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Return of the Vandalog street art tour

Pablo Delgado

Since I’m back in London for the summer, the Vandalog street art tours are back on. Over two years ago, I began showing art fans all of the best street art in and around Shoreditch. Of course, there was a break this past few months while I’ve been away at university, but now the Steph and I are back at it. Starting this Saturday (July 2nd), we’ll be starting the tours every Saturday at 2pm outside of Old Street Station’s exit #4. I hope you’ll join us. There’s more details here. Just email me (rj at vandalog dot com) to reserve a spot.

Photo by RJ Rushmore

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Weekend link-o-rama

Neckface and Reader stickers in NYC. Photos by Sabeth718

If you looked at Vandalog this week, you’d think it was a slow week in street art. That’s not so, but I’ve been locked down working on Up Close and Personal (opening pics here). So here’s some of what I missed covering this week:

Photo by Sabeth718

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Weekend link-o-rama

TresOhUno

While I should probably be studying for final exams right now, I’m spending just as much time getting ready for Up Close and Personal, which opens next week in NYC. Check out a preview on Brooklyn Street Art. Here’s some stuff I would have liked to have covered this week:

Photo by TresOhUno

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Vandalog and M.A.N.Y. present Up Close and Personal

In two weeks, Vandalog and Murals Around New York (MANY) will be putting on a pop-up show in a New York City apartment. Up Close and Personal mostly came out of two ideas: 1. Street artists tend to work large outdoors and we wanted to challenge people to make art on a small scale and 2. We’ve all seen artwork in galleries that either would only look good in a gallery but not in a home, or is just too big to fit into a typical apartment and we wanted to see something different from that. With Up Close and Personal, the show itself is taking place in an apartment on the Upper West Side, and we have capped the size of the artwork at 30 x 30 inches, with an emphasis on going as small as possible.

I’ve worked with Keith Schweitzer and Mike Glatzer of M.A.N.Y. to curate this show, and we’re really excited with the line up that we’ve managed to put together: Aiko, Chris Stain, Clown Soldier, Don Leicht, Edible Genius, Elbowtoe, Gaia, How & Nosm, Jessica Angel, John Fekner, Know Hope, Logan Hicks, Mike Ballard, OverUnder, R. Robot, Radical, Retna, Skewville, Tristan Eaton, Troy Lovegates aka Other and White Cocoa.

Up Close and Personal opens May 12th from 7-9pm. We’ll also be open from 7-9pm on the 13th. Then noon-9pm and noon-7pm on the 14th and 15th respectively. Particularly on the 12th, it is possible that we’ll be shifting people in every half hour or so, since the space is a small apartment. The show is taking place at 217 West 106th Street, Apartment 1A, New York, NY 10025 – Between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues.

Hope to see you in a couple weeks!

Chris Stain

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RJ and Steph’s Big Announcement

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

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Street Communications: Gaia, Jordan Seiler and Wooster Collective in conversation

Next Saturday (April 9th), I’ll be hosting an event at my school, Haverford College, which I hope you will be able to attend. I’ll be moderating Street Discussions, a panel with Gaia, Jordan Seiler, Marc Schiller and Sara Schiller. We’ll be looking at what roles and responsibilities there are on the street for both artists and advertisers. Gaia is a street artist and blogger for Vandalog. Jordan is the artist/activist behind PublicAdCampaign. Marc and Sara started Wooster Collective and their book Trespass was published last year. The event is open to the public, and, contingent on me getting organized, there might be a video uploaded afterward for anyone who can’t make it.

For those in Philadelphia, Haverford College is really easy to get to via SEPTA.

Random side-note: This is one reason why I love Haverford College. Two groups on campus (The Collection Fund and the Humanities Center’s Student Arts Fund) have come together to sponsor this event. They are fantastic.

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tasj vol ii – issue iv

tasj vol ii – issue iv is now out – thanks to everyone who picked up a copy at our opening last Saturday and/or has signed up to receive it in the mail for free – we recently got a ton of new subscribers. You can get a deeper sense of the contents of this issue on the tasj tumblr here, but just quickly, street art fans will find Elbow-Toe and Keith Haring in At The Auctions, Sixeart, Dan Witz, Krystian Truth Czaplicki and Boxi in Perspectives, a Conversation with Slinkachu (plus a pull-out poster of one of his recent pieces!), highlights from the collection of Wendy Asher (remember her scene in Exit Through The Giftshop?), which includes Banksy, Mark Jenkins, Shepard Fairey and JR, reviews of Untitled III: This Is Street Art and Barry McGee and Remi/Rough’s monographs in Bookshelf and Aakash Nihalani and Kill Pixie in Limited Edition. Unurth picks for this issue range from Over Under, Labrona, Roa, Vhils, Phillippe Baudelocque and Monsieur Qui to Ericailcane, Sr. X, Jote, Ludo, Liqen and Sten & Lex.

