Recent new piece from the infant terrible Hugo & Sholto of Id-iom
Scalter Street
Little wonder around Brick Lane and there is paint on every wall…. not much of it that really catches the eye anymore. Then you have Id-iom. Never a dull moment, creepy dark, amusing, vivid.
SF always says Lego makes everything better and even picturesque cities such as ones just outside a historic Roma look a hell of a lot better.
Bocchignano, Italia
Jan Vormann and his crew present Dispatch Work, where Lego has become a part of the wall works across Europe and beyond, from Barcelona to Koln to New York to Basel to Quito to Amsterdam.
Barcelona, Espana
NYC, US
Aarhus, Denmark
Taipei, China
You find some of the best and most interesting, witty things scrawled on the walls of toilets, regardless of which city, country or continent you are in.
Does this say…..
a) Lance Armstrong is innocent or
b) Lance Armstrong is no c*nt
Livewrong
Below it comments that all ‘we all ride bikes on drugs….’ Good ol Eastend
Plus two scrawled cocks on the walls
Then a couple of other bits SF thought you’d like
East
Wall tag
Daft
Next episodes from the brilliant launch of Random Access Memories. All of my friends on t’interweb have been posting links, interviews, homages, remixes, fave tracks etc from the Punked world of Daft.
Recently SF shared the link to the brilliant Nile Rodgers documentary from the BBC iPlayer and once again here is the great man speaking music. The way he describes music and how he creates is poetic, you got to love the fact that he calls it the Nile Rodgers sound and you know what he means in a moment.
Nile and ‘The Robots’ as they have become known is a match made in heaven, he says for himself it was like recording with his contemporaries even though the man is a part of legend. What is cool is the recording set up, it is like the Nile Rodgers destiny recording.
The Neptunes are one tight hip hop act and Pharrell is one fit as feck soulful lil dude, who better to record the vocals on the debut tune from the eagerly anticipated album. He makes the story romantic, the Nile bit, the Paris bit, the fizzing drink bit, the not remembering bit. SF is willing to believe
Ps Pharrell says you don’t need mandy for this music
PPS Daft Punk are big mates with Kanye. Kanye is a loonatic
PPPS An interview in the Guardian
Lego inspiration
As a little person there is one thing that every child, no matter their age, intelligence, social class, sex or even how dull they are, they will find joy in Lego. Little plastic bricks that can be fashioned into houses, robots, cars, people, animals, airports, roads, weapons etc etc. And when you grow up…. real life bridges. How many designers and architects have been inspired by these little blocks?
Lego exercise
SF loves this because it is lego inspired, but is much more that a eye catching design. It is designed for fun with the smooth tracks for cycling, boarding or skating, plus the stairs up and down work those glutes but also the wave allows for different perspectives as you make your way across. Design should work on many levels and this does. So this is not only necessary as it looks good but works the mind, the body and the senses.
Pure blue sky not included
This bridge by Michael Jantzen has not been built yet but I think it would work very well in Hackney. I’ll make a suggestion to the council post haste
Excited much?
SF loves a bit of electronic music, SF loves disco music. SF loves a live performance. SF is very excited about the new Daft Punk and the (please if there is a fecking god) tour that should follow.
Daft Punk are the purveyors of cool since 1993, the rarely seen, rarely heard, oft pined for French musical whizbots of our generation have created some of the most brain tingling music known to man. Defining generations
This rare insight into the workings of the mercurial French men comes from Todd Edwards, a man who collaborated with DP on arguably their finest tunage Face to Face, also providing the vocals.
New album Random Access Memories out soon… not soon enough mind. Featuring a certain Nile Rodgers. Fact
The world’s first selfie
No long ass explanations on this, you should just want to see it anyway. FFS the man hung out with Duchamp, Coco Chanel, Dali, Picasso, Lee Miller and Max Ernst, whom he had a double wedding with.
Original hipster
Dali
Picasso
Coco
A photographer who was more a visionary and created his own alternate reality through his images and techniques
Don
Easter Bank Holiday weekend means only one thing, over drinking, over partying, muchos dancing, little sleep and then the Monday trying to recover brain cells, dignity and memory. All of which are consigned to the history books. Also means catching up on missed TV, got on this now. Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
Bowie Rodgers
The guy was the don for many reasons, here are a few
A couple of other interesting points…. he was born to a 13 year old mum, grew up with her and his white step dad who were heroin users, can play any number of instruments but best known for the guitar which he taught himself and…. he has better hair than even Stevie Wonder
Remember the days when tokens for buying things could get you anything. Loyalty at Petrol stations resulted in poorly made cars that you dad would bring home after long work trips. As you got older it was VHS classics such as Shawshank Redemption, Dances with Wolves and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Then it was your choice of free albums, anything from Madonna Immaculate to Charles and Eddie. One thing I do not remember, mainly because no one in my family had the good grace to smoke was free watches.
Angelic
These horological delights come courtesy of those chaps at Silk Cut no less. From my recollection they are not that nice to smoke, make you pull harder because of the tiny holes in the butt but make for a rather splendidly smooth joint. And now it has been brought to the attention of SF that they make some rather aesthetically divine timepieces.
Edgy
Knives are out
Splat
Silk
Bright like a diamond
Bought from eBay for £35 the set. el bargain
Tinker
So when SF discovered Noble & Webster, it was unlike anything we have seen before….. or was it? It turns out there was a certain Dutchman who had already had the brainwave. Diet Wiegman was the real pioneer and for the very fact he put MJ in his pieces. That’s a win.
MJ
The manipulation of light and sculpture to create a new image is something that fascinates and puzzles in equal measures.
Vagavonds
Take Michelangelo’s David, iconic but arguably looks better with Wiegman’s interpretation
David
Wiegman has been using the technique for over 25 years and not only using one light colour but a variety.
Coloured mix
SF is going off to stick bits of wood, yoghurt pots, cardboard and leaves with PVA glue…. I assume that is what it takes.
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