• December 26, 2003
  • Posted by Marc

“Best of 2003”—Part IX

Favorite Event of 2003:


href="http://www.tado.co.uk/">Tado: Takashi Murakami Exhibition,
Serpantine Gallery London

Oles: For me it was the
three day long festival called the ‘Paardenmarkt’ in my native village. It’s
just below one of the worlds largest petro-chemical industries (Botlek) and
everybody form infant till seniors get completely drunk.

href="http://www.13stars.org/otherbio.html#">Other: Being dropped
off in san francisco the day after iraq war 2 started right into the middle of a
riot

Shes54: My trip to NYC

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/>Bild: The Week before the BACKJUMPS-The live Issue. So many
artists were working around the exhibition hall. There was a guarantee to meet
artists at night or even watch how someone paste, spray, walking by…

/>Sixten: The Empty Show in Canterbury, Melbourne. Just a great
collection of illegal art ranging from tags to stickers, paste-ups, stencils,
freehand and everything else imaginable. The definition of passion…
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Favorite Artist of 2003:


Tado: geoff mcfetridge
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Oles: I don’t want to suck up to anybody, but for me the guys
from London Police are my favourite
artist for 2003, they know how to party and have a really relaxed mood.

/>Other: labrona works construction and teaches kids skateboarding and
still has the energy to go painting at night….i worked construction one
weekend and slept a whole week after

Bild: I think href="http://flu01.com/">Influenza is my favorite one. REQUIEM 89 from
hamburg is my second artist of the year. He makes incredible free hand drawings
in the streets. He is working under many names.

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/>Sixten: HA-HA, a more dedicated street artist is hard to find.
/>

Favorite New Artist of 2003 (an artist who you did not know of last year):


Tado: Kozyndan

Oles: Without a
doubt Frans Bauer.

Other: that lunatic writing href="http://www.fotolog.net/sex">6 all over berlin. obsessive compulsive
art

Shes54: href="http://www.fotolog.net/neckface/">Neckface

Bild:
SOLVEI. I saw her works at the Exhibition with Swoon (march 2003) and they
break my heart in a second.

Sixten: Too many, the whole
Melbourne scene… Nothing like it.

Favorite Piece of Art of 2003:


Tado: Takashi Murakami, ‘Reversed Double Helix’
Rockafella Centre, NYC (pics copyright of freshnessmag.com)

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Oles:
The huge mural of Sadam Hussein in Baghdad.

Other:
berlin as a whole was my favorite piece of street art i have seen this year and
sue?s squirrel print was my favorite non street piece

Bild:
It is a huge Molotov Cocktaile at the top of an house at Kottbusser Tor
(Kreuzberg/Berlin) by Darius and Downey. In the Flames of the M.C. is written
“Aber es ist doch Kunst….”. It is really nice. Good spot, good work, good
humour?!

Sixten: Yeah, yeah, I know it’s my own but fuck it,
I love it.

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Favorite New Product of 2003:


Tado: Geoff Mcfetridge/Nike Vandal Supremes
- the shoes have 2 layers. a top pinstripe layer can be hacked up or removed to
reveal shiny white and silver geoff graphics underneath. AWESOME!

/>

/>Oles: The new little bottles of beer from Grolsch with the twist-off
cap. Really sweet!

Other: ?eeerrrrrrrr? graffiti artist
produkt of kops crew montreal

Shes54: Mousepen? realy don’t
know. I discovered KRINK this year.

Bild: My Coffee
machine.

Favorite Toy of 2003:


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"left">Tado: ACK!!!!!!!!!! too many!! Gloomy Bears / Tofu Kubricks (all
of em!) / Amos King Ken

Oles: That’s something between me
and my girl you perverts!

Other: sue got me this leatherman
pocket knife thingy with all screwdriver settings so i could take all the street
signs i want

Shes54: Oilbars

Sixten:
Prism (he, he… he’ll kill me for that one)

Favorite CD of 2003:


Tado: ‘Bad Meaning Good’ series feat. Roots Manuva,
Skitz, Scratch Perverts etc

Oles: A home made compilation CD
from Frank Zappy by DIZL

Other: all these stars of lid cd?s
i got in austin texas

Shes54: U.N.K.L.E

Bild:
`Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season`for crying and `Electro Boogie
VOL.2 (Dave Clarke)`for (“break”) dancin

Sixten: The Kills’
CD whatever it was called…

Favorite Website of 2003


/>Tado: href="http://www.freshsensation.com/samorost.swf">THIS!

Oles:
The only right answer here can be: href="http://www.stickit.nl">www.stickit.nl greetings to them!

/>Other: www.presstube.com how
is this possible?

Shes54: www.Ekosystem.org

Bild: href="http://www.hnteuropa.fr.st">www.hnteurope.fr.st

/>Sixten: href="http://www.stencilrevolution.com">www.stencilrevolution.com
/>

What do you most want for Christmas?


Tado: a big fat
ginger chow chow!

Oles: A lot of snow and ice that will
stay until the end of february!

Other: peace on earth
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Shes54: Snow

Bild: A new bike but I won?t
get it.

Sixten: Same as always… a rocket launcher, a
monkey and 365 pairs of boxers…

What is your New Year’s wish?


/>Tado: that we can afford to go on holiday! 

Oles:
To discover an unremovable paint and glue.

Other: not
to get caught

Shes54: freedom for everybody

/>Bild: To continue what I started this year and go forward.

/>Sixten: That I live to see the total collapse of the American
Empire.

How will you be spending the Holiday’s this year? / What will you be doing for New Years Eve?


Tado: family stuff innit.
mike will be chillin in bradford with fat auntie brenda,  katie will be
surrounded by hordes of little cousin sprogs! as for the new year…who knows!!
far too early to plan, but it’ll probably be just pissed with friends or family!


Oles: Eeeeehh… Get a good party going with friends and
welcome 2004 into our stickerheads.

Other: currently in
madrid for two weeks. hoping to get a cheque put on my bank so me and sue can go
to barcelona

Shes54:  Chillin’ in Amsterdam at a friends
place, visiting a party…........nothing special, new years eve always
dissapoint me.

Bild: Staying in Berlin and watching the sky
on fire!

Sixten: Surfing, oh yes!

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