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Post by adman on May 27, 2021 19:35:49 GMT
Chapeau coach . You are clearly a man of rare and fine taste and on that note, a blast from the past from the days the hippies wore black. Check this out mate. Tomorrow night. http://instagr.am/p/CO0wLt8jwa5 Damn, missed that... I was introduced to Steve many, many years ago as a very young tear away by Fran (Vi/Poison Girls). Spent a bit of time hanging out at Dial House as a proto crusty and always loved his perspective (and that place), he's a genuinely good egg, and hilarious with it . I'm sure it was a great podcast!
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Post by adman on May 6, 2021 18:50:50 GMT
Ahaha ! You were a rebel ! We’re you a mod ? A punk ? I was a punk Roy, but a long long time ago. Punk and ska remain my favourite genres. But my taste in music has aged like a fine wine, even if I have aged like a prune. Crass remain the best though! Chapeau coach . You are clearly a man of rare and fine taste and on that note, a blast from the past from the days the hippies wore black.
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Post by adman on Apr 23, 2021 18:54:26 GMT
Sunny evening. Beer garden awaits. Happy weekend NBFers!
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Post by adman on Apr 23, 2021 18:42:37 GMT
loving the new Avalanches record mind-boggling!
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Post by adman on Apr 18, 2021 19:33:16 GMT
Great to see you back here – and posting new artwork! More details about the images would be great.
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Post by adman on Apr 18, 2021 19:28:56 GMT
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Post by adman on Mar 26, 2021 21:04:40 GMT
Nice pics nolionsinengland Where's the moped pic from – it's so familiar, just can't place it... Edit: Haha, don't bother replying – I just walked past it!
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Post by adman on Mar 23, 2021 21:06:16 GMT
Apologies all, I have my annual MuMu on!
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Post by adman on Mar 23, 2021 21:03:36 GMT
You know it makes sense!
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Post by adman on Sept 5, 2020 17:55:28 GMT
I also took a stroll in the emporium...
In the E-mail he says "Laz emporium is very much a reflection of myself. Mad, left field, and difficult to define."
As for the prices, they're quite mad and left field, though nothing difficult to define about them.
An interesting collection of materials, some hit some miss, but the pricetags...
Cheers
The price tags are refreshingly high!
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Post by adman on Sept 5, 2020 17:52:29 GMT
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Post by adman on Jul 17, 2020 7:58:40 GMT
I fucking love The Cramps!
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Post by adman on Jun 30, 2020 12:57:48 GMT
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Post by adman on May 17, 2020 17:03:50 GMT
Never in history have the words “relax lockdown measures” been so badly abused. Please stagger your viewing of this post and share with only one person outdoors. Here are this week’s street art little gems from the past. Jorge Rodrigues-Gerada is probably more widely known these days for his enormous land art portraiture but in 2012 London was blessed with a number of works by Jorge. This beautiful 2012 charcoal portrait was ludicrously short lived. Jorge Rodrigues-Gerada, Great Eastern St 2012 Cartrain was a marmite kind of artist, people either loved him or hated him. I had got pretty fed up with him constantly hitting up stencils right onto the edges of Banksy stencils around Shoreditch. Then in 2007 he came up with these collages, a massive transformation. The first few had proper gilded picture frames and he added spoof Perspex gallery labels alongside them though I guess the logistics of economically sourcing frames led to the cardboard cut out frames. I thought it was brilliant, others struggled to make sense of the random meaningless combination of images. Then came his appropriation of Hirst’s diamond skull and that evolved into a whole other drama of its own. These unusual diptych framed specimens here date from 2011. Cartrain, Shoreditch 2011
There is nothing quite so exciting as a good hack of the corporate intrusion on the visual landscape. Meaning, ad busting rocks and Vermibus is a master of the form. In 2012 Vermibus was one of the key participants at Moniker Art Fair which in those days was still based in its original Village Underground location. This advert box, not far from Moniker, is a single purpose intrusion into the public pathway, it’s an illuminated obelisk straddling the pavement angled for visibility to car and bus occupants. Vermibus, Shoreditch 2012 The second image is a collection of keys for illicitly accessing the different forms of those advertising spaces displayed by Vermibus at Moniker. Fuck corporate privilege, subvert its purpose. Vermibus at Moniker, 2012 Remember Ai Wei Wei was placed under house arrest in China in 2010? In April 2012 I chanced upon this Free Ai Wei Wei stencil by Bambi sweetly captioned “You can cage the singer but not the song”. This photo is out of focus, the lighting is shite and