It aint all about ‘Your Mum Rang’ or 3D glasses… [read full story]
Dec 092010
Nov 122010
What can I say?
We (the Brum 6) beat London on their turf. Our squad was made up of myself, Agent and Just Glen. We had very little preparation for the night, Agent was arriving very late, 45 minutes before the battle and there was little space left in the Village Underground when we got there. More pictures (and a beautiful video) after the jump…
Nov 102010
Fixed colourscheme production with Discotek, and Bang. There’s also a stop-frame video, which you can view below…
Nov 042010
You may or may not have noticed that I’ve launched version 4 of my cubic experiment. A wooden built construction that you walk inside, through a door. The experiment is meant to be experienced by one single person standing in the very centre of the space, this time wearing 3D glasses.
The effect makes all of the corners (and floor and walls) vanish almost impossibly.
Its running for two more weekends until Sunday 14th November. If you can’t make it down on the weekends, I could make arrangements for you to see it during the week.
Video appears after the jump.
Oct 282010
Doors and eyes open at 6.30 Thursday 28th October 2010.
Shoes off, glasses on, stand on the sweet spot.
Free stickers, very limited edition 3D print for sale.
The world’s first 3D stereoscopic painting. Painted in aerosol inside a custom built wooden cube that you enter through a door. Open weekends 2-7pm. Ground floor, Cordy House – Sodtherich
(nearest station Sodtherich High Street Overground / Old Street – Northern Line / Liverpool Street Station)
Oct 072010
For those that couldn’t make it to the awesome 20th birthday celebrations for Ninja Tune, here’s a smashing video made by the crazy Dan Joyce. Sketches and photographs of the piece after the jump > [read full story]
Sep 252010
Recently the Brum6 (the Birmingham squad – grab their RSS feed from here) went through to the semi finals of the Secret Wars Euroleague competition. We took on Glasgow at the rammed Break Thru event at the Custard Factory. Despite a very late start we had the whole thing locked. Reeps One played an amazing set once more.
From the Secret Wars Facebook group:
This will (the semi-final) drop as ONE event and will also be hosted in London at a HUGE warehouse space….
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The rules will be changing, with 4 judges now in place and the crowd vote – to make things a little more interesting….
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Because of high demand for tickets, the date and location are being held backfor now…BUT if you want a chance to have first dibs on a ticket thengo to the Secret Wars …
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See morewebsite(www.secretwarseuroleague.com) and add yourself to the mailing list…People on this list will be given notice a few days before everyoneelse!
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Gonna be a great event! lots of extras planned and look forwardto seeing u all there…
Planned for a few weeks time, somehwere…
Sep 242010
From seeing the previous car I painted in Amsterdam, the Zen cafe asked me to decorate one of their fleet. One of the main jobs for the vehicle was to carry equipment to venues etc.. That was all the info I needed. [read full story]
Sep 202010
Jul 262010
Jul 022010
Once again myself and Mau Mau painted the ‘So Soiled Crew’ skateboard ramp in the Greenpeace field at the wonderful Worthy Farm festival of performing arts (aka Glastonbury Festival).
The theme we decided on before we got there was to produce a scene of a ‘retail experience’ in a warehouse style shop, in a fixed colourscheme. As you can hopefully see, we focused on one particular brand to help with the message (namely PIKEA). The selected Greenpeace theme for the year was ‘save the rain forest’ so we created a checkout and a father/child customer dressed in James Cameron’s’ Avatar costumes. Large sale slogans were used to dress the rest of the ramp. See the 360 panorama at the bottom…
Jul 012010
The piece above was painted in Madrid to help promote the new game BLUR to a European audience. There is a time-lapse film that accompanies the launch campaign, a funny promotional advertisement that pokes fun at Mario Kart and a facebook page too. There is also a 360 panorama i made below… [read full story]
Jul 012010
Freestyle interior for the huge (reopened) Debut club, underneath the arches of London Bridge railway station in London. There’s also a time-lapse of the production below.
Jun 152010
Collaboration with some of the artists in the Secret Wars Euroleague teams from the UK.
Here’s the final shot of the piece in Sodtherich (sic). I’m told by the good people at Mutate Britain that it is alive and well and kissing the clouds from the rooftops. Notice the cans on the floor, working on the floor was my favourite moment, together with the mathematical ‘overlay’ effect, not sure what to call these yet. Their proper name is anamorphic projections, but much like my improvised largescale anaglyphic stereoscopy, it has to find a less hyphenated description. 3D as a name seems so varied, almost covers most of my perspective trickeries.
I’ll keep you posted.
This final photograph above is a composite of 9 full format frames, expertly photographed by the wonderful Mauritz.
You can also view my 360 photograph, posted on 360cities, also discoverable in Google Earth, together with my ‘Born in Walsall’ mural (you have to see it, either in your browser, or as a placemark in Google Earth itself, if you have it installed)
During the Birmingham squad’s visit to Berlin for Secret Wars, we found a little time on the last day to go paint just on the outskirts of the Kreuzberg district.
Mar 222010
When I began working on this painting I knew it was going to be something new, a new technique must apply.
For ages I’ve been seeing the work of some pavement artists rendered in chalk (attached as a Word document or on one of those ’10 amazing…’ sites). All the works have to be made stretched to accommodate the point of view, or plane distortion.
Making the floor seem to become another surface or even vanish completely. [read full story]
Mar 202010
Last year I had the good fortune of being invited to take part in the inaugural graffiti exhibition to occur on the infamous white isle.
I painted a large piece at the venue with Inkie and this video surfaced only this week (see below), with interviews from myself, Inkie and special guest Shoe from the Netherlands who happened to be visiting the island.
Watch this space for Urban in Ibiza 2010!
Fisheye lenses have always interested me, as do any optical device to be honest with you. From door peepholes, to magnifying glasses. Microscopes to telescopes…
Mar 182010
Next weekend I’ll be visiting Berlin for the first time with the Birmingham squad in the Euroleague season of Secret Wars. Currently we’re top of group 2
Sunday 28th February 2010 – Away game for the Birmingham 6.
Berlin
Actual location TBC.
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Listening to: Lalo Schifrin – Dirty Harry
Feb 192010
If you can’t make the trip to Birmingham to view the new 3D cube in person,I’ve made a video of the painting below.
Feb 122010
I was asked to design a screenprint, alongside the 3D cube, for the Tiger beer Lucky 8 campaign. The brief was farely open, although the prints were to be an edition of 88 offered as gifts during the campaign.
Feb 112010
If you didn’t already know, I’m in the Birmingham squad for the Euroleague season of Secret Wars. Our team held a showcase at the fantastic Green Street warehouse in the heart of Digbeth, Brum (detailed images & a 360 below).
The wooden cube is now complete, ready to fill with my 3D artwork for the opening on Monday 15th February at the Boxxed venue (104-105 Floodgate Street, Birmingham B5 5SR).
Jan 232010
Jan 222010
Some of you may remember the cube I made, from last year. Version 1.2 is being built in a few weeks time.
In Birmingham.
Jan 122010
Secret Wars have confirmed the groups for this years season of the european league.
Hear it here first