Delete in London/Brighton

I know, I know - I've been really slack and not updating urban-escapades much lately, but I've been busy alright...

Dirty Si was briefly in London over the w/e and when we were walking around Kings Cross on saturday I spotted this Delete piece between Angel and KC. I've chucked it up with a piece that I snapped at The Beautiful and The Canned in Brighton in May.

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Now you may or may not realise, but this is post number 199, so the next post will be a special bumper Brighton special featuring pics from The Beautiful and the Canned weekend extravaganza in May. I'll also be celebrating over 7,000 unique visitors to the site as well - quite a feat if I say so myself. Stay tuned...
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Reverse graffiti in Sao Paolo

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A friend from Wellington recently sent me a link on reverse graffiti. I had been familiar with it when some pictures were doing the rounds a year or two ago featuring Ronaldinho on the back of dirty car windows, but this story sparked my intregue again, so I thought I'd throw it up.

Here's the article as it appeared on the environmentalgraffiti.com website:

Welcome to the world of reverse graffiti, where the artist’s weapons are cleaning materials and where the enemy is the elements: wind, rain, pollution and decay. It’s an art form that removes dust or dirt rather than adding paint. Some find it intriguing, beguiling, beautiful and imaginative, whereas others look upon it in much the same way as traditional graffiti – a complete lack of respect for the law. Reverse graffiti challenges ideals and perceptions while at the same time shapes and changes the environment in which we live, whether people think for the better, or not.

Alexandre Orion - Skulls in Sao Paolo

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Hailing from Brazil, Alexandre sees his art work as a way of getting an environmental message across to those who ordinarily wouldn’t listen. A few years ago he adorned a transport tunnel in Sao Paolo with a mural consisting of a series of skulls to remind drivers of the detrimental impact their emissions have on the planet.

The Brazilian authorities were incensed but couldn’t actually charge him with anything so they instead cleaned the tunnel. At first the cleaned only the parts Alexandre had cleared but after the artist switched to the opposite wall they had to clean that too. In the end, the authorities decided to wash every tunnel in the city, missing the irony completely, it seems.

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There's also a nice vid accompanying the story via youtube.
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwsBBIIXT0E&feature=player_embedded

There is a lot of gorilla graf happening now, from reverse graf to gorilla gardening (see previous posts from Canada). Nice to see peoples creativity transcending boundaries.

thanks to environmentalgraffiti.com for the pics and words.
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Shepard Fairey goes big in New York

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Pulled this off the Wooster Collective site this morning. No info with it, but the scale of this thing is huge. The same style/characters as the piece I shot in Chiswick (of all places). I'll find that shot and chuck it up with this in an update when I remember where I've archived it to. Pic by by Cameron Schiller.
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Clegg support in Finsbury Park

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A friend came across this Nick Clegg step and repeat stencil work in Finsbury Park. Who would have thought the FP massive were Lib Dem supporters! Thanks for the pic Abby.
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Penguin by Flood

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Really liked this take on the classic Penguin Publishing log on the side of the ArtRepublic gallery. Second pic features the C215 stencil too, which is featured later in the blog.
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CCTV stencil in Brighton

Not sure who the artist is (looks a bit like Cassette Lord's style tho) but cleaver positioning of this stencil right under a CCTV! Ha - the cheek of it...
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Wolf stencil Brighton

Snapped this small stencil piece down a small alley off the main shopping area - ironically enough just along from a little sex shop, but there were a few around town.
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Cassette Lord in Brighton

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More pics from the Brighton trip. Love this guys style and content. The works appear mostly on those electrical box things. Unfortunately shot most of it at night so the pics are a bit ropey, I'll see if I can fix em up in Photoshop, but you get the gist...
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Oh those crazy Mexicans...

Been meaning to put these up for a while. Jen & I were in a Mexican restaurant in Angel a while back. Went to the mens and got a surprise: crazy mad Mexican mural on the walls all around the whole bathroom! Bathroom photography is not usually my bag in that if you're not the only one in there you get some pretty damn funny looks from other punters. Anyway, needless to say the shots pic quality is a bit poor, but...

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Love that MexPorn: skeletons, sleaze and smiles.

