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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