Brizzle

I spent the weekend sitting on pavements drinking wine and getting rained on in the North Street area of Bristol for Upfest (the largest urban art festival in Europe!), so you should imagine this blog post with a west country accent.

The main reason for ending up in the horror of bank holiday traffic on Saturday was to see our very own Lisk perform, right in front of the main Upfest venue (The Tobacco Factory (I still prefer Custard)):

Angry Face happened to have some cans and so ended up doing a piece at The Luckwell Club on the Sunday:

Now I think I'll just go through each bit of the festival I've got photos of and choose my favourites..

Tobacco Factory:

 My Dog Sighs

Aldi Car Park:

Herakut

Vector Seating:

Bisser

Akeem13

Luckwell Club:

 Narcoze and Earworm

Freak Static

Rich Simmons

North St Green:

Unit 91

Louise French and Mike Gambriel

North Street:

 Inkie

March is a rubbish month anyway.

I don't really like March and the March that's just finished was very busy, here are some photos from it:

 Lisk

AsOne

Rebel Gunslingers, Bint, Bass Ape and Lisk

Rebel Gunslingers

Rebel Gunslingers

Tempo33 and Wah

The Return of PTP

On Valentine's day, PTP, Lisk, RebelB and Mew spread some pastey love on the street of Digbeth. Here are a few snaps from the night:

I've also made some delicious homemade .gif's (moving images) of the night, check the links out on my facebook.

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On Friday 17th, the lovely Lisk showed off his drawing skills at The Edge:

I conducted some drunken interviews with RebelB and C3 on the same night but I haven't had the courage to listen to my own voice and transcribe them yet...

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New on the streets this week we have:

 Newso and Gent of the 48s, Green Street

 Madam,  Alcester Street

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:

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