thanks brian and rob Kart

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

not lol cats

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

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

chournalismo

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

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

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

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

Action from Acton

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

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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freash pants

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

Lot of good stuff comin outa these place.

old money

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

moving units

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

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

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

in other news

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

Call ME

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

exhibition

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

A bunch of jobs from the last 12 months.

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

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

head study

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