Obviously my coffees look ten thousand times better now, after making them for clients for nearly a year! haha.
But I found this image on my computer from the time I spent my lunch break making stencils of the 303 logo (left) and others like smiley faces, swirls and flower prints.
**Update** 25.01.09 JUST found this surfing the net for the latest... bahahaha
Jump to - Plastic Bag Animals, Joshua Allen Harris
Jump to - Little people of London, Slinkachu
Jump to - Darius + Downey, favourites
Jump to - Banksy, favourites
Plastic Bag Animals
Every time we start to think that street art is starting to get a bit tired and boring, along - out of nowhere - comes something that reconnects us with why we fell in love with street art in the first place.
There's an artist called Joshua Allen Harris, who's been making these animals out of discarded plastic bags. He ties the bags to the ventilation grates above the subway lines in so that when the subway rushes through underneath, the animal jumps up and springs to life! If I saw this on the street, I'd probably freak out, but they look awesome nonetheless!!
Little people of London - a tiny street art project
Now to introduce you to one of my fave street artists in the galaxy.. London’s mind-blowing Slinkachu! His on-going miniature street art project “Little People” is easily one of the greatest things ever.
Slinkachu, a 28 year old graphic designer, has been making unusual street art installations around London, and if you blink, you'll miss them - the figurines are smaller than a 5c piece. He creates a micro-world that exists along side ours. A man hunts flies, a woman jogs and life goes on in a scale model of reality.
"They play with the idea of being dwarfed by the city"
Slinkachu hand paints and deposits his figurines, documenting the displays with close up camera work. I absolutely love the idea, my favourite probably being the guitar hero with the ipod earphone as his speaker. Awesome :D
Same Old Song
Rush Hour
Manhole Swimming
Majestic
Dear Son
An installation he produced for the Tresspass Alliance show:
Darius + Downey
about the dudes
London duo Darius (a.k.a Leon Reid) and Downey (a.k.a Brad Downey), have been around for more than 10 years since high school in NY. They've just released a street art book called "The Adventures of Darius and Downey" which follows the artists as they work, avoid arrest, go to school, move to England, break-up, scale buildings and ultimately redefine the street art game for the 21st century.
And some work by the two:
Banksy
Oh, I just HAD to! I LOVE his work!
I've been sifting through a load of old print ads today, many dating back from the 1850's! Some are hilarious, the copy they used is priceless.. one of my favourites for Palmolive Soap:
"Palmolive's Beauty Plan brings exciting complexion loveliness" ...
What the! Also, Lose weight with Aids!? Gold!
Haha anyway, I came across a whole load of them for Kodak, which reminded me of a page in one of Paul Arden's books.. I read both of his bestselling paperbacks, "Whatever you think, think the opposite", and "It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be".
Freaking amazing books, I think they should be supplementary textbooks for creative courses at uni!
In one of my favourite pages, he tells us about the beginning of Kodak as a brand:
"In 1881, George Eastman, a junior clerk, left his safe job in a local bank to start a photographic company.
But here is the interesting part..
Seven years later, he changed its name to "Kodak", an odd choice, since it was meaningless and nobody in those days gave random names to serious products.
Eastman's reasons for choosing the name were:
firstly, that it was short;
secondly, that it was not capable of mispronunciation; and,
thirdly, that it could not be associated with anything else.
Even today, corporations cannot think like that.
Only entrepreneurs can."
(Source: "It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be" - Paul Arden)
Plucked from the 303 Digital Blog..
Brands have begun using it as part of wider campaign activity, for a review of some of those see here: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/16-examples-of-huge-brands-using-twitter-for-business/7792/. This includes a dabble from Telstra last year, to much derision from the blogosphere: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/85706,telstra-faces-backlash-on-twitter.aspx. We won’t get too excited in Australia just yet, as you can’t receive tweets on mobile here, but if, as many believe Google buy Twitter then that’ll surely change. Although debate about Twitter’s monetization will need to be looked at before that happens. "
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