STREET ART SNAPS FROM A FLOOZY IN THE GUTTER: September 2011

25 September 2011

Spanish Graffiti!

I am now back from my week in Spain and in between paddling and wandering around natural parks I learnt some things about Spanish street art...

1. Some nice painted pieces can be found in tiny towns:

2. Tags are prevalent but can be next to quite good stencils and stickers:

3. 'Hello my name is' stickers are literally everywhere, even in Spain:

4. Gibraltar (land of the tacky and large, drunk British) has only one good thing on it's main street:

5. Sand is an undiscovered graffiti material:

I didn't find very much street art really, either because the biggest place I visited was Cadiz, I walked down the wrong roads or the local authorities are pretty on it with buffing.

Oh well, this bear has an apron:

16 September 2011

This is being posted a day early because by Sunday I'll be in Spain - maybe in a pool or eating some sort of horrid squid based dish or being painfully English at shopkeepers. I'll try and find some Spanish street art but for now here's some sticker combos I put up on Thursday night:

6TWO4, Kine, Ser, Tommy Human, Me, Pahnl on Bradford Street, Digbeth

Wah paste, Ser, Pahnl, Me, Tommy Human on Bradford Street, Digbeth

Me, !?!, Beas, Sladge, Ser, 6TWO4 on Floodgate Street, Digbeth

Vomit Paste, Me, Obit and Tommy Human, Me again, Ser, 6TWO4, Pahnl on Fazeley Street, Digbeth

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I also found a shutter done by Tempo33:

Fazeley Street, Digbeth

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This giant collection of Lisk robots was found on Wednesday but I haven't been brave enough to dodge tramps to get close to it yet.

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13 September 2011

Street Spotted was 2 days ago..

I've only just recovered and gone through millions of photos so please forgive the lateness of this post, it'll be worth waiting for, I promise.

Look what's now living in my flat (until Vomit decides what to do with it)!

So, Street Spotted was a success! All the artists were brilliant, lots of people came to watch and The Spotted Dog's owner (John) was actually filming some of it so I reckon we'll be able to do it all again, probably April/May next year.

Huge soggy thanks to all the artists (Wah, Mew, Lisk, Vomit, Obit, Rise1, Tommy Human and 6TWO4), Ser and his lovely parents for travelling all the way from Dublin to be there, Lisk's family for feeding everyone with the best curry and nibbly bits ever, John and the bar staff at The Spotted Dog for letting us use the garden and facilitating everyone getting drunk, Slobs and Rachael for lending us six of the boards, all the mates and family for turning up and supporting us and finally to Lisk, my co-organiser, partner in crime and giant ball of stress; I am extremely proud of us for turning a drunken conversation into a real event. Time to start planning the next one?

Photos!

Obit, Rise1 and Tommy Human

Ser

Obit

Tommy Human

Ser

Vomit

Lisk

6TWO4

Obit and Rise1

6TWO4

Obit

Mew

Wah

Tommy Human

Vomit

Wah

Rise1

Lisk

Vomit

Wah

Obit

Obit, Rise1, Tommy Human and 6TWO4

Vomit

Mew

Obit

6TWO4

Mew

Lisk

Wah and Mew

Lisk and Vomit

Rise1, Tommy Human, 6TWO4

Few!

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After Street Spotted all the artists went out pasting, I went out drinking so I took some daylight shots of their work today.

Wah on Adderley Street

Lisk, Tommy Human and Wah on Liverpool Street

6TWO4 on Floodgate Street

Obit, Tommy Human and Lisk on Floodgate Street

Obit and Tommy Human on Floodgate Street

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On Thursday night, Tempo33 added lots of fresh new pastes to the streets but couldn't make it to Street Spotted because he was off being legendary in The Netherlands. I think my favourite place he hit has to be his old spot on the building I live in, he was on there for a couple of years (I've heard) then got buffed but now he's back.