E-Pizza from Dubai

StandardFact loves a bit of creativity, is enamored by imagination, all about the convenience and partial to a pizza or two. Like many creatures of habit the order is always the same. Triple pepperoni in case you were wondering.

Well this idea takes all of the above, and then makes it into one technological yet uber simple solution to the age old problem of having to speak to the guy on the other end of the take out line who invariably is on a shite phone line, speaks only rudimentary English and takes an age to get your simple order wrong.

Dubai based pizza company Red Tomato Pizza came up with the ingenious idea of creating a fridge magnet that links to your WiFi, simply press the button on the magnet and it sends through your usual order to the restaurant. A simple text to confirm message is sent and hey presto! Pizza to your door and minimal effort used.

This idea is amazing because of it’s simplicity, the technology is there and it has been harnessed in a project that cost only $9k. The world coverage, SM buzz and kudos has paid this back many times over. On the back of this innovative solution numerous offers for  franchises around the globe.

Just shows that a good idea does not need to break the bank

Instagram – #thisisnow

Ultimate Instatwatting

Great aggregator app here, you can post your pictures for the world to see anytime and you can also see what is happening in some of the best cities in the world. Visit Now now

Simply add #thisisnow to your instagram pictures to join the party. Really nice idea here, so many people are on Instagram now and it is great to dip into what is happening all around the world at any time from the comfort of where you are sat

IT Crowd

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

 

Funny Art-Soul

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…

Auf Wiedersehen Kunsthaus

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

BLU is the artist – Berlin town

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

Ich liebe Berlin. That is all

Mit Zug

Best cities in the world…. London, New York and Berlin. But for me Berlin takes it after another lost weekend in the city of Sin. The one that the local government said they wanted to bill as ‘aber sexy’. Well the locals they might not agree but to many foreigners it is.

Paint & Sunshine

Berlin is the party capital of the world, somewhere along the line Berliners decided that parties, lax drug laws and sex would be the key to making it the go to location. They were right.

Artistic influence

Berlin is a melting pot with history, immigration, culture, art and banging techno. At the moment there is a little unrest in the city due to Gentrification and the locals rebelling against the hipsters and development of less desirable areas driving the rents too high for the locals who were there before skinny jeans, colourful tattoos and apple macs. Berlin has a very high unemployment rate, the highest homeless rates in the whole of Germany and the average wage is pretty low, the rents are also low which is what has attracted so many English, Italians, Spanish and French creative types. The mix of these cultures has made some areas so desirable to tourists who bring in money, it is a catch 22.

Humble abode

Now I am not going to go into details but rest assured it involved sampling some of what makes Berlin so > insert here <

And I ate here… typical

A little of home

Things I’ve seen….

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

Fin DAC has a take on Joy Division

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

Things I’ve seen….

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

That’s all paint pickers… until next time