composition is abysmal but when you want to photograph a piece of street art you stumble on en passant, you make the best of whatever light and technology is available. In this case, it was the shittiest out of date corporate Blackberry with a camera not much more advanced than a pinhole and the Guinness enabled focussing feature selected. When I returned in daylight with a proper camera a few weeks later it had been buffed. Bambi, Marylebone 2012 Lovepiepenbrinck shared her time between Hamburg, Berlin and London and for years put out a series of piggies each presented as a different character. The piggies were quite small, often they were high up and sometimes completely hidden in dark spaces. Finding the piggies was like a treasure hunt. This example was the Ronald McDonald piggy obviously. One piggy was disguised as a shark, mounted in a small glass cube and glued to the outside of the Tate Modern in 2012 when Damien Hirst had that huge show there. Its title was “The physical impossibility of being a shark in the mind of a pig”. Street art genius! (And I never got to see it for real, security had it removed very quick). Lovepiepenbrinck, Commercial St 2013 Stay alert! You have nothing to fear in isolation except Skeleton Cardboard’s morbid dancing skeletons. These used to appear in many imaginative forms, often interacting with the fabric of the wall or as a response to existing artworks. Dem bones were guaranteed to raise a smile . . . Nether's street art first appeared in London in 2012. When he returned in 2018 his style was dramatically altered, though those distinctive planes remained a feature. Also featuring in the margins of this this photo are an awesome piece by Mr Wany, a detail from the edge of a Pez mural also dated 2012 and the conceptually brilliant pulse of EKG from New York. Nether, 2012 It looks like the archives are going to be forked over for some time yet, each one of these photos reveals itself like a little speck of glass in an ankle deep farmyard. Two months intensive use of the internet means you don't need to be told where to find the previous selections of archive gems, but here is where it began with the first weekly compilation of the daily uploads: DITA 1Art credits and links are by each photo. All photos: Dave StuartForgotten about that Bambi – not an 'artist' I like (who does..?) but appreciated the sentiment, drawing attention to one of Ai's stays in prison and as far as I remember coinciding with the opening of his exhibition at Lisson Gallery (next door). Edit: Forgot to add, the Cartrain / Hirst spat was rather amusing as well! Thanks for posting!
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Post by adman on May 3, 2020 16:39:10 GMT
“We can’t throw away all our hard work so far”. The current political aversion to trusting the general public with any foresight of lockdown planning could perhaps also be applied to the rich heritage of Shoreditch’s street art. This is the 5th compendium of the daily scrapings of the digital archive, is it really only 5 weeks since we were ordered back to our bunkers? Goldpeg was undisputed queen of the rooftop. She got up in pretty tense spots, happy to mark the environment with text or imagery, a rare example of someone with a foot in both the graffiti and street art camps and hugely regarded in both. Always breathtaking and photogenic and a classic example of someone impossible to adequately represent in just a couple of images. “Too many artists, not enuff anarchists!!!”, Goldpeg, Shroeditch, 2011 This railway bridge pic also features 10foot (natch), Serva, aze, rakit and the legend that is TOX trackside. Gold Peg et al, Paddington, 2010 Everywhere you went in Shoreditch in 2012, Usain Bolt’s eyes seemed to follow you. Painted by the genius JimmyC. Jimmy C aka James Cochrane That photo of JimmyC’s Usain Bolt has a van in the foreground which was obstructive, irrelevant and the photo is poorly composed. Every other photo I took of that mural has a superb Dan Kitchener mural below the JimmyC. Both paintings were brilliant, each distracted from the other in a kind of unfortunate way. Dank's refined and distinctive geisha girls and his drippy Bladerunneressque neon night scenes are rightly revered these days though if you go back more than a decade he had quite a variety of quite different styles. Dank’s mural under the JimmyC was one of a number of brilliant trackside images he painted in 2010, the next image was painted on the Village Underground wall in that same style. Dank aka Dan Kitchener, 2010
Remember your parents nagging you to stop staring at the pavement? If you listened to them you’d have missed Pablo Delgado's miniature paste ups with painted shadows. Over several years he pursued increasingly surreal themes, Pimps ‘n Hos in Shoreditch was one of his early sets. Yes, that’s Skewville and Banksy hangin' with the pimps as well. Pablo Delgado, 2011
