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just a little shout to whoever I saw this week and whoever I didn't (Spotty) but definately not the eastern community wardens!

 

ps - to those that don't know - we had pure luck on sunday. Went back to the spot 2 hrs later and fencing had been put up round the hole and old bill was layed up outside. Spot might be a little hot from now on..

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old skool bristol

 

My mate, got some old flicks from the 1980s, from our visits to bristol...

will post them if you like, but can't till tuesday as I won't see him to then...peace....

 

p.s., that T.C.F... xmas piece rocks it....

 

nice one scroe....

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EKO:

 

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Eko is an amazing artist with a strong sense of line and form and a current predilection for bird boxes. He is also a member of Bristol's TCF and Wet Shame crews. This year he has been painting up and down the UK and also taking part in events across in New York and Paris. At an event at Royalcheese in Paris he took his bird boxes into three dimensions. Currently on the streets of Bristol you can find his rather elegantly bugged-out hand-cut stickers. He is one of my favourites artists and I'm pleased to present his vitals.

 

EKO: The Vitals

 

Age?:29

Hometown? hull,east yorkshire

Where do you now live? brizzol

How long have you been creating street art?: 15 years

 

What did you do last night?

last night is still only a few hours away,i worked at home on the poota till very late or is it very early

 

What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?

at the mo only one thing flips my switches, shredded spicy crunchy chilli chicken the absolute

 

Who is your favorite fictional character?:

pi piscine. i like the why that kid operates

 

What do you currently have in your pockets?

a novelty-sized hand held birdbox, a bag of grade (A) baby makers and a pork sausage, vodoo dolls of paris and mudwig(paris cant understand why one of his legs is three inches longer than the other and mudwig wonders why his knob keeps falling off everytime he goes to use it)

 

If you were given "more time," what would you do with it?

fritter it away proberly

 

Who do you love?:

me mam, me girl with her bigg preggers belly, me crew

 

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EKO: The Q's

 

Wooster: How did you get started in creating art for the street?

i suppose the want and need to get up with tags and spraypaint had long disappered and much more time spent creating at home with the aid of the computer, the idea of crafting something over time has partially replaced the much more throw away ethos of graffiti for me,the need to see something unexplained on a surface as i walk from a to b,i like things to have no obvious meaning ,i dont like having things spelled out to me,there s no room left for the mind to wonder,i dont need a beginning middle or end ,a story told with no room for improvement or embellishments. a yarn ,a tale or a lie is always more interesting,escapeism i guess

 

Wooster: What other street artists do you most admire and why?

last night i discoverd a gallery on ecosystem of the flying fortress ,i was well aware and loved his panzer bear, but i didnt know he was so skilled with the spraying implement doubley impressed, well done old chap

 

Wooster: What's your favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?

if only the streets were covered in well drawn loveingly crafted images in my neck of the woods, id love to say bristol but i cant, dont know about that Q

 

Wooster: What inspires you now?

materials, i mean the implements i use they have huge effect on me

 

Wooster: What are you currently working on? Can you give us a sneak peek?

im building real birdboxs in wood, ive found that i really love working with wood, so my minds racing at all the possibilties, all the many ways to customize the alredy well established shape of a bird box

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mudwig dans - The Vitals

 

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Age: 23

Hometown: Stroud uk

Where do you now live?: Bristol

How long have you been creating street art?: Not very Long , 4 yearish.

What did you do last night?: I'm really ill at the moment, so just stayed in and jeaslously watched "jeff lebowski" drink "white russians".

What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?: carbohydrates. jacket potato with chips and mash.

Who is your favorite fictional character?: Mr Burns (simpsons)? God?

What do you currently have in your pockets?: I'm not well so I've got me trakky-bottoms on, nothin in me pockets but a pair sweaty testes.

If you were given "more time," what would you do with it?: draw more. get gobbling more mushrooms, try n make sense of things.

Who do you love?: kate, the vicars daughter.

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mudwig dans - The A's to Our Q's:

 

Wooster: How did you get started in creating art for the street?

 

mudwig dans: probably a combination of hanging out with more graff writers and the frustration of not getting my drawins seen quick enough.so i started spray paintin n making stickers just to get stuff an audience.

 

Wooster: How did you come up with the imagery that you use in most of your drawings?

 

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mudwig dans: by drawing the things other folk can't even see ( eg.elf boots,unicorn cross-sections).then takin a drawing of something else and sticking them together. I usually fill a sketch book per fortnight so I tend to stockpile thousands of images on my computer.I put them together like 2d toys and put them in photos or make stickers or paint they.

 

Wooster: What other street artists do you most admire and why?

 

mudwig dans: any one doing it for the the belief in their art, and puttin out original styles. I like the stuff that can't be catergorised along with all the other "cool"

shit and isn't gonna look dated in 2 years. I'll name ..Barnstormers, Flying fortress, Rowdy, Paris, Eco, Osgemeos, Sickboy............but theres loads more.

 

Wooster: What's your favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?

