nibbling at the architecture; byrdsongs

travelling

2011-09-27T16:04:00.000+09:30

The Meeting of Styles is an annual gathering of writters from all over, i recognised stuff from Brasil, Brussels, Russia, America, Italy.Apperently it began in Wiesbaden and then outgrew the communities support for the venue. Twas an old slaughterhouse, ignored locally until they realised it seasonally filled with vandles. Local politicians got involved and so, the venue is being gentrified. And the MOS doesn't really happen so much in weisbaden no more, but for this quiet underpass near the local beach( man made beach on the Rhien river).

So the images start at the old slachthof with fresh work and then MOS 2009 fading away (Peeta outa Italy for Atune). Then a sense of scale for ,as a local writer described 'small wall'. And then a few bibs and bobs of interest to me...

travelling

2011-09-25T18:34:00.000+09:30

Weisbaden clean old monied city. Cobbled streets stickers restricted to the back of signs, lots of doozer 183. as tags throwies stickers and posters. Lots of crew & cru along the autobahn and in quiet streets,once as a sticker.
These dog head characters are stenciled and painted onto gaffa tape, same with the 'neileid' flick knives.
Found the Meeting of Styles (MOS)site with some works dating back to 2009 still visable. Fading old 'peeta' and 'san1' with 'okuda','kaim', 'motor','boe',that guy who does the characters with 'does' in loveletterscrew. Heaps more at the other site, but i will talk directly to those photos...

Found at New 2 AFP DMA

2010-11-03T09:38:00.001+10:30

found this on Hurt You Bad...take it or leave it...

Graffiti wasn’t ‘invented’ either. In the latter half of the 20th Century it just became loud enough that middle aged white people started making books and movies about it. And Subway Art is not ‘the Bible’ so please stop calling it that. The reason graffiti got to the stage where people couldn’t ignore it? Technology. Without the train, the telegraph, guns and poison gas, there wouldn’t have been a Holocaust (sorry for mentioning such a subject in this glib way). Without the aerosol can and photography there’d be no ‘worldwide graffiti movement’, but people would still be writing on shit as they have done for thousands of years. Have you never been to a neighbourhood on the ‘wrong side of the tracks’ and seen the graffiti that kids do? Kids that have never seen Style Wars or NYC graffiti. Have you noticed the stylistic conventions such as bubble letters(!), smiley faces, arrows, stars? Have you ever watched footage of graffiti in the 1950’s and earlier? Are you actually fucking blind?

Graffiti is not illegal. Graffiti only became an offence with the advent of property laws. When Europeans settled in what is now North America the First Nations people were bemused by the idea of ‘property’, i.e. owning land. It would be like some random guy coming up to you and saying, “I’ll give you money for that cloud.” Well you ain’t gonna say no are you? Prehistoric people had no concept of the absurd notion of owning land, but after the “birth of civilisation” in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) when something went horribly wrong in our psyche and we embarked on a murderous rampage that continues to this day, competing for property and killing people were suddenly the shit. Unfortunately the inner need to leave your mark on your environment in some small way doesn’t fit in with this new way of thinking. Oh well it’s everyone else’s loss, they’re in denial of their own humanity. By the way, ex-writers who look down on tags are fucking brainwashed scum, don’t listen to their worthless opinions.

Graffiti is as natural as breathing. Don’t ever forget that other forms of expression have been banned by modern man, like certain types of music and dancing. The stuffy, sexless Victorians were the most perverse people ever, and their presence can still be felt by most of us. Being ashamed of the human body, get the fuck out! Anyway like Skeme said, graffiti is for us. Men lift weights to impress other men. Women wear the latest fashions to impress other women. Writers write for other writers. Don’t ever be ashamed of that, or let some artfag tell you that you should be doing pretty characters just to please Joe Public (by all means do characters if it helps you get over).

Graffiti is freedom. Freedom is illegal. Back in the day, prior to the world’s first police force being created in the 19th Century, but anterior to the birth of our fucking scumbag forefathers (before those cunts came along disputes were settled symbolically), if someone stole your shit or tried to fuck with your family, you had to man the fuck up. In other words you had to flex your Alpha male muscles for all they’re worth, whether you were an Alpha male or not – and chances are most men weren’t. Alpha males still exist today in organised crime and politics, they are men who are either powerful enough and/or ruthless enough to live outside the law. For everyone else, ‘Proxy Alpha males’ have been established in the form of the police and the government. However the graffiti world polices and governsitself. The best writers are the ones who exercise their Alpha tendencies to the fullest, you can’t exactly call the cops if someone goes over you so if you’re not willing to physically fight you will only go so far in graffiti. Graffiti writers live outside the laws of society – until they’e caught, obviously – thus they are free, thus true freedom, the way humans once enjoyed it, is illegal. Don’t squander it while you have it, by doing pointless shit like writing a blog on the internet.

All of the above was written off the top of my head and only checked for spelling. If you disagree with anything, please don’t get in touch, I couldn’t care less. Fuck this shit I’m gonna go and listen to some Nick Drake…

photorealism

2010-09-12T20:19:00.000+09:30

TERMS(or what I mean by the use of.)
    Post Graffiti    =art produced in public spaces, though predominantly street or urban spaces. Occupying the physical space graffiti would , but moving beyond graffiti’s motivations.
    Graffiti          =aerosols used to make paintings. Trad.Graffiti = writing your name.
    Art          =Message/insight/information embedded in an action or object.
    Craft       =Skill set. Technique.
    Stencils        =aerosol paints sprayed thru templates. Basically    a high effort, high craft, frequently low result highly portable printmaking medium.

