Duckies and Rebels

PTP came back to visit again! Here are some photos from the mandatory pasting session with two of the Rebel guys on Tuesday 3rd April:

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

Case closed

The mystery paster has been found!!

Well... turns out it's two people; VoidOne is responsible for these:

And Nicola Rose is responsible for these:

Thanks to Slobs (art guru) for sharing the knowledge, I can now sleep at night.

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On to business; the streets have been decorated by Hijak85 from Rotten this week, saw him out pasting Green Street but didn't go and introduce myself; pasters are skittish creatures.

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C3 and the Rebel Gunslingers have been spreading the love for Valentines with glitter in their paste buckets and hearts all round:

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P.S PTP's back in town! Prepare for the ducky invasion!

Street Spotted returns!

As I mentioned last week, Street Spotted will be returning to Birmingham, this time at 6/8 Kafe on Temple Row in the city centre. 6/8 have the best coffee, snacks and staff in Brum and currently have an exhibition of work from Golden Boy, Lisk and Miss150 which will finish on the 19th. Naturally, Lisk and I thought this would be a perfect excuse for a closing party and another live art event, so we've roped in four excellent artists to show off their skills:

Curs

G87

Lisk

Vomit

The art starts at 3 with tunes and art work for sale and you can see how many cool people are coming on the Facebook event page.

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PTP started a pumpkin carving competition on Flickr a few weeks ago and I've only remembered to sort out my entry this week. The deadline for entries is today and the winner will be decided soon so for now here's mine and my favourites:

Mine

Superbly carved teeth by Obit

Troopin' by PTP

More of a ridiculously awesome sculpture than a carving by RDPJ Cakes (who also makes ridiculously awesome cakes)

Cheshire kitty by Bacon Jam

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In a feature about Birmingham on The Culture Show (after the city being voted the most boring city in Europe), Michael Smith investigates and decides: 

"It's ridiculous to say that Birmingham's the most boring city in Europe; I think Birmingham's boring if you're boring."

 and I agree, obviously. The main source of deciding Birmingham isn't boring was Digbeth which led to lots of nice shots of street art:

As One on Floodgate Street

 'The graffiti house' on Fazeley Street

Newso and The 48s on Floodgate Street

Lisk on Floodgate Street

The Custard Factory's car park on High Street

The full clip is here: BBC The Culture Show Birmingham’s Cultural Highlights

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.