February 7, 2004
Posted by marc at 8:24 AM in |
"Here in Eindhoven it's mainly rain, wind and a combination of those two. Therefore it's no good going out to glue or paste, so, here in Eindhoven, i did what the guys in Rotterdam did too (and every other true Dutch would do), and offered to paint inside a bar for some coffee and stuff. So there i was..in the toilets of de Effenaar, Eindhovens' main clubs. You can see the results on the pictures." ckoe.
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Pete76 - The Vitals:
Hometown: Born in Los Angeles
Where do you now live?: Bay Area California
How long have you been creating street art?: Just started.
What did you do last night?: Hung out with friends and made music till passing out to sleep.
What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?: The grilled vegetable sandwiches from the marketplace down the street.
Who is your favorite fictional character?: I've got a few: Maggie from Love And Rockets, Pucca, and Lewis Trondheims La Mouche.
What do you currently have in your pockets?: Money, Keys, Markers, and I.D.
If you were given "more time," what would you do with it?: Focus more on one project at a time instead of rushing and trying to multitask throughout the days.
Who do you love?: Family, friends, and Ms. Boo.
Pete76 - The A's to Our Q's:
How did you get started in creating art for the street?
Pete76: I've been making art since being little- drawing then animation which i did for years. Felt a love for street art ever since i first saw a skull-and-fur-coat stencil in East Los Angeles as a kid, then recently realized the parking meters were my non-contrived place to start.
Wooster: How would you describe your art?
Pete76: Animated and not too serious with the goal of instant gratification.
Wooster: What other street artists do you most admire and why?
Pete76: Dave, Freaklub, Beefree, Buffmonster, and tons of others all for the same reason: the smart designs and sense of humor that feel so good within the cityscapes. Also artists like WK Interact, Banksy, Monster Project, and Shepard Fairey for setting the bar for scale and ambition.
Wooster: What's your favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?
Pete76: The East Bay (by San Francisco) for posting -it's the right size and feel for me to develop themes (like the parking meters) that are both noticeable and fit with the vibe of the city. For seeing art: anywhere and everywhere in the world.
Wooster: What inspires you now?
Pete76: Making art that fits the city rather than only paper or canvas. Becoming a part of the cities personality. And always music and design: both the new trends and nostalgia of old foundations.
Wooster: What are you currently working on?
Pete76: I've been evolving the meter theme: it started as characters eating the coins, then characters feeding the coins, but for me as well as someone walking down the street variation is what keeps it interesting and sequential. So the next step is to tell a visual story over the course of a city block worth of meters.
Posted by marc at 8:18 AM in |
"saw this this morning on the streets of Gundon, must have been done last night. made me laugh, reminds me of gremlins 2 when the green crossing light dude starts fighting with the red crossing light dude...was it Gremlins 2 ???? or am I imagining the whole thing."... adam.
Posted by marc at 8:18 AM in |
"it?s ice cold in berlin, too. yesterday the first snow come don?t. the real hard winter will come in the next two months. new pieces? for clue and myself it is a little bit to cold. I did some walls with posters but i am thinking about alternatives like subway stations (tunnels). in berlin are many stations become renovate at the moment. many are locked with walls of wood. i just did one. they will be not for a long time but nobody expected them there. here it is 2 o?clock in the morning and i just wanne go out for a liitle walk...hihi. good night!"... bild
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This is one of our favorite pictures of the year. It makes us smile every time we see it....
