Long wall of paint...
Few of my favourite shots from today, mooching down the canals of London in the East. One entire wall of graf which was about 18ft tall, here are a few pieces….
Silkey & TLY TRP
TRP
This is the best thing I have seen for ages…. madness
Not sure who it is but it's dead good
Plus this one I spotted around the corner
No idea... but looks nice
Even the tongue is cool
Basically counting down to payday. These are sex in the form of a shoe
From the finest shoe series ever
Above. Something really interesting in pretty much every piece I see from this guy, and he has something to say literally every time but I actually believe his sentiment when he put paint of a wall, unlike some others it feels genuine and with no little amount of humour as well.
The pieces I am sharing here show he likes to take a risk or two to get his point across, clearly he can not do this without his phlanax of people to find the settings and the subjects and then to get out without ended up banged up. The first piece I showed was his comment on the diamond trade in Johannesburg
The fact he is so prolific and that he has been all around the world suggests he must be making a pretty penny out of his artistic excursions. I do not mind that, some people have an issue but everyone has got to make ends meet.
So to Above’s work, but only one type, his use of words…
Berlin - Leave them artists alone
Berlin is not without amazing art, but the scale of this is brilliant, you can just make out a woman. Big can be beautiful
Cape Town - look Above
A commission by a fairtrade winery in SA
Miami - What a banker
This may be in Miami sunshine but it is a commentary on The Wall Street protests, the full piece reads… ‘Give a Wall St. Banker Enough Rope and He Will Hang Himself’. Like many of Above’s work this made the news across the US.
Hung up financially
Over to San Jose
Peru - What comes from there?
It is beautiful but also shining a light on what the country is famous for as well, plus the ‘O’s are windows which make it even better
Clever whore
Some simple Melbourne graf
Mexico.... on his way home
This was done in 2 hours with the last bits of paint left in his pots.
When you coming to London Above?
In the past Belgium was known for chocolate and peodos… until Austria took that last crown. But now maybe they can be seen as inventive and creative marketeers, pranksters even. This week StandardFact spotted this beaut, it has done the rounds already by now but if you have not seen it. It is a brilliant piece of advertising which plays on human natures natural inquisitive tendencies. Hats off to TNT television station, they know drama. Only 15 million views in 3 days….
Apols for the Belgium joke, only kidding ya’l
I’d heard of the Artist Above before…. but a short post will not do the guy justice so take this as a mini-intro to a prolific artist who unlike so many has many many sides to his work, he can do political as well as Banksy, cartoon as well as Sweet Toof and word stencils to match Ben Eine.
This is a brilliant piece, I believe the story goes that he got permission to stencil ‘Diamonds are a Woman’s Best Friend’ on the wall outside Jewel City, Johannesburg’s center for diamond trading…. he then went back and added a little extra. Brilliant, beautiful and not a little bit dangerous I’d imagine.
Stay tuned for my full look at Above…. when I have time that is
And why I am at it…. Surely Kanye should get props for pointing this out as well. Soooo Kanye
Ich liebe Berlin, I would live there if my pigeon German improves, and it will so help me. One of the big reasons I love Berlin is that it is unlike any other city I have been to on every level and one of the most beautiful levels is the art you can see. On pretty much every corner of Kruezberg there is something to feast your eyes upon.
Berlin is a hotbed for creative types, from artist to musicians to sculptors to those very sexually liberated, they are attracted to the city by the bohemian lifestyle, the hotpot of nationalities and the city’s lax attitude towards drugs.
All the above combines to some of the coolest and most creative art, street art and graf you will find.
That is spray paint you know
I spotted this on urbanartcore this week and thought it was immense. The scale, the detail, the expressions, just make for an amazing display. James Bullough, a Washington native is creating this masterpiece at Torstrasse 111. If you have never been there then go, it has music studios, art studios, scuplture, a maze and bars. The launch is on April 28th, get there is you can. If not check out his website for some cool and abstract stuff.
She menacing...
I must have gone to Berlin 5 times last year for various reasons, this year only once so far…. better get booking. If for no other reason than this place…
Like this art… but also like the picture my shite iPhone3 managed….
eye tooth
Street culture takes its form in many ways, clothes, art, piercings, hair and of course tattoos.
Hot ink
I love tattoos and have one or two or eight of mine own and counting, I find myself staring at anyone who has ink, wondering what the story is and who did the work.
Full sleeves of art
These shots of the rather hot Jack Royle caught my attention so thought I’d share them
Not usually a fan of neck tattoos.... but...
Photoshoot by Emma Gibney spotted here at homotography
There was a rumour I saw this week that Daft Punk had not one but two new albums to release in the not to distant future. Rumours like this are utterly unhelpful, they only serve to get our ears twitching and our feet tapping as we reach for Homework to get a fix.
Anyway, let us not think about that as this is genuinely coming in only a few months, July to be exact. Check these lil Daft Punk styled mini toys.
Daft Punk meet mice
Spotted on Toybeast and I want them now, I hope that Be@rBrick are listening….
I also think these would make a brilliant stencil in East London, well at the end of my road to be exact
Now a bit of Homework for you…
Graffiti Graveyard
Today I found a gem, an absolute gem in the East End. I have never seen it before on any other website or been told about it…. surely others have spied it?!
Bang-up, back-up
I have named it Graffiti Graveyard because it is a wasteground, a dead area which may have formally been to be a basketball or football court, now it is littered with rubbish, beer cans, spray cans, bins, wood and general crap. But on each and every wall of this enclosure there are bright, vibrant sometimes poignant pieces of street art. There is a tribute from Team Robbo to their fallen leader and various other RIP pieces and tributes, therefore the Graffiti Graveyard feels spot on.
King Robbo
Jobzy
Now for any regular readers you will know I am conflicted when it comes to giving away the exact location of pieces of street art, personally, and it is only my opinion, I think it should be discovered and not advertised explicitly. So all I will say is that it is in the Broadway / London Fields area of London.
Unknown
Access Play
Toast anyone?
Plus there is a naked man….
Nice beard, small dick though
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