Wooster Collective: March 12, 2006 - March 18, 2006 Archives

March 17, 2006

Street Cans From Uneek

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"Wooster's How To..." #16 - "Feral's How To Go Big"

Click on the link below to see more suggestions from Wooster readers on how to "Go Big"

From Ralf: "corel draw has the gimmick to print out real big images on A4 sized papers, you just have to cut off the white borders your printer can't reach and paste it all together on a big enough paper or whatever if you don't want to be caught with 200 sheets of paper pasting for hours on the same spot to get your one single piece done."

From Uneek One: "I saw your question this morning & figured I'd drop dime on: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ (Basically they're a free service that takes an image that you e-mail to them, and send it back to you in a printable PDF, all tiled and ready to go... It's just up to you whether or not to trim off the white, before you tape them togeteher.) I like it cuz you can go really f'n big (20 meters), and you never have to leave your house. I mean, we all know you can go down to Kinkos and have them print out your posters... But I really don't want some schmuck from Kinkos, getting that intimate with what I'll be using to decorate the town. Eh, I think they're great... You should check out some of the posters people have done using the service. "It's a good thing!" (Martha Stewart voice)"

From Rone: "Get your image (assuming you have one) ready to stencil, black & white, you know. Take it into kinko's [ http://www.fedexkinkos.com.au/companyinfo/locations.html ] get them to blow it up as big as they can. Then glue your big image to a big bit of cardboard ( go see a bike shop, ask for a bike box) then cut it out, spray it onto paper then go wheatpaste it up like this: http://www.november.com.au/w06/media/video/rone.mov see here for paste instructions: http://www.buildresources.org/resources/html/wheatpaste_101.html See here for other examples: http://artist.stateofflux.com/rone"

From Pure Evil: this will help.... http://www.graffitiTV.net/index10.html

From Matt: "you can put the image on the computer, enlarge it in photoshop by quite a lot. then open Microsoft Publisher, and use a poster or banner layout. then copy and paste the image from photoshop in to publisher and you can then enlarge it further without it being too pixelated! then just print it out, and cut it out!"

From Ken: "get a big ass peice of cardboard, then get a picture and seperate it into 2.75" x 4.25" sections. cut out the sections and go to kinkos and use the copy machines to blow it up to be 11" x 17" (ask the guy for help if you dont know how to use the machines, theyre tricky at first) then glue the copies onto the big ass peice of cardboard, put it on grass and laydown cuttin it out with a big ass knife (always cut away) kinkos tip: check the machines or front desk for cards laying around. you can get some free copies that way

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Masthead by Miso

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Seen On The Streets of Peurto Vallarta, Mexico

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March 16, 2006

Charcoal Paintings By Jorge Rodriguez in the Center of Madrid

The amazing thing about these peices by Jorge Rodriguez are that with the rain and the wind they will disappear.

The photos are by Socayo.

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J Dilla Remembering Jay Dee James Yancey a.k.a. Jay Dee, a.k.a. J.Dilla (1974-2006)

A personal tribute sto J Dilla een on the streets of Rotterdam. More here

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"Going Big" - "A Wooster How To..." is Needed

So each week we always receive one or two email asking us how artists make their work so fucking big. As we head into another round of "Wooster's How To..." we thought we'd reach out to all of you to see if you could anser Dan's question below. Please email you answers to woostercollective@gmail.com

Here's what Dan wrote in....

"hey my names dan i live in australia
umm i am interested in like wheat pasting
(even though i hav neva done it be4)
but i was just wondering

how the fu*k do u make the stencil so big ? ?

like how do u print it out soo big ? ? ?

i want to paste up a pik on a billboard like 10 metres froma train station
and i need 2 do it quick andget out of there fast

but i wanta big stencil

and i hav no idea how 2 make it soo big

please help
dan"

What should dan do? Email us at woostercollective@gmail.com

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Old Basquiat Footage On YouTube

From PureEvil in London comes links to some interesting interviews and footage taken of Baquiat while he was still alive

Here's a seemingling fucked up Basquiat doing an interview and answering callers phone calls on "TV Party", a public access show:

And here's one of him hitting the streets of New York with a can...

While it may not be riviting footage, it - none-the-less - is an incredible document of the time.

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Event: Elph in London at the Dragon Bar on March 21st

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March 15, 2006

Alessandra Cestac in The Ayrton Senna Tunnel

Alessandra Cestac's work is in the Ayrton Senna tunnel , near Ibirapuera Park, in Sao Paulo.

Photos by Mateus Reis

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Event: Logan Hicks and Adam5100 in San Francisco tomorrow night

If you are in San Francisco tomorrow night, be sure to check out Logan Hicks' and Adam5100's new show, "Layered". Things kick off from 5:30 – 8:00 pm at Urbis Artium Gallery on Geary Street. The show runs through April 28, 2006

Both artists will perform live stenciling demonstrations at the gallery on Saturday, April 8, 2006,

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Fresh Stuff From Armsrock

"i stalk german streets thats smellking slightly like the coming of spring, pondering over the forms and faces of all these citizen shades. conversations struck on corners of time. observation. and a feeling of impending doom reflected in kids play."... //armsrock

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Masthead by Jack Kellythorn

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Seen On The Streets of Genoa, Italy

Artist: Tsunami

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March 14, 2006

How'd They Do That - Alexandre Orion Stencil

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Fresh Stuff From 36 in Paris

Event: Rostarr in LA on March 18th at BLK/MRKT

BLK/MRKT welcomes New York artist Romon Kimin Yang, better know as Rostarr, in an exhibition of new paintings, works on paper, installation and a stunning stop-motion video piece not to be missed. This is his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in five years and the largest viewing of his incredible abstract works on the west coast.

OPENING RECEPTION is SATURDAY, MARCH 18th, 6-10pm (or so), Rostarr in attendance of course!

Thanks to HELIO for their generous support.

BLK/MRKT: 6009 WASHINGTON BLVD., CULVER CITY, CA 90232 310 837 1989 blkmrktgallery.com

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March 13, 2006

The Dark Has Been On Fire Lately

Check his flickr stream here for new images. Great stuff

(Thanks, Nathan)

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Os Gemeos at The Armory Show in New York

One of the highlights of last weekend's Armory Show in New York, was a massive installation that Os Gemeos did for Deitch Projects. It's called "History for Children's Sleep" and was over two stories tall. Unfortunately we we'ren't in town to see it, but C. Damage was. You can see more photos on the Flickr site here.