North Ainslie Primary School

Lets start by saying that Art re-presents the world. That a piece of art reframes some aspect of the world.
Standing on the shoulders of these proclamations, what place has photorealism? As a single work/piece viewed in isolation, how does it move beyond a technical exercise? How does it reframe what it re-presents, for some wordy gain? What is the art element to this otherwise craft heavy exercise.

Green gang-gang

Saraton Lane Civic

Lets say that a work of Art is something that stands up to repeated viewings.
Lets say that a work of art is sum of its parts, equally technical and intellectual. Art should extend Craft. (I look here towards the laboured production of photorealism, not that of a mechanical nature.)
So what is the intellectual action of photorealism? Disassociation? Re-contextualisation? What fresh insight achieved through a slice of world? A world in multiples? What point the labour of capture and reproduction?

David St Turner

Okay so there is a long history of re-presentation in art and a relatively short history of Art in Post Graffiti. But re-presentation is troubling. The mechanical (potentially mindless) act of reducing a 3d world to a 2d segment isn’t enough. I guess this is the weakness of photo style Stencil reproductions. A direct technical exercise does not art make. I wonder too, if my distaste for Stencilled photorealism is more closely linked to the very real potential of mechanised process. Logan Hicks built a practice around emotively colouring photographs as stencils, but is now moving towards building both the image and stencil.
It is becoming popular (allowable) in Trad Graf too. And again simply substituting a piece (name in letters) for a figure/fragment/character isn’t enough., or by my measure shouldn’t be enough. But why? And what extension of these is an improvement? Artists like Best Ever , Herakut and ECB fall on the outside edge of this conversation. As they use mess and noise within their compositional repertoire over pure reproduction.
The Craft of image making has naught to do with Art making.

Mort St Braddon

Girraween St Braddon

House keeping

2010-09-06T20:19:00.000+09:30

Some of these sites are sitting idle and some are no longer relevant.Those which live on, for the most part will redirect you anyway. Interestingly a lot of these cats have now set up blogs. Make of that what you will about targeting audience and attention spans in general.(chance here for more words at a later date).
Im just putting them aside so i can change those on the sidebar to reflect what im reading more regularly now. Not being immersed enough to get the etiquette of linking , i figure it to be a further referent of my taste. Sure i will put links to mates in there, but only if im a regular/appreciative reader.

Ashley Wood; Aussie illustrator

Sat;get the book

pictures and another list of distractions

UTR,but mostly cause i don't have this address written down anywhere else

HNT; minimal detail maximising spaces

Tumor; fun with simple letters

Dave the Chimp;do i need this here, dudes not hard to find

Erosie;achive of what you shoulda been lookin' at.

amose; characters and drafting excitement

ekosystem; or Wooster you know how it works

Flying Fortress; a man a plan an aesthetic

Shida; cause you aught ta be lookin

HOOKED:mjar knows what's going on

Viagrafik's crew; design and street sharps, dig around for the old graf site

STICKERS

2010-09-05T15:02:00.000+09:30

byrd Woden

Its about Art making. It’s about the maker. I prefer hand made stickers (not that I dislike vinyl stickers).

byrd Dickson

But a well made sticker, surrendered to the world by one, found by another is a choice thing. The effort of production and distribution being met by the effort of discovery.

Tags and Fashion advertising(Das Monk) Braddon

So to my mind there is a difficulty in settling on a single sticker and reproducing it ad nausea for years. Finding a balance between leaving enough to signify a brand, and being able/bothered to produce the numbers. Being in a sense stuck with this image while pursuing others relentlessly.

Happy1 Civic

FlyingFortress achieves this in broad nuanced strokes. Framing his ‘brand’ as an army of bears, leaves room to vary production, share exploration, and include artistic growth.
Shepard "Obey" Fairey has moved in this direction, but began by the drear process of ‘branding’ an aesthetic by repetition.

byrd Belconnen

Locally Shida was doing a great job of balancing repetition of style and variance of content round Brisbane, back when i was paying closer attention to that scene.
And as for noise right close locally, Sydney syder Mini Graff has volume and variation on her side. While the Sly Crue seem busy with pure text and a very workman like approach.

looking backwards moving forwards

2010-09-03T10:43:00.002+09:30

Image from a project in Winter '07.
For want of a fresh start, im going to try re-invigorating this blog. More words better pictures, more about me and the local scene (or perhaps a balance of wide viewing and local stuff). no core promises no expectations.

Un web site refering ju to another

2009-12-21T16:33:00.003+10:30

byrd

now showing

jas hugonnet galley www.hugonnet.com.au

media release and invitation

In my anecdotal marriage, byrd presents a new body of work in contrast to the transient nature of his street art.

Crafted from old socks and cultural detritius he makes waste wanted and the potentially abject desirable.

These tactile soft characters form a personal diary of ideas where the artist explores independence of character and the versatility of the handled object.

to arrange an appointment to view, please contact the gallery via the website

Image

with a crop of inextinguishable regrets (comes with the added luxury of disorientation)

550 x 90 x 200 mm

Other peoples socks, polyester fill

good times

2009-11-05T21:09:00.002+10:30

Fell in with these cats on Fotolog, back in the days before Facebook. They've switched it up a bit, but basically still keeellling. Actually while Titifreak's got loose, Speto seems tighter than ever. Always a big fan of watching cats work.

Paredes que Hablan :: Titi Freak from I.Sat on Vimeo.

