It has been a while since SF took any street photography in the east end due to a hit n run bicycle incident. Well here is the first piece in a while and the first of many to come.
Pez dispenser
Pez in a can… a spray can that is
Some stuff that SF likes but just has no time to write lots about
Love a little optical illusion. Working either for a promotional campaign, a gallery, street art piece or a greeting card. Props to Fabio D’Altilia for creating Point of View
Look closer
SF loves Lego. I think everyone does. If you have little people in your family then you will know about building it and that it can takde up most of Christmas day therefore avoiding speaking to boring and / elderly members of your extended family. It is a god send…. and Nathan Sawaya is clearly a don
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach
It is the end of festival season pretty much as much as this is a small relief it is also the sign of colder times. SF spotted this pictorial Woodstock feast and it made SF want to get naked, drop LSD, bump uglies, listen to guitary music and wonder around a field. Thanks to Wall to Watch for this
Long hair and LSD
MJ
SF spotted this online and it is something I would imagine you would find in a ‘trendy’ hotel in somewhere like xx It is probably not somewhere I’d readily want to stay as it would likely all be a little to clean and try hard. Strangely I do really like these piece by WorkbyKnight.
Jigga man
The Aussie artist makes good use of your old IT equipment to create images of some of the most iconic people from pop culture, bit of a IT geek version of Andy Warhol…. or not. His argument is that in a manufactured world, so can the art be. Fair point.
Al P
Either this has the SF approval
QT
And in memory of an icon
Neil Armstrong
Cuddle up
SF has been a lil quite in recent days, this bloody work thing combined with bust shoulder and no transport. However there are other ways to share a little visual love.
Post smiles
Great website I stumbled upon recently Walls to Watch, has a great array of art, photography, graf, stencils, pottery etc etc. A lot of it seems pretty random and has been sent in from around the world.
Rolling doubles
The personal and possibly limited view of StandFact is that what you see should make a difference, and hopefully move you, currently the top of the list of things to look for are things that raise a wee smile, cause a titter and maybe make you release a little bit of wee with glee
Choca bloc
Well you know how much I love lego…
Not quite gentrification but another little sign that the bohemian lifestyle enjoyed by Berliners, travelers and new foreign residents may be a little under threat. It seems in recent times that Berlin has decided to try and be more like your boring vanilla older brother than your crazy slaggy little sister. There was talk of Berghain being shut… not true thank feck, then there is the gentrification of the K’Beurg area and there is also a few problems for the many arts of Berlin.
For years Kunsthaus Tacheles was the go to place for creative types just visiting, it has music studios, big open windowed bar rooms, art studios, a studio, a metal works and even a maze in former years. (Click here for the ever reliable Wiki info) Just recently the local council have been trying to move people on but Berliners are made of sterner stuff. Last I heard was that the electricity supply had been cut off and doors bolted, this was a week ago and I’d not be surprised if those doors were open again now.
For now some art work on the outside….
Punk Schwein
How long is now?
Berlin Spock
The walls of Berlin town have more paint than any other I have visited and one artist has helped to dominate the skyline there. There was an agreement between the local council and the residents that every wall possible spare space or wall had to have a stencil, a pattern, a tag, a scribble or doodle…. well not quite but would have been nice
Keeping an eye on Watergate since 2007
Blu is an Italian guy who’s huge pieces can be seen from miles away and across the world from his home town in Bologna, the Camden to Isreal, to Valencia, Barca and even Poland.
BLU Berlin skyline
Most of his pieces look like some kind of mutant super heroes, the style is pretty hard to copy so you will always recognise them.
I also double like his website, his scrap book of artworks from across the globe, the drawings scribbles and doodles
The last few weeks the number of new pieces found has gone right now, SF has been pretty inactive due to tumble on two wheels, it will continue in this vein for a while but there will be bits and bobs for your eyeball delectation…
Shok 1 is London based and a bit underground, more known for spraying off the beaten track in places others dare not go. His style is pretty individual and like no other… Like. for a guy who has been spraying since 1984 he has certainly done his time. This is his old site but the new one is en route. See it around Brick Lane, Hanbury St to be exact.
Colour Sho
Cheery fag… looks a bit like Malarky but it is actually Kid Acne
Shmokin
Art will tear you apart….
Like this of course, it is a little bit of paint combined with a girl wearing a tour t-shirt from one of the best British bands ever… Joy Division. Add to the fact that design of the album was by Peter Saville, add to the fact it is by Fin DAC means that this piece is pretty sweet.
Check out his site for some brilliant stencil and spray can work, like many artists I like he uses popular culture with his own twist of romance, colour, cheek and creep about it. He is french so he is clearly a bit aloof and cool
Through this blog I have found pieces and slowly i find out who they are by…. a couple of piece I found that I love come from this very man. Great discovery
Mooching around the city I call home has become rather difficult in the last 3 weeks, being as I was knocked off of my bike and bust my shoulder and cut my face open…. and then had my bike stolen while I was unconscious… but that is another story
So here are a few piece I have spotted on my hobbles around Londres….
Pez dispenser
Pez is a cute artist, his stuff adorning the walls and trains and sometimes even galleries in Barcelona, London, NYC, Amsterdam and beyond since 1999. On my recent trip to Barcelona to dance my ass off at Sonar his fishy pieces were everywhere, a bit like our friend Sweet Toof in London. He is the signature of Barca for me.
Then something I have seen more and more of recently in the Eastend…
BFC head
Relatively new to London but making a bit of a splash, more info to follow on Broken Fingaz Crew Love this, it looks like some weird super hero cum slasher porno mag from Sin City
Thats a lot of naked
Spencer Tunick is one of my fave photographers / artist out there, using scale to create some staggering shots. At some point I am going to manage to sell in an idea to my client to get Tunick involved in a campaign, and even more so to be a part of one of these shots.
Red n gold
Recently Tunick was asked to create an image to celebrate the launch of the new opera season in Munich at the Max Josephplatz, using 1700 people painted in red and gold. I’d explain more but this video which strangely seems to be voiced by Stephen Hawkings does a better job than I could do.
Red floor
Spencer Tunick if you are reading this then I have an idea for East London I think we should have a wee chat about. Hit me up
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