SWEET

GREAT

I fear this might be a boys thing, as all i can remember of my playground days was drawing superheroes and monsters, while the girls drew ponies, picnics and rainbows...but this superdude, Dave Devries, hes gone and started to collected kids drawings of monsters and superheroes in pen, then paints them up....so so so good

WAR PEN

Doze Green and Rostarr have a show coming up at the Leonard St gallery, entitled WAR PEN from the 30 May to the 28th of June.
Personally not a big fan of Doze, but i do like me a bit of Rostarr, so im looking forward to catching this...

MARCUS TAKES THE BIG APPLE!

Dilly good friend Marcus Oakley has a show coming up in NYC...'Pictorial Aural:Visual interpretations of Music' at Gallery Hanahou (611 Broadway, Suite 730 NYC) from May 22 - June 25 2008.
All blog readers in or around NY, you really really should go and check it out...the opening is may 22nd 6-9pm....AND on the 23rd, 11am, Marcus will also be holding a talk and workshop, entitled "What Does Sound Look Like?" at the gallery (hanahou). The talk will include a discussion and Q&A, plus an interactive workshop in which participants will be encouraged to use visual mediums to explore what sound looks like to them. (This event is free of charge, but please RSVP info@galleryhanahou.com to attend.)
GO ON MARCUS!
PS before he goes off, dont forget he'll be djing with me on friday at the old shoreditch station! see the dingle dongle flyer below

Gallery Hanahou

I LOVE BRISTOL

I just spent an awesome weekend chilling in the awesome city of Bristol, chugging West country Cider by the Arnolfini and generally just falling in love with the place...but now there is another reason why that city is great, and a perfect excuse for me to return - Rhys Coren has gone got an art space with someone called Hannah..if your lucky enough to be Bristol in the next few months - check it out!
"Rhys & Hannah Present is a consistentworking collaboration, initiating one-off shows that make use oftemporary sites. The collaboration was founded by Bristol based artistsRhys Coren and Hannah James. We are both recent graduates from TheUniversity of West of England Fine Art Degree, and both individuallyselected for New Contemporaries 2007, a nationally touring show of theyear’s most promising talent from Art schools across the country. Theopportunity has arisen to further the potential and ambition for Rhys& Hannah Present within an old commercial space in Broadmead at theheart of Bristol’s city centre. This space is available to us for atemporary period of 6months. This will result in a drastic increase inpotential to further the audience and develop an exhibition program, aswell as have opportunities for undergraduate internships andsubisidised graduate studio space, both with the potential to show inthe space."

HERES THEIR BLOG

BLUNREAL

Italian street artist BLU ha dropped his new animation that really is incredible...these animations arent added in postproduction to static shots of blank walls...no..they were all hand painted on walls (remember 24 frames a second! that means paint a picture, white it out, paint it again, white it out etc etc and do that 24 times for one second of footage)...he is famous for his large murals but it seems that BLU is also dropping jaws with his animation

DINGLE DONGLE STRIKES!!!

NEXT FRIDAY...DINGLE DONGLE STRIKES AGAIN!!! Everybody is invited!!!! The usual summit of djs is attending including me and the flyers artist - Marcus Oakley...expect the usual mayhem of garage rock, classic hip hop (epmd etc), disco, punk, fleetwood mac, metal and everything that shakes your buns of steel...so its gonna be a good one! And hopefully there wont be a mass bar brawl like last time!!!

MP3 BONUS!
As we're on about music with this post, heres a remix im currently loving in the sun...perfect ipod music...and before you say anything, remixing M.I.A is about as underground and hip as remixing Justice, I know I know...but fuck it, if its good...its good, and heres the excellents Holy Fuck's take on things...HOLY FUCK VS M.I.A

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUBAQUATICA

Subaquatica is one of Europes coolest spaces, and it is about to celebrate its fifth birthday with an exhibition of postcards from artists they have worked with over their history. The postcards are from the city where the artist is based, and judging from the flyer, they have Eltono, Bfree, Boris Hoppek...urm and me!...postcards are going on sale for like €25...so if your in Madrid and wanna cop some cheap work - go celebrate Subaquaticas birthday and check out the show!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUBAQUATICA!!!

