See No Evil – Bristol

Posted on February 26, 2013 by standardfact

Bristol is well known for a few things but the two biggest and most culturally relevant to the SF eye would be the Drum n Bass and the vibrant Street Art.

Listen to a little Roni Size while you peruse the paint on walls

See No Evil in Bristol is the annual street art project that draws an International crowd to an urban enclave every 12 months, it is a properly organised Arts Council supported display of street doodling.

Wruff

Flying Fortress & Nychos

Mark Lyken

Well this is quite the question. There is no right or wrong way actually. A touch of the Ben Eine about this one

See Bristol isn’t only the stopping ground of the ever-over-exposed Banksy

Conor Harrington

And finally….

A variety inc Lucy Mclauchlin &Chase

LaChapelle @ Halcyon

Posted on February 11, 2013 by standardfact

LaChapelle

David LaChapelle. Quite possibly the most seminal photographer of his generation. For what he does there is no comparison, the surreal extra-ordinary narratives in LaChapelle’s pictures broke the photography mould ever since he was taken under a certain Andy Warhol’s wing.

There are are other greats but none in the same ilk as LaChapelle

Other honourable mentions for Teller (pervert) Richardson (white trash pervert) Rankin (Brit Publishing great) Leibovitz (Beauty snapper) Rock (Rock’n’Drugs photography)

Halcyon Gallery is not one SF usually visits, because it is for rich people to buy pieces and the prices are more than you would pay for a row of house tup north, but to see the following pieces in one place you have to go. We might have to marry a rich Russian though

Diamonds are a girls best friend

Cereal anyone

Blow McQueen

The final Warhol portrait

Jose Parla – Broken Language

Posted on February 10, 2013 by standardfact

Jose

Jose Parla is a NY based photographer / artist who has his first London exhibition at the moment from 8th February to 28th March at the Haunch of Venison in Mayfair, he has a pretty damn amazing view on the streets of Londinium

Paving

So Jose heads to a city and take up residence, then he goes out on a wonder with his camera and shoots the landscapes that he sees, taking in the colours, textures, light, darkness and all the flaws of the city to inspire and create his pieces.

Brick Lane

Once he has a catalogue of images then he uses these for his paintings and sculptures, some are included some are just inspiration. It is pulls together some amazing perspectives on the city he is in.

London is arguably the best city in the world (NYC, Berlin, Lisbon will argue this) and has variety in the people, the food, the architecture, the weather and wealth. This all makes for a case study to bring a vibrant and energetic collection to life, Jose describes it as a reaction to the area he is in, giving him broken languages of a global community. SF reckons this is just Street Art.

When SF visited Haunch of Venison the man himself was there to speak to visitors and he genuinely looked excited to be showing in London, well you would be wouldn’t you.

Pinky

Jose explains here

A veritable aesthetic eye Wank

Posted on January 31, 2013 by standardfact

by Jason Pierce – Williams

What does a company that practices law everything from banking to copyright to IT to real estate have to do with creative imagery? Well they put up the £££ to sponsor a photographic portrait prize that serves to exhibit your casual amateur snapper with the best and most lauded in the business. Therefore even the most anti brand luddites must admit that their cash money has a purpose.

Sponsorship is a good thing when done to bring otherwise lost arts and areas of interest back to the masses. For one it is only £2 to go and see Taylor Wessing at the National Portrait Gallery.

Anyway on to the entries.

Mo Farrah by Mate Peters

Sixty portraits have made the shortlist from over 5000 entries taken on everything from a mobile phone through to digi and on to old school film, a veritable aesthetic eye wank. There are award winning artists shooting Olympic champions, there are absolute novices snapping their family, there are the fringes of society pictured and a heroic photographer who lost multiple limbs shooting in an area of conflict.

Gillian Wearing by Robin Friend

Ai WeiWei (hero) by Matthew Niederhauser

My personal no.1 Gandee Vasan

Moving, funny, dutty, crazy, sexy, cool.

ich liebe Berlin… even in the snow

Posted on December 12, 2012 by standardfact

SF takes in am Berlin trip about once every 6-8 weeks….. the beer, art, sausage, clubs, people and sex are off the scale. A move could be imminent

It starts from here

Dscreet

Urban Spreeeeeeee

Stinkfish

slippy cowbwoy at Urban Spree

Urban Spreee

Sweet Toof in NYC

Posted on November 30, 2012 by standardfact

So you spend most of your living days in the Eastend of London, you spot Sweet Toof absolutely everywhere, he pretty much has this party of town sewn up. Think I a m k i d d i n g ?

Then you go for a wee break in NYC and this is there….

Mobile tache n Toof

Pro-fecking-lific

New York City – Favourite Shots from November ’12

Posted on November 29, 2012 by standardfact

No lack of things to gawp at in NYC, here are the best shots from the recent jaunt to the grande apple

But I still do

This was in the toilet of a drift store…..

Arse on the King’s face

Never a massive fan of religion but this makes a little more sense

Dope on Bedford Av

So if religion needs security then we are all screwed then right….?!

ADT looking after an imaginary women

Little word in you ear

NYC words

Wastelands

Artists impression of war and religion

Then I went shopping

15 bucks for style

5Pointz in NYC – loads of paint

Posted on November 28, 2012 by standardfact

i spray….

5Pointz in Long Island, NYC. This is a tricky one. It is visually pretty inspiring and has become a graffiti mecca of sorts, known worldwide and attracting artists young, old, famous, infamous, good, bad and ugly. It was created as a place where artists could come and paint to their hearts content without the worry of prosecution thanks to a guy called Pat Dillilo.

Wall art

pinky and the brain esq

Now….

Big noze

That might be the thing that be the one thing that actually is a draw back. I always liked the idea of discovering the art and scribbles and not being spoon-fed it. I liked the idea that graf artists would have to work in the cover of dark, ready to make like Usain at any minute for fear of the fluff. The idea of have a safe sanitised area to create their ‘illegal’ pieces doesn’t ring true….