"this is Arthur, 15 months old..a great fun with him... a sort of personnal island of love far far away all every day trouble...".. G from Paris
Posted by marc at 8:18 AM in |
February 6, 2004
When:Friday February 20th and Saturdy February 21st 7pm to 11pm
Where:district 3 gallery 1135 25th street, san diego ca, 92102
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URLs: District 3
Posted by marc at 6:25 PM in |
"Hello wooster!I live in a very small village in the counrty side of Somerset, England, called HOLFORD for several years i looked up at the hill and imagened a sign in the style of HOLLYWOOD, i decided to tell my brother and a few mates and we set to work constucting the sign out of hardboard and old pallets. we carried it up the hill at around 12midnight and finished standing the sign up at aroung 05:50am it rained all night and was damn cold. PEACE"... MKWF
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When: February 18
Where:ARCGALLERYSTORE, SMITHFIELD BUILDING 59 OLDHAM STREET MANCHESTER UK
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URLs: ARCGALLERYSTORE
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"you know, going to Paris is always a pleasure ! Instead of the winter the wind and the rain, G, Halieutik and i have decided to have some action on saturday morning !!!!! So we have made an action on a triple billboard.check this one !"... OPT
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February 5, 2004
Posted by marc at 8:10 AM in |
Toye - The Vitals:
Age: twenty something - I don't really keep track -
Hometown: I grew up in waterloo, ontario. It's in the canada.
Where do you now live?: Toronto Ontario, in the Canada, land of beavers
How long have you been creating street art?: more than five years.
What did you do last night?: unwound from a long weekend of work
What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?: Food that I didn't pay for, or - food that I treat everyone to. Pie for dessert.
Who is your favorite fictional character?: Totoro
What do you currently have in your pockets?: nothing - I just put on these pants....
If you were given "more time," what would you do with it?: I would spend it on my personal health and mental health. Meditation, exercise, eat balanced meals. At the rate I'm going, my body is already startting to do weird things like i'm forty...
Who do you love?: my freinds who work hard, and my family.
Toye - The A's to Our Q's:
Wooster: How did you get started in creating art for the street?
Toye: I starting hanging out with this guy 'donse' (GNF crew, SM). He was from london ontario, where there was a healthy graff scene at the time. He then moved to my hometown when I was in highschool. We met in highschool, and he inspired a bunch of my freinds to start painting, including myself. Donse called himself Donsee - he said 'because you don'tsee me when I'm painting" - only what's left behind. I used to look up to graff when I was in high school, but I never really saw myself as a graff dude, so I decided to call myself toye. I also felt by embracing the graff slang for 'loser' or 'tool' I would be part of the graff scene, but also outside of it. Now, I'm glad I'm outside of the politics of graff. In Toronto, there is a healthy scene of cooler than the other guy graff heads. I'm really tired of that style of thinking.
Wooster: How would you describe your style?
Toye: like a toy.
Wooster: What other street artists do you most admire and why?
Toye: everybody likes twist. I think the main reason I was so infuenced by him was that 6 or 7 years ago, when I first started looking at graff on the net - Twist's stuff was the only real character driven stuff that I could find on the web. Then as more books came out about street art, it was easier to start getting influences. In Toronto - I've alway's admired Rockey Dobey - he put up over 300 small metal sculptures over the past 5 or more years, and they are mostly still up. His stuff stems from traditional printmaking and etching, and has no real graff influences.
Wooster: What's your favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?
Toye: I haven't travelled that much. I liked New York, especially on the way to PS1 there's that building all covered in graff 4 or 5 stories high. crazy! But last time I was there I heard it was hard to get up now because of a lot of undercover cops. Toronto's ok - it's easy to get up and not get caught, becasue winter kills half the season. I guess my fav. thing to do is to paint murals over bad bombs illegally in broad daylight. I've done this five times now, and each time it seems to get easier. It's really interesting to see how people's perception of what an illegal mural is: a) spray paint - ohhh the devils art tool.. b) 'graffiti' style letters and c) night time - the general public thinks illegal things are done at night time, not during regular business hours. I've had cops come up to me and tell me I'm doing a great job, when I have no permission, and I'm essentially breaking the law. Oh it also helps to have drop cloths and a ladder.
Wooster: What inspires you now?
