there's three thing i have planned for the new year on the art front.

1. loads of life drawing

2.installation/video

3.street art...

if i can get my confidence and skill up in these areas i'll be a happy! it will also mean i can start practicing as an art-ist as opposed to an art-student.

i'm dead tired at the moment, i should be practicing drawing not having a stella!

peace

practicing with spray cans and emulsion.

this is roughly 8ft by 4ft

xmas and new year...

yo people who check this blog (shora!! haha thanks mate, yours looks good!)

i'm back in aylesbury and after being skint in Liverpool i'm looking forward to getting back to work on the farm! this also means being able to buy paint... lot's of it!! so hopefully there will be some big pieces going up and about my hood in the near future! i'm undecided where i'll post the images, it won't be here and it certainly won't be under my name but i will be sending a link out when it happens to people who might give a shit about some paintings on some walls...

also my old friend grizzle emcee aka Jamie has got a new and very cool website up and running called the daily street
check it out www.thedailystreet.co.uk

anyway the new blog when it happens will be in conjunction with some close friends who will be posting as well so it's going to be busy busy busy!!!!!

right check back soon, peace

sketches

pink lady

The Story Of "The Pink Lady of Malibu"

One Saturday morning, on October 29, 1966, a massive 60-foot-tall painting of a nude pink lady holding flowers suddenly appeared as you headed into the tunnel on Malibu Canyon Road.
As word of the massive pink lady spread, and the traffic on the highway grew to a halt, city officials decided "The Pink Lady" had to be removed. Firefighters were called to hosing her off the rocks. It didn't work. Buckets of paint thinner were thrown on the rocks. It only made her pink skin pinker.
As county officials worked on figuring out a way to remove The Pink Lady, a 31-year-old paralegal from Northridge, a woman named Lynne Seemayer, suddenly showed up on the road and admitted that she was the artist who did the piece.
Seemayer said that she was annoyed by the graffiti that was all over the canyon wall ("Valley Go Home" was a memorable slogan) and so, over a 10 month period, she started to secretly climb up under the moonlight and suspended herself by ropes to remove the graffiti.
At 8 P. M. on October 28 Seemayer painted the Pink Lady using ordinary house paint. By dawn it was done.
The Pink Lade lasted only a week. Seemayer sued LA county for $1 million for the destruction of her work, and the county counter-sued for $28,000 in removal costs. Since the painting was on private property, both cases were dismissed by the court.
On Thursday, November 3, workers covered the painting with 14 gallons of brown paint.

Find the pictures on www.woostercollective.com

Review week

Good feedback from group review on Tuesday. I have a clear direction of where my practice is going and have plenty to be getting on with over the christmas break. There will be pics of a mural up soon and a link to new street art site.

more from this week

Top painting is not finished.

Bottom pic is of the xmas ferris wheel taken from the docks.

post below...

these papers are the Echo, November 1970!!! found in our basement...

a bits from this week

emulsions, acrylic, ink and pastels

listening to Dead Prez, the Streets and Jimmy Eat World this week

Manny Paquiao is officially the greatest boxer of the decade in my eyes. He crushed Miguel Cotto on saturday... i nearly had a panic attack watching it on a shitty stream because i didn't know what was going on.

The three of us we're walking to the cavern the other night and i realised i was going to a punk gig and i was'nt drunk and that these two things didn't go together so we got on the special brew. This is in the wrong order read the first post from today first..

Also I've been wondering how long a biro lasts for. Biro as in Bic no wilko's cheap crap... can I get through one in a day?

recent sketchbook stuff

I will be making a proposal this week to a building site to paint the boarding surrounding the site. There is a lot of sites popping up around the kenny area especially so I should be in luck.

Sorry about some of these pictures being upside down...

What else...? King Diamond and Mercyful Fate that's what!

Tom, Tom and I went to see Sham 69 last night at the Cavern which was brilliant and re awakened the hardcore kid in me. We're sorting out a few songs and will hopefully get a gig in January. Think along the lines of Cro-mags mating with Minor Threat and The Clash shagging The Stooges then the offspring of the two having a one night stand.... thats what i'm hoping for anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLvWJ7jaQgU&feature=related

video abut rise of graffiti in uk featuring banksy,paris, sickboy

http://www.flickr.com/groups/37692671@N00/pool/page2/

paste ups

http://blog.vandalog.com/

look at the fire extinguisher

http://www.woostercollective.com/Cardillo-0909.jpg

halloween

www.babelgum.com

and search Neozoon now!!!!

inspired by too much post apocolyptic world books...

Post Apocolypse Poem

This world has no trees, grass, flowers or bees
The mud on the road, rotten remnants of these things
Existing in place
Beside the human race
Who remain to blame
Neither guilty or ashamed
Of anything

beginnings...

half finished pieces in the house, these were the first to go up

unfortunately a bit lost amongst the other posters

the hand revolt (above)

this is the beginning of something special, of something new to me. this is a reason to get out of the house and feel the kind of excitement you feel as a kid sneaking about. this is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and go take pictures of what your responsible for.

we've only been out twice to date (first was beginning of the week) and we're hooked. an old man stopped and stared as we jumped a wall last night and whacked up a poster before his eyes, as we walked away he'd crossed the road to get a better look. one of the pieces we put up dissapeared by the time i went to take pics of it the next day, but thats part of the process of street art. i should've got some before we went out but thats a lesson learnt.

Endless Summer

Martin summing up our first few days in newquay, we lived in 4 different places before we found somewhere decent. we lost nearly 300 quid between us on this place which had crack heads upstairs and about four thousand years of mould in the kitchen amongst other stuff.

just read this on pictures on walls.com

Bast: Every piece of art he makes looks like a battered piece of shit. This confused us until we found out hes also a baggage handler at an international airport (actually true).

hahaha

come on video up fucking load!

Eelus: Somebody once told me that being a street artist was like making love to a beautiful woman. You need to be good with your hands, have balls and be skilled at getting up in awkward places. I'm only new to the scene, but my method of preferably being drunk, making a right old mess and getting in and out as quickly as possible is working OK so far. I also like to be involved in street art from time to time.

haha i enjoyed this one from the same site

check out amazing predator rap on youtube

summer

what happened to the sun? newquay treated us well until we lost our jobs! surfing, partying and meeting a shit load of cool people; doing everything other than being on time for work, working and doing any art work. oh well im getting back into sketching again. cant wait to get back to lpool!