Ink.

Different kind of street art, more addictive mind

Skull to remember

One for misbehaviour, as a bit of a reminder, hasn’t made much difference yet though.

May May

Rose for one not forgotten

Things I’ve seen…

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

Sweet Toof by the waterside

Nose peg

Yet more from the man who has painted his way around the Eastend for at least the last 4 years.

He is anonymous and has not revealed his true identity, there are rumours that it is Martin Lea Brown, I have no idea at all and Brown would not confirm nor deny. You can see the similarities in a few of his pieces, sometimes it’s best not to know

Anyway… more bits for you here

Blurred

This one is a bit shit but we will put it down to the crap surface

Rotten Toof

I have also spotted another which has been started but not finished, once I get the time I’ll see if it has been filled in

The Toasters…

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

ROA exhibition out east right now kids…

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

Things I’ve seen….

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?

Words from Above

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?

Here, there, every Nazir

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

Banksy vs Robbo pt.98

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

Things I’ve seen…

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