This week I've been very sociable with some of the local artists, first I met Vomit on Monday for a chat and a wander putting up some stickers and pastes.
Vom and I met at half 8 so I didn't expect any pasting to happen until it got dark but apparently he is utterly fearless; well prepared with wheat paste in a 2 litre Coke bottle with the top cut off (the pasting brush fit perfectly in it! ingenious!) he got to work getting 6 pastes up all over Digbeth in under an hour. Usually he doesn't have a lookout and he's been caught twice with a spray can in his hand so he's got his speed-pasting technique down. Despite his paste competence he's only been doing none-sprayed work for a fairly short time and finds the nature of Flickr friendships and sharing work online all quite new and a bit odd.
After a good walk round some of the best spots he was off to catch a train to one of the many places he floats between - you can see from his Flickr page that he regularly vandalises Derby, Brighton, London, Nottingham and of course Birmingham, to name but a few. A lovely chap who even took a few of my rubbish little stickers in return for his excellent ones and has since put them up in London, hopefully next time he's here it'll be for a bit longer.
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Last night (Saturday), 6TWO4 (and his lovely mate Smed) came down from Nottingham to meet Wah, Lisk, Mew, PTP and myself for drinking, pasting and general merriment. A good time was had by all and everyone got some pastes up (apart from PTP but I'll let him off because he's usually the only that bothers and he's been getting ready to move house next week (sob)). There was even bit of spray action with my 99p Store black car paint that I needed to complete number 10 of the Sticky Missions challenges, more on that after photos!
Photos of the pieces in the daylight and some Wah pastes we did after getting back from Vudu (not a bad place, the cheapcheap drinks balance out the sweaty air) on next week's post or as a rare mid-week post. Or you can just check my Flickr.
Really fun night and always good to hang out with random people you know from the internet.
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Sticky Missions has slowed down a little this week and the deadline has been announced as the first week of September so you'll only have to read about it for another 4 weeks! I'm now on 40 points and showing off in an enraging manner. Here are the best offerings:
Me
10 - Spray paint your character and write Sticky Missions next to it
6TWO4
13 - Create a sticker using only pasta
PTP
17 - Make a zombie sticker
6TWO4
17 - Make a zombie sticker
Me
32 - Make a fake advertising poster with your character, bonus for putting it up.
Me
34 - Make a pop up book of your character
To see all the pages click on these links (some of them contain the kind of foul language I wouldn't dare use on this blog in case my Mum sees):
Vomit
37 - Make your own pen and use it to do some handstyle stickers
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Live drawing and saying farewell to PTP is this Wednesday at Subside, he'll be there at 7 with boards, I'll be there at 8 with my camera. Should be an excellent evening of drawing and frivolity, be there or be at home.
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