Don’t worry, it’s not like it sounds.

The Krah is still out making brilliant art and has found a way to effectively dodge the buffers. The Krah’s pieces have been attached to fences by padlocks and have, so far, dodged the pressure washers of the government employed buffers.

Via Graffoto.co.uk

The USPS (United States Postal Service) sticker has been used by hundreds of street artists as an effective way to get up. It has now become an icon of street sticker artists, much like the ‘Hello My Name Is’ stickers. Any urban US city is now filled with these little artworks - whilst USPS probably isn’t happy that their stickers are being used for something other than directed, they must be pleased with their logo displayed everywhere!

Human, an American street artist and highly active forum member, has impressed us with a great paste up and effective use of environment. As pictured below, Human has put together a much larger ‘USPS sticker’ paste up.

Part2ism is a difficult artist to summarise in a phrase or two. Whilst I’ll try, I don’t think I’ll do a particularly good job it at. Probably best to skip to the pictures below to truly appreciate the beauty of his pieces.

Part2ism is an artist with no boundaries and is always trying to break the moulds of the typical street artist. His art is thought provoking and his well rounded ladies are often controversial. With over two decades of gracing the streets with his pieces, his experience is certainly evident in his work. Part2ism’s works aren’t constricted by any medium, he uses a whole host of tools to their strengths from straight freehand aerosol to wheat pastes.

Below are two pictures showing Part2ism’s lady friends:

Here’s a great installation on the London tube. Difficult to put a finger on the meaning of it:

Lastly some pictures of Part2ism’s oldest work - fantastic freehand aerosol in York.

Stickers and wheatpastes are Lints speciality. And as slaps and wheatpastes go hand in hand with characters too, Lints has no short supply of great critters. Below is a lovely little chappy rather Pokemon-esk.

Links:
Lints’ Flickr

EDIT: Thanks to the comments guys pointing me in the right direction.

Cordy House in London is turning itself into a vibrant art space for several different art events this year. Each including one artist in residence and a vast array of other shows, projects, installations, photography, performance and anything else that grows out of the BEHIND THE SHUTTERS collective imagination.

First up, BEHIND THE SHUTTERS and Cordy House put on their first event: MUTATE Britain. Displaying work by the Mutoid Waste Company.

The event is taking place every Friday, Saturday and Sunday beginning this Friday (21st November).

The flyer is below showing work from some big name artists: Shepard Fairey, Snub, Eelus, Eine, Paul Insect and a personal favourite The KRAH.

Links:
Official Website

Yesterday we looked at the Un-plugged project which raised awareness of our energy usage. Today, we continue that environmental theme by looking at work by Mr. Scruff and Paul ‘Curtis’ Moose (best known for his reverse graffiti).

Below is a brilliant little video about the ‘Fish on a hillside’.

Via UKStreetart.co.uk.

With the world facing energy issues imminently, environmental groups reminding us of our responsibilty to our planet and governments taxing everything that pollutes the globe, you are probably trying to limit your carbon footprint in one way or another - even if its just to save a bit of cash. The Un-plugged project is growing into a global phenomena taking over the streets of even the most inaccessible urban spaces. Un-plugged is an on-going project highlighting the possible loss of power that humanity will one day face! (A scary thought - can you imagine life without Concrete Canvas!!!).

The Un-plugged project involves the placement of stickers designed to look exactly like mains power sockets. As you probably know, not all countries have the same power sockets and so the variety of stickers is still there. It is a strange site seeing an indoor power socket on the street, especially on the outside of a multi-storey car park.

The project has been active for over 7 years, in 20 countries involving more than 40,000 stickers. Get involved asap and spread the message.

Links:
Un-plugged Website
Un-plugged Flickr Group

Orticanoodles is a credit to the street art scene and a real inspiration for many artists. Primarily a stencil artist, Ortica has been getting around recently and had work featured at the first Cans event. Despite working primarily in stencil, Ortica is not limited to stencil work and often works with many different materials, methods and styles. Read the interview below and enter Orticanoodles world.

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A fantastic project has come about to highlight the extraordinary pieces of art which line our streets, the Street Art Awards 08. This event is a great way to recognise artists and their artwork for the talent that artists have. Voting and submission has already started. The final deadline for voting for your favourite street art piece is on December 1st with the award ceremony happening in East London on December 4th.

The piece pictured above is the current highest rated piece and is on track to win the award.

Links:
Street Art Awards 08 Website

Auction Saboteur has got exclusive canvases from South London artist Data. Data gains inspiration from geometry, colour and space. He combinines organic forms, design and mixed mediums to demonstrate the decay of nature in urban surroundings. Data’s work mixes chaos with structure giving an overall clean intricate image.

The new canvases title Bird of Paradise can be found here.

Bird of Paradise
51 x 71 cm
Edition of 10, each one unique.
Spray Paint and Acrylic on Canvas.
Signed.
£250 including P&P to UK.