Toye: Cute things from Japan. The Idea that my freinds are sucsessfull at what they do. The collective I'm in - thoughtcrimez. We recently hung a show and it was great - check it out at www.thoughtcrimez.com - we have another February 20th in Toronto.
Wooster: What are you currently working on? Can you give us a sneak peek?
Toye: I'm working on my new website, so people can see what I've been up to. I'm also working on more sculptures I hope. And you know.... stuff. . . .
Posted by marc at 8:10 AM in |
"Hey guys! While i was taking a shower this morning i remembered that what i told you yesterday is incomplete!!!! Around the same time i saw the Miro sculpture, i watched the movie the Warriors the first time in late night tv....i probably would never started writing if it wasn?t for that movie!!! Up to now is still one of my favorites of all times... :)"... nano4814
Posted by marc at 8:10 AM in |
When: Sunday, March 14th
Where:Nambucca, 596 Holloway Road, N7 6LP
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URLs: Eat More Chickens | DOT:ALT | Sensible Sundays
Posted by marc at 8:03 AM in |
February 4, 2004
"today we went to Germany and i started a small new thing called GABBERS UNITE. gabber means friend. its a term for a subculture who listens to hardcore (fast house music) also called ravers... A few years back it was the biggest subculture in the Netherlands with typical drescodes (Australian sportswear and bald heads) People from the Netherlands will understand it...enjoy...." IRON
Posted by marc at 7:26 AM in |
RICTER - The Vitals
Age: 17
Hometown: huntington beach...
Where do you now live?: huntington beach
How long have you been creating street art?: about a year
What did you do last night?: went to starbucks...
What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?: in n out...double double and a med dr pepper
Who is your favorite fictional character?: the orange ninja turtle
What do you currently have in your pockets? chap sticke..a pen...and a few stickers.. oh and a wallet
If you were given "more time," what would you do with it?: work on ricter more...travel and paste ...work with more artist and collaberate with some shirt designs....
Who do you love?: my parents and family, god, friends...
Ricter - The A's to Our Q's:
Wooster: How did you get started in creating art for the street?
Ricter: i always loved to put up stickers...so when i grew older i just took it to the next step...oh and i met joey from eden...he got me addicted to pasting...i am a pasteaholic
Wooster: Why hands praying?
Ricter: i picked ricter because i wanted to have a name that ment something... ricter in german means ruler.... so i run the praying hands poster beacuse god is the number one ruler... and everyone prays.. its good for you... we also run some posters of BOB DYLAN, that we designed...and we just run posters of people who are rule, and rulers back in the day.
Wooster: What other street artists do you most admire and why?
Ricter: joey attobellie....he is from edenct.com he is amazing... he just sets up everything really nice...and a great underground artist... i hope me and him will work together more..
Wooster: What's your favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?
Ricter: haight street in san fran was really fun...so many wood walls and low billboards...thats probably my fav...but las vegas was fun cause it was a challange...so many cops and so many hard to reach places...but nothing better then home...
Wooster: What inspires you now?
Ricter: other peoples work, the kids at eden are a huge influence on me and my friends...they push us to go bigger and creat better art.....also people like shep...i wouldent mind making money like him......but right now its not about money...and i hope it dosent ever come to that...
Wooster: What are you currently working on? Can you give us a sneak peek?
Ricter: right now we are doing a artist line for shirts...and you can check some stuff out at rictercc.com theres a new website comming soon...
