Street Spotted at 6/8 Kafe

You can't judge me this time! Yesterday I slept, worked and put all the photos from Street Spotted on my Flickr at 1 in the morning! No complaining! You should have been there to see it live!

Street Spotted was a success! The cafe's basement was busy constantly from 4-8 and some excellent work was produced by Curs, G87, Lisk and Vomit. Box and Blackbone also came down from Manchester for the event but all that talent couldn't be left just sitting at a table so they did a piece together on a spare board. Photo time!

Curs

G87

Lisk

Curs, Vomit, Lisk and G87

Blackbone and Box

Vomit, Lisk and G87

Curs

Curs, Vomit, Lisk and G87

Blackbone and Box

Curs

Lisk

Lisk's materials

Vomit

Finished Blackbone and Box

Curs

Vomit

Lisk

G87

Thanks to everyone that came down and supported us! Special thanks to; Lisk, Curs, G87, Vomit, Box, Blackbone, Jac, Bev, Phil, Mike's family, Danny, Storm, The Rebelgunslingers and of course Dav, Craig and all the 6/8 Kafe staff.

Detective Floozy

I should probably change my new-blog-post-day to Monday considering I usually work Saturday nights and can't be bothered to do anything except eat fried chicken and fall asleep watching low quality TV on Sundays... Anyway! I'm rubbish, here's some street art:

Excellent new stickers from C3 (you can also search for her on Instagram if you happen to possess an iPhone, search C_3) and Grr-izzly have appeared on Bradford Street this week:

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Detective Floozy has a new mystery to solve; two new paste designs have appeared and I have no idea who did them, here's the evidence:

There has been speculation as to the identity of the mystery paster, it is possible they are responsible for this unsolved case from May 2011:

If you have seen the mystery paster, have any information relating to the mystery paster or are the mystery paster; please comment/email/Facebook/Flickr/Tweet me so I can start sleeping at night.

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Newso and Agent (of the 48s) were involved in a project over the weekend which saw them outline 'WELCOME TO DIGBETH BAB' on the boards opposite the coach station on Friday, supervise 60 youths from The-Challenge filling in the letters on Saturday and finish the work off on Sunday. I bothered Newso when I saw him painting on Friday and trying to relax in The Rainbow on Saturday night to find out this information.

 Friday

Saturday (before the kids arrived)

Sunday (finished - photo from Newso's blog)

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The winner of PTP's pumpkin carve-off has been voted for this week and it turns out that I've won (I promise I didn't vote for myself). It's been a good year; I've won Sticky Missions, a totem pole by Matthew Dent and a pumpkin carving competition. Here's my winning pumpkin:

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Talking of competitions; this week my Facebook page finally reached 66 likes and so to decide who would win the mini Wah lollipop board, I had to cut out strips of paper with all 66 likers names on, then fold them up and put them in my bowler hat and then choose a winner:

Well done Sophie! The board will be posted to you when I get it from Wah and then I demand to see photos of it in your home, being treated right.

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Street Spotted is this Saturday! It's going to be awesome; four brilliant artists, the best cafe in Brum and arty goodies for your purchasing pleasure.

Halloween Treats

I'm not dead! I had to serve drinks to lots of people having fun at Halloween for three days straight and wimped out on my blogging duties... So! I apologise and to help you forgive me; here's some tasty arty goodies that will help you out of your sugar coma and won't give your teeth that weird furry layer.

Last Tuesday (25th) I tagged along with Lisk, Vomit and Mew when they were out pasting on and around Digbeth High Street. Sadly, most of their work had been removed by Thursday so here are some snaps from the night:

Lisk

Vomit, Mew and Lisk on the most beautiful door ever

Lisk

Obit, Mew, Lisk and Vomit

Vomit, Lisk and Mew

Lisk

Vomit and Mew

Vomit and elderley Lisk

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On Thursday I went to a free screening of 'The Birds' (1963 Alfred Hitchcock) at St Pauls Church in the Jewellery Quarter. It was put on by Jameson's Cult Film Club so there were actors dressed up as characters from the film running about shouting at people and lots of stuffed birds everywhere and flying birds projected onto the ceiling and - of course - loads of free whisky. Me getting drunk in a church does have relevance to this blog; there was also a piece painted by TX from graffiti4hire for the event that people were having their picture taken next to after being given fake blood 'scratches'. Photos!

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The Rebel Gunslingers were out again last week and last night on Bradford Street:

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I finally got some new knitting out last night! Here are a few of my favourites:

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The plans to have a closing party for Lisk, Golden Boy and Miss150's exhibition at 6/8 Kafe with live art on the 19th November are more definite now that we've confirmed Lisk, Vomit, Curs and G87 to draw in the cafe's basement - which is bigger and less creepy than it sounds. I'm working on a poster and more details will come next week. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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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