unknown: napier st, fitzroy, melbourne

“Z” : argyle st, fitzroy. possibly the KRINK 8 litre applicator or a home made pump…who knows?!

what else would you use to get to those hard to reach places?

sangria in the making, little summin to keep the troops rollin.

Banksys documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” (trailer below) will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 in Park City, Utah between the 24th jan and the 30th. The film is shot in the UK and the USA with a running time of 89 minutes. For screening times and more info check the Sundance website. The films website is www.banksyfilm.com and is due to open in UK cinemas on the 5th of March.

John Cooper, director of Sundance, described the film as “one of those films that comes along once in a great while, a warped hybrid of reality and self-induced fiction, while at the same time a totally entertaining experience. The story is so bizarre I began to question if it could even be real … but in the end I didn’t care.”

“I feel bad I won’t be able to shake the filmmaker’s hand and tell him how much I love this film. I think I will shake everyone’s hand that day and hope I hit on Banksy somewhere. I love his work in all forms.”

via: the guardian

A friend pointed me in the direction of this site, showing me the anti-theft lunch bags, a must have for anybody who suffers a sandwichless lunch at the hand of a sticky fingered co-worked. The site is the home to creative duo Mihoko Ouchi and Sherwood Forlee, who collectively make up the. Whilst on the site I spotted another of their fine offerings, the Walls Notebook. This little beauty has 80 clean NYC walls (160 pages) for you to scribble on. Be it a black book for throw ups, tags, pieces or just a plain old notebook, it’s definately a nice little coffee table book. Grab yours here for $16.95 USD.

Almost 4 decades after Taki183s signature scrawl started appearing all over New York, the 57 year old Greek has surfaced to tell his story. With his website up last year offering information and images spanning the life of Taki183, his story is being told. german site, I Love Graffiti recently published an interview with Taki183 by Roger Gastman. Below is an excerpt from the interview, head to ilovegraffiti.de for the full story…

Taki, where did you grow up?

I grew up in Washington Heights, moved there when I was a little kid. A lot of Greeks at the time stayed with the Greeks, then that changed with the Heights, the183th street, hung out with everybody and it was a pretty nice place to grow up.

Is it safe to say Washington Heights was the birthplace of modern graffiti in New York City?

I would say the east side of Manhattan was the birthplace of graffiti because that’s where the media picked it up. They couldn’t give a crap what happened in Washington Heights or the Bronx. When it happened on the east side, that’s when it was in the paper.

When you started writing graffiti, what were you calling it? Did you call it tagging or writing?

I think we were calling it writing, but if we saw a subway car we would say, “Let’s go hit the car.” If you hit it from end to end, you’d “kill the car”— that was how we talked Part of the reason it became big during the summer of ’70 is because I was going to summer school at George Washington High School and my desk was full of graffiti. I had written my name and all these people would write on my table also. I already had a name and people were meeting me and they would go out and write. That was the big summer I was working as a messenger. I was in a lot of places and I just kept writing; as long as I had a marker I’d keep writing. It was addictive.

I’ve got a lot more to put up and shoot I just need to sort them all out…This was just down the road on Johnston St a day before it got buffed. Literally on my road, Argyle St, is a piece that I’m sure has come from the new Krink 8 litre applicator, I only say that as I recently found out that the promo vid (below) was shot in Melbourne…but it could just be from a home made spray pump…will shoot it and put up when I get back to Melbourne.

(As usual, we will be covering each battle and trying our damned hardest to get interviews with all the artists)

SECRET WARS IS RE FORMATTING AND ROLLING INTO 2010 WITH A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHALLENGE

After 3 and a half years of single battle series locally in over 20 countries, we have decided to try something different and potentially more exciting for 2010… Introducing the European Warriors series!

“When we started Secret Wars 3 years ago, it was influenced heavily by various things from the Marvel comic, to Warriors and Fight Club. After experiencing the team battles around the World and seeing the benefits of this compared to the singles battles, we decided on trying it as a complete 6-8 month series!”

“I have noticed the crowds are more vocal and patriotic towards team battles – there seems to be more at stake and I love watching the artists free-styling alongside each other…. You never know what will come out the other end!” Terry Guy (Founder of Monorex and Secret Wars)

The rules are the same but the structure of the competition and dynamics of the battle are slightly different – see below for details.

How the competition will work & when

There will be 8-10 teams/cities involved in next years competition, and each city will select 6 artists to part of a squad. Each team will select 2-3 wildcard entries consisting of previous champs and general bad boys! The remaining members will be picked at the local qualifiers.

City selection events – November / December 09 (Check Secret Wars website for dates)

via: highsnobiety.com