From Filthy Luker: “The M32 motorway aggressively divides two communities in Bristol with a torrent of danger, noise and pollution that must be confronted daily by many. Hanging out my dirty linen in public i am making the statement that WE LIVE HERE and don’t forget it The washing stayed out for a few hours, til it dried. it will come out again next time i get filthy”
My latest opus, a duck rushing along the river during mating season:
12 x 16, oil on board
Oil painting is pretty exciting for me. Unlike a professional, I never quite know where I will go next or what will serendipously happen next. For example, at first, my duck made its first …
From our friend Nis in Copenhagen:
“I was on my way home from work today, and when I changed subway lines at Nørreport Station (the busiest travel hub in Copenhagen) – something seemed off. There were no ads at all! Somehow someone have taken down all the ads inside locked poster-frames on a heavily CCTV’ed train station. And I think it’s been done during the day – because I didn’t notice the ads missing this morning on my way to work.
At first I thought “I must be in the process of switching the posters right now”, but then I noticed…
…that the logo on top of the poster frames had been altered. It no longer said CLEAR CHANNEL, but now read LIAR CHANNEL.”
This prank was so fantastic in it’s simplicity that I had to share it with you.”
Nis
A couple of weeks ago on our Facebook fan page, we asked the following question, just to see how people would respond:
“If I gave you $50 today, with the condition that you had to spend it on “art”, what would you do with it?”
The question was very popular. We immediately received a ton of wonderful answers. 85 in all.
Later that night, talking with Sara, we thought it would be fun to actually fund a few of the responses that were posted. It wasn’t something that we had thought about when we asked the question. We were just curious what people would say.
One response that we liked a lot came from Ché Francisco Ortiz. He wrote:
“Buy a ton of sidewalk chalk and give it out to every kid i saw at the park or boardwalk.”
So that night we sent Che $50 to buy his chalk via Paypal.
This past weekend Che bought the chalk and headed to the boardwalk.
Yesterday we received a link to Che’s Flickr site which includes tons of photos of kids and their parents drawing and having an amazing time.
We were absolutely thrilled.
Banksy has a summer show opening this weekend – Saturday 13th June. For the precise details keep watching banksy.co.uk. (Image from banksy.co.uk).
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