White ArtBox Installation at St Pancras

White Artbox

The red phone boxes are as English as double decker buses, pie ‘n’ mash, The Queen, Oscar Wilde, Bowie, the village pub and queueing. Now BT have launched their art campaign to redesign the iconic boxes, 4 white versions have been placed at London’s Kings Cross St. Pancras.

A gallery event will take place at the National Portrait Gallery on July 18th featuring re-imagined telephone boxes by such creative types as Giles Deacon, Zandra Rhodes and Keith Tyson. The activity is a fundraiser for ChildLine so even more reason to like it. Go Esther Rantzen

I like these choices, but what about a UK street artist like Stik or Eine or even Robbo if he is back on his feet yet, surely that is representative of the more urban side of London?

Now Valentines is safely in the past for another year….

Something with a love heart on. Love hearts that have nothing to do with the Hallmark occasion.

Urban grey heart

Latest work form Roadhouse, spotted on PSFK. Like earlier posts I have written that use the urban environment to create something interesting and poignant, this is cool.

I am too tired and can not go deep and meaningful on this…. but looks good dunt it

Love wagon

I ❤ bush..... naaaaaat

Utterly Amazing – Epic Installations – Heike Weber

I love this, not an awful lot more to say about these huge installations that stretch around entire rooms from floor to ceiling. I have just had an idea for my bathroom…..

Ultimate doorstep

I can only imagine how long this would take in the size of the rooms she is working in but the finished result is something that is more than worth the time invested.

Blue job

Check out Heike Weber‘s website here

Gred

Black box

Stik man on the move….

Just a little update to Stik man just off Old Street. Quite cute and a nice commentary on people wanting to take street art away with them.

#Stik

Is this how to discover Street Art….

Need to know basis....?

About 2 years ago while enjoying a £1 Red Stripe, sitting by Corbett’s Place, thus avoiding the security guards and their attempts to get me to pay three times that in the local watering holes, my chums and I spotted something rather amusing. An impressively entrepreneurial chap was leading around a bunch of tourists and imparting knowledge on various pieces of street art displayed across the walls.

I'll give you this one... Truman Brewery. Simples

I spotted this again recently and it lead me to think that surely half the fun of discovering ‘Street Art’ is exactly that, the discovery. When I have visited  Berlin, SF, Queens, Paris or any place really, half the fun is discovery and then for those who really want to know the researching afterwards. It is a bit like collecting Panini stickers when you were a kid, the finding the rare ones was the very nature of the fun

Does this not take away the thrill of the chase, eliminate the fun and excitement a tad? What do you think?

If you do not share my thoughts then maybe hit up these guys, for £15 they can remove the mystery and get you a full sticker book of London Street Art

Before I Die….. Inspir-art

New Orleans has seen some things in recent years and not much positive but this is something which has galvanised a community and then spread around the world.

What began as a way for locals to record their hopes and aspirations soon became a way of bringing the neighbourhood together and soon got national awareness, so far similar walls have popped up in Brooklyn, Amsterdam, Portsmouth and Lisbon to name just a few.

There is a lot of art on the walls around London, some of it means fuck all but something like this could have been a great thing post London riots to help with communities understanding of one another. Post those events there was a whole lot of misunderstanding as to why the riots happened and who was to blame…. Maybe this is a bit idealistic of me but….

What’s this?

Ahhh I get it...

Moon Art…. This is a first for my peepers

I work in marketing and a previous numbskull of a boss who rarely came up with any good ideas but claimed everyone else’s ideas, once piped up with this corker. That he was going to project the logo of one of our very well known clients on to the moon. F-ing dork. That just reinforced my thought that we leave the moon alone to be pretty, signify flouro influenced parties on Thai islands and to beckon the wolves out when full.

Turns out I was bang wrong.

Moon on a string

This by Laurent Lavder proves I was bang wrong, following on from a previous post Cheekie lil ruskie here is another brilliant and playful; use of the world we live in to create images. I personally like the reading one most but they are all pretty sweet

Moon paint

Seen on Huff Post

 

Funny Youngman, Clever Youngman

Hennesey Youngman Click here ya’l

Hennesey says Damien Hirst is a dick... so there

This guy is the boy, funny, irreverent, great range of hats, hip hop jewelry with not hit (or major hint of) irony. Plus he has managed to identify the clear similarities between Damien Hirst and wanker for all season Bono. It has never sat that easily with me that Hirst gets minions to do his actual handy work… so basically no different to Mr Brainwash then. And they both get paid shit loads… I have just had an idea…

Clever lil Ruskie

Making a spectacle

Street art should, in my opinion build on the surroundings and make them better, it should not stand out for the sake of standing out, it should never merely blend either. A tricky tightrope you might say.

Street light

This is the first time I have come across Pavel Puhov but I love the way he toys with his surroundings in order to take everyday mundane objects and makes them into something different and artistic. Everyday objects such as spectacles or a torch can be something quite enchanting

Lights and shadows

I stumbled across these pieces which he did recently in Russia on thisiscolossal.com