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Hello England! I decided to go fulltime with my photography and graphic design. Starting up a centre for my agency, a music recording studio, a photo studio, a dance studio and a legal graff wall. Not for the beginners, you have to be at a pretty high level to even get inside. Well I’ve been working on my own kind of communication towards you all without having to use twitter. Little clips of stuff I have been doing and experiencing will appear a few times a week. The start has been made and this is a shoot from last week! I was happy about the shot and the expirience that I’d like you to watch these clips.

Peace
J.

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You may remember last year I put up a little article on Bristol’s ever-expanding graffiti scene, and one of the artists mentioned was Vermin. Now I am a big fan of Bristol’s art scene in general, but there is something about Vermin’s work that has always struck a particular chord with me, so when the chance for an interview materialised, well, it would be rude not to, I thought. Here is what went down:

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This dude is a friend of mine, from Holland. He has always been a genious and now I can prove it to all of you in just one single audiovisual clip. For his normal music you should go to www.marsmanmusic.net and download it for free. It’s real Hollywood-soundtrack-shit. As in, the Donnie Darko kind.

This is well sick. Dropped in February 2008, but I had never this before. he should make a new video, including the ‘run this town’ setting. But then again, we’ve allready got a spoof on that one regarding the Chris Brown vs Rihanna incident.

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This awesome piece that has recently appeared on Stokes Croft in Bristol - from Vermin, Kid Zoo & Remo - highlights one of the things I am going to miss most about my hometown. Virtually all areas of the UK have been blessed by the can in some way these days and some outsiders could be forgiven for thinking that the graff scene was being commercialised, what with the current media penchant for all things Banksy. Luckily that is about as far from the truth as OJ’s alibis and anyone who lives in Bristol can testify to that.

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Foreign Beggars have geared up for the release of their new album “United Colours Of Beggattron” on October 19^th by heading over to the Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory to showcase some of the most amazing special effects you’ll ever see.

The Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory is described as the “Kingdom of the unreal but also a higher state of being, ultimately free of the limitations of the material world through the agency of science, technology, and imagination.”

Director Chris Cairns teamed up with the UK’s most progressive; Foreign Beggars, Scratch Perverts, Shlomo, Stig Of The Dump and Dr. Syntax to bring you this groundbreaking piece of multimedia artistry. Sound, Vision, Skills, Art Direction, Special Effects and Impeccable editing all come into play create something so special there’s no way you can only watch it once! Behold the greatest breakthrough in Audiomedical Neurosonics.

The Beggars release “Contact b/w Shake It”, the first tracks taken from the upcoming album, on October 5^th, with production from Dutch DnB kingpins Noisia.

http://www.myspace.com/foreignbeggars

syn·es·the·sia syn·aes·the·sia (sĭn’ĭs-thē’zhə)

A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.

The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.http://www.vimeo.com/5297531

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There have been rumours circulating for a while now that one of Bristol’s most notorious sons, Banksy, is planning a massive show somewhere in his hometown. Well last night it was revealed where and when this would go down. The answer - Bristol City Museum (to start with anyway and if the council don’t stick their oar in…) and it all kicks off officially tomorrow.

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Tilt-shift wins.  All 100% real ‘n’ stuff.  I love glass, and the things people can do with it.

In unrelated news, I do not love dissertations.  At all.

Sorry to be the one to cause controversy, but I could not be happier that people are finally taking action against all this Banksy nonsense and destroying his work. I don’t know if any of you have seen all the street art getting crossed out and tagged over on Brick Lane, but that totally, totally made my day too. I don’t want to enter into the street art/graffiti/vandalism debate - it is long and super, super boring - but essentially I have no time at all for art faggotry and if I could be arsed I would personally cross out every single bit of it, all those weak little stencils and slogans…blah blah blah. Go home and have a wank over Vice. You know what though, I bet Banksy is kinda stoked that his shit is getting gone over. There’s no such thing as bad press is there…who knows, maybe he’s the one doing it

Seek and Destroy!

I was going to write a big piece about this, full of rage and bile and wit, but then I thought no, let the people see & read for themselves what this bunch of wankers think they’re doing, but in reality their argument is more pointless and childish than the work of Banksy ever could be. Read the Bristolian backlash on their site and come to your own conclusions.

http://www.appropriatemedia.net/

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A few months ago, I was offered a ticket to a film called Beautiful Losers under the premise that 1) it was about graffiti and 2) it was free (a kind of pseudo date, if you will). Anyway, what it turned out to be was a fascinating documentary about the rise of mid 90s art kids in NYC and California, including the now established likes of Stephen Powers, Barry McGee and Ed Templeton. I had no idea, but Ed is the dude behind the art for Toy Machine Skateboards and is in fact a legitimate artist in his own right, as well as a pro skater. Oh yeah, and his wife is hot. Like imagine if you had a scoop of the sun for breakfast…get me!

Anyway, months passed, names were forgotten. Until my friend showed me this book he had called Deformer. It was super good, such a DIY aesthetic in a professionally produced book. Drawings, personal photographs, writing…if I ever make a book I hope it’s something like this. To get an insight into the man behind an iconic skating company with strong punk and skateboard roots is such a treat. People should just start making zines again. Execpt Ed had the chance to turn a zine into an all singing all dancing hardbound book. If you give a shit about skating, punk, art or just cultural milestones in general, you should go get this book. Certainly worth chopping down a tree for.

Word.

A show that’s been getting an incredible amount of good buzz lately is JUSTICE, an exhibition in Bristol that brings together work from five artists - C215, Dan23, Bruno Leyval, Least Wanted and MC1984.

All of the work in the exhibition is based on the themes of Law and Order. The show includes specific installations, photography, prints, and stencils, all placed within the the Bridewell Police Station’s cells.

Long Arm Gallery, Bridewell Street, Bristol, BS1 3PY.
3rd - 26th April 2009.
Thursday - Saturday, 12pm-7pm.
Sunday, 12-4pm.
Also by appointment 07794 331424.

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This Friday night, February 20th, in Brooklyn, New York, famed photographer Martha Cooper, will launch her latest book ‘Going Postal’ at the Ad Hoc Gallery. Many of the artists in the book are bringing stacks of handmade postal stickers to sell for $5.00 each and will also be making bigger sticker-related pieces. It’s a great opportunity to get some authentic and very affordable street art.

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“All you have to do to enter the competition is send me a list of all the movies referenced in it. The first person who can name all the films correctly wins. Grand prize is a matching pair of “Greed” x-ray silkscreen prints handmade by me. SHOK1“

Enter here http://www.shok1.com/shokthen/?page_id=3

i love this rar rar animated stuff people do, and i hate smoking, double whammy

“Children Of The Can: 25 Years of Bristol Graffiti” documents the Bristol graffiti story from the early days of 3D’s New York-inspired work and John Nation’s grass roots influence at the Barton Hill Youth Club in Bristol, to the current crop of artists who have helped to make Bristol’s graffiti scene one of the UK’s most influential and diverse.

“Children Of The Can” features the work of all the city’s best-known and (until now) slept-on talent, including:

2Keen, 3D, Awkward, Banksy, Cheo, China Mike, Filthy Luker, Haka, Inkie, Jeff Row, Jody, Just Another Crew, Kato, KTF, Lokey, Mr.Jago, Mudwig, Nick Walker, Rowdy, Shimz, Sickboy, Soker, Souls On Fire, TNP, TUB, Turoe, Twentieth Century Frescoes, What Collective, Will Barras, The Z-Boys and many more…

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