DOIG

Went and checked out the awesome Peter Doig exhibition at the Tate Britain yesterday - if your in London, I highly reccomend it...if however you cant get to see it, check out a virtual tour HERE

YES!

Truly one of my favourite MCs EVER seems to have a much deserved documentary about to drop...looks like a straight to DVD job...

Helmut Smits

A few posts back i posted an image of a fake islamic militant kidnapping video installation...and in the comments Erosie helpfully left more information about the amazing artist behind it - Helmut Smits.
Helmut Smits is amazing...the concepts and ideas behind his works are brilliant - funny, subversive, intelligent, clever satirical...everything that i like and also qualities that seem to be lacking in most conceptual works shown in london nowadays.
If you want to see some good good art (and hopefully thats why come to this shitty blog), i cant reccomend this guys work enough...so in a week when London and the world are getting their knickers in a twist over Banksy's cctv tree at that Cans festival...check out something an alternative...HELMUT SMITS
THANKS EROSIE!!!

COOL GEOFF

MACIEK

If your after a new Blog to fill your daily craving for good photography, please check and bookmark my mate Macieks blog! The link is over to the right (ANMASSENDE JUGEND)

FUCK YEAH! CHRISTOFER NORRIS INTERIVIEW!!!

OVER ON FECALFACE....HES FUCKING AWESOME

BAD KIDS

Liking this youtube Black Lips video that might or might not be official...

REFLECTION

After looking at my previous posts, they all look a bit biased on a certain look, so in the interest of balance, im bringing some heavyweight culture up in here...VELAZQUEZ...

MIRUKI KAWAI

Been re-falling back in love with Miruki Kawais work...i never went off it, but like a great album or film, you occasionally get distracted by new, exciting things, and then all of a sudden you 'rediscover' it and your like 'oh shit!' and feel like a bad parent who has neglected their kids...or something!
Anyway, i looked on youtube to find the vbs art talk with her (vbs.tv always crashes my internet)..and all i could find was this clip...its like polar opposites to me, a reason i love her art - pure bright, inventive fun, but its grimly contrasted with the typical stupid, over analysing art critic who spoils it all with her stupid inane commentary (i.e artcritic bullshit waffle) - although if my work was compared on youtube to something Beavis and Butthead would do, i would be quite happy

FOLD IN

As a kid, Mad magazine was one of my biggest influences, and the highlight for me was always the genius of Al Jaffees AWESOME fold-ins at the back (close second - Sergio Aragones small doodle strips between panels..but i deviate!)...Every time i got a new issue - straight to the back and fold that cover good...and everytime it blew my tiny pathetic mind!!! i was a magician, yet still just a kid...even though it was a dumb one page from mad magazine, it was pure gold to me and i still think they rule hard! So it put a smile on my face when the NY times paid a little salute to them with a historic look back via a bit of internet multimedia magic of their own...HERE

also check the Beck homage to the mad fold in...

PS cool thing from Wikipedia "In 2006, Stephen Colbert saluted Jaffee's 85th birthday with a "fold-in" birthday cake; after the center slice was removed, the remainder spelled out the message "AL, YOU ARE OLD."...chortle!

PHOTO OP

2 X BUY BUY BUY!

1- PICTUREBOX
Whenever you hear the name 'Picturebox' its always used with something awesome, and it also makes you instantly reach for your wallet because if you know if its from the Picturebox, its a must buy...anyway, new stuff has dropped on their website that you really really really REALLY should have! What? i hear you mutter? well a new paper rad comic, a new taylor mickimens comic AND GARY PANTER DEFINITIVE BOOK!!! FUCK YEAH!
PICTUREBOX!!!



2 - NEW STUDIOS
All round dude Austin from NEW Studios has dropped his newest and bestest made (6 colours and silver dust! oh my!) screenprint...so if your in the mood to get some reggae reggae up in your house...click the LINK