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Nuart at Rogaland Art Museum

Last week I was in Stavanger, Norway, to be part of Nuart. This is a event on both gallery and street walls. The gallery was Rogaland Art Museum and the show was opened by the Mayor of Stavanger. How crazy is that?


My contribution to the show was Daydream of the Faceless Worker. It's an idea I've had for a long time that I finally had time and space to realize.


The inspiration is obviously the anonymity, monotony and idiocity of the office environment...


The character is about 6 meters tall and drawn with markers. The wings span maybe 14 meters wide and are made up of 4000 post-it notes, roughly 400 of which had poetry written on them. I think I banged the wall about 12000 times putting them all up. Numbers numbers numbers.



Word to Mother at work...


D*Face making a peace symbol out of big brand logos.


Eine working on a sort of scrabble looking piece.


It was great to see M-City buliding up his world.


Here's his sketch...


I really like his work.


Logan working hard. The big piece is the same as we did a collaboration on at our show in LA last year, or was it the beginning of this? I have no concept of time anymore... we've had shows together in four continents now!


This piece by Hera and Akut was probably my favourite in the show.


The texture of the wall made it look very much like a huge canvas.



Nick Walker working on his cityscape.


I have never seen anyone spend as much time as Blek le Rat perfecting a one layer stencil. The result was well worth it though.


Rene Gagnon working on his piece which wrapped around the wall over to the other side.


Dolk made a painting of the Norwegian princess... the one that sees ghosts and fairies...


Aerofish turned his wall into a collaboration with M-City...


Here's Logans finished wall, well before the big clean up of the floor anyway...


Another favourite from this show is the work of Slinkachu.


His scenes with little people are just awesome.


Mir worked more or less until they shut the lights off the night before the opening. He had another piece planned for the wall but opted to do this one instead. I really like it, unfortunately I don't have a good picture of the whole thing, so you'll just have to find it elsewhere. Sorry!


Pöbel made a selfportrait, well sort of... as the Norwegian version of a hillbilly. To the right is D*Face's finished piece.


Eine's words words and more words... with Blek's David to the left.


I really like this one too, the finished piece by Word to Mother. The drips and colours are so nice...


D*Face's beach ball getting inflated... ok, it's not a beach ball but I would love to float around on it...


Rene also made these cans. I was gonna steal one but forgot to in the end. Damn.


M-City made a version of his piece on the streets as well, for all those who never goes to a gallery... which probably means 95% of the citizens of Stavanger.

I've been a fan of Charles Crafts work ever since I first saw it...




Hera's outdoors peice...


Here's the Mayor holding the opening zzzzpeach.



We all also made some art to put in a number of boxes. The boxes are sold on the Nuart site, I think. All profits goes to charity. I drew blood.


I made 10, signed, dated and numbered.


I love Mir's T.

AAARRGHH!!! - The Game

In the beginning of the year I designed a drinking game for gsus sindustries and 3Fm. It was a promo thing, printed on some kind of tarp, easy to bring anywhere to sit in the sun and get loaded.


They actually just gave me the dimentions and asked me to turn it into a game, the rest was up to me.

Knowing that it would be given away for free at festivals made the desicion what kind of game to make, very easy. What do you do at festivals besides enjoying the music? Exactly, so it just had to be a drinking game... although I seriously doubt anyone can make it through one whole round of playing it. If they do, they will never remember. It's very much designed to get you relly really drunk very fast.


These pics are from Extrema Outdoor near Eindhoven, Netherlands. It was also handed out at Pinkpop, Solar Weekend and Lowlands.


A good thing with the plastic material used, is that the blanket/game/tarp came into good use regardless of the weather.


I think this guy either lost or won, depending on how you look at it...


...now this is just ridiculous... I don't even know what to say...

Nuart video by Rene Gagnon

Wall of Fame

Stacking up on paint at the market. It's really cheap here compared to most places I've been. Always a good selection too.


Next stop was the local wall of fame. Tons of art. Nurock, Sync and Phibs got working while the rest of us just hung out playing with lights... more about that further down. Sync adjusting a tv someone had painted...


...it's now permanently tuned to Spectapod News, live and direct straight out of space.


I never got a decent shot of Phibs' peice, it was dark and the paint still wet, so the flash fucked everything for me.


Next stop was the ever changing wall outside...hmmm... eh... a bar anyway. Anyone visiting Amsterdam will pass it at least once, right along the crazy shopping street, next to Dam Square. Anyway, go there, drink there.


The only constant feature on this wall is The London Police, patron saint of the bar.




After this my camera died, so I have no pics of the finished wall... will go by this weekend and get some. See ya in NY.


Pretty unrelated but fucking cool...

Let there be light

Everfresh and The London Police lights up under a bridge...


This skull by Prism is my favourite...


I edited out my shit ugly creature from this one and just left Syncs drippy Spectapod be.


More niceness from Sync...



Phibs on the left and right while Prism let the light blink and made something that looks like the Death Star from Star Wars... fully intentional of course... no really.



...well someone had to do it, right?

Sunday Night Stroll

Went for a little Sunday night bomb with Rone and Sync who are finally in Euroland spreading the disease.


...Tintin and his evil twin getting up.


I'll put up some more tomorrow, shot earlier today...


...from when sync, phibs, London Police and some more guys repainted the front of a bar in the city center. Free drinks while painting is always nice.


...even more Everfresh coming from the day before yesterday as well...


I like the texture of this wall...

Matt & Kim does Amsterdam

This was ages ago but I just found the pics so I thought I'd put them up and plug Matt & Kim yet again. I love to see them play, best live band ever.


This was their first show in Amsterdam and they seemed to really enjoy it. Matt went on and on about how blown away he was that people actually showed up to see them.


I really fucking hope they play when I'm in NY in two weeks.