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
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….
Like this art… but also like the picture my shite iPhone3 managed….
eye tooth
I think I might be having a bit of a sugar overload here. I can not turn a corner without seeing another piece by Mr. Toof. You have to give him credit though he goes far and wide and does not mind hitting some pretty random places.
Spotted the toof?
This one was in a warehouse carpark on the way to Stratford and pretty damn hard to find, I only spotted it out of the corner of my eye.
The writing is on the wall
I would like to say right now that this is not my opinion, I am only quoting something I have spotted on my travels around London…
You do have to love this though…. short, sweet, spelt correctly and with a slight musical reference. This had lead me on a new mission… to find tags and comments that may not seem that artistic but that make me chuckle.
If you can find any then I want them… regional comedy much welcomed
Still lots to be done tho...
I found the Graffiti Graveyard off Broadway and then found this on the way to the Olympic Stadium. It is a little more rough round the edges and could do with a few more pieces so if you are an artist then drop me a line and I’ll break my rule about revealing the location.
East wall
Can you spot our friend Sweet Toof in the above shot?
I like the fact that when we are inundated by sodding tourists, all getting lost and wondering into the rougher parts of Hackney to get robbed by our friendly youts, they will at least be able to see some pretty decent art along the way.
As they say… Welcome to Hackney
Hugo Bossman
Ghetto Blaster
Horror
Sweet croc
It has been ages since I saw our old friend Sweet Toof. He is pretty damn prolific as we have already figured out and Sweet has been beating a path to that white elephant in the Eastend room otherwise known as the Olympic Stadium.
Tunnel Toof
If you take a mosey down from Victoria Park towards the stadium there are a few examples of his work plus a couple which have been started and not finished. The route to the Olympics is a pretty rich place to graf right now, so many open spaces and it will be the perfect place to showcase his wares to a huge amount of people throughout the summer.
Hazardous Toof
Sweet tag
On thing that did strike me though is while they are making some of it look nice for all those tourists… some of it looks rather dilapidated, and I don’t mean shabby chic either
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