Hit + Run: On-site Silk Screening Masters Make a Statement with T-shirt Style + Launch their Own Collection Based on Film Noir Themes—Label Networks Story + TV Interview with Brandy Flower

Hit + Run is a well-established, yet underground collective, headed up by Brandy Flower, a well-known artist for making album covers, that takes live silk screening on T-shirts to a new level. Known around pockets of Los Angeles, the H + R crew creates themes by bringing screens and setting up a silk-screening station then collaborating with various artists and T-shirt companies to create one-of-a-kind wearable pieces on-site at various events and parties.

The unique silk-screening process of the H+R crew includes overlapping logos, taking logos away from the center of a shirt and putting it on the sides, sleeves, or adding foil and artwork, and basically creating an organic art-piece through the live silk-screening process itself.

In addition, H+R has created unique mini-zines and last year, an event called "Mark of the Beast." Mark of the Beast takes an anti-globalization stance by taking large corporate brands and spoofing them, i.e., changing Coca-Cola to Cocaine, Discover Card to Dickover, American Express to American Excess, and Levis to Evils, among others. As Brandy explains, the event and mag were intended as a "deprogramming mechanism of all of this bullshit that corporations are shoving down our throats all the time. It’s different and it’s fun."

Ironically, the last Mark of the Beast art exhibition was shut down mid-party by the Los Angeles police, forcing the 1,000 attendees into the streets. The offense? In our post 9/11 climate, it appears that an art exhibition expressing cultural-jamming is not considered freedom of speech, but rather "offensive and aggressive in nature."

But that hasn’t stopped H+R. If anything, they’re on a roll, with upcoming events at the Natural History Museum, SXSW, and Coachella, plus the launch of their own T-shirt line with 8 new designs around film noir themes.

Label Networks TV captures a few moments with the mastermind behind Hit + Run and Mark of the Beast, Brandy Flower, during their live show at MAGIC: