Pasting in numbers

Vomit was out pasting on Monday and added to a few spots that are building up nice little collections, both on Bradford Street:

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On Tuesday night; Tempo33 was out all over the Birmingham area as well as the city centre, this spot is my favourite:

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Last week I found some new stickers that I thought might be Energy, after a bit of research I'm pretty sure they are but I've not had confirmation from the man himself. I do know he's been out with his pens this week:

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It's been far too long since I put up any knitted lamppost decorations so I've been working on a new design just in time for Halloween. Photos of them up on the streets next week.

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To finish; a competition... If you 'like' my Facebook page (using that link or the box on the right) you are in with a chance of winning a Wah lollipop board, like the one below but not that one. Only the first 66 'likers' will have their names put in the bowler hat (I do actually own a bowler hat and will use it to choose a winner and there will be photos) so get on with it if you want to win!

Art Hugs

Lisk was out pasting Bradford Street on Tuesday! So far this one has already been painted over:

But these are still safe:

 With a giant Tempo33 paste!

With Golden Boy, PTP, Rebel Gunslingers and Wah

With Miss150 and Mew

With Tempo33, PTP and Rupert

Also! Mr Gutter Floozy was in Shoreditch on Wednesday and spotted a Lisk bot there:

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I spotted some new stickers on Bradford Street that I think look at bit like Energy's style, here's the sneak-photo I took at his exhibition in the graffiti4hire shop:

And here are the new stickers:

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My blog title is now 86% complete thanks to Wah doing 'snaps' for me, I love it and think it looks like a Wah branded polaroid camera!

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On Friday night I popped into the launch party for Tony Graffiti's exhibition at Green Street Arts in Digbeth. From what I know of Tony, he's been spraying since the early 80s and now makes a living using his can skills for commissions, promotion and advertising. The exhibition is called 'Keep Graffiti Real - Smoke Crack and Sign On', though I'm not sure whether smoking crack and signing on is in support or criticism of a graffiti purist mentality. I'd assume Tony isn't a big fan of having to witness the way graffiti has evolved a pretentious conjoined twin (street art) but surely that view would contradict painting adverts and putting on an exhibition. Perhaps Tony's reasons are similar to Robbo's shown in the documentary Graffiti Wars; he's been on the scene a long time and has a lot of respect and just thinks 'why not?'. The graffiti vs street art debate will continue, probably with more and more crossovers but if they are conjoined twins you can't just hug one of them.

Discoveries!

First up this week we have a solitary new Miss150 paste; we can only speculate as to why there is only one new lady in Digbeth; did Miss150 run out of paste? Did the other ladies fall out with her? Who knows...

Bradford Street

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There's also this new piece in The Custard Factory's car park:

Which turns out to be advertising for a film called Treading Water directed by Council Child Productions. The work itself is by The Goldfingers who specialise in performance graffiti and according to their website got through to the quarter finals of Britain's Got Talent in 2010 (though a lazy YouTube search found no evidence of this). Here's a time lapse video of the piece being done:

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Also spotted some new stickers by Rebel Gunslingers:

 You're*, Bradford Street

A Google search reveals they're responsible for the 'you like this' pastes:

Poor evidence of one above the Golden Boy paste, Fazeley Street

And various other bits I've spotted around Birmingham. Their Facebook page says:

'We're a street art duo (Tenko and Pyro) determined to double team the many locations in Solihull and Birmingham that are just simply gagging to be turned into art!!!'

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Yesterday was the opening of an exhibition with work from Golden Boy, Lisk and Miss150 at the 6/8 Kafe in the city centre, I knew about it last week but forget to say. It's running for 6 weeks until the 19th November and I'm attempting to organise something fun and arty as a closing event. More information coming soon!

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Brazil woz 'ere

Last week in Digbeth the Espirito Brum Brazilian festival happened! Music, workshops and art interventions took place over the 14th-18th and at some point around then Brazilian artist Renato Pontello did some painting with Tempo33, Newso, Ouch and Lisk.

Tempo33, Newso and Renato Pontello

Fazeley Street, Digbeth

Lisk

PST, Lombard Street, Digbeth

This photo of the work on PST is taken from Renato Pontello's blog (I'll warn you now, it's in Spanish) because every time I went to get photos, there was a van or similar vehicle parked in front of the building.

 Renato Pontello, Ouch, Newso and Lisk

PST, Lombard Street, Digbeth

Also on the Espirito Brum blog is a page on Birmingham street art:

"Beyond graffiti, art on the street is also represented in the form of paste ups, knitted installations and works of public art"

Knitted installations you say? That's me!

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This week my new blog title became a little more finished with the completion of 'gutter' by Khoi:

I'm still waiting for 'snaps' from Wah and 'art' from Lisk... Come on guys! Everyone wants me to have a pretty new blog title!

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This week (on the 27th, to be precise) this blog was mentioned on Digbeth is Good AND Created in Birmingham! The fame went straight to my head and I made a Facebook page for myself the blog. There's a box to your right where you can 'like' it if you want updates about Birmingham street arty things more often than once a week. I might even get round to giving away some stickers or bigger pieces by artists featured on here.