Happy New Year

It's 2012! The world will be ending soon so lets get it covered in some pretty art, shall we?

If you look up there, you'll notice I have a new blog title! Lisk finally got 'art' done for me, I think you'll agree it was worth the wait:

He also now has a Facebook, go like him.

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The streets have been fairly quiet since I last posted over a month ago over the festive period; I was lookout for Vom on 12th December:

 Bradford Street

Meriden Street

Fazeley Street

He also now has a Facebook.

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Golden Boy was out in December drawing attention to our oral hygiene:

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The Rebel Gunslingers have been busy (unlike me, who has still not conducted the interview with them or even written the questions) throughout December and into the new year. I think the flames are my favourite:

Bradford Street

Green Street

Bradford Street

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Wah (another person who now has Facebook) and Tempo were out together and separately in the new year, hitting some nice spots:

 Bradford Street

 Green Street

Floodgate Street

Alcester Street

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Tempo's mate Mustard Tiger has a paste up on Birchall Street:

Their 'Disconnected' piece in Liverpool was mistaken for Banksy earlier this year, more in Brum please!

Photo by Col Armstrong

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Before Christmas I was making knitted leaves to decorate the streets because I felt Digbeth was missing out on lovely autumn-ness, here they are:

All finished and sewn into five strips

Green Street

Birchall Street

Floodgate Street

I've only got on-the-night photos of the other two because they've now disappeared!

Floodgate Street

River Street

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Floozy's New Year's Resolutions:

1. New blog post every Sunday
2. New blog post up before tea time
3. Interview some interesting people
4. Use and put interesting things on my Twitter and Facebook
5. Organise a summer Street Spotted that is even better than the last two
6. Get some knitting on the streets in London or Europe

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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Street Spotted has a poster!

I made a poster! Well, Lisk did all the arty picture backgrounds and names and the logo and the 'live art' bubble and I did the boring writing and wrestled with photoshop for a few days.

I'd like to draw your attention to the additions of Riseone and Mew to the line-up! There will also be free stickers and stuff for the grabbing and some more extravagant work for sale so keep some pennies away from the bar. 

If you've not already seen it, here's the Facebook event page, two weeks to go!

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Additions to the streets this week came mainly from PTP who has now departed Birmingham for university related things. He has promised to keep in touch and we swapped some stickers and whatnot but Digbeth and I will miss him.

Big duckie! - Bradford Street, Digbeth

  

 

  Vomit 'peck' - Bradford Street, Digbeth 

(having a go at drawing someone else's character is called a 'bite' but ducks would 'peck', you probably knew that)

6TWO4 'peck' - Birchall Street, Digbeth

 My very own Malcom!

 Painted spray cans with Marvin duckie and shrooms

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Also new on the streets are some quite badly stencilled moustaches (my can skills aren't brilliant but I haven't covered Digbeth to show everyone). 

The mystery moustache person seems to be preparing us for something so I thought they might be promotional, but there's already a well established music event that happens every couple of months called Mustachio! with a very similar logo so it can't be them and I don't see someone blatantly ripping off their design. 

Also, they've sprayed one of these moustaches over Golden Boy's giant paste which hurts me inside and is hugely disrespectful and breaks what is surely one of the first rules of graffiti/street art; don't go over anyone else's work unless you're friends/have permission. 

'Graffiti Wars' that was shown on Channel 4 earlier this month showed the very creative 'covering over' fight between King Robbo and Banksy (I have fairly reliable info that Robbo's out of the coma now, by the way). Watch it if you can find it, it seems to have been taken off 4OD.

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Links

6TWO4 Flickr

Lisk Flickr

Mew Flickr

Obit Flickr

Riseone Flickr

Tommy Human Flickr

Vomit Flickr

Wah Flickr

PTP Flickr