- November 28, 2003
- Posted by Marc
Give ‘Em Props!.... London’s Sticker Heards by Aeon
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/>“My “Give Em Props is for all the sticker heads out in London. When I left
Australia there was no such thing as sticker bombing. People were doing it but
it wasn’t very big. A few people did it here and there but it was mainly
promotional stickers you would see around.
I brought my first packet
of stickers in Bangkok in 2001 only because I wanted to get up on holliday
without getting in trouble. I hadn’t really taken notice of “Street Art” as we
know it. To me “Street Art” was what I said when an older person asked me what
type of art I did and I didn’t want to tell them I did graffiti.
It
was only when I arrived in London and saw good quality stickers everywhere I
went that I started to take notice. Then I traveled to Amsterdam and saw that
the same thing was going on.. So I when I got back to London I went to a post
office and grabbed a wad of Royal Mail stickers and got started. That was a
couple of years ago and now I’ve found that if I leave the house without a pile
of stickers in my pocket it feels like I’ve forgotten my wallet or something. I
also hate knowing that I could be going to a part of town that I wouldn’t
normally go to and wouldn’t be able to get up.
Now I wonder if I will
ever stop?
Thanks London!!!”
Aeon.
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