STREET ART SNAPS FROM A FLOOZY IN THE GUTTER: Case

Showing posts with label Case. Show all posts

21 August 2011

Princess Hype

I'm sure you've all been on the edge of your seats about that 'shocking and exciting street art-related announcement' so I'm going to talk about some other stuff first.

___________________________________

Sticky Missions finishes in two weeks time and Obit has just announced that the winner will be receiving an Ultimate Collective Sketchbooks zine (it's not really a zine though, it's 120 pages of excellent sketchbook work and hand sewn together by Obit himself). I'm now even more determined to win so I've gone through all the photos in the Sticky Missions group (only counting actual stickers though, not sketches) and done a leaderboard of the top 5 to see who my competition is:

Princess (me) - 44

I was on 43 but no one else has done Sticky Mission 44 (Put a sticker somewhere really high - Bonus point for highest) so I'm claiming that bonus point.

Case - 36

Case thinks he has 37 but on careful analysis it seems that for Sticky Mission 9 (Multi point task - Stick a sticker on police property, fire department property and metro (underground) property) you get three points for doing all of them and he's only done police property and metro property. Also, for Sticky Mission 23 (Install a 2ft by 2ft cardboard in your town centre or city centre bonus point for the photo with most people in it), Vomit had more people in his installation photo so he gets the bonus.

Vomit - 28

EDIT: I was wrong, Vom has done all of Sticky Mission 9. People need to put all their evidence in an obvious place where a lazy Floozy can find it. His offering for Sticky Mission 23 (Install a 2ft by 2ft cardboard in your town centre or city centre bonus point for the photo with most people in it) has got the most people in the photo so he gets the bonus point for that.

Not - 21

He could have 20 points if his sticker for number 36 (Make a sticker of your favourite animal and put it up in a zoo) had actually been put up in a zoo.

Obit - 17

Generally excellent work though I think it would be unfair if someone co-running the competition won it..

___________________________________

Just before I travelled home to visit my parents, I finished three little canvases complete with little easels. They're all 3.5" x 2.5" and all for sale or trade apart from the green lady which now belongs to PTP in return for some goodies that I haven't seen yet. I am poor and need money for blank stickers and white acrylic so if you'd like either of the remaining ones, feel free to tell me through Flickr or my email

I've also been working on a new idea for stickers and maybe pastes using negative space, here's the best sketch I've done so far:

___________________________________

Now time for that announcement! You've probably just skipped past all the other stuff I've written; shame on you!

The long-awaited annoucment is that Lisk and myself have been formulating a plan for the past couple of months to have a live drawing event featuring some of our favourite local and not-so-local street artists and now it's actually happening! On the 10th September from 7PM you can come to Street Spotted in The Spotted Dog's garden and watch at least six artists drawing/painting/pasting. So far confirmed we have:

Lisk

Wah

6TWO4

Obit

Tommy Human

Vomit

And there'll be DJs and a barbeque and you don't even have to pay to get in!

Poster and more details to come on the Facebook Event Page and next week's post when I'm back in Birmingham and available for meetings and organising. Hoorah!

___________________________________

Links

31 July 2011

'When Brum goes calm, it means big things are soon to come'

A very quiet week, the Boards of Fame are crying out for some fresh paste activity; don't they look sad!

As Mr Tempo33 says though 'When Brum goes calm, it means big things are soon to come'.

___________________________________

There has been a little bit of activity from Philth, PTP and I've put a few stickers up (mostly 6TWO4's).

Philth (Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth)

PTP (outside Subside, City Centre, Birmingham

6TWO4 (High Street, Digbeth)

___________________________________

Local mystery! Over the past few weeks, Chinese symbols have been appearing in Digbeth that appear to be painted with a brush not a can. Who is the Chinese tagger??

Zen Ice Cream Van, High Street, Digbeth

Alcester Street, Digbeth

___________________________________

Sticky Missions is still going and the stakes have been repeatedly raised over the week. Here are my favourite missions of the week:

Vole

14 - Make your character into your favourite super-hero or villain

6TWO4

19 - Draw your character on a jigsaw

Case

25 - Get an old photo frame, draw your character in it and install it as high as you can

Case

26 - Make a sticker using just glitter

Mosa

28 - Sticker at the beach

6TWO4

33 - Remake a film poster/dvd cover with your character

Vomit

36 - Make a sticker of your favourite animal and put it up in a zoo

Vomit

42 - Make a fake food or drink label and replace labels of legitimate products in shops

___________________________________

I've got myself up to 35 Sticky Missions points this week, here are my favourite efforts:

3 - Do a 25 sticker combo

8 - Make a home-made stamp and use it to create 25 stickers

(My stamp was pieces of wool glued to card in a crown shape, made a really nice textured stamp)

9 - multi point task ---- stick 1 of your stickers on:
-- fire department property

16 - Make a piece of clothing with your character on and take a picture of you wearing it out in public

29 - Make a zine

38 - Make a potato stamp with your character or tag and use it on the street

I have plans in motion to have at least another 9 points by next post, the competition has been really good for giving me new ideas of how to rework my character and do slightly daring things and now I really want to win!

