(David Choe: Artist, Traveler, Gambler, Hustler and a Lucky Lucky Boy if his Facebook stock is really worth 200 Million dollars.)
Earlier today the internet lit up with news that David Choe had traded the murals he painted at the facebook offices for stock options in 2005 that are now potentially worth 200 Million dollars.
Holy Shit, thats a lot of money.
But let me back up for a second here. I first really got a good idea of what David Choe was about when I watched the Vice Guide to Travel dvd back in 2006. In it I saw a short film about Choe going to the Congo in search for the last living dinosaur, instead only finding a trio of pretty nice naked black girl butts to dance behind him while he played a child’s drum set in his hotel room. The clip is an inspiration. (we’ll have a link to it at the bottom of this plea for free money, because if we put it in the middle of the post, y’all are gonna split and just watch asses move to the rhythm and this essay is never going to wind up on Choe’s radar.)
Here is the Skinny: David Choe is Success Story. He has the same scumbag interests as us here at Superchief: Booze, Women, Drugs, Gambling, Carnage, Graffiti, Exploding Cars, Wild Shit and Adventure. The difference between him and us, is that now, he’s very rich. Now listen up, because there are two points I’d like to make at this time:
1) We dont need yours or anyone else’s money to have fun, Dave. That isnt what this is about. We already have fun, we ride bikes around greenpoint at 4am and spray cars with fire extinguishers as they drive by, we hunt sharks off the coast of florida with handguns, we broke into Burt Reynolds abandoned Family Mausoleum, we stole motorcycles and led police on a highspeed chase across the suburbs of Tokyo, we keep busy. We know that you had fun before you got all that money, we know we don’t need money to have fun.
We do however need money to hire video editors, because we filmed a lot of that shit and we think people would like to enjoy watching it. And we need money to make it so our friends can quit their jobs and join us. We need funds to help us staff up and throw art shows and underground boxing events and other crazy shit. We need funds to build Superchief into something that we dont burn out on in 5 years, screwed because we never reached for something bigger.
You potentially have 200 million dollars coming to you in 2012, from murals you painted 7 years ago. And that 200 million doesnt include anything else you do in 2012. For 1% of that, you could foster a generation of creative fuck ups who actually give a shit about the other creative people around them, a generation that wants to adventure and fuck shit up and spray paint everything in sight and live a little.
We’ve been lucky enough to be surrounded by people like this our entire lives, and we’ve been breaking our backs to try and support/grow/define that community, while being fuck ups ourselves at the same time and going through life with only the money we hustle in our pockets.
Give us the leg up, is what I’m saying.
2) People could bullshit at me that no one deserves to just be “handed” money, how that wont help anything. They could say things like “No one gave him all that money out of the blue, and that he had to go out and earn it.” And to that I have two responses: firstly, this is 200 Million Dollars of Facebook Funny Money that Dave didnt think would ever show up like this, from some stupid goddamn website. If you acknowledge that he could help with of 1% of that money, and you’re giving me a hard time for asking, you can go fuck yourself.
And secondly, we dont expect him to just give it to us the first time we ask. I dont know if he’ll even read this, he might be on media blackout for the next month so he doesnt wind up accidentally doing a bunch of corny media shit. (or maybe he’ll wind up as a talking head on MSNBC and say some scandalous shit on the air because some segment producer didnt do her homework and keep her hand on the FCC five second delay.)
So what i’m saying is, us asking today, and asking again in a few months, and asking again over the summer will fulfill the “work” that some kinds of people feel they need to see done to justify the “money”.
That all said, here we go:
Hey Dave,
Would you like to give Superchief 2 million dollars and improve our lives and the lives of our scumbag/outlaw/artist friends? We promise to put the money to more good than it would ever do sitting in some stupid bank. We’re real people and some of that money will undoubtably go towards bail at some point, so you could imagine how thankful we’ll be when that happens.
Long story short: It would be a huge goddamn deal for us and we’d never forget you for it.
If you’re interested, please shoot me an email at Editor@Superchief.tv and we’ll sort out grabbing a drink and talk this crazy shit over.
Allah the best,
-Ed Zipco
Founder/Editor-In-Chief
Superchief.tv
Oh, and dont think i forgot about that Congo Booty: click the screengrab to jump to the video if havent seen it:
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