Paredes que Hablan :: Speto from I.Sat on Vimeo.

oh and these are from a larger project.Produced by INJAUS for I SAT, “Paredes que hablan” (Talking Walls) its a series of sixteen short films showcasing street artist in three cities of Latin America: Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Mexico City,

for the few looking the wrong way

2009-09-24T09:41:00.002+09:30

and

Odd jobs from the vault

2009-09-10T21:37:00.002+09:30

some old some not so old, some commissions some self directed, but mostly outdoors...

pause

2009-08-15T23:06:00.000+09:30

Playing fotolog for now. Be back in a minute With a solid plan and the pictures to back it up.
promise

technical stuffs

2009-07-24T22:58:00.002+09:30

Always enjoyed the pieces of Beet, but to watch the confidence of his good self working.

Art Exhibition Characters 2 Mogi/Beet/JNJ from Seoulmates on Vimeo.

from Prefuse.net

thanks brian and rob Kart

2009-07-10T22:23:00.002+09:30

Fair criticism, but i got paid to fix it up too...

not lol cats

2009-06-11T21:16:00.001+09:30

not a blog without a link to some cat related content now is it.(i say to myself).

Graham Annable’s Botched

Bit of outdoor work

2009-05-11T22:07:00.002+09:30

byrd and Laurenson co-production, too many months in the planning.

chournalismo

2009-05-11T18:11:00.002+09:30

sweet heart project with a tasty mix of British and Brazilian artists. If im useing the word right this is even lazy for chournalism. This is a taster make your own links/search, most of the features artist have been using these names for at least a decade (though in less delicate circles t-freak goes by titi freak).

A Força da Rua documentary film from Aliana Monodee on Vimeo.

post no.501

2009-05-01T11:14:00.002+09:30

http://www.tweenbots.com/
Lovely little project. Its in the public space, its anonymous, it draws humans into it with a choice of behaviours and succeeds which ever choice they make. And it has so much potential for extension. From changes of location, to the way the message(goal location) is presented, to the look of the robot. How can you control/better define the way people react/interact. Oh i do enjoy a project that gets me talkin to myself about about it. Movies[why does the spell check want this spelt Mo vies?]too i guess, to have the thing in your head days after leaving it. To be confident to share the things existence with out fear of its value or your need to explain it.

Faith 47 and Rowan collaboration

2009-04-23T22:54:00.003+09:30

He's got a content shortfall without her, shes gunna have every other timelaps production piece without him.

Faith47-The Cape Of Good Hope from Rowan on Vimeo.

Not entirely sure how i feel (slash mentally place the activity and therefore myself) about shuffling stuff around on the webs. You find it you share a/my path, you dont you go somewhere else interesting and we share that diversity. Mental diversity, forget comfort and familiarity. bring your head and extend/confront/contradict mine.
...So for now im goina pretend this is here so i can find it easily later and remember to check the other Faith47 stuff posted by rowan...

something else instead of sleeping

2009-04-23T22:48:00.001+09:30

Time lapse aerosol graffiti promo video commissioned by Paramount for the UK West end movie premiere of 'Watchmen' 2009. executed by 'End of the line' artists: Bleach, Probs, Busk and Zadok. Music by Pyro
Blah blah blah, i love that they rework a space to make this muevee and nobody gets an object at the end. I wonder outloud about the throwing up of outlines, even as chalkies, are these guys so good as to block in and fill as they go? My monies on a projecter between sessions off camera. Which i dont mind. Never mind that "its not graff if you dont freehand" it, how about its not graff if anyone gets to keep it! blahblahblahblah...

belco

2009-04-22T00:06:00.001+09:30

Action from Acton

2009-04-21T23:22:00.003+09:30

In other exciting news, this Al Stark (link here when confirmed blog existence) was in town to produce a massive commission. MASSIVE. Dudes produced the whole thing inside a glass wall. Mind bending process, but powerful result. Check it out the back of the Parlour bar(dont know the names of the other 2 joints sorry).

Layer two in the production process, more typically 2nd to last.

The view from the artist side of the glass.

Tidy little details happening , makes for a slow process, but sweet result.

excited by this

2009-04-21T23:04:00.000+09:30

Nothing but letters - The book
Posted by: vitostreet in book, street photos, tags: Graffiti book

Nothing But Letters est un livre de 1 kg 300, de 240 pages avec une couverture entoilée et frappée de son logo jaune.livre de typograffiti et d’expériences picturales sur le théme du spraycan graffiti art.

Le projet de ce livre est de fournir aux lecteurs une aproche de la partie du graffiti la moins compris et pourtant la plus répendue: le lettrage.La complexité de certains styles rends le lettrage abstrait pour la plupart du public initié ou non.

Ce livre est partagé en quatre partie:

History.

l’histoire des deux principaux protagonistes de cet ouvrage, Lotfi “Yko” Hammadi et Fred “lek” Malek, depuis la fin des années 80 à nos jours.Cette histoire retrace leur début, l’évolution de leur technique et de leur regard sur cet art alternatif dont ils sont acteurs.Des tunnels de metro au toiles en passant par les personnages et l’élaboration de styles en tout genre.ils sont à même de proposer maintenant cette étude de la “Lettre”.

is the history of the work of the two main protagonist Lotfi “Yko” Hammadi et Fred “lek” Malek, from the end of the 80’s to today.This account depicts their beginning, their technical and stylistic evolution,and their vision on this art movement, in which they are taking part. From subwaytunnels to traditional canvas, via characters and all kinds of styles, they now introduce this research in letters.

