One of the unique charms of London’s art galleries is their enlightened welcome of members of the public who can add their own enhancements to the displayed works and correct the principal artist’s shortcomings. Actually no but in the case of the Leake Street tunnel there ain’t no stopping anyone with a spray can getting […]
Month: August 2008
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The Foundry Underground Art Show
The Krah stands out among his Greek compatriots for several reasons, whilst he is one of the few male Greeks that hasn’t failed a sprinter’s drugs test in the last 4 years at the same time he has tested positive for having a seriously good time. He persuaded many of his friends from Greece and […]
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Diggs We Are Shitting . . . .
Loving the new Grafter street works. You can definately see his style evolving with each outing and more and more details being added to the simple but elegant one layer stencils that made him famous. His studio work seen recently at the Urban Angel “Corked” show, and then small outing at the recycled Cans Festival […]
I haven’t seen any comment anywhere else so I am begining to wonder if I am reading too much into the letters in the tunnel! Anyway, without doubt the Cans tunnel has a Hunt The Thimble game involving each letter of the alphabet, I have only found 23 – could someone return the E, the […]
Leake Street tunnel re-opened this morning to reveal a lush kaleidoscope of freehand spray graffiti and ensemble of burnt out cars. Crowd control barriers not required this time – no crowds! No ice cream vans, no posters, not even any staff, just a no-fuss “ok, at your leisure look at what we’ve done this time” […]
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Cans Recycled – First Peek
Off the back of a bogus tip off on one of the more decidely dodgy streetart forums this morning, myself and nolions hot footed over the Lower Marsh for a “Banksy print release”…… no surprise that it turned out to be complete and utter bollocks, we at least got a sneaky peak over the barriers […]
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WK Interact Show – Elms Lester
WK Interact hails from France but is based in New York and has about 20 years of street art practise under his belt. No surprise then that, unlike a certain relay team [this was written a day or two after the US relay team played some version of pooh sticks], practise pays off in a […]
Remember how news of the Cans Festival broke to us common plebs last May? Some posters, a list of artists too incredible to believe? In just 5 days time? Well, now we have a new mystery: What could it be? Some have talked of something fresh, some have talked of The Grand Buff (actually I […]
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Hot or Wot
My fave of the current Know Hope pieces on the street at the minute. Thankfully this one has been left alone.
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Diggs We Are Shitting. . . .
The Krah http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-krah/ repainted a spot on the wall of The Foundry over the weekend and brought a new friend with him this time. Going by the name of “Fors” http://www.myspace.com/fors1Hopefully we’ll be seeing lots Mors very soon!
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CORKED – Not a cheap whine
28 Cork St, London15 Aug – 25 Aug 2008 pics: nolionsinengland except where noted A battered white transit van sits on Cork Street, “Vandals” it proclaims and sure enough it seems to have suffered a graffiti attack, cops and wardens eye it suspiciously anticipating a ram raid and in many respects they are right. Bloody […]
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Diggs We Are Shitting. . . .
I am still undecided with what I’ll call this occasional style of updates…of which I have kidded my self will be daily (when I struggle to even get the time to make it weekly!) I mostly intended to just highlight stuff that makes me smile on my way to work, I think the problem becomes […]
Following on nicely from the Banksy street piece held by Andipa mentioned in the post below, a picture of it features on the cover of an absolutely brilliant new retrospective book on the worldwide culture of street art. Entitled “Untitled – Street Art in The Counter Culture” (hence the clever title of this post 😉Also […]