{"id":5361,"date":"2012-01-11T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T19:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2012-01-11T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T19:51:54","slug":"release-day-of-the-dedos-the-art-of-dying-while-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/01\/11\/release-day-of-the-dedos-the-art-of-dying-while-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Day of the Dedos &#8211; The Art of Dying While Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5362 aligncenter\" title=\"Nomad_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Nomad_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Nomad_poster.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Nomad_poster-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Nomad_poster-596x600.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Artshow for Legendary Vancouver Graffiti artist Dedos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Day of the Dedos &#8211; The Art of Dying while Living<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">OPENING: Friday, January 13, 7pm-11pm<br \/>\nLOCATION: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aydengallery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ayden Gallery<\/a>, 88 West Pender Street<br \/>\nFeaturing: Dedos \/ Ben Tour \/ The Dark \/ Scott Sueme \/ Kaput \/ Virus<br \/>\nMusic By: DJ FLIPOUT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibition Closes February 5th, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Nelson Dedos Garcia &#8211; Concept Artist \/ Illustrator \/ Painter\/ Muralist \/ 2D Animator \/ Logo designer \/ Children&#8217;s Book Illustrator \/ <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Trained as a classical animator, Nelson has spent the last decade working in the video game development field in Vancouver. Over the years he has fulfilled a number of different artistic rolls while working on video game projects for clients such as , Nintendo, Electronic Arts, DEF JAM, and EMI Entertainment. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>During the early 90&#8217;s, Nelson &#8220;Dedos&#8221; Garcia was a core member of an infamous graffiti muralist crew: &#8220;AA CREW&#8221;; as well as a powerful Bboy crew: &#8221; Contents Under Pressure&#8221; and a founding member of the hip hop group the &#8221; RASCALZ &#8221; that shook up Canadian music industry .<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dedos is not only recognized as one of the graffiti\/b-boy pioneers in Canada but he is also a Juno Award winner for his album artwork for musician &#8220;K-OS&#8221;.\u00a0 Early on Dedos came to the realization that his creative passion could not be contained to just one outlet or genre so in addition to showing in galleries he is a seasoned muralist, 2-animator, comic artist, illustrator, concept artist&#8230;&#8230; His clientele include K-OS, K-naan, Avril Lavigne, MTV, Cartoon network, Nintendo, and so on&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More recently, he pushes the name of his own company &#8220;NOMADIC ALTERNATIVES productions&#8221; with his wife Xochitl, together they aspire to create an abundance of great things and travel the world with their\u00a0 3 children, dog and cat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artshow for Legendary Vancouver Graffiti artist Dedos. Day of the Dedos &#8211; The Art of Dying while Living OPENING: Friday, January 13, 7pm-11pm LOCATION: Ayden Gallery, 88 West Pender Street Featuring: Dedos \/ Ben Tour \/ The Dark \/ Scott Sueme \/ Kaput \/ Virus Music By: DJ FLIPOUT Exhibition Closes February 5th, 2011 ***<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/01\/11\/release-day-of-the-dedos-the-art-of-dying-while-living\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Event: Day of the Dedos &#8211; The Art of Dying While Living&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[6792,6798,6795,792,6781,6783,6784,6791,1136,6787,6789,6422,6785,6799,6797,6782,6788,1248,6796,6786,6790,6794,214,6793],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-avril-lavigne","tag-ayden-gallery","tag-ben-tour","tag-canada","tag-comic-artist","tag-concept-artist","tag-concept-artist-illustrator","tag-def-jam","tag-designer","tag-electronic-arts","tag-emi-entertainment","tag-illustrator","tag-illustrator-painter","tag-juno-award","tag-k-os","tag-legendary-vancouver-graffiti-artist","tag-mtv","tag-musician","tag-nelson-dedos-garcia","tag-nintendo","tag-nomadic-alternatives","tag-scott-sueme","tag-vancouver-2","tag-xochitl"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Event: Day of the Dedos - The Art of Dying While Living - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/01\/11\/release-day-of-the-dedos-the-art-of-dying-while-living\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Event: Day of the Dedos - The Art of Dying While Living - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Artshow for Legendary Vancouver Graffiti artist Dedos. 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