There's a short interview over on Bomit.com with new York's Baser...another sticker-head with a great handstyle! All photos taken by sticker-obsessive, LoisInWonderland...
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Showing posts with label Graffiti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graffiti. Show all posts
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Kress and Suiko Japan Graffiti
Kress (first 6 pictures) & Suiko1 (last 5 pictures) are two of my favourite Japanese graff artists.....
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Plumber King of Hong Kong
Kui Wong is known as the Plumber King. He has been painting his illegal ads for his plumbing business for decades and has become the most famous living bomber, right up there with the King Of Kowloon, who sadly died in 2007. Below is a short interview with him, by CNNGo.
CNNGo: How long have you been a plumber?
Kui Wong: I’ve been doing this for half a century.
I snuck across the border from China when I was young.
There used to be a lot of factories that needed plumbing work done.
CNNGo: Why did you start painting advertisements everywhere?
Wong: In the beginning I posted my advertisements in newspaper classifieds.
Then I thought, what can I do to make more of an impact? So I made stickers.
That was really common in the past. I used to put them inside lifts,
but people don’t appreciate that anymore.
That’s when I realized I could paint on the walls in different parts of town.
CNNGo: When was that?
Wong: Oh, it was ages ago. I’ve been painting for a very long time.
CNNGo: Your ads are in all sorts of unusual places.
How do you decide where to paint them?
Wong: I drive a motorcycle all over the place.
If I see somewhere interesting, I can just pull over and paint there.
CNNGo: Do you know who the King of Kowloon is?
Wong: (Laughs) I used to see the King of Kowloon walking around
with his bucket of paint. But he’s dead now. A lot of radio advertising
people have asked me if I want to advertise on the radio, but I rejected
their offer because I don’t want to put myself out there too much.
My line of work is not very desirable. I just want to earn enough to
be comfortable. I don’t want to be famous.
Check out our original post on the King Of Kowloon, Hong Kong's most prolific street bomber, who passed away in 2007 HERE.
Many thanks to Invasian Mag for the article!
Kui Wong: I’ve been doing this for half a century.
I snuck across the border from China when I was young.
There used to be a lot of factories that needed plumbing work done.
Wong: In the beginning I posted my advertisements in newspaper classifieds.
Then I thought, what can I do to make more of an impact? So I made stickers.
That was really common in the past. I used to put them inside lifts,
but people don’t appreciate that anymore.
That’s when I realized I could paint on the walls in different parts of town.
Wong: Oh, it was ages ago. I’ve been painting for a very long time.
How do you decide where to paint them?
Wong: I drive a motorcycle all over the place.
If I see somewhere interesting, I can just pull over and paint there.
Wong: (Laughs) I used to see the King of Kowloon walking around
with his bucket of paint. But he’s dead now. A lot of radio advertising
people have asked me if I want to advertise on the radio, but I rejected
their offer because I don’t want to put myself out there too much.
My line of work is not very desirable. I just want to earn enough to
be comfortable. I don’t want to be famous.
Many thanks to Invasian Mag for the article!
DOES I Love Letters Show
DOES will be doing his 'I LOVE LETTERS' exhibit at LO-FI and would like to invite you to come and see the show.
The exhibit is planned on Thursday 10th of March, 6pm.
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LO-FI Gallery
3th Floor
383 Bourke Street
Sydney, Australia
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Very Nearly Almost Issue 14
VNA issue 14 from Make Some Tea
Good to see loads of heads down at East Gallery for the launch of VNA's Issue 14 feat. SICKBOY, MYSTERIOUS AL, PEDRO MATOS, EVAN HECOX, DOZE GREEN, VOINA and more…
Special edition for 20GBP
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Robo-Rainbow Grafffmobile
Robo-Rainbow, by Swedish graffiti artist Akay is described by him as a "complicated technical solutions to aide in a simple act of vandalism.”
Everything about this video made me smile. The concept, the technicality, and the cinematography.
Everything about this video made me smile. The concept, the technicality, and the cinematography.
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