Posted by marc at 7:25 AM in |
"i?ve been doing some thinking about your "Give 'Em Props" section. and this image of myself as a little kid hugging a huge Joan Miro esculpture in a museum i went to (almost sure it was Reina Sofia in Mdrid...) keeps popping into my head. For a long time, i couldn?t take that piece and the name of the series of it - Lunar Bird - out of my head (even though i probably didn?t have more than 8 years of age!), and every once in a while i can still see clearly the image of that day, but it wasn?t untill you asked me to give props to an specific artist that i realiced how much influence this thing had in my work and the organic shapes that define it!! I don?t really know if the one in the picture is the one i saw, as this one is in Washington DC, but is close enough!! See ya!! Nano4814
Posted by marc at 7:25 AM in |
"I had an exhibition open here in Paris and i've pasted the outside wall this week - end, it's one of my biggest pasting. 7 hours of work, 15 l of glue, 80 A0 papers sheet for a 77m2 surface !!! here's some pics of my "CARS' FACES"...just enjoy !!!" PEACE G
Posted by marc at 7:24 AM in |
February 3, 2004
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On their website, Adfunture has featured images of the submissions they've received so far for The Monkey Show. (The Monkey Show is a collection of Fling the Monkey vinyl toys customized by a group of artists from around the world) There are so many of them that we liked, but this one from Dan at Freshnessmag.com definately had us smiling:
Posted by marc at 7:07 AM in |
"Buffmonster.com just got a good little update: New Posters. One of a kind stuff now at Rojas on Melrose. A link to sideproj.com that has images of battles that mainframe and I did. (that will be up tonight, he promised). And of course and upcoming art show. A good show with a good artists. I will show new paintings and probably paint on the wall. So that will be fun. Details below. Hope to see you there"... Buffmonster
The Seed Spreaders
February 21-March 13,2004
opening reception: February 21 7-10PM
featured artists:
Rich Jacobs
Big Foot
Random von NotHaus
The Date Farmers (Armando Lerma & Carlos Ramirez)
Neckface
Isaac Lin
Sam Flores
Jordon Davis
Music provided by : Bobby Birdman
New Image Art
1005 N. Fairfax Ave.
West Hollywood,CA 90046
323 654 2192
www.newimageartgallery.com
Posted by marc at 7:07 AM in |
To realize just how far and "global" the graf and street art scene has become - as well as how fucking powerful the internet is - one needs to go no further then Rake, a 16 year old artist from, of all places, Bulgaria.
We first heard from Rake a few weeks ago when he sent us a terrific email about his thoughts on our question - "What the hell should we call this thing?" (see posts from a few weeks back if you are new the the site).
To be honest, we've been blown away by how international the Wooster site is. Getting an email from a 16 year old graf and street artist from Bulgaria shouldn't surprise us in this day and age. But it did. It reminded us just how much the world has changed during our lifetime. For us, the images of Bulgaria and Romania as being two of the most dark, isolated and closed Communist countries in the world are still fresh in our minds. So there was something about Rake talking about goin' "All City" as well as his passion for artists such as Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Miss Van, and Os Gemeos, that truly blew us away.
Rake:
Age: 16
Hometown: Plovdiv, South Bulgaria
Where do you now live?: Plovdiv
Where would you most like to live?: I have always wanted to live in Poland
Who was your first "hero" in life?: About street art it was akaysm and warszawa social stencils, i saw in a polish magazine some pages with akay and it was pretty interesting
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: I'm studying in an art school in Plovdiv so its not so boring there, about free time - i like going out with friends, serial bombing in my city, taggin, cutting stencils, drawing...i like doing many things in the same time. I'm travelling alot here in bulgaria, the conditions are very good
cheap train tickets, friendly people, low police activity, i like guests form all over the country and world, bulgaria is a small
one so me and my firends are travelling very often so everyone who wants to come and make some stuff here have just to write me an e- mail to rake@abv.bg I love situation here in bulgaria because everyone makes everything by himself -allmost everything is hand made and unique, in western world allmost everyone use computers, ploters, printers, font dingbats etc. i think that its fuckin stupid, everyone can get a photo from a magazine and make a stencil with some computer programs, cut it with a ploter... be an individual artist, its the key of everything, read my esse about the postgraffiti, BIg up to woostercollective for actual news and good stuff keep it real and watchout for brainwash
What is your favorite color?: Its hard to say because every surface or combination needs another color, so i can't decide
Who (or what) do you love?: i love my family, my friends, world art scene
Who and/or what are some of your influences?:
I have many influences- my life, bulgarian community, urbanism of the city, oldschool, anarchy, communism, democracy...if you're talking about artists- AKAY, FLYING FORTRESS, ANDY HOWELL, ROY LICHTENSTEIN, DAVID HOCKNEY, JACE, MACK PLAKT, BANKSY, OBEY, MISSY VAN, OS GEMEOS, ABOVE ..... i like many individual works not only the artists because every artist is a kind of brand and there are good and weak products from every brand, almost every artist have a single good stuff, big up to bulgarian freaks - LBCnetwork terror, Ntn rockers, CAMO who lives in san francisco now, big respect for my man NARKO, i like scandinavian train bombings, brazilian tags, NY throw-ups, Zagreb scene, Berlin silvers, polish stuff etc.