Alphabet.

La partie la plus importante est consacrée à cette recherche de “typograffiti”. Plus de 800 lettres sont proposées, tout l’alphabet est revisité, ce répertoire de lettres est offert aux lecteurs désirant avoir une base afin de les copier. Plusieurs styles y sont explorés. Le but est d’habituer l’oeil du non initié à mieux comprendre ces “masses de couleurs abstraites” qui sont dessinées sur les murs ou autres, c’est une voie vers le déchiffrage d’un art qui n’est compris que partiellement. Pour les confirmés, c’est une base à développer, déformer, grossir, diminuer encore plus afin de se l’approprier.

The most important part of the book is dedicated to the research of “typograffiti”.The alphabet is revised entirely, interpreted in more than 800 letters and in many different styles, as it is also meant to be offered as a reference library for the reader. The aim is to get the amateur eye of the reader used to this ‘ mass of abstract lettering in order to be able to decipher what is actually written on the walls, which may allow to understand fully an artform which is today only partially understood.For the initiated, the alphabets are meant to serve as a playground for manipulation, a first draft to deform, exaggerate,enlarge, diminish, etc, in order to make it the user’s own.

Writers.

Après la partie théorique, nous avons mis en pratique des peintures inédites avec un panel assez large de spraycan graffiti artistes parisiens : Midi, War, Jay, Echo, Gorey, Swen, Horphé, Zeki, Cezam et bien d’autres encore, qui vont expliquer leur démarche afin d’éclaircir au plus grand nombre le pourquoi du comment. Une mise en valeur photographique de ces artistes d’un art enrichi par sa diversité et sa complexité technique.

After theory comes practise, ie. painting, and those who practise this art. We present never before published Parisian spraycan artist such as Midi, War, Jay, Swen, Echo,Gorey, Horphée, Zeki, Cesam and many more, sharing and explaining their personal views and experiences on graffiti, again maybe throwing more light onto what this really is. Photos underline the portraits of these artists, aswell as showing an immense diversity in technique and complexity.

Painting.

La derniére partie est dediée à l’élaboration de peintures, des essais sur des techniques, des mises en oeuvre des lettrages:disparition des contours, mélanges des masses, superpostion des lettres, dripping, multi-lignes….Penser et faire les lettres et les peintures differemment

The last part is dedicated to the elaboration of spraycan painting, trials on various techniques and colours, lettering, lettering without outlines, layering of letters, dripping, multi-lines..trials in thinking and painting differently from the traditional ways.

-Les inédits de Nothing But Letters.

Editeur : Editions Alternatives (19 mars 2009)
Collection : WASTED TALENT A
Langue : Français/ English

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* www.alapage.com

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freash pants

2009-04-14T20:48:00.002+09:30

Some work with a local school, helping the kids resurface the toilets. So that they become their toilets. None too shabby a result given the heady mix of low skills and high enthusiasms. here follows some fragments...

to watch in full later

2009-03-24T11:10:00.001+10:30

Lot of good stuff comin outa these place.

old money

2009-03-20T11:00:00.001+10:30

I had seen photos of two or three of these rooms, but here be a beautiful walk through of the entire job.

moving units

2009-03-20T10:48:00.003+10:30

Pichacao skills in an LA environment.Imagine this skill set and motivation practiced by every tagger in a city...result Sao Paulo.

big bite out of wooster

2009-03-17T11:32:00.002+10:30

One for all the artwranglers out there, probably further interesting stuff being said on their facebook too.

Sat >> Mar 14, 2009
Should Art Be Treated Like Stocks?

Over the last couple of weeks Sara and I have had lots of late night conversations with artists and gallerists from all over the world about the current state of the art market and where things might be headed.

One thing that's been surprising for us to hear is that quite a few galleries and artists are talking about cutting their prices for work from established artists.

Surprising because in the past it would be sacrilegious for a gallerist or artist who's built a base of collectors to even consider cutting prices on new work no matter how bad the environment was. For years we've heard gallerists say - "I'd rather go out of business then cut my artist's prices."

The reason for this has been that if you cut an artist's price you alienate the buyers who purchased similar sized work only months before. It's also seen a signal to collectors that the demand for the artist's work is waning.

But this year, with many galleries facing the real possibility of shutting their doors, the discussion of cutting prices has changed. Many gallerist and artists are admitting that the prices for a lot of the work over the past few years has been far too high, rose far too quickly, and now completely impossible to sustain. Seemingly overnight, many artists went from pricing their work at $3,000 to $30,000.

So what do these artists do now? That's what everyone is asking. Do they cut their prices so their galleries can try survive? Do they hold their prices and wait it out?

One European gallery told us that they were thinking of cutting prices by as much at 30% this year. They said:

"As an investment, art should be treated no different than a stock. Investments go up and down. Why shouldn't art? On the flip side - If you buy art not as an investment but because you love it, why should it matter to you if the price comes down? You bought it because you loved it, not because of it's value."

We'd love to hear more opinions of what people think. If you have some thoughts email us, send a note via Twitter to @MarcSchil, or post a message on to Wooster Collective Facebook page.
Posted by marc at 12:21 PM

for me

2009-03-13T09:49:00.001+10:30

Whats hot this season? Well still these guys for sure, and fair enough too.

in other news

2009-03-12T20:31:00.002+10:30

While i'm painting might as well be posting, used to have a rule no weapons, nothing sexual. Seems i'm slipping.

