Toasted

The biggest and best addition to the streets this week came from Insa who visited Brum and painted a massive mural at the Custard Factory:

Yayyyy!

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Another mystery paster has appeared, but they've found me! The Hores created this pastey goodness:

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Lisk was in the Birmingham Mail this week (31st Jan). Don't worry, he's not been arrested; a photo of his paste on Floodgate Street was the 'Reader's Picture':

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On Wednesday, I stood in the cold in Wolverhampton for 2 hours to get my hands on 1 of 20 Toaster popcorn boxes and then watch their film 'Everywhere', there was some tweeting (@gutter_floozy) during this:

The film itself was about half an hour of elegantly and artistically (but not pretentiously) showing the Toaster's different ways of getting up, literally everywhere. The film shows their journey from the beginning in Wolverhampton with hand-drawn stickers, to the banners at football matches, to painting a giant toaster on the road during the Tour de France and how they've constantly reinvented the Toaster image to keep it in people's heads. With fond and humorous interviews from the likes of D*face and Space3; the Toaster love was pretty evident on screen and in the room. The screening also meant an opportunity for some Brummy street artists to get drunk together; Lisk, Mew, Tempo33, C3, the Rebel Gunslingers and Vomit were all spotted being a bit rowdy (apologies to the pub and the train that got covered in stickers).

FAHQMT on the train, also spotted with Wah on Floodgate Street:

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.