TATE MODERN

Today i visited the Tate Modern. Awesome place, it is a old coverted power station and massive inside.

There was a Street Art exhibition which finished yesterday but i was still able to catch it. The exhibition involved having artists paint the front of the Tate. The artists involved included Blu, Faile, JR, Nunca, Os Gemos, Sixeart, Spok, El Tono and Nuria, Nano 4814, 3ttman.

Blu, Faile, JR, Nunca, Os Gemos, Sixeart were given the opportunity to put their work up on the front of the Tate. When i got there today JR's paste up was being guerneyed off. Faile also did a paste up but the rest of the artists actually painted. When you see the considerable size of these it will come at some cost to remove. They should have left it up as far as i am concearned but at the end of the day nothing is permanent in street art.

The exhibition involved all artists involved 'putting up' in the streets around the gallery. I was given a map and had to go looking for the works.

I paid £2 (about $4 Aus) to get a handheld multimedia device which had a touch screen and would give you a guided tour throught the gallery. I learnt a lot today from the experience. Im glad J2K got me back into art (only if it was fleeting at high school) something that i will never forget and love him dearly forever for.

NOTTING HILL FESTIVAL

Muskrat was right.

First thing i had to do when i got to London was go to the Notting Hill Festival.

Fortunatley i arrived on the bank long weekend when it started. I met a couple of Aussie lads from Melbourne Dave and Nick and convinced them to go out there. We got there just after 11. We ate a lot of Jerk chicken and drank enough Red Stripe to fill the water catchment areas of all of Australia's capital cities.

A ridiculous amount of Jamacian sound systems, playing many various styles of Jamacian and African influences. Revelers would follow their favourite sounds systems around if they were mobile. It was so ridiculously dope that my world travels could end now and i would be happy.

The picture below is an example of just ONE of the streets. There was people in a few hundred streets just like this. Estimated that about 2 million people decend upon Notting hill. My only disappointment in hindsight is that i wasnt able to take too many photo's of the parade (too many people)

LONDON

Yeah i got here ok. Catching up with my brother tonight...More Tales to come. Its a nice day too.

MORE OLD STUFF

My Dad just showed me this old picture. My kindi teach by all accounts had to censor what i said and instead wrote "My Dad doing the shovelling because of Kaiser." Which roughly translated in 3-4 year old speak is "My Dad going nuts because he has had to get the shovel and clean up my dogs shit." By all accounts everyone involved had a pretty good laugh about it. As you can clearly see my Dad's mouth is wide open from yelling, probably after having stepped in Kaisers business. The brown lines are Dad's mo.




Kaiser was a Weimaraner, he had to be put down when i was 11 and he was about 15 or 16 from memory. He had bad athritis, he was a cross with a Labrador, he had the fur but looked like a Weimaraner. Best dog ever, i would have posted an actual picture but my Mum couldn't be stuffed finding one as she would have to pull a million things out (you know what its like pulling out old photo's you start reminising) but this one i found brought back plenty of good memories about my dog.



I also thought in keeping in theme i would not post an actual picture of my Dad. When i was a kid i would get to hang out with the older girls at primary school because they thought my Dad was famous. Believe it or not he was an actual splitting image of Ed Rooney from Ferris Buellers Day Off. Dad went to the states for work in the late 80's not long after the film was released, he went into a burger joint and by all accounts everyone stopped in their tracks believing it was him.
Whats funnier is that the actor that played Ed Rooney has been in hot water over Child Porn. He entered no contest and now that the kid who is an adult is being sued. Dad rekoned he was being set up because its very new black to claim someone is a rock spider.

WESTERN SPAGETTI

This is really fucking cool.

NEW PIECE

New piece i painted today. Im not overly happy with it but it is a new line up i came up with a couple of nights ago. Rushed it a bit too, would have liked to have to done more with the background. Its also messy.

Note to Self

Purchase mask to prevent fuming.
Stop trying to paint too big.
Make sure you have enough of the colours you plan to use..

DES IS A FUKA

I ended up back at my mate Matt's house after a night on the town for a beer and a few games of shithead (man i love that game). It appears that he is sick of his 34 year old house mate (who only moved out of home 6 months ago) This is the funniest piece of graffiti i have ever seen (it is quite clear that Matt is or never was a writer)



Shithead (I lost)



This was the paint he used. Im not familiar with it. It has a male valve, unfortunatley the label was gone. I put it next to the Longneck to show you how large it is, if you know what brand it is let me know. It is chrome by the way, dont know how good it is however.