Call ME

2009-03-10T19:55:00.000+10:30

Seems the Mighty Boosh is calling me out.

Call me i can show you how gay my dance is too...

what better place to dump a collection of pictured songs

2009-02-12T20:14:00.002+10:30

quanum projects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erc40wCxRZo
one for the kids

Monster by Okyo outa NZ bit of fun at speed

Ohh Yeah! Not actually a video clip, but bloody well ought to be.

these keep freezing up onme but lets save this and see...

nothing to say about me

2009-02-12T20:04:00.001+10:30

But that doesn't really matter does it? So ima just continue to shuffle around stuff whats already on the table. The song'll stick in your head and the scary lookin old men seem less so once the synchronized dancing starts.

2009-02-08T13:36:00.002+10:30

not a huge fan of dudes works on paper, but when the scale blows up, its all good.And im not real sure about the whole calligraphy graffiti(tagging) ney calligraffiti thing.The difficulty of dumbing stuff down enough to get people on board, without actually bringing it down.

performance art

2009-02-06T21:00:00.003+10:30

Sat in on a portrait drawing class for an old friend, something to do with BEARCAGE productions and the National Portrait Gallery producing a documentary called Framed, to be screened on the Bio Channel on Foxtel.

Not so much a portrait as one head built flat in the presence of another.

other people painting

2009-02-03T21:34:00.001+10:30

Pose and Ewok x Ironlak x SuperVision. from Ironlak on Vimeo.

Um, context. Ironlak are an Australian paint company the two writers are OG (old guard New York School) Writers from the USA. Ironlak is a cheep local paint of variable quality, lets say they're still getting their recipes and technology together.Their local writers team kicks arse so its nice to see them hitting up the high end elsewhere.

body mods

2009-02-02T21:59:00.002+10:30

I had forgotten about www.BMEzine.com poor me. But then bizarre reminded me,yay bliss.
Anywho this sa blog so heres some other thunks of little consequence.
This is funny to me, its from the intro page to a bizarre publication and i laughed/love the way they blithely skip over the whole idea of tattoos and scarification actually being further self harm.

this is fun

2009-02-01T21:07:00.001+10:30

exhibition

2009-01-27T21:55:00.000+10:30

be there or be somewhere else, but do please look in on it.

2009-01-27T21:31:00.000+10:30

A bunch of jobs from the last 12 months.

2009-01-10T20:26:00.002+10:30

probably not even in the middle of this job, but for the want of anything else to post.

2008-12-24T20:18:00.002+10:30

don't forget to stretch and limbre up before engorging yore good selves on the seafood s tomorrow...

head study

2008-12-06T22:08:00.001+10:30

or not, um more news as i get the hang of this flickr stuff eh...

cbr times wrong wrong wrong

2008-11-20T11:56:00.000+10:30

I realise that i tend towards a deliberate stance of obstrification, but then somethings seem really transparent too.E.L.K.stencil painted the steve pratt painting E.L.K. painting. I posted a picture of it. the cbrtimes has apparently printed a new pic and credited moi. not moi E.L.K.

on another note further reading
www.bookaminute.com
http://www.kid-zoom.com
http;//www.aventuresextraordinaires.fr/
http://www.zap51.com

picture i made with some friends, or friends made.

2008-10-18T19:19:00.000+10:30

big pictures produced by atune in the shade,then E.L.k. byrd and E.L.K. again

and then a lttle something something by the notorious E.L.K.

longish paintings re-viewed

2008-08-20T16:38:00.000+09:30

pope jellyfish adjusted to say byrd.
One end of the apartment wall.

updated links

2008-08-16T23:25:00.000+09:30

tee hee hee
go loose several hours in the further reading section. Honets site took me for 2 hours.

2008-08-08T16:34:00.000+09:30

fragment from upcoming Beautiful Losers movie.

The Price of Success from beautifullosersfilm on Vimeo.

typographic corrections

2008-08-08T16:04:00.001+09:30

quick response

slow rebuild "melt down"

quickie

slower. "melt down byrd atune dusk kiosk"

byrd above Atune below (less than keen on that U n combo)

another quickie byrd thrasher

might try to gather stuff for a streets post next week, been seeing a few things up and about.

TYPOS

2008-08-01T16:23:00.000+09:30

Someone else's beef, stemming from miss organisation and forgotten etiquette on my part and bad timing. The guys i was going to paint with never showed, so instead of rolling three panels only one got rolled,whatever i painted looked crappy.Then one of the dudes who's production i had fragmented turned up and acted suitable sad/angry. i left, not needing more shit in my life, just now.Dude didn't finish his piece but someone wrote "fuck you ass hole" across it.dude now thinks its me.
it aint. arse has an r and e in it.Might as well let someone finish before capping them.if i really cared i would have delt with your man in the flesh dayone.net result this mess...

im assuming you start on anthill with two full cans black/chrome and head towards belco.
my big question is do i get to cap the netball wall as recompense?

recent character paintings

2008-07-12T10:45:00.000+09:30

from the winter y wastes of Canberra pictures of sunlight.Got a laptop and wireless web thingy,but as yet no permanent address so i have to fish for networks and check im still connected every time i navigate away from a page. Or in this case check before clicking post...
enough chatter more pictures.
a mermaid in an aviator style beanie with really long flaps

a robot body enabled skull leaping away from an Atune piece

pieces

2008-07-12T10:42:00.001+09:30

some letters on walls.

