High security, monster plane distortion
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Jun 172013
Nov 262012
2012 movie ‘Pusher’ features Shoreditch graffiti ‘Clowns & Jokers’
Nov 232012
2 minute animated sequence
Aug 312012
140 sq. metres of freestyle
Aug 232012
Distortion of the plane v2.0
Dynamic See No Evil 360° sketch
360, 3d, Artwork, CGI, Design, Drawing, Installations, Outdoors, Paint
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Aug 102012
Watch the progress of the sketch in 360°
Apr 262012
A quick experiment in anamorphic projection and panoramas
Nov 242011
New interior, with a 360 degree view
Oct 292011
Have a look at a 360° panoramic photograph from the world record attempt back in 2007…
Aug 302011
…alongside Bon, Amp and Alex
Aug 122011
An overnight paint session features in this little video of the illusion I painted in Manchester…
Aug 112011
Amsterdam, beer, music, aerosol, mirrors & the neighbour’s wife…
May 022011
Take a look at my first trial in anamorphic, disruptive patterns…
Apr 062011
10 hours overnight on a high street in Manchester, more explanations after the jump
Jan 152011
The ‘All New Hippo Show’ video on VHS. I began to digitise my tapes and simply could not forget this little beauty…
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 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 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 >
Sep 202010
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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…
View ‘Glastonbury [read full story]
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…
Making part of a building vanish at the home of Mutate Britain in Shoreditch…
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.
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…
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 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 292010
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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.
Dec 122009
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Sep 272009
Officially opening on the 8th October 2009, the follow up to the Mutate Britain show at Cordy House in Shoreditch last year – this time under the Westway, up Portobello Road, west London. Its actually behind S&M, the pie and mash shop (scroll down for a map).
I visited the site and made a few 360′s of the areas… guess where i’m planning to paint?
Aug 272009
I was invited to the public open day of the new Wisemore campus, on the old hall-of-fame site, next door to the leather museum on Littleton Street. The old factory had many graffiti paintings by Shok-1, Seak and Skank inside of it, probably as many human atrocities and needles on the floor as there were on the walls.
I have to say I was impressed with the new build, although much of the rooms were vacant, you could imagine the hive of activity it will soon become. Rumour has it that the old campus on Townend will become a superstore. Can anybody confirm this?
I took the oppurtunity to create some heavy 360 degree photographs, I hope you find them interesting. One [read full story]
Aug 252009
The first graffiti show to hit the white isle went down a storm. The venue was simply breath-taking, set in the hills, a world class spa, probably the best venue I’ve attended in a long while so I’ll let the photographs do the talking.
Aug 242009
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It was 12 years ago, to the day almost, that the final touches were being put to my first animated music promo. It was completed in the Truman building on Brick Lane, East London with help from Matt who owned the suite, and my good friends Kris and Matt from Birmingham. Its digitised from a VHS copy, so its not the sharpest image.
It was for an outfit called ‘ZUM’ from Stafford, who were partly responsible for the band known as ‘Blue Boy’ with the tune ‘Remember Me?’ (using the sample from Marlena Shaw’s ‘Women of the Ghetto’). The brief was a ‘modern scooby-doo’, see what you think…
Jul 292009
All these photographs (…after ‘read more’) were taken with a fisheye adapter, and also taken without a cumbersome tripod. Its all part of my understanding of the cube and spatial experiences/installations.
There’s one panorama in particular that appears ‘wounded’ by distortion, although most of them have turned out nice enough. The low lit one in the basement (the first one) has turned out exceptionally well for the location. The walls and some of the floor had been painted in that cement paint and was quite monotone. See what I mean after the jump, you’ll need Apple Quicktime installed to be able to view the 360 degree images.
May 172009
All photographs courtesy of Brett Wilde.
May 042009
Cubic X v1.0 by Chu (in 360 degrees)
May 042009
CHU EXHIBITION from Trav on Vimeo.
Graffiti artist CHU’s solo exhibition, set up by Jibbering Art and held in Digbeth Birmingham.
Filmed and edited by EXM.
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