Secret Walls

The first Secret Walls quarter final happened on 8th July with The Hores vs Matthew James. I was there and I was drinking, here are some average photos of the excellent finished pieces:

The Hores (who won)

Matthew James

The next event is this Sunday 22nd July with the lovely Vomit vs Rikki Finn. If you've ever read this blog before, you'll know who I'll be loudly biased towards.

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

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.

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