2008-07-12T10:24:00.000+09:30

Basically cause people are askin' though i doubt they're lookin' here for answers. These is part of a local council project i was involved in, Ima claim the characters as my work, though most of this first skater is Kurts work.

piece and character

2008-07-04T17:37:00.000+09:30

mostly to prove im still in motion.

that said in future i will cut at least 2 or 3 small stencils (less than A4) when intending to cover more than 5m of wall.

juglerz

2008-07-04T17:14:00.005+09:30

fragments from an ongoing unfinished series.

Tattoos and booze and guns, its all good.

bruises and broken bits are good too, aren't they!

more poaching from wooster

2008-05-16T09:38:00.000+09:30

Italian compulsive draftsman.was doing these kind of chacters/narratives big on walls so this is a natural progression.

NuArt 2007 - A Look Back

2008-04-25T10:04:00.002+09:30

Last year a group of artists including Nick Walker, Eine, Blek le Rat, Arofish, C6 Dotmasters, D*Face, Dolk, Herakut, Pobel, Word to Mother, Logan Hicks, M-City, and others came together in Stavanger, Norway for the NuArt 2007 festival. Recently a short video of footage of the installation was put together...

taken from else where on the web, artist appearing are mostly in italics

happy happy sad sad

2008-04-21T16:08:00.000+09:30

Rip-rip-roaringly humorous things and bitter sadness.
Lets start with sad, this nice bike went the way of the relationship i was in when i gave it to the grrl who never rode it. Everything looks good and runs well, though you haven't serviced it in a while, then the crazy neighbours of the place where you're stashing it get their place fire-bombed(or fire-bomb it themselves not sure yet, and doesn't really matter). And here is the result.

The upside is I've reclaimed the carcass and striped and repainted the bits.Photos when the rebuilds complete.

20 meters of 4 meter high wall and this is the only thing on it.

insects for happy

2008-04-21T16:02:00.000+09:30

So while happys painting large mammals between cbr and melbourne im claiming the invertebrates.

Oh and a head i had to repaint cause its sooo scary..

rumors of my dmize being greatly exagerated (its just a heart)

2008-04-21T15:39:00.001+09:30

UPDATE UPdate update
Been painting a lot and there taint no internet cable running to my tent, so somewhere between time constraints and resource management lays the blame.

Okay so this was painted in the workshop of some fancy tyrez shop, dude didn't know what he wanted so i did this. At which point he became quite sure of what he didn't want. He then went and found some nasty bboy style characters off the web for this to be covered by.

Very happy collaboration with Atune in Dickson

And then on the other wall a secret piece

being as it were, vaguely interested in men at work

2007-09-29T22:55:00.000+09:30

Meanwhile some time later that same day

qees from FreQee show

2007-09-29T10:10:00.000+09:30

Big thanks to Brett Weekes and Giles Kilham for the slide show below and putting together the related event.Happily mine sold and i wont have to figure out how to collect it from Brisbane (sadly i was thinking of skinning it and remounting the hide).

funny/sad

2007-08-07T10:19:00.000+09:30

trying to live link someone's avatar, and failing.

sunshine

2007-08-03T11:13:00.000+09:30

found on http://www.myspace.com/myspace_blows1

A little bit of sunshine in an otherwise grey miserable world. I mean its birthday season and all, but i still got a lot of shit to push up hill. slippry moist often shapeless and its cold out and ive no shoes and and and. "MATHAMATICS!" gotta watch that clip again.

Magazines

2007-08-03T11:08:00.000+09:30

check em out enjoy

Belio magazine (spain)
http://www.beliomagazine.com/productos.php?lang=ing
http://www.beliomagazine.com/
text in English and Spanish

DEFRAG magazine (Italia)
http://www.defragmag.com/index.html
http://www.defragmag.com/
text in Italian and English

CODE RED magazine (Russian)
http://www.coderedmag.com/
Click on shop and scroll down to find and preview back issues.
texts in Cyrillic and English.

Nusign art in progress magazine (French)
http://www.thelazydog.fr/
Click on the yellow lump at the top middle of screen.
preview issue 1 http://trendbeheer.com/2007/02/17/nusign-1/
From the guy who brought you the hard to find good to hold World signs magazines (only five issues ever, but oh my giddy aunts goat).

poster book(reworked syke cataloge) slide show

2007-07-10T11:12:00.000+09:30

Playing with old stuff gleened from other web sites, while i caint upload new stuff. Soon, im sure to be able soon. Not all pages of this zine/artist book are being shown, but you get the gist eh !

2007-07-02T10:42:00.000+09:30

Not a big fan of siteing my wider influences here, but.Back around 1990 i started coming across exhibition flyers and press cliping for this mob (of unrelated practitioners) Nash Long Goldsworthy Mach Nils-Udo. Gave me new insights into the manipulation/intervention of space. Something about the evidence of actions as detritus. A weight of action. Kind of pre empts the current vogue for journalism as a visual practice.
More on that latter when ive gathered the words.
heres a nice little collection of goldsworthy detritus.

painting tattoos

2007-06-16T16:27:00.000+09:30

figure by Egon Schiele 1913

Process Invisable 2

2007-06-12T17:11:00.000+09:30

Open invitation poster show put together by Klutch (of vinyl killers fame).
June 9th 2007 Street Level (now my memory fades, oregan usa mayhaps?)
gallery shots

So what did i have to do with this mash up? Half a head poster here.

