That is all
The Angelic. London pub, pretty nondescript, shit name, kind of place that sells ‘gastro’ food, kind of place that people who wear Fat Face or FCUK, the type that listen to Keane, probably reside in Clapham and drink cider over ice before heading home before midnight. Pretty vanilla… but apparently they have a gimp downstairs. I now like
If you live in LDN then you will have certainly seen a toaster or two on walls around the capital. They are a collective who tag, stencil and graf across the world. Pretty prolific too.
Hackney Road toasting
I don not know a lot about the guys… as yet. Waiting to hear more, anyone got any more info for me? Website? Flickr?
Check out the vimeo
I did not go ce soir, this was largely because I headed to Columbia Road and ended up having a drink with Gandalf’s Eastend younger balder funnier more laddy brother and my good pal who I know as Peter Pan.
Watership Down
In the meantime here is the link to ROA’s show
Lots of ROA’s stuff along Hackney Road, Tourists are always searching it out
Few random shots from my wonderings
Hugo Bossman
Motherbar (333)
Unknown off Brick Lane
Nazir Tanbouli
I have found a few extra little pockets of art around East London and will picture these v soon.
Any suggestions for good places to go in South London ya’l?
Full wall of monsters
Following my previous post this month on Nazir Tanbouli we saw that the man is trying to single-handedly turn a semi-deserted eye sore in East London into his very own canvas. I am loving this big dinosaurs with upside down heads and multiple eyes.
Dino-boarded up
The playful imagery is like a acid version of Jurassic Park.
Bird in prey
Fish walls
As always… not telling you exactly where it is…. but it is between Kingsland Road and Queensbridge Road
Latest version, this one by Team Robbo
Everyone has heard of Banksy, maybe not everyone has heard of Robbo. Robbo was in his words the original and a pioneer of the street art game. He tagged and painted his way around London in the 80’s before it was cool or indeed profitable to do so. After a while he retired, he made no money out of it and felt it was for the younger man.
A young Banksy met Robbo and they had a bit of set to and Robbo claims to have given him a slap.
Fast forward a few years and the grudge comes back when Banksy paints over an iconic Robbo piece with a workman putting up wall paper. Cue a long running, slightly petty, rather amusing, visually interesting tete a tete.
Click here for a run down of some of the shots
Get well soon anyway Robbo
On Saturday StandardFact took a bike ride along the canal to Camden, it was a lovely day and offered the chance to check out some pieces of art along the way. It is a lovely ride on the canal from Angel to Camden by the way…
I learned two things.
1. I don’t like Camden much at all
2. Everyone else in the world does
It was so busy and generally horrendous, Saturdays should never involve heading to Camden. If you only ever listen to one thing SF says then make it this…. Do not go to Camden on Saturday
I did however find some cool pieces which I will share now….
Kissable lips
Familiar image
anyone help with this one?
Fat mouth?
I like it… it is a big fat bald guy with Lean Body in his mouth… answers on a postcard.
Apologies for being lazy with my finds… I’ll pick the pace up next week ya’l
He divides opinion across the board, some see him as visionary and some, like myself think he is just a shock merchant, beit with his thermaldahide animal experiments or for creating a skull with more diamonds than Liz Taylor would know what to do with.
Love Sharks
I was not that bothered initially to visit his retrospective at the Tate Modern, even less so when the reviews were mixed, even even less so when I found out he was selling a souvenir version of his skull for a mere £35k. Erm seriously?
I can do this....
It also got on my wick when he said that art is not about the money….. It also confused me that he has so many assistants who actually do the art for him, just feels like he like a more respected version of Mr Brainwash.
Here is a video clip of him walking through the exhibition with the curator Ann Gallagher discussing each piece. Still not entirely sure what I think of him, however I am going to pay the ££ and going to see it, I am going to say it is because I like sharks, but secretly maybe I like Hirst?
Friends of StandardFact, the guys at id-iom clearly understand the huge cultural and musical importance of the great man. His drumming was second to none and he featured on numerous other artist’s albums because he was so good. Plus he dumped a wife by fax…. the man was always ahead of the curve.
Art + Phil Collins = Groovy
The idea behind this piece is to obviously bring the genius of Phil Collins to a wider audience, but additionally the guys were using a bit of a subtle mind trickery, by using the lyric of ‘When I’m feeling blue, all I have to do, is take a look at you, then I’m not so blue’ from the classic ‘A Groovy Kind of Love’ on a blue background they are planting the blue message in peoples minds, hopefully forever.
A vintage year
This little piece is in Brixton so I am imagining it will have the same effect on the number of sales from that area of PC purchases in a similar way that a certain chocolate bar did to ‘In the Air Tonight’
More from our id-iom friends very soon….
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