Ok, after some consideration, I’ve decided to start the second charity t-shirt competition, despite not all the shirts selling yet (You can still buy them from our shop!)

So for the first step, this time we’re adding an extra little incentive! A prize for the winner and also some lesser prizes for the runners up. It will be paid for using money from the ads. We can’t have anything too expensive, but we won’t go amazingly cheap either.

Please post your ideas here: http://concrete-canvas.com/forum/index.php?topic=308.0

Thanks!

Hi guys, I’d just like to remind you all about upfest, in Bristol. It should be good, although unfortunately I can’t go! Saturday 6th June, here’s the flyer:

Cheers to Pleaseflush for reminding me!

While I know the majority of the users of Concrete canvas are English, we do have some American readers. For this reason, I think I should give them a little recognition with the announcement of this exhibition in NY.

The theme of the exhibition is 2012, which as some of you may know, is signified as the end of the world by the Mayan calendar, which is what the show is based around. It attempts to centre the user around this changing world.

THe artists that are involved think that as the world is nearing this year, people are changing the ways they view street art. It features Avoid, Bloke, and Farrow, all in one exhibition. It opens during Bushwick open studio weekend, and is done by Factory Fresh and Mighty Tanaka.

It lasts until the 21st of June.

I recently got reminded of this: WiiSpray I saw it a while ago, but had forgotten about it. I think it’s a really cool idea. It has loads of possibilities, like sharing your art, although of course this could be done through flickr. It could also do other stuff though, such as group efforts across the world, and practising, both for the experienced, before they do it in real life, and for the inexperienced, to get better without cluttering up walls with horrible tags and stuff.

Anyways, I probably sound like I’m trying to sell it to you, sorry, I’m not affiliated with them in any way, honest!

What do you all think about it?

http://www.wiispray.com/

Looks like the daily mail is running out of stories at the moment… Yesterday, they published a story, trying to repeat their previous accusation last year that he was “Robin Gunningham”. However, the reason because of this was a stencil, photographed by unusualimage, of a rat holding up a sign with a picture of him, which the Daily Mail is saying is a self portrait. However, this is unlikely for several reasons, particularly that Banksy has recently stopped using the rat image in his stencils, and the rat holding up a sign has been used several times by the Not Banksy group. Also, I find it a tad unlikely that Banksy would give up the majority of his income stream, by taking away his own anonymity, especially without mention on his website, unless he’s just trying to stir things up?

Anyways, here’s the stencil, you can decide for yourself.

##Via Vandalog. Vandalog