Pablo Delgado, 2011 In August 2011 Pure Evil had a show at XOYO debuting this pop art eye candy, the first sighting of the Nightmare series. October 2011 I think, this was one of the first specimens to appear on the street. And so it continues, the Nightmares pour out of the Pure Evil creative engine. Also in shot below is a beautiful Swoon paste up. A couple of Swoon pasteups in this alleyway in Shoreditch lasted quite a long time, like more than a year. Partially visible is a pasteup from Mr. Farenheit and yet again a Skewville stencil muscles into the frame. Pure evil, Swoon 2011 Mobstr does a line in knowing and occasionally provocative text based stencils. You could read this as street artists with easy, low risk placement are challenged by Mobstr to get a bit higher and a bit riskier. Or maybe you see Mobstr proposing a photogenic “loadsa-likes” placement spot; or we can even see a commentary on street art as a tool of gentrification doing the developer’s bidding. All interpretations equally valid, feel free to make up your own. As an aside, in 2011 Brick Lane was named London’s Curry Capital which is about as obvious as declaring Pall Mall the capital of palaces. The Banglatown banner with its photo of the later discredited Tower Hamlets crooked Mayor Lutfer Rahmen appeared illegally over Roa’s famous crane on nearby Heneage St to the outrage of local residents and business who forced the council to have the banner removed within 2 weeks. Text stencil by Mobster; also featuring Kata, Unga, Andalltha and The Misfits France is blessed with superb stencillists, Jana and JS have done Shoreditch a few times and when they do Shoreditch, they leave the place seriously more beautiful. This Brick Lane specimen is slightly unusual in being a stencil on paper rather than stencilled in situ on the wall. Jana and JS, 2012 Anyone nearly finished Instagram? Check out the previous weekly compendiums: DITA 1, DITA 2, DITA 3 and DITA 4Art credits and links are by each photo. All photos: Dave StuartAnother great post – images and info! Nice one
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Post by adman on Dec 20, 2019 17:28:05 GMT
received my book yesterday... it's fantastic, though I wish it weren't so tiny I guess given the size of the paintings, it's probably appropriate? Think I posted here a couple of years ago (who knows... ), about nearly falling over Ben, as he was busy painting outside a 'spoon' on Mortimer Street. He told me that he started painting directly onto the trodden in gum on the floor, to avoid being pestered by the police. Apparently as it wasn't 'officially part of the street', there was nothing they could do to stop him. Suspect it's also about a nice smooth surface for his insanely detailed micro paintings. A real treat when you spot one. Beautiful – like little jewels. Wish I'd bought one of the books. Damn it!
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Post by adman on Dec 3, 2019 17:43:23 GMT
Just did it. Was three. Is that anyone here...? HaHa! I like your style.
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Post by adman on Nov 27, 2019 16:05:40 GMT
Yeah, but wasn't his bed also a boat? And, of course, Simon Starling’s ‘SHEDBOATSHED’ Wahey! Nice one – I'd forgotten all about that.
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Post by adman on Nov 26, 2019 7:55:06 GMT
... Just to see it done. I mean, Hockney did a show of nothing but his dogs. I bought the book, thinking 'This can't just all be his dogs can it?'... I remember being struck with a similar notion when hearing the title of Bill Drummond's 'Man Makes Bed'. Yeah, but wasn't his bed also a boat?
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Post by adman on Nov 19, 2019 20:43:53 GMT
AK47 must have found a buy-now pay-later lawyer... or no win, no fee...? HaHa! I remember seeing him on Four Rooms. He's quite special...
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Post by adman on Nov 13, 2019 15:43:09 GMT
€6k strikes me as ambitious. Am I missing something? Also, just seen his real name is Farto. Pfffft...! 18 sold so far... (of series 2). Not my bag, but someone likes 'em.
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Post by adman on Nov 13, 2019 14:49:16 GMT
The print is called 'Luxuria' and the edition size is 350. Hand printed on mould made Fabriano Rosaspina 280gsm paper. The plate size is 29.5cm wide by 22cm high. The border size varies slightly between prints but all have roughly 2cm beyond the plate mark. Each print is hand made by myself in my garden shed so expect small differences between prints. Luxuria Copper plate engraving on Fabriano Rosaspina 280gsm paper 29.5 x 22 cm (approx.) Signed and numbered edition of 350 £250/$320 For anyone visiting the show in Brussels you can buy the print direct from the library shop as this release is split between there and our online release. Thanks as ever for the interest in my work. Your support keeps me company in the long hours i spend at the drawing table. My allocation will go on sale this Friday, November 15th at 5pm GMT/12 PM EST in the online shop. Interview with Phlegm (posted on the other side): www.bruzz.be/en/culture/art-books/phlegm-does-bruegel-walking-footsteps-giant-2019-10-11
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Post by adman on Nov 11, 2019 14:48:31 GMT
Does anyone visit this store? Haven't been for many years, but can confirm that it's an extremely busy hellscape on the weekends. They even made a documentary about it.
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Post by adman on Aug 7, 2019 15:26:12 GMT
Heh
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Post by adman on Aug 6, 2019 19:11:23 GMT
Very interesting – thank you for the link! L.H.O.O.Q.
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