half head on the left, tattooed man in a trucker cap to the left(bottom layer)

trucker skull in green low middle

painting hand with can sticking out of the hairnoodle

painting grrl bottom left.
all images stolen from klutch

poster

2007-05-03T09:50:00.000+09:30

Canberra gets exciting and cold

2007-04-21T14:07:00.000+09:30

Cant guarantee pictures yet (grammar and spelling ever). Im a little behind the eight ball on this one as Im currently packing up house and preparing for the final inspection here in Brisbane (beautiful autumn temps) and all the excitment is hap hap happening in (how cold is it) Canberra. Thanks to all for updates.
So some liberal MLA has taken it upon himself to remove a Mural i was commissioned to produce a few years back. My understanding of his current position is that it was in a culturally insensitive position. However the poor fool failed to properlly look into the legalities (not the word im after, i would like to link this kind of ill formed rash,dictatorial behavour to the top dog of th liberal heap {see Joint Strike Fighter,IRAQ, Hicks and moneys for water stuff etc etc ad infinum}.But its run more like the pecking order of chickens ,and im no word smith) of the said paintings provenance. Paid for by a community sporting group, run through due process at Urban Services and existant for nearly two years, before the ground swell of complaints left our good friend with no option but its destruction.(Can i ask why anyone would complain to the opposition rather than the government proper, and cause they wouldn't listen is no excuse. I've had public projects reject on the wieght of a single complainant.)
Fragmented image of original mural
[img]http://photos1.blogger.com/img/32/3758/320/Img_0342.jpg[/img]
His nibs in action
[img]http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5452055,00.jpg[/img]

other places where noise is being made
http://ampersandduck.blogspot.com/2007/04/rant-du-jour.html
http://dno.blogspot.com/2007/04/splashback.html
http://the-riotact.com/?p=4705

sticker book

2007-02-06T15:43:00.000+10:30

So when i do get out and wander i take a purse full of stuff; stickers, camera, notebooks, markers etc and a little golden book. This last is to put any nice stickers i find along the way. So its full now, which works out poetically i guess. Im leaving town and my Brisbane sticker book is full. (the pages are full, I'd kind of like to get hold of an OK.CO.Pilot, a joe,a Lankey and one of those hand painted Ballistic figures ).
This little collection does inclued manman,Fiasko,Leet,1337,ZKLR,Miz Cery,Shida,George,Guz,Ake,nightrider69,Shapes,Vaqm,Tower,cleche,PosterChild,
Create,Melo,Troks,Reks,diecut,byrd a few brand stickers(bands/clothes etc) and several producers whose names Ive never discovered (like the girl who puts up the soldiers).
There have been comments made about a lack of clarrity, a bit of who did what then.Im not saying, do your own leg work.This stuffs out there take a walk and look around.

mirror tiles

2007-02-01T16:34:00.000+10:30

preparing a bunch of abandoned posters

2007-01-22T08:11:00.000+10:30

These are only 83cm x 84 cm so excuse the lack of finessing; my can skills are a little atrophied. Looks like i will be moving back to Canberra, so i figure i ought to get rid of all the unused/unfinished posters lying around. More photos once their up i guess...

holiday snaps

2007-01-16T11:23:00.000+10:30

with Atune

Diuse and Bust

A magazine article about the DEX show way back when.

2006-12-13T14:29:00.000+10:30

xmass gifts

2006-12-04T13:46:00.000+10:30

so this year your all getting monsters made from my old socks and stuffed with old undies and shoping bags.

party people

2006-11-29T09:33:00.000+10:30

I've been asked to help decorate/populate an xmass party.Its a rental so ive made a bunch of elements i can walk in and build up the space with. The space being a section of fence line sans bogan villia [sic]. Its a martini party can you tell, Pastry has already accused me of populating the place with my own prefered guests.

Still thinking about a few more bits, like giving one of the boys an empty martini glass and making a bunch of text to drop beneath everyone.A line of Buchowski or yeats or just some phrase ive gleened on a bus.(like "you'll meet them again on the long road to the middle").

outside

And then the whole gig was candle lit and precious few people showed up anyway, ha.

when i went walking after mid day...

2006-11-12T18:27:00.000+10:30

the excitement of 1337 and realty

a particularly nice ZKLR

A nice Reks, with the usual suspects

Skull insitu

Bunch of photocopied posters by Karl and Sam

I get the impression these guys are also putting out comics somewhere.Theres a bloom(if thats what you call a good spot filling with stickers) in the city which is almost exclusivly local comix producers.

a little something for Ampersand duck

Lokione getting/keeping busy with aluminium tiles.I share the sentiment but entirly sure about promoting the shit heads image in any form.(the horned one not gas maskboy, im really enjoying the work of gas mark boy, lots of stuff in good spots all over).

2006-10-18T14:48:00.000+09:30

Studio flicks. no real plan just keeping the wheels turning.

2006-10-13T12:55:00.000+09:30

2 pages from issue 1 of WALTER, a new magazine trying to make Canberra look better in the press.Thanks to Diuse for the heads up.
Big photo, as painted by moi, part of a larger production with Atune, Astro, Devient and Chunt(?).

Second page from the top Ripe from the UK, STYLEZ by shadow, Jeroo out of Germany, I dunno but its cbr style letters, EC production out of Sydney (Peak bears Sytak etc), STATUS by shadow, luster(?) weird olde school stuff, Fens, Agets and, the character section from a Mine production with Cents. Seems like four of the ten are local stuff...

and the text, which is about the same quality as my character...

petrol stations

2006-09-10T15:55:00.000+09:30

Man Man

Stickers as tags = boredom

2006-08-28T15:06:00.000+09:30

bandaged beans in a variety of local and sizes. Dunno who or what they prefer to be called.But i do like this as a logotype, its simple, graphic and infinitely variable within its design limits.

