STREET ART SNAPS FROM A FLOOZY IN THE GUTTER

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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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:

They haven't got amazing super strong adhesive powers but I've got 75 blank ones left so I'm stuck with them for the moment.

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26 June 2011

Buffed, Bass and Burgers

Before I go on about the jazz and drawing event at the Spotted Dog last night, I'd like to share the more solemn news of rampant buffing on Bradford Street.

Most of the larger collections of pastes have gone though some things have been left, seemingly randomly. So, a moment of silence with some photos of ~~the bit round the corner from my flat~~ one of my favourite collections...

Gobshite, Golden Boy, As One, Tempo33, Lisk: Feb 2011

Wah: April 2011

(Column next to it with one of my crowns on which has also been removed) April 2011

PTP: May 2011

Buffed and sad (though 2Tone is hanging on with the paint advantage): June 2011

Now I expect the locals to get out and get them covered with beautiful, fresh, shiny things, this instant!

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Last night Lisk, Obit, Tommy Human, Tommy's lady Sarah, Wah, Mew, Golden Boy, Miss150, Rate, 9T4, Case, PTP, various people's mates and myself, shared our secret identities while drinking and shouting over jazz.

The three chosen ones (Lisk, Obit and Tommy) overcame initial nerves and started drawing about half 6 to the sounds of an old-school big jazz band. They'd all brought various stickers/badges/prints and boards to sell and all made some money, even I paid for some Obit badges. Sadly me and Wah's drunkeness peaked while it was still light so we gave in to our old lady-ness and went home for tea and chinese food about 11ish, so the pictures I have are what happened until then. Pretty sure the guys were finished anyway...

My only complaint is that the space for drawing didn't have adequate sitting and watching room so I felt in the way all the time, if drawing at the Dog happened again, I think a prime location in the garden should be chosen with plenty of room to gawp at the pretty drawing and be sociable.

Anyway; photos!

Lisk

Obit

Obit and Tommy

Hoorah! Flickr tells me this is what Tommy's final board looked like:

Obit and Tommy Human stickers and Obit badges I acquired:

Wah also surprised me with 4 prints/boards and a load of stickers!

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I've been making stickers this week! They're cute and sparkly because I went a bit excitable-small-child with glitter glue and gold spray paint. Put a few up last night, I think they're ok for first stickers and anyway I have a whole Summer to make much better things.

Also been working on my paste idea, I wanted to make a hand or a tentacle or something drawn over a scanned in piece of knitting coming out of the letterboxes on the abandoned factories around Digbeth. I guess sort of like the creative spirit of the area escaping, though that sounds horrifically art student-ey. That idea has so far formed into these:

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19 June 2011

Lazy locals

Not much about on the streets this week, all I've spotted is a couple of new designs by Tru of PDT (I think it says PDT anyway..)

Moat Lane, Digbeth

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However, I've been fairly busy knitting and getting together my ideas for a paste design and some stickers, should be sorted and up in the next few weeks.

Web-address knitting I finished today, I think I'll be choosing more contrasting colours next time.

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In sort-of-related news there's an exhibition by Leon Sparkes (Energy! he does the face pastes and battery stickers etc) and Deborah Brogden (who I'll admit I hadn't heard of but I do rather like) in the Graffiti4Hire shop at the Custard Factory. I took a sneak photo when I went for a look and I'd definitely recommend popping in if you're nearby, the staff are lovely and were happy to chat about the work.

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Also in sort-of-related news; there's a jazz plus live drawing event this Saturday featuring our very own Lisk and the less local but still brilliant Obit and Tommy Human. It's at the Spotted Dog from 1:00pm until late with 3 fabulous funky/samba-ey/contemporary jazz bands, £5 in or £3 for students and £1.70 pints for students/musicians/Tuesday Jazz Night fam. I'll be there getting drunk in the corner (and taking a few photos) with Wah so come say hi if you fancy it, here's the Facebook Event Link.