___________________________________

If you fancy watching a few of the local vandals doing their thing in a legal setting come down to Subside from about 8ish on Wednesday 10th August. PTP will be relocating down south the weekend after so come say farewell to one of the most active artists in the area, I'll be in the corner with a pint quietly weeping for the loss of Malcom the dog, duckies in various costumes and mushrooms.

___________________________________

Links

24 July 2011

A messy week of Vomit and Sticky Missions

(The content of this post isn't as gross as the title might suggest).

First up we have installations by Vomit on Digbeth's High Street; slick designs and great colours.

___________________________________

This week also saw the launch of the UK-only Sticky Missions run by Obit and Tags, it consists of 50 sticker-related tasks of varying difficulty and ballsiness and will be running for the next few weeks (deadline announced soon). Here are a couple of my favourite tasks:

13 - Create a sticker using only pasta

15 - Design an OAP version of your sticker - Bonus point if you get an OAP to hold it up

30 - Put a sticker on a random persons back - Bonus point if they're wearing a suit.

35 - Set up an illegal market stall selling your stickers bonus if you make £5

48 - Put a sticker on a naked person

the full list

So far I've got 13 points and 5 missions in progress. Here are three of my favourite creations so far:

13 - Create a sticker using only pasta

17 - Make a zombie sticker

41 - Make a 3D sticker

And here's a few of my favourites from everyone else:

Mosa

4 - Dress your character as a nerd/geek

Obit

6 - A life size poster of your character stuck up with you next to it

6TWO4

14 - Make your character into your favourite super-hero or villain - Bonus point for anyone that designs Tags' favourite character HINT hes a villain

Obit

14 - Make your character into your favourite super-hero or villain - Bonus point for anyone that designs Tags' favourite character HINT hes a villain

Case

20 - Draw your character in a boat - Bonus point if you stick it on a boat but not a toy one

Vole

28 - Sticker at the beach.

More on the competition's progress and whether I've given up next week.

___________________________________

I bought one of Obit's new Collective Sketchbooks zines this week and took it to explore some of Digbeth's finest sights:

It's great to have some of his brilliant drawings and he drew a Princess Vader in the front of it for me. You can buy one here but be quick because they'll no doubt sell out soon.

___________________________________

As well as making Sticky Missions stickers this week I did some knitting for 6TWO4 in return for the canvas and stickers he sent me, I'll be gluing it to some card and handing it over when he visits Birmingham to meet a load of the local vandals next month.

___________________________________

Links

3 July 2011

This week I lost my pasting virginity to Lisk

Racy!

Yes, my pasting virginity is gone. I don't really feel any different but I know I have been changed forever. Pictures later; first the aftermath of jazz and drawing at the Spotted Dog last week.

___________________________________

PTP, Case and Obit/Tommy Human went a little sticker crazy while I was in my pyjamas drinking tea with Wah on Saturday night.

PTP Duckies!

Obit and Tommy's Brum Tour

Case

___________________________________

There's also been some new painting done on the walls of The Custard Factory's car park, it's pretty much all very impressive (as usual) but not all legible (also as usual). I really don't think there's anything better than doing a stunning piece and people being able to read who possesses that talent, maybe just because ~~I struggle to read my own handwriting sometimes~~ I have this blog and it's in my interest.

Philth; brilliant as always and a rare treat to see him not using pink or gold

___________________________________

So on Wednesday night I tagged along with Lisk to get the buffed spots on Bradford Street looking a bit more lively and put up some of my own pastes. We're mates so I wasn't horrifically embarrassed by my first paste attempts. All in all it was a very successful trip with no police and only slightly pastey hands. Didn't get any photos on the night because I only had my phone and it couldn't cope so here are some photos from the next day:

The giant A1 size robots are my favourite Lisk pastes so far and watching them being put up with a broom was thoroughly entertaining.

___________________________________

Here's my efforts:

Basically some lovely woolly tentacle things with a crown hanging off the bottom one. I realised after that gold spray paint on a sandy/red brick wall is very well camouflaged and I think next time it would be a good idea to use poorer quality paper because the paste didn't get on very well with the super high quality prints I did at uni. Oh well, you live and learn.

Also put a few stickers up: