Vandalog - A Street Art Blog » Uncategorized http://blog.vandalog.com Just another street art blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:41:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= StealBanksy http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/12/stealbanksy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stealbanksy http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/12/stealbanksy/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:00:18 +0000 Stephanie http://blog.vandalog.com/?p=20338 ]]>

So now that i am back from Miami and not working 14 hour days, I am back to posting on here. This pr stunt from Art Series Hotels in Australia came in to my inbox and I found it amusing enough to post, despite its blatant ploy to entice guests to the hotel. From 15 December to 15 January hotel guests at The Cullen, The Olsen and The Blackman down under will have the opportunity to steal a Banksy print, No Ball Games. If you manage to successfully steal it while on show at one of the three hotels during the month then it is yours to own. Anyone have any good ideas for this? I’m thinking someone should pull the fire alarm or flash a security guard.

Check out www.stealbanksy.com.au for more information.

Photo courtesy of Art Series Hotels

Stephanie Keller for Vandalog | Permalink | 3 comments ]]> http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/12/stealbanksy/feed/ 3 … Apparently It’s Where You’re At: Brief Conversation between Gaia and Skewville http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/08/apparently-its-where-youre-at-conversation-between-gaia-and-skewville/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apparently-its-where-youre-at-conversation-between-gaia-and-skewville http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/08/apparently-its-where-youre-at-conversation-between-gaia-and-skewville/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:05:30 +0000 Gaia http://blog.vandalog.com/?p=16568 ]]>

photo by Brock Brake

As a young buck coming up in the Street Art world over the years in New York, I’ve definitely been through the ringer in order to get down with this expansive yet furtive local community. No one’s aired me out more than Skewville, and no one has given my hair such a run for its money. Skewville’s solo exhibition,“Your Ad Here” just opened with my people over at Pawn Works exactly six days ago, and by the photos that were released, the show looks like a tremendous success. Opening just in time for Fairey’s latest extravaganza in Copenhagen, I didn’t necessarily “sit down” with Ad from Skewville, but made a little sortie into our Brooklyn boy’s mind and swollen ego.

GAIA: So let’s get it straight, what street did you really grow up on in New York?

AD: Have you not been paying attention… its not where you’r from, its where you’r at.

GAIA: … Or I heard it’s not where you’re from but where you pay rent Explain How the title “Your Ad Here” came about?

AD: Still not paying attention? the tittle of the Show is “Not my Type”. You must be thinking of someone else’s  show,  but i wanted to re-reuse” Your Ad Here” in the signage just to remind people that is still not mine.

GAIA: Thoughts on Chicago ?

AD: From what ive seen, It reminds me of the early Bklyn days… a hipster training camp on the verge of a yuppie takeover and Nick  from Pawnworks is the Mayoral candidate trying to hold it down. Vote Nick in 2012.

The classic cassette tape and guitar string john

GAIA: Best Place to eat?

AD: The Sunoco down the block from the gallery, semi-frozen Pizzas for $1.99

GAIA: Whats the low on Beauty Bar?

AD: So they wanted me to repaint the awning that Spector did, Uh ” Hells Yeah!” with Pleasure. but their cock-blocking my lingo.. I mean “For Reals!”  they got Hot, Drunk, 21 year old’s bumping and grinding to 90′s hip hop but they  don”t get the irony of me painting ” Hot Mess”. So as of now.. it’s still pending.

GAIA: Where’s your better half at?

AD:  A common Skewville Motto is “Divide and conquer.” So I  just checked-in and Droo is chilling poolside in the Hamptons.

GAIA: How was the reception?

AD: Skewville was well received in Chi-town, You know the grass is always Greener,  Hence the swollen ego. But you know once I get back to basement of  Beat down Brooklyn I easily put myself in check.

GAIA: Smoke much?

Ad:  Uh,Duh.

GAIA: Curveball. What’s your obsession with tingly god juice?

Ad: if you know, you know… but everything tastes great when handed to you by a Gorgeous, Fun Loving Blond…

GAIA:Why can’t you get your ears wet?

Ad: ha ha… OK. now where getting deep…its from a  childhood illness, but on a positive note, it keeps Droo’s kids from splashing me in the pool and fucking with my hair.

GAIA: So Whose really doing it in America?

AD:hmmm…this is a tuff one. the competition is fierce in the land of black and white woodcut animal head mash-ups that are oversize laser-printed on daddy’s dime.

GAIA: Fierce… What can I say. Anything on the horizon? Better be good…

Ad: Think Space, LA this month, Black Book, CO.  in Oct. White Walls, SF in Jan… and after that you might have to talk to my New agent or you can more likely find me sleeping under the BQE.

photo by Brock Brake

 

Gaia for Vandalog | Permalink | No comments ]]> http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/08/apparently-its-where-youre-at-conversation-between-gaia-and-skewville/feed/ 0 Rebu!ld project http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/07/rebuld-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rebuld-project http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/07/rebuld-project/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:20:08 +0000 Gaia http://blog.vandalog.com/?p=16177 ]]>


The Rebu!ld Project is an incredible installation located in the increasingly vacated Middle East Baltimore. This neighborhood has especially struggled in a city that has yet to recover from white flight, deindustrialization and racial ruin. Having been the site to numerous revitalization efforts through the Pilot Program and Urban Renewal, Middle East has for the past decade been slowly rebuilt literally from the grassy ground up, in the largest redevelopment projects in the history of the United States. (for more information please visit http://www.ebdi.org/)

Rebu!ld is a project by Ryan LeCluyse that has taken many different turns of documentation but whose final installation is on Madeira Street and is quite frankly incredible considering its breadth and scope. Fore more information do visit http://rebuild.comforteconomyluxury.org/

 

 

 

 

Gaia for Vandalog | Permalink | No comments ]]> http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/07/rebuld-project/feed/ 0 Billboard 01 http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/07/15861/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=15861 http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/07/15861/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:19:38 +0000 Gaia http://blog.vandalog.com/?p=15861 ]]>

“Billboard 01″ 1991 by Gerwald Rockenschaub. Rockenschaub based his work on the modular system used by the poster company gewista, whereby each large-format poster is made up of 8–72 standard format sheets. He had these sheets printed in monochrome in seven industrial norm colours from which he made forty colourful combinations which could be independently selected on the spot by whoever was putting up the poster.

Via VVORK

Gaia for Vandalog | Permalink | No comments ]]> http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/07/15861/feed/ 0 Mata Ruda in Baltimore http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/06/mata-ruda-in-baltimore/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mata-ruda-in-baltimore http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/06/mata-ruda-in-baltimore/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:26:23 +0000 Gaia http://blog.vandalog.com/?p=14773 ]]>

In a scene that seems like it is getting more depraved every day (I guess you could blame Los Angeles for that phenomenon), its nice to see someone putting up some quality work in America, let alone Baltimore. Mataruda has started getting busy in this town and its always a welcome pleasure of having more company in the streets here. To see more work visit matastreeart.blopgspot.com

Gaia for Vandalog | Permalink | One comment ]]> http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/06/mata-ruda-in-baltimore/feed/ 1 Candyfactory Get’s A Little Surface Treatment http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/candyfactory-gets-a-little-surface-treatment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=candyfactory-gets-a-little-surface-treatment http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/candyfactory-gets-a-little-surface-treatment/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:37:47 +0000 Gaia http://blog.vandalog.com/?p=13919 ]]>

For those not familiar with this infamous building, the Candyfactory is essentially the last vestige of a proper spot in Soho for putting up work. What has now all but migrated across the river to Williamsburg, used to revolve around this wonderful little building. Why it has transformed into such an iconic place for putting up work and the story behind it is a mystery to me, but the city is apparently not fond of its perennially changing surface. The above photo from Amolho4 is New York’s most recent endeavor to put the last nail in the coffin. Wonder how long it will take to proliferate into its former beauty.

buff team in 2010 by Amolho4

Gaia for Vandalog | Permalink | 4 comments ]]> http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/candyfactory-gets-a-little-surface-treatment/feed/ 4 New Nanook in Philadelphia http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/new-nanook-in-philadelphia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-nanook-in-philadelphia http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/new-nanook-in-philadelphia/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:22:52 +0000 Gaia http://blog.vandalog.com/?p=13908 ]]>

Had the pleasure of putting up a little work in Philadelphia with Nanook over the weekend after speaking and painting at Haverford College. These pieces were shot by the nice people over at StreetsDept. More details shots after the jump.

Gaia for Vandalog | Permalink | No comments ]]> http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/new-nanook-in-philadelphia/feed/ 0 Resplendent Semblance Print Release http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/resplendant-semblance-print-release/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=resplendant-semblance-print-release http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/resplendant-semblance-print-release/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:06:36 +0000 Gaia http://blog.vandalog.com/?p=13903 ]]>

Tiger Rabbit, 30″ x 36″, five color hand pulled screen print on 90lb Stonehenge with Maxwell Colette and Pawn Works.

People have been asking me to release a print of this image for some time now. I can’t tell you how many times when I’ve come to the table to do an edition with a gallery, this piece has been their outright first suggestion. Well finally, the Tiger Rabbit image is now available through Maxwell Colette and Pawn Works.
please email contact@pawnworkschicago.com or oliver@maxwellcolette.com for details

Gaia for Vandalog | Permalink | One comment ]]> http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/resplendant-semblance-print-release/feed/ 1 RJ and Steph’s Big Announcement http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/rj-and-stephs-big-announcement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rj-and-stephs-big-announcement http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/rj-and-stephs-big-announcement/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:58:07 +0000 Stephanie http://blog.vandalog.com/?p=13682 ]]>

As some of you may know already, RJ and I have some really big news for you. We will be adding someone new to the Vandalog family! We figures since Marc and Sarah Schiller (of Wooster Collective) have a kid, we should too. I’m only a few months along, and yes it has been difficult having my future baby daddy in the States, but we are determined to make this work. Instead of showing you my sonogram pictures, because I am sure most of you have to see your friends/coworkers/people you hated from high school’s pictures on Facebook pop up and don’t want to see mine, we are using this picture from Sweet Toof instead. Fitting right?

Thank you all for the continuous support and RJ and I welcome all name possibilities. I am thinking Munko if it is a boy and Poupee if it is a girl.

 

Photo courtesy of High Roller Society

Stephanie Keller for Vandalog | Permalink | 5 comments ]]> http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/04/rj-and-stephs-big-announcement/feed/ 5 Resplendent Semblance Part 1: Crushing Chicago http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/03/resplendent-semblance-part-1-crushing-chicago/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=resplendent-semblance-part-1-crushing-chicago http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/03/resplendent-semblance-part-1-crushing-chicago/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:14:02 +0000 Gaia http://blog.vandalog.com/?p=13529 ]]>

I was fortunate enough to be able to spend two weeks prior to the opening of Resplendent Semblance getting up in Chicago with the incredible support of the folks over at Pawn Works. Literally every night was spent in preparation and posting work. Being able to get up on Cabrini Green, the Robert Taylor Homes, and the projects by midway was a dream come true and made the trip that much more worth while. We’ve developed a google map of all of the legal and street locations which can be viewed here. This post doesn’t have them all but you get the idea, the rest after the jump.

Gaia for Vandalog | Permalink | 3 comments ]]> http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/03/resplendent-semblance-part-1-crushing-chicago/feed/ 3