StandardFact was never the biggest Royalist but then in the last two years the people of Great Britain have enjoyed an extra four days of bank holidays, the least in the whole ruddy world.
So here is to the Queen
Turning on the national pride
And some lovely get up too
Like Geri but much better
Rule number one, put up some big wooden boards, then do not do a sodding thing until some natives come and put their stamp on it…
Top tache
The stamp should take influence from the locals too…
More great facial hair
Art by Broken Fingaz
Took me a little bit of time to find out who it was but twas only a matter of time…
One to tick off on the London Street Art Tour….
I like this a lot, Mobstr has been a bit prolific of late, short and sweet stencil across London town, taking over sandwich boards, advertising boards and plain bricks and mortar.
More to follow…..
I like things that are a a little uncomfortable to watch, that make you re-evaluate what you are seeing, hearing and taking away from the exhibition.
Desperate
The Gillian Wearing exhibition is very much a naked truth thing, it can sometimes be a little uncomfortable to watch, there are times when I sniggered like a pre-pubescent boy and other times when the story warmed.
Smile and the world….
The exhibition at the Whitechapel has imagery, story telling and acting, the one thing that every piece does is play with identity and our pre-conceptions. Be it through adults miming the words of a child, the artist herself photographed in the guise of others such as Andy Warhol or the rather disturbing confessions of people hidden behind elaborate masks and wigs.
Ever so slightly creepy…
One of the best pictures I have ever seen. Fact
A few more random pictures from my wonderings around East London on a bicycle. Hackney Wick, Mile End and all the industrial estates that did not get raised to the ground because of these Olympic thingy ma jigs certainly house some great pieces of street scribbling and colouring in
Never a truer word said…
then….
Stencil by > insert here < Tag by The Toasters
Followed by a nice bit of randomness
Vlad Bwoy
Skate-face
In amongst all this Olympic poppycock we seem to have dedicated a shed load of £££ on grown up sports, maybe forgetting the kids, not in Mile End mind. The Mile End Skate Park is packed with kids rain or shine. I like.
What I also like is that the place is adorned with graf, in the pool, the walls the floor, the benches. Everywhere.
Pool party
The place looks pretty good too, a real urban hangout, even if you can’t skate, BMX or any other urban sport, you can go and spray or tag.
Paint and skate
I do not know any of the artists and in my mind I like to think that are by kids, the next generation of painters who will be taking to the streets, canals and eventually galleries of London and beyond
Ginosaurus Peddleous Sartimus or GPS
When you combine two of my interests, cycling and art then usually you get me cycling to a gallery, probably stopping off for a wee cocktail en route and then homeward for some people watching.
Not if you are Christopher Wallace (no not Biggie, he dead y’al), he managed to use GPS tracking to create his own little piece of art as he got fit. I love this for it’s simplicity and because it looks a bit like something I’d draw… albeit it better tbh.
Wallace did this is Baltimore… which is in the US of A y’al
Skull ride
This would be about as easy as finding a virgin in Essex if you tried it in London as we do not have blocks and it would look like the cyclist was a piss head with rather lax sense of direction.
Seen on enpundit
Bird Cream – Dscreet
Dscreet, long term collaborator of Sweet Toof and an artist who pops up quite often around London, the impossible to miss owls keep watch over many corners of the earth, from Brooklyn to Melbourne.
This piece is cool as it takes a little bit of of Sweet Toof and then Dscreet takes over, It is called Bird Cream and was a 2009 piece. Nice that it is still in good nick.
Find it for yourself in Bethnal Green near the rail lines
This is pretty much a weekly section on StandardFact, although I would like to say this is not dedicated to one artist and we will be making sure that other artists get a look in…. providing they up the ante
Big mouth
Sweet mouth
Any trips along the canal, on the Olympic route and around the industrial estates, Sweet Toof is seen….
Roller toof
Peg toof
He even made a cameo appearance on the Apprentice this week
It could potentially be brilliant, but equally it could easily be a disaster of gargantuan proportions, most Londoners are generally positive about it but not everyone.
Artistic protest
In the Eastend it is probably because the Olympic juggernaut has ploughed through wherever it pleases and not always considered local residents and businesses.
Monkey protest
One thing that Seb Coe and his cronies can rely on is that the Euros in Poland and The Ukraine will be worse without a doubt
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