How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it?
I can't exactly describe my art beacause i'm changing it from day to day and trying new techniques,art forms etc. but
actually my art is non commercial, anticapitalisti, antiglobalistic art. I'm making many things in Bulgaria legal and illegal because the laws are not so improved and there isn't any graffiti police or laws about it, it is just pure vandalism, i like idea about ALL CITY and i'm trying to keep it, i have legal spots here in Plovdiv, bombs, stickers, stencils, tags, throw-ups, trains, line bombing, posters and i can see my name everywhere in the city.There are terror and anticapitalistic motives in my stuff,elements from basic art,blueprints,oldschool
What other talent would you most like to have?
I had always wanted to make music
What do you fear the most?
Stupid community,all kind of systems against human freedom etc.
What is your greatest ambition?
My greatest ambition is to finish my own website, I'm working on graff/street art film about bulgarian scene. I want to
visit many european/world countries and to make some stuff there.But the most important for me is to keep painting.
Here's what Rake wrote to us in regards to "What The Hell Should We Call This Thing?":
"I think that street art is not exactly post graffiti, actually graffiti is a street art - street art is graffiti. but what does it mean graffiti? it is not just a a word, this is an expression, a lifestyle, I think that you shouldn't o only one thing all the time, you can also keep painting, photographing, bombing trains, throwing up, sticking etc. graffiti is something so huge
and enormous, graffiti includes many forms of art and expressions and art perfprmances, when you're going to bomb or to stick in - its a kind of new form of art performance and the result in many cases isn't so important as the painting, the situation and memorys. Actually you are making all this shit for you and for the ussual folks wich are waiting for bus at the station and reading your message. in bulgaria it is something really new and strange, people didn't expect to see a stencil or sticker with political/social message they're expecting to see an fuckin advertisement...in the smallest countries like bulgaria nad many other european/world where the system and generations are chnagin very fast most of the people doesn't ask themselves about globalism, massmedia and all kind off manipulations, most of the people in the world are living second hand live, they are watchin fuckin tv, searchin the internet, massmedia deciades whats good for them and whats worse, they are wathcing the tv news wich are strictly censored and manipulated and they had been brainwahsed, but the worst thing is that they didn't realise it because most of people looks like them...the real way to find yourself is to be unique and individual,your art will always have an influence from real world but the influences
are something usual.. just think about it,your whole life is one big influence,everyone have his personal(brain space, therythory)and it has been attacked daily by everything arround him, and his art is actually a print of whole this shit, you will say that it doesn't have nothing to do with the question...see ya next time in the damn streets and staions..
Posted by marc at 7:06 AM in |
February 2, 2004
Limited editions of 50, 150 and 300 depending on the size you want (different colour different width 7.5, 7.75, 8)
Currently available only in the UK
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Call (+44) (0)1202 844 269 for shipping and info.
