Street Spotted at 6/8 Kafe

You can't judge me this time! Yesterday I slept, worked and put all the photos from Street Spotted on my Flickr at 1 in the morning! No complaining! You should have been there to see it live!

Street Spotted was a success! The cafe's basement was busy constantly from 4-8 and some excellent work was produced by Curs, G87, Lisk and Vomit. Box and Blackbone also came down from Manchester for the event but all that talent couldn't be left just sitting at a table so they did a piece together on a spare board. Photo time!

Curs

G87

Lisk

Curs, Vomit, Lisk and G87

Blackbone and Box

Vomit, Lisk and G87

Curs

Curs, Vomit, Lisk and G87

Blackbone and Box

Curs

Lisk

Lisk's materials

Vomit

Finished Blackbone and Box

Curs

Vomit

Lisk

G87

Thanks to everyone that came down and supported us! Special thanks to; Lisk, Curs, G87, Vomit, Box, Blackbone, Jac, Bev, Phil, Mike's family, Danny, Storm, The Rebelgunslingers and of course Dav, Craig and all the 6/8 Kafe staff.

Detective Floozy

I should probably change my new-blog-post-day to Monday considering I usually work Saturday nights and can't be bothered to do anything except eat fried chicken and fall asleep watching low quality TV on Sundays... Anyway! I'm rubbish, here's some street art:

Excellent new stickers from C3 (you can also search for her on Instagram if you happen to possess an iPhone, search C_3) and Grr-izzly have appeared on Bradford Street this week:

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Detective Floozy has a new mystery to solve; two new paste designs have appeared and I have no idea who did them, here's the evidence:

There has been speculation as to the identity of the mystery paster, it is possible they are responsible for this unsolved case from May 2011:

If you have seen the mystery paster, have any information relating to the mystery paster or are the mystery paster; please comment/email/Facebook/Flickr/Tweet me so I can start sleeping at night.

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Newso and Agent (of the 48s) were involved in a project over the weekend which saw them outline 'WELCOME TO DIGBETH BAB' on the boards opposite the coach station on Friday, supervise 60 youths from The-Challenge filling in the letters on Saturday and finish the work off on Sunday. I bothered Newso when I saw him painting on Friday and trying to relax in The Rainbow on Saturday night to find out this information.

 Friday

Saturday (before the kids arrived)

Sunday (finished - photo from Newso's blog)

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The winner of PTP's pumpkin carve-off has been voted for this week and it turns out that I've won (I promise I didn't vote for myself). It's been a good year; I've won Sticky Missions, a totem pole by Matthew Dent and a pumpkin carving competition. Here's my winning pumpkin:

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Talking of competitions; this week my Facebook page finally reached 66 likes and so to decide who would win the mini Wah lollipop board, I had to cut out strips of paper with all 66 likers names on, then fold them up and put them in my bowler hat and then choose a winner:

Well done Sophie! The board will be posted to you when I get it from Wah and then I demand to see photos of it in your home, being treated right.

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Street Spotted is this Saturday! It's going to be awesome; four brilliant artists, the best cafe in Brum and arty goodies for your purchasing pleasure.

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

Street Spotted was 2 days ago..

I've only just recovered and gone through millions of photos so please forgive the lateness of this post, it'll be worth waiting for, I promise.

Look what's now living in my flat (until Vomit decides what to do with it)!

So, Street Spotted was a success! All the artists were brilliant, lots of people came to watch and The Spotted Dog's owner (John) was actually filming some of it so I reckon we'll be able to do it all again, probably April/May next year.

Huge soggy thanks to all the artists (Wah, Mew, Lisk, Vomit, Obit, Rise1, Tommy Human and 6TWO4), Ser and his lovely parents for travelling all the way from Dublin to be there, Lisk's family for feeding everyone with the best curry and nibbly bits ever, John and the bar staff at The Spotted Dog for letting us use the garden and facilitating everyone getting drunk, Slobs and Rachael for lending us six of the boards, all the mates and family for turning up and supporting us and finally to Lisk, my co-organiser, partner in crime and giant ball of stress; I am extremely proud of us for turning a drunken conversation into a real event. Time to start planning the next one?

Photos!

Obit, Rise1 and Tommy Human

Ser

Obit

 Tommy Human

Ser

Vomit

Lisk

6TWO4

Obit and Rise1

6TWO4

Obit

Mew

Wah

Tommy Human

Vomit

Wah

Rise1

Lisk

Lisk

Vomit

Wah

Obit

Obit, Rise1, Tommy Human and 6TWO4

Vomit

Mew

Obit

6TWO4

Mew

Lisk

 Wah and Mew

Lisk and Vomit

Rise1, Tommy Human, 6TWO4

Few!

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After Street Spotted all the artists went out pasting, I went out drinking so I took some daylight shots of their work today.

Wah on Adderley Street

Lisk, Tommy Human and Wah on Liverpool Street

6TWO4 on Floodgate Street

Obit, Tommy Human and Lisk on Floodgate Street

Obit and Tommy Human on Floodgate Street

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On Thursday night, Tempo33 added lots of fresh new pastes to the streets but couldn't make it to Street Spotted because he was off being legendary in The Netherlands. I think my favourite place he hit has to be his old spot on the building I live in, he was on there for a couple of years (I've heard) then got buffed but now he's back.

Bradford Street

Bradford Street

Fazeley Street

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Links

Wah Flickr
Mew Flickr

Lisk Flickr

Vomit Flickr

Obit Flickr

Rise1 Flickr

Tommy Human Flickr

6TWO4 Flickr

Ser Flickr

Tempo33 Flickr