Over here at the BP_TOW frat house, we have definitely been stepping up our art awareness and creativity game, and we try and recognize the people that we find inspiring. Check out this piece here, but be advised that it contains NSFW language, its about a group of artist who set out to do something special.

There is a definite appreciation for the old stalwarts in the game, but we are finding that we tend to skew to the newer artist, the guys that represent the era that we grew up in and we find a common ground with. After the jump some history on the crew and a look inside the LAFCO bus!

I got hip to this cat Tao Ruspoli a while back when I started taking pictures and I was surfing the web and just happened to come across his old website. Just one look at some of the pictures you begin to see that this guy is magic behind a lens. Upon further investigation, I saw that him and his crew of artists had a little bit of a movement going on.

In 2000, he founded a group called The Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative, or LAFCO, which is a collective of multi-talented individuals producing cutting edge work in film and music. The shit that I found so dope was that all of their production for videos and film or whatever they were doing was coming out of a fully functioning mobile production company that they created by retrofitted an old beat down school bus! The original goal was to drive from LA to NY looking for, “the intersection of art and politics in America,” and this it that story. Along the way they “bump into such luminaries as Dead Prez, director Oliver Stone, guerilla poster artist Robbie Conal, among all those citizens just living day-to-day, the Film Co-op has created a profound record for their time.”

The trailer was first up on this post and you can find the rest of Behind The Wheel, literally the entire flick, on the website, behindthewheelmovie.com. If you can find an hour its definitely worth taking a look at because this shit is dope. By the way, Tao  is married to Olivia Wilde.