Posts Tagged ‘Street Art’

b-shots: Roa

// January 25th, 2010 // Comments // b-shots

Think we spotted a Roa work on Brick Lane…

Portobello Street Art (01/08)

// January 8th, 2010 // Comments // b-shots

Cool stuff–found right near our studios on Portobello Road by Philip Letts himself!

b-shots: Sand-Man

// December 16th, 2009 // Comments // b-shots

Ok I will admit I took these pictures in late October when it was still (relatively) good weather. This Sand Sculpture was spotted on my way to Tate Modern next to the Thames!

b-shots: Warning! The world’s been invaded!

// November 5th, 2009 // Comments // b-shots

Fear not though, Space Invaders are friendly creatures decorating many streets around the world – they’re very retro and they don’t bite (not that we know of anyway!)

Space Invaders are the brainchild of French Street Artist Invader who pastes up characters from and inspired by the Space Invader game, made up of small coloured square tiles that form a mosaic. He does this in cities across the world, then documents this as an “Invasion”, with maps of where to find each invader.

He started this project in 1998 with the invasion of Paris, the city where he lives and the most invaded city to date – and then spread the invasion to 35 other cities in the world. We found this invader just under the train bridge next to Southwark Cathedral on Borough High Street.

Space Invaders are a little bit Pokemon – gotta snap ‘em all!

b-shots: mapping out cool things in London and beyond

// October 29th, 2009 // Comments // b-shots

Ever strolled down the street, snapped a cool graffiti or a space invader of some sort and forgot where the picture was taken? We’re thrilled to introduce our very own map of ‘interestingness’ where we’ll be mapping out things that are worth checking out around London and beyond.

Our first addition to the map is the Samuel Beckett graffiti in Notting Hill by artist Alex Martinez, painted in 2006 to commemorate the centenary of Beckett’s birth in Dublin on 13 April 1906. These are last shots of a Portobello icon, now covered over for the last time. No more.

While Notting Hill squats are littered with yummy bankers and fashionistas the street yearns the return of the real. The art.

Photograph by Philip Letts available at Gallery Mark Hatchem, NY

Who Let the Mutants Out?

// October 20th, 2009 // Comments // b-scene

Giant fire breathing animals, the Queen crying, floral skulls, and pole dancing babies in UK army suits; did I just see that? And just as I think that I definitely need to call that dealer again, pole dancing robots are bumping and grinding their techno hips and torsos in rhythm to the beat of the music being played by a robotic disc jockey. Alriiight!

The “Mutate London” exhibition could have been the perfect setting for an “Alice in Wonderland Returns to the Future” movie, or just a remake of David’s Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch. Picture yourself in a 15000 square foot open air gallery with freehand paintings, stencils and paste ups from three to thirty feet high decorating huge walls, surrounded by giant Mutoids, dinosaurs, and prancing horses sculpted. If this isn’t tripping you out, I don’t know what will?!

The exhibition features sculptures, paintings, stencils and graffiti from some of the world’s most prominent and trippy street artists such as Mode 2, Matt Small, Dr. D, Part2ism, Best Ever and too many more to mention here. Oh and the trip around the exhibition becomes even more interesting after sunset when human-fleshed bodies need to be warmed with alcohol. That’s when you decide to take another look at the pole dancing robots and think they haven’t quite mastered dazzling feats like flipping upside down or lifting their legs above their headlight faces; but then there is this guy sitting in an alien hammock eating a salad and sure enough, you will want to be doing the same thing he is, and you’ll be swinging there with a childish and slightly dumb smile stuck on your face. Got it? Mutate London is one of those art exhibitions that makes people at Saatchi go uhhhhh!

Now, run go tell your enemies and your friends! Oh, and have a look at shots of what’s on offer. It’s still only a small selection – get down there if you want to see the rest!