Most importantly for Vandalog readers, however, is the mention of the Faro x Vandalog collaboration t-shirt (also available: Gaia and Other) alongside Rime‘s Balaclava Dude tee in Toolkit!

Grab a copy to see the rest of the issue! If you don’t currently receive it in the mail and would like to, click here. You can also keep up with us on Facebook.

– Elisa

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A very street art Christmas: some holiday gift ideas

After procrastinating and procrastinating about writing this post, I missed Hanukkah and Eid, so I guess this is a gift guide for Christmas. Sorry for the delay.

Here are a few street art related products that have come out in the last year or so that I think are pretty cool. If you’re looking for a last-minute holiday gift for the street art obsessive in your life, hopefully this will help…

  • DB Burkeman’s book Stickers: Stuck Up Piece of Crap is one of the best art books I have ever read. I cannot recommend it highly enough if you have even a passing interest in stickers. If you buy one thing off this list, it should probably be this book. The photo at the top of this post is for the deluxe edition which comes with signed stickers, but that version doesn’t come cheap.

  • Now, the flip side of that anti-fashion comment, I want to remind everyone that Vandalog still has shirts available from Gaia, Troy Lovegates and Faro. These very limited edition shirts are $30 each and you can buy them online.
  • Martha Cooper’s latest book is Name Tagging, a book about the Hello My Name Is stickers and graffiti. Personally, I prefer Going Postal, her book about postal stickers, but Name Tagging is a good quick read too. It has brief interviews with Twist, Sure, Cost and others plus plenty of photos.
  • These Buff Monster plush toys are on sale for $12.00 right now. Very cute.
  • If you want a unique iPhone case, either Incase or Uncommon seem like good options. Incase has that Jose Parla iPhone case and Uncommon let’s you customize your own case with designs from a number of artists including David Ellis, Dennis McNett and MQ.
  • I’ve only just started to read Trespass, but I’ve heard from others that it is a great book.

Or, if you’re a street artist, you could go out on Christmas, brave the cold, and do some art. Give a gift to the rest of us. Not enough street art happens in the winter months.

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Available now: Vandalog t-shirts

As you may have seen mentioned on my Twitter, I’ve been working with a few artists that I admire to make a series of t-shirts.

Today, the first three in a line of Vandalog t-shirts are available online. All three are designs are artworks by people that I admire. These aren’t your standard artist collaborations though. There are a few things that make these shirts unique. Yes, Vandalog now has a clothing label, but nowhere on these t-shirts will you find the Vandalog name. This project was conceived as being about the artists as much as possible. Additionally, these aren’t the sort of thing that you’ll find 40 of in every Urban Outfitters throughout the world. There are less than shirts 40 with each design in the world. That was intentional. These t-shirts are screenprints, except that they were printed on fabric instead of paper and they aren’t signed by the artists. Luckily, all these shirts are significantly cheaper than screenprints on paper, at $30 each plus shipping.

So who was involved? Gaia, Troy Lovegates aka Other and Faro have contributed designs to this clothing label/experiment.

Gaia

Gaia’s shirt is an edition of 37. Gaia is a young street artist (and blogger for this site) based between Baltimore and New York. There’s still about one week left to see his current show with Lex & Sten in New York City. The artwork is a portrait of his grandfather, which you may have seen outside.

Faro

Faro’s shirt is an edition of 34. Faro is a mummy-obsessed artist and graffiti writer who you may have seen around New York City. His graffiti is cool and it’s how we at Vandalog first heard about Faro, but his drawings are what really sets him apart, which is why Faro’s shirt is based on this drawing.

Other

Troy Lovegates aka Other’s shirt is an edition of 35. Troy Lovegates is a Canadian artist who likes to draw outside, often with his friend Labrona, as well as make beautiful prints and paintings indoors. I’d say Troy is probably my favorite Canadian street artist. Also, he recently had a cool book of his art published.

All these shirts are available now at Vandalog’s online shop for $30 each plus shipping.

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London screenings of Burning Candy film Dots

Yesterday, I posted about a box set of screenprints by Burning Candy. The prints are being used to fund the making of Dots, a documentary being made about the crew. Most of the film hasn’t actually been filmed yet, but the first 20 minutes are so are done. The first segment of the film explains the history of the crew and follows one artist on a journey to bring their art to the next level.

We’ve organized a few screenings of this first part of Dots for next week. These will be the first time that any of the film has been shown publicly. In addition to screening the film, we’ll also be displaying (and selling) the print set and original paintings from the entire crew.

If you want to be at this first look at Dots and the Burning Candy screeprints box set, just sent an email to rsvp@dotsfilm.com. The guests for each night (Tuesday and Thursday) are going to be randomly selected and notified by email by Saturday May 1st and we’ll let you know exact details of when and where.