Showing posts with label Elbow-toe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elbow-toe. Show all posts
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Elbow-Toe near Redchurch
Was lucky enough to have yesterday off work, and it was fine(ish) so decided to take a stroll down Brick Lane/Redchurch/Shoreditch/Hoxton hoods to see what was going down. Lucky to catch the Elbow-Toe piece near Redchurch Street. He is a NY based artist that has been concentrating his skills mainly over there, but has dropped a number of pieces over here too, one of which I was lucky enough to photograph yesterday. I'm gonna feature some of the pics here over the next few weeks, but for the moment go to: www.flickr.com/photos/hamstar/sets.
The thing that struck me most on my wander was how short a shelf life graffiti and street art has. There were some really nice pieces up in this area not more than a few weeks ago, and they are all gone now - covered by absolute crap! Now I'm not an art critic, and I'm no ones ambassador, but I know what I like, and for that matter what I don't, and it does upset me when what I think is special is covered by the random scribblings of a retard. That's my rant for today, but I will be re-covering this subject again soon...
In the mean time, check out more of Elbow-Toe's work on:
http://www.elbow-toe.com/street.html
.
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Elbow-Toe from the archives
Ha! Was flicking through Elbow-Toe's website when I came across one of his pieces from '07. I recognised it from my flickr archive (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamstar/455081318/in/set-72157600064219416/), and sure enough...
He has a new exhibition opening in NY this week, but some truly lovely street pieces from the last few years on his site:
http://www.elbow-toe.com/street_2007.html
.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