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There's a terrific article in today's New York Times about a guy who decades ago created an alter ego, a musician named Mingering Mike. He then went about painting hundreds of fake album covers that have, over the years, wound up in flea markets and swap meets. Here's an excerpt:
"I went to a flea market, and there was a huge record collection there, at least 20 boxes," Mr. Hadar said, recalling the morning of the discovery. "I was going through that very happily when I came across this box full of strange hand-painted album covers. I realized they were fake and was about to put them back, but then I looked at them more closely."
Pulling the records out of the sleeves, he was surprised to find that they were made not of vinyl but of cardboard. Each had been cut in the shape of a record, with grooves and a hand-lettered label painted on. Nearly all the albums were credited to an unknown black musician named Mingering Mike, and dated from 1968 to 1976.
The front covers were intricately painted to look like classic funk albums; on the spines were titles and fake catalog numbers; the backs had everything from liner notes to copyright information to original logos; the inner sleeve was often a shopping bag meticulously taped together to hold a record; and some actually opened to reveal beautiful gatefold sleeves. A few albums had even been covered in shrink-wrap and bore price stickers and labels with apocryphal promotional quotes.
What Mr. Hadar found was a cache of seemingly nonexistent music: soundtracks to imaginary films, instrumental albums, a benefit album for sickle cell anemia, a tribute to Bruce Lee, a triple-record work titled "Life in Paris," songs protesting the Vietnam War and promoting racial unity, and records of Christmas, Easter and American bicentennial music. He had discovered, perhaps, an outsider artist."
To read the article online, click here (you may need to register first at the New York Times website)
Posted by marc at 8:19 AM in |
Evoke - The Vitals:
Age: 25
Hometown: Chelsea Quebec
Where do you now live?: Hull Quebec
How long have you been creating street art?: i carved a 20ft snake into my parents soft wood banister when i was 3
What did you do last night?: went to go see the film THE CORPORATION, please go see it!!
What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?: curry with figs and maple syrup, mango lassi
Who is your favorite fictional character?: a tossup between Big Joe Mofferand Shamus
What do you currently have in your pockets?: passport
Who do you love?: I love to love, Jah live!
Evoke - The A's to Our Q's:
Wooster: How did you get started in creating art for the street?
Evoke: I've drawn since i was wee, but when i moved from the woods to the cement it was something i got into right away.
Wooster: How would you describe your style?
Evoke: there was a time when all i could do was work from mistakes.. mistakeism i called it. just an improve type of thing that allowed for spontaneous creation to work at that moment and feel those emotions. Sometime it flops, as there are emotions that just make for awful work. Now, i dont know what i do, it takes time to see it for what it is and label it.
Wooster: What other street artists do you most admire and why?
Evoke: i like the work of people who share their highs and lows, hrmm... labrona, berzerker, other, dsturbo, gofish, peru, notime, royal, hope, twist, maki, erakahn, sonic3000, tele, human 5, jo mo,plus 3....there are so many.
Wooster: What's your favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?
Evoke: Ottawa, there is so much great work here.. under buffs or ready to jump from the minds of the bizarrly amazing artists that live here. I believe in ottawa.
Wooster: What inspires you now?
Evoke: The numbness of Ottawa, the urgency that street art can share with the population ideas and emotions that will affect the communal conciousness.. these are important times.. graffiti has great power and i see it only beginning to be harnessed.
Wooster: What are you currently working on?
Evoke: www.piecepark.org
To contact Evoke, drop him mail at evocal@hotmail.com
Posted by marc at 7:58 AM in |
"Hi Woost. So we launched, Copenhagen Cruise, the graff/street art on canvas show this saturday, and what a blast. The response and interest of the public was tremendous, the first day the show was litterally run over and more than half of the paintings were sold before the day was over. In the night we had an outstanding opening with dope dj's from Blue Foundation and Opiate. Free drinks and loads of people, good vibes and a lot of laughs. After that the afterparty broke out in local spot called Little Vega, free drinks for starters and even more paintings up in there. A lot of dancing, shouting, connecting and hell raising... A night to remember."
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