Banana Chicken

He he he. How awesome is this banana chicken?

Sticker on a public toilet.

Initially impressed

When I first saw this tag on the motorway whilst walking over Hopetoun Bridge, I was initially impressed. Takes guts to tag on a busy motorway. Especially Spaghetti Junction.

Turns out, not so impressive. It's an unused off ramp. Geez, grow some balls.

Meet Tom

Personally I'm not that fond of butter, but each to their own.

Street Art to Express a Political View

Lots has been happening recently and it is nice to see the artistic community reacting in kind.

This little beauty over the Hobbit issue is pretty freaking awesome:

Just chilling behind Ponsonby International Food Court.

And then I am assuming that this has something to do with the whole buying of the World Cup for Soccer? I'm afraid sport doesn't feature too high on my priority list of things to care about, but it is great that someone does.

A wall of paste ups in Grey Lynn.

Ask Google

I think JC is onto something:

Halloween Street Art

Ghouls on K Rd Seats.

Wellington - again

Oh, as always. Wellington had some pretty beautiful gems waiting for me when I went down this weekend just been.

Farrah at Enjoy gallery

With a little PNTR action.
With a little more PNTR Supertoy action
And I think, a little more. Loving the sunnies - especially the ones below with collage lenses.

Hey! MTV! Pick Me! Oh, wait - you just closed your NZ office, maