Entries from October 2008

October 31, 2008

Acer’s New Arrival…

Don’t know if you’ve been watching it, but Acer’s documenting a really interesting process over on his Acerone blog at the moment, the making of a ‘photo-graf’ piece layer by layer, using a somewhat different magic wand. Particularly interested, cos have loved this style of piece ever since randomly whizzing past one in progress up [...]

October 30, 2008

0117 Magazine

The blog got contacted a while back for a short piece on Bristol graffiti/street art/whatever for a new magazine type guide to creativity and Bristol and all that (the sort of stuff the Bristol Blogger loves to cover). Wrote a short piece and it’s in there, but why oh why do sub editors always feel [...]

October 30, 2008

Silver Street, Bristol

Haven’t done one of these for yonks now it seems, a look at what’s on one specific street at the moment, so much else going on these days. Anyway, here’s a wander down Silver Street in the centre, which what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in ‘big names’.
There’s another one of these [...]

October 29, 2008

Richt And China Mike Head North…

A reminder for anyone reading this further north, or tempted to head up that way anyway (Manchester’s a top city, you should go if you haven’t already…), that the Richt, China Mike and Guy McKinley show opens this Friday at the Upperspace Gallery. They’ve been up there for a while now decorating the place ready [...]

October 29, 2008

Finished Piece On Stokes Croft

Blogged this one as it was going on slightly, but here’s a pic of the finished thing.

Didn’t immediately recognise all of the styles or the sigs though, anyone any thoughts?

October 28, 2008

Children Of The Can Preview And Interview With Felix Braun

It’s been a fair while in the writing, and in a way has needed to be written for even longer, but in just a few weeks Felix ‘FLX’ Braun’s book, ‘Children of the Can – 25 Years of Bristol Graffiti’, will be published. Happily, this blog’s been given a sneak preview, and it really is [...]

October 27, 2008

‘Not Just Banksy’ Event At UWE

Social media types may well know all about this already, but there’s an event being put together up at UWE at the moment, to be held on November the 17th, called ‘Not just Banksy’. It’s going to be an day/evening for people to come along and learn more about Bristol graffiti and street art generally, [...]

October 26, 2008

Once more with feeling…

…and another Bristol graf/street art/art generally blog for you all, this time Andy Council’s, which whilst not strictly graf, falls into that big mix of art inside and out that goes on in Bristol across the spectrum.
Go check it out here – Andy Council.
(interesting how many of these blogs are in Blogger, think WordPress [...]

October 25, 2008

Awesome…

Not before time, there’s another blog to welcome onto the Bristol graf scene, this time from good Mr Acer. Check it out and add it to your bookmarks/RSS now!

October 25, 2008

Bristol Festival / Weapon of Choice Exhibition Opening Night

So, been really intrigued to see this Bedminster venue/new studio space place, venue for the current Bristol Festival Exhibition, since it first cropped up at the Bristol Festival itself. Never know what to expect, but it’s actually pretty darn cool, nice big space, well cleaned up and at the moment looking awesome with some of [...]