Here’s one of the two tees, black print on a white shirt.
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Niel Blender* (Red) by Bast.
Buy it here: http://bit.ly/aT94eA.
*Niel or Neil Blender is a skater who invented the ‘Lein Air’ (Neil backwards, get it?), a frontside air, grabbing the nose or heel edge with your front hand.
Until next time.
The Wall Pimper
For more great art visit my gallery at www.pimpyourwalls.co.uk
If you’re an artist, run a gallery or publish prints, feel free to send me details of what you’ve got, and if I like what I see, I’ll give you a plug. Click here for a big-up.
Don't take it literally folks, your cranium is perfectly safe in my hands, that doesn't sound right anyway, I do always seem to drift from deep water to doggy doo doo when it comes to metaphor. Anyway, I've found a couple of funtographers on Flickr today, they use the art of photography for precisely the right reason, in my opinion the best and only reason, and that is to mess with your head. Play around with the lies that the brain juggles with to approximate the visual reality you see around you.
Perspective for instance, or colour even. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge about light and optics knows that in fact that nothing around us has a colour, it is for the main part the light reflected by objects and in certain cases transmitted that our retinae receive as wavelengths, our brains decipher this information and with a grounding of nurtured observational language we can associate the object in question with a word. The truth is our reality is little more than a collection of unidentifiable grey shapes, each layered imperceptibly over more objects, structures and spaces which are only queued by our visual cortex through the slimmest of clues, shadow formations, converging light and focus.
Anyway, back to the point. I am going to crush your head…
I'm rather fussy when it comes to photography, I like the old guard (sometimes the really old guard), Man Ray, Henri Cartier – Bresson, Weegee, Diane Arbus and Cindy Sherman but my reasons are many and multiplicative. What I do know is that history wears down the imagination, we live in a limited space and we as a race seem to, for all our technological leaps, hit a brick wall when it comes to anything approximating an evolutionary jump in perception, either physically or philosophically. With food, water and space running out, there isn't much time for the masses to stand back and evaluate our existence these days, unless it's inspired by a little bible bashing or the cult of the celebrity. The fact is the photographers I appreciate are equivalent to mountain climbers in their genre, they go there first, they did it first, they planted their flags first. They are only a slice of the innovation pie I know, but I have a personally charged connection with many of their works, as I have with many paintings and movies. Photography is generally higher up on my perceptually pleasing list than say sculpture, though the grandest sculptural works, when encountered in the flesh, loom over even the most powerful of photographs. But when it comes to image, photography has made its impression on me over the years.
I suffer from a lack of depth of perception, it's a little like living in a camera, or rather having a camera lens as an eye, it's clinical, it's tempered by logic, and it takes imagination to pick out the highlights and lowlights of any scene in order to understand it fully. The process is near immediate now, I familiarise my surroundings, I can measure near objects, angles, and far horizons sufficiently to not notice the irregularities of my often synaesthetic mind. I use sound to judge distance more than most, asides those who are partially sighted or blind. But on the upside, it helps me appreciate all the more the work of these two charactes displaying their wares at Flickr. They are Jason E. Powell and Michael Hughes. Both masters of illusion and punch drunk heavyweight fighters for the reality afflicted. If you're somewhat dubious of your reality, if you have a habit of throwing a double take once in a while, if you glance at the world with peripheral vision from time to time, you should like these two.
Jason E. Powell – Looking into the Past
Looking Into the Past- Union Station Square, Washington, DC
Looking Into the Past- Leader Theater, 9th Street, Washington, DC
Looking Into the Past- Carvel Hall, Annapolis, MD
Looking Into the Past- Boy Scouts, US Capitol, Washington, DC
Michael Hughes – Souvenirs
Rio de Janeiro
Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo
Statue of Liberty
Eiffel Tower.
Anyway keep an eye out, reality does have a habit of giving up on ya when you least expect it 
“My name is Philip aka ‘amatic’, I’m a graphic designer/graffiti artist/illustrator. I live in Hasselt (Belgium) with my girlfriend and our dog.”
How did you get into graffiti and what made you start painting?
“I always enjoyed drawing as a child, at the age of 15 me and my friends got into the whole skateboarding scene where I was introduced to graffiti. I was very atracted towards the medium, but I first practised my drawing skills and pick up my first spraycan at the age of 19 or so… Now I’m 29 and loving it more than ever.”
How would you describe your style?
“Hmmm, don’t really know…I like to do characters,…it’s a combination between a ‘brushstroke-painterstyle’ and some tight ‘graphic’ elements. My characters have changed a lot during the years, I like to experiment with technique and styles…otherwise I get bored 
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Where’s the most interesting place you’ve painted?
“No place in particular, … but I like abandonded buildings and factorys. I like dirty,eroded, rusty walls or machinery to paint on… it’s too bad there arn’t so much around these days.”
Any tips for beginners?
“Yep, practise and practise again!”
Cate Le Bon – Shoeing the Bones from casey raymond on Vimeo.
Not willing to stand by and let this happen, the Beaver Lake Cree have launched a legal challenge to stop further tar sands developments within its ancestral lands, taking on not just the governments of Alberta and Canada, but also the world’s largest oil companies.
I’m very happy to announce my involvement and have designed two t-shirts to help raise funds for their challenge against the tar sands developers and the government.
Please give your support to this campaign if you can as we can’t let ‘the man’ get away with this bulls**t.
Click here for more info
Many thanks.
Photo by Remi Carreiro/Torontoist
Torontoist has a terrific article on a series of site specific stencils that have appeared over the last few days on Harbord Street. Words like “OUCH!” “THUNK!” “OOF!” “YIPE!” have been painted to highlight to cyclists the deep potholes and cracks along the paths. The stencils were done by Urban Repair Squad.
Torontoist quotes a member of the Squad as saying:
“The action-hero drama of dodging obstacles and potholes, escaping devil-may-care drivers in super-fast cars, and braving the fierce, temperamental elements, may seem, and feel, quite comic. Unless you’re face-down on the pavement. With some wit, we endeavour to provide warning with humour; suggest danger with comedy; invite caution without frightening…and most importantly, we appeal to our fine city to remember that potholes aren’t just uncomfortable, they really, really hurt.”
For more photos, and to read the full article, click here.
“Stick ‘Em Up! is a documentary that takes an in depth look into the overshadowed world of wheat pasting in Houston, Texas. Directed by Alex Luster. You will not only get a candid view of the daily life of several street artists but we will also focus on the other perspectives & opinions from city officials, art critics and everyday citizens.”
Thats right dim the lights set fire to your musical ego, smash up your rock and roll, hip hop, chip shop mp3 collection and nestle down in the simmering dust of its remains>>
Hey you know i aint that pretty but id replace my fucking face with this record so long as you show me how to do face spins on that grammaphone right there!