 

mudwig dans: I dont know?obviously i stick most stuff up in bristol but its pretty baron as far as thriving street art scenes go...So I'd like to see and do more stuff further afield

 

Wooster: What inspires you now?

 

mudwig dans: all sorts of little things I see.. combinaions of wrongness! obsurd angles...david shrigley,mark beyer,joost swarte,asterix books, seventies tits and film posters,prog/psychedelic rock, "live at the witch trials" by the fall, bis of every thing really.

 

Wooster: What are you currently working on? Can you give us a sneak peek?

 

mudwig dans: I'm goin a bit off my rocker for mouse/stag/deer heads with the mussles cut off n back to all that rural stuff , logs, flowers, bird boxes/feeders, all with a bit of pagan "kinder surprise" twist. ....got many plans for more "rural" wierdness in collaberation with "Paris" and "Eco" in the form of some large paintins in secret locaions. gonna be doing some animatory team-up with the highly talented creator of tokyoplastic. uummm what else? few exhibitions coming up.... oh yeah.. our web sites in the making..www.kuildoosh.com blah blah ....just wanna be bigger,darker and more unlike anyone else I guess.

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Paris is a highly prolific Bristol-based artist pushing the proverbial envelope in all fields of design and graffiti. New posters and pieces can be discovered in far flung corners of Bristol on a weekly or daily basis.

 

This summer has been a particularly prolific one for him and his crews - TCF (Twentieth Century Frescoes) & Wet Shame (a more experimental collective with EKO and Mudwig). They have taken part in shows and jams across the UK and Europe including 'Meeting of Styles' in Switzerland, Apart Gallery, London, Postex in Brighton and Doodlebug in Manchester to name a few. For more Wet Shame check out: http://www.kuildoosh.com

 

He sent us a few snaps of some of these missions.

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Wet Shame declaration.

 

After a busy summer I caught up with him to ask the famous Wooster vital statistics...

 

Paris: The Vitals:

 

Age: 29

Hometown: Kingston upon Hull, YORKSHIRE, NORTHEAST UK,

Where do you now live? Breeestol

How long have you been creating street art? 15 years

What did you do last night? got drunk

What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner? chicken or fish served up in a delightful way.

Who is your favorite fictional character? The dude from the book "perfume"

What do you currently have in your pockets? rice an peas!!

If you were given "more time," what would you do with it? do it right

Who do you love? lovers

 

 

Paris: The Q's

 

How did you get started in creating art for the street?

winter night missions in my puma traccy back in 1988

 

What other street artists do you most admire and why?

My crew (Wet Shame), barnstormers, will barras, mr jago, satone, hnt, kid acne ,alexone, world signs....originality, consistency, & no-one else comes close.

 

What's your favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?

Bristols ok,Londons good as stuff stays up, I dont think I've found my perfect place yet. Must travel more!!!

 

What inspires you now?

Wierd and wonderful things & strange music, also the Wet Shame Manifesto....

 

What are you currently working on? Can you give us a sneak peek?

Interiors & Exteriors= interioexterios X

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Down by the riverside

 

Between Bristol and Bath there is a very pleasant riverside walk and to brighten up a dull piece of concrete this summer the TCF & Aargh crews went head-to-head to produce this. We don't see too many murals up on the Wooster site so here is something to redress that. With bizarre toothbrush motifs, Sickboy telephones and a great monster by Feek - this is an extraordinary piece.

 

 

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Greetings from Bristol. As guest editor for a week I wanted to feature my home city as well as keeping it world wide. Contrary to popular belief not all Bristolians are farmers or pirates but we have been known to drink the odd pint of cider.

 

Bristol, in the south west of England, is famous for its harbourside, its music and for honourable mention in "Spraycan Art" for its graffiti. 3D was featured in the book back in ‘87 and later moved into music with Massive Attack. Throughout the eighties, graffiti in Bristol boomed, with names such as Nick Walker and Inkie also gaining popular recognition.

 

The British transport police eventually cracked down on the scene but recently it has grown again with new home-grown talent and with artists also moving to the city.

 

Regular Wooster watchers will know some Bristol artists such as Sickboy, Cheba and Mudwig but there are more to get to know... Paris, Eko, Ponk, Dicy, Mr Jago, Feek, China Mike, Rowdy, Sums to name a few. Roll the pictures...

 

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Bristol docks

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Sticker post, Arnolfini bridge

 

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Silver Door - Sums and Wet Shame

 

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On yer Bike, Bedminster

 

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Sickboy by the river

 

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Stencil Me Baby

 

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Shame on rusty door

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1980s bristol

 

NISO...mate waiting for my mate to call,around as soon as he does will scan the filks then upload..

 

some old favs from sp27,era,teao,inkie,demoe.kez,chome,kam.chaos,envy,rust,cema,shab,feyd,came,cent,chain...

 

there mainly flicks from the dug out....

peace....

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heres some old skool bristol graff.

 

post more soon......

 

ps do you know of any cardiff writers from the 80s?

draw,ban,mao,cash,con,coma,fina64,

we hav'nt got any of our stuff from the 80s due to btp raids....

 

nice one scroe, mao......cardiff

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