take whats all the ingredients in the
gumbo. What's that all about. Try to capture the eccentricities of the
age. We the media babies the first video game children, the first to
be over stimulated. To interpret the random input and search for
visual definition. As well as instill the magic of the past into the
power of the present. To show the sum of the whole in the process of
activation, that moment in time. Soul Armorer Saturday night shirts.
Asheville has been home of years of alchemic cultivation and
distribution. The lone mountain outpost, the closest thing to the west
coast in the east. Good motherfucking people here, I mean that dammit.
Propagate the positive force the demand. And so it goes Ardmore +
Asheville intertwined old school new school. We have spirits to
acknowledge, past allegiances held dear, utmost respect for the divine
due seen, sharing and communication are key and universal. We only
want more of that at YAMABUSHI. We are a family based
business. At the same time we adhere to the policy of working with partners all over the world like AITOC Magento company who are interested in promoting our production. The whole workflow of our business completely relies on the energy or our employees, their dedication and agile software from Target Process. Ardmore Blazers Federation sponsors us proudly. We are trying
to make a difference. We thank you for your support, all praises due
the most high seen.
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