A couple of girlie pirate types wearing gas masks of course...

Rather delicate Shida throwie, now if everyone could just tag like this from now on.

1337 and um another dunno.But it does say 'for you or you' on it.

Byrd magic hands. shit stickers = shit tags.

Balistic getting busy along the Ferny Grove line.That zigzag annoyed me at first, i thought it a simple space eating device.But it moves nicely in an optical way as you skid past on trains.

Shapes, me thinks .

ManMan or/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ if you will. does an excellent trade in roll pieces along the tracks.

2006-07-11T15:05:00.000+09:30

was that too much

It smackes of latent modernism

Getting nowhere faster

Unknown around the way...

DEX show

2006-07-08T15:10:00.000+09:30

byrd, Jace Harper, ? , Miss Kitty
? and Kid9

?, Ty Swanson, 1337

Miz Cery

ZKLR

Mit Rix

2006-07-06T13:25:00.000+09:30

Skulls in the valley

Heads on pizza boxes, also for the most part spread around the valley

Public Art, or just fun with gaffa tape.

Various people getting busy

Satta on a prime wall.

Shida and Nil and What i think is Minimus,but probably isn't.

Balisitic

2006-06-21T15:43:00.000+09:30

Balistic love these, i think i want to get a standardised shot of as many i can find and build it into an animation/slideshow.
Who doesn't love a cute bunny. Not anthropomorphised, just cute.
Its simple and out there. An elephant holding a big chili, sooo out there.
Not a big fan of girlie stuff, not even when 'cum' do it. But this was the most striking poster in this alley
Shida postal servce mayhem, get on board.
Shapes
Joe always a pleasure, but especially nice to see little little ones.
Tom Selleck is the coop devil!

1337 always good for height and scale

ZKLR pulling is weight. that looks wrong ie and ei. Ubiquety is one thing being interesting about it is another.

city streets

2006-06-19T14:58:00.000+09:30

laundry gang. Guz, 1337, nil, ananke, balistic, and im assuming Reks and zklr/miz cery/ et al.

'love me or else' Guz

txt bomb and byrd skull.

city streets

2006-06-19T12:09:00.000+09:30

valley.Im seeing robots, Shida, Cleche, Zklr, Mis cery, ok co pilot, bird,

central, man man

detail of cleche's

velley, Guz, Zkler, exo and the local killpixie/neckface whos name i canni remember.

valley, zklr txt bomb and byrd with ?

five of eight?

Coffs Harbour

city streets

2006-06-19T11:54:00.000+09:30

central station

closer to brunswick street. This cat has also a bunch of nice roof tops im yet to photograph.

Back in the valley, near, can we still say china town?

Poon

perfectnoseclub, in the city. 'she'(it/he/they) also has a mini comic out now, comes in a dealbag.

something makes me think Ampersand duck would like these, but i dunno what/why.

valley again

central man man

city streets, west end

2006-06-19T11:45:00.000+09:30

city streets

2006-05-24T11:48:00.000+09:30

Don't yet know what this cat calls themselves, but you just goto love these reducto stylings.

For Uno ,they do run eh.

ManMan in Aldeley for cleche or shida, some manman fan. Dudes all city with roller throw ups. None of which i have a decent photo of yet. A few nice Man's no manman's yet.

2006-05-20T13:07:00.000+09:30

Lister in the burbs and likewise minimus ake and byrd et al...

2006-05-18T15:55:00.000+09:30

byrd AKE random unamed and what looks like the work of germen Tower?
[IMG]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/byrdhq/tower.jpg[/IMG]

put up and ?

something new from 1337

love this poster. better i think with the head removed.

close up of that tower looking sticker.

City Streets

2006-05-09T16:05:00.000+09:30

1337 and someone i don't recognise.

Miz cery and Minimus with AKE. top series of reworked flamable stickers, beefed up and well spread.

Poon up the top and a little 1337 in the middle, the rest... who knows.

Minimus again i think, but i am almost habitually wrong.

Reks... again.

Two times Zekler me thinks plus one Nil.

Zekler again and maybe Guzguz? but im not very sure.

2006-04-19T15:21:00.000+09:30

another clutch or is that cluster of stickers, some quite old. Those i recognise inclued Alis, Leet/1337, Shida, Put Up, an old AKE, Ok Co Pilot, and fuck the police and get drunk by persons unknown to me.

And one of the few light boxes I've seen painted to be seen from your car.It looks like shit up close, but from the road , i love the optical effects.

2006-04-19T15:14:00.000+09:30

Window dressing for the generous folk at Cylinder in the valley.

Better photos when there is less traffic.

2006-04-09T11:55:00.000+09:30

some unfinished studio pieces.

this one is a reworking of an olde that never seemed quite right. Still doesnt but its a helva lot closer.

this one is sooo in process, its like a photo of some building foundations."Hey you wanna buy an appartment?". I think these latest works are fabrics, like patterned material.

2006-04-02T19:14:00.000+09:30

this i think says 'cleche', and just out of shot...

Joe. this dude is most assuredly a writer. Trains /awnings/ the lines/ lotso tags. always tidy work too.

Put Up does also a nice line in stickers, little speach bubbles for all the character stickers.

Poon, an olde torn 1337, TXT, the ubiquitos bzerk fashion label sticker and a bunch i don't know yet.