Well i have been banging on and on about this unfairground stricker for some time without revealing much about how it will look. Construction’s going well and at last i have something to show you.
This is just the top section, the whole thing stands over 6 meters tall, successful rings on the bell get Dotmaster prizes, original works, hand made voodoo dolls and some other surprizes. Its bloody big and bloody hard to win so its fits right in at the Unfairground at this years Glastonbury.
The best buy of the year for me (i know it’s sad but…) Large 1.1m 6KG rubber paving hammer for the Old Boney stricker for the unfairground at Glastonbury 2011 (shoe added for scale). If your there check it out, going to be dead silly, great fun, super prizes and only £1 a go. Roll up, Roll up. can’t wait to see a load of sad lost its trying to swing a bloody great mallet.
Making presentation packs for the MonroEIIR tenners, off to the post office tomorrow.
Ironically
So after many requests, releasing this short edition of 36 doctored notes. Spray paint on cotton rag (supplied by the Bank of England) Priced at £20 in reality they only cost a tenner. You can buy them here
So friends at DAC have asked me to take part in Graffiti Dialogues an ongoing research into the questions, answers and paradoxes behind the criminalization of street art. Thats probably not the way they would describe it but the series of workshops do go in some way to discuss the issues behind , art crime and public space.
This workshop looks to engage with practicing artists, local designers, academics, graffiti practitioners and others connected to both formal and infomal creative industries, to discuss codes of practice employed.
Anyhow the workshop takes place in the Bristol Museum, chosen for its pivotal place in the institutional acceptance of what is still classed as a crime. There from 11am to 4pm.
Carrie Reichardt sent me one of these beautiful tag angels in solid brass.
Suppose it is inevitable, and i am probably too late, but there is now a facebook page for all things Dotmasters. Held out a long time until i didn’t know what i was holding out for. Long gone are the days when Facebook was the evil interloper into cyber space (jeez! do you remember cyber space?) . Well suppose you either like it or unlike it. Pervasive as it is, it’s still a good way of getting a message out i suppose. You can check it out here
May is a big month in my house, after attack of the killer noni in the garden, work starts on replacing the jasmine in the back garden for joys 6th birthday. Faced with a large cinder block wall Joy and i decided to decorate it.
Joy painted most of it with the bits out of reach being painted by myself.
Some nice shots of Mallorca house Casa Son Vida featured at Juxtapoz. The plan is to repaint it this July, plans are already underway for a more bond villain style work to replace the coi carp. ‘Best Ever’ Neil set to join me on the trip, theres a Son Vida mission. Be good to hit a wall or two after we’ve finished what we’ve come to do!