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Social Media and Our Community

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It’s nothing new when we hear that big companies are twisting the facts up to maximize their profits. Whether it be Haagen-Dazs hiring dancers to do completely humiliating public service announcements or record companies tugging the strings of their “puppets” aka exploiting artists for profits, these things don’t surprise us and are classic examples of our culture being misrepresented. Honestly, one thing that we often blame for the watering down of the culture is social media… Read more

Event Recaps

Circle Industry and Checkmate 2013 Recap

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During the first weekend of May, the city of Salzburg hosted the fifth edition of Circle Industry, one of the World’s illest 2on2 bboy battles. In addition, the weekend also featured a fresh battle concept called Checkmate that’s inspired by the game of chess and was founded by Mike and FraGue. The jam featured a dope line-up of judges featuring Poe One, Pluto and Cima. DJs included B-Ryan, Woo-D, and Cosmic. Collectively, this was going… Read more

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Events

Originality Never Ends

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Starting this week, Style Elements will be releasing exclusive footage weekly, with interviews, clips, photos, projects, knowledge, and more up until the Style Elements 19th Year Anniversary on June 21-23 in San Jose, CA. For more info, visit bit.ly/StyleElements for the official Facebook event page where the updates will source from, and visit www.styleelementscrew.com for more information and future presale ticket deals. Our first video is an interview with the legendary Mr. Wiggles (Rocksteady /Electric… Read more

Recommended

Award Winning Documentary Film Among B-Boys Airs on Public Television during the Month of May!

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In May 2011, my documentary film Among B-Boys – that shares stories about the intersection of breaking and Hip Hop culture, and the Central California and Midwest Hmong youth community – premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. From there it would garner the audience choice award for best documentary, and quietly embark on a tour of niche Asian American film festivals, college campuses, and community centers, around the country. We’ve been celebrated… Read more

Events

The Return Of Sunday Skool Session

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If you’re from Florida, and especially the Central Florida area, you may have some fond memories of a dope little spot called Reign. It was the first mom + pop boutique in Orlando to introduce streetwear brands such as The Hundreds, Crooks, 10 Deep, and Hellz Bellz before they gained mainstream popularity, and they humbly made room on their shelves to help surge Florida based brands such as Nufsed, Bofresco, and Biggest & Baddest. Above… Read more

Community 1st

Keep The Beacon Lit!

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Winter 2013, Massive Monkees were granted a beautiful 2000+ square foot studio space in the International District of Seattle. Titled “The Beacon”, Massive Monkees have used this grant of space to teach, perform and bring people together through community events.In just over 3 months of operation, nearly 400 students have signed up for classes at the Beacon! In addition, we have partnered with and now host some of the best teaching artists from the Northwest… Read more

Event Recaps

Breakin’ Tour Vol.1 – Official Recap

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To raise awareness about our culture and show the public that Hip Hop is not limited to 50 Cent, shiny jewelry, and objectifying women, we decided to organize a bunch of Hip Hop events in shopping malls throughout Slovakia called BREAKIN’ TOUR.   The jam will take place in different cities around Slovakia to bring new kids in this culture and inspire cats that don’t really travel outside their city.  Competing bboys and bgirls that make… Read more

Bboy Life

Be about it! Positive change in our community.

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Be about it! If you want something done, do it yourself. The means to create and make change are at one’s finger tips. The internet and technology is very accessible in this day and age. Hip-Hop and Breaking culture are at a pivotal point in which it is make or break situation (no pun intended). The general consensus is that we want to keep our art form as raw and positive as possible, free from… Read more

Announcements

Congratulations to the 2013 Bboy/Bgirl Scholarship winners!

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As many of you know, for the past couple years we’ve teamed up with our friends at Strife TV to offer an official scholarship to bboys and bgirls enrolled in state colleges and universities. The first year we did this, we raised $1,000 for two scholarships. With the support of the community and generous donations from our sponsors, this year the total amount was raised to $4,000 for four scholarships. Going to try even harder… Read more

History

R.I.P Frosty Freeze

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It’s been five years since Frosty left us. We were there to support his benefit event and not to mourn but to celebrate… Celebrate the life of an ICON.

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