Oh, and the funny thing is that in the ladies they only have one painting - a donkey with a huge cock!
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More stencil work at the ArtRepublic in Brighton

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These fine pieces were framing the front window of the ArtRepublic gallery in Brighton. Couldn't quite make out the artists signature, so some help from the audience would be appreciated...
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C215 in Brighton

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Went down to Brighton with the lovely Jenni for a weekend away and came across some really nice pieces inc. this C215 piece on the wall beside the ArtRepublic gallery. Took a lot of photos down there and will be putting them up as time allows over the next little while, as well as some new stuff from around London and some features from my recent trip back to NZ. Watch this space...
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Nice little stencil near Tufnel Park, London

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Saw this lovely little piece in a residential area not far from Tufnel Park tube a couple of days ago
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The Prophets return

Hi All, sorry it's been so long since my last post, but I've just returned from a month in NZ, so I was kinda distracted. I promise to be more vigilant in the coming months, and will start this months posts with some Wellington features in the week. Was great to get back home, but ready to roll again in London now. Watch this space...
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Nice piece of political from the coast in Vancouver...

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New political messaging from Jerm IX on the coast in Vancouver...
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Mutate Britain exhibition vid on youtube

Just seen there's a movie up on YouTube from Mutate Britain from the other weekend. Here's the link - check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HapfLj-5tRk&feature=player_embedded

Director/Editor - Barry Pilling Camera - Dave White.

Thanks to Barry Pilling for the film. He says: A photo animation from MUTATE BRITAIN - the single greatest street art exhibition in the history of man. http://www.mutatebritain.com

This link also features a heap of One foot in the grove stuff - well worth checking out.
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The many faces of space invaders

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Saw this in ffffound the other day, and liked it a lot...
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The Wood Green scrawler strikes again...

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This guy is prolific in my hood, and scrawls on just about every surface possible along the high street. Haven't seen him marking anywhere alse but wood green, but I'm sure there's probably some more somewhere...
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New Monorex/Loveletters bits along Curtain Street

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Was on my way down Curtain Road on sunday when I spotted these new pieces up around the Monorex depo in Shoreditch. All the guys are representing, although I'll chuck up some of the others later. Was loosing the light and had to stand in the middle of a really busy road to get the pics, but here's a taster...
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new piece in whitehouse street, London EC1

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Was working at an agency at the lower end of Old Street the other day, and happened along whitehouse street for a spot of lunch when I came across this wall. Liked it a lot - great simplicity and style, and minimal palette. Not sure who the artist or business is, but nice job...
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Rakes album cover project by Work Associates

Rakes recent album release: Klang

Album cover back experimenting further with the light/projection theory

Inlay - group shot super-imposed on projected light

Work applied the same graphic approach to the singles 1989 and Reason.

Work Associates looked to some of the Germanic influences on The Rakes' third album, Klang, to create their entrancing typographic sleeve for the release and the supporting singles. Here's how they did it...

Recorded in a former radio studio in east Berlin (and titled after the German word for "sound") Work based their imagery partly on Bauhaus principles and on colour theorist Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack's 1920s experiments with various apparatus that could generate moving projections of coloured light. His processes were later explained in his booklet, Farben Licht-Spiele.

"Hirschfeld-Mack's idea seemed to convey the appropriate movement to suggest sound in a single image," explains Work's Rob Crane.

This is a nice project based on a great artistic principle, remastered using the technology of today.
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So, there are still some Banksy rats around...

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Was wondering around the other day and came across a Banksy rat in a very unexpected place. It was in pretty good condition, apart from some cock tagging over it (see my rant from about 2 months ago on this point) in a fairly un-trafficed area. Check it out if you're going down White Church Lane in E1.
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Gorellaume on the streets around Europe

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Got a heads up from a mate who'd come across a body of interesting work and fed me the link. It's hard to tell exactly who is behind the work as the bio page has a 404 error, but I'll check back in a few days. I'm guessing it's a French guy or collective, but what ever - there's some great work that spans the spectrum of murals to stickers, environmental to sculpture. Mostly it has a slightly dark undertone, but we like that...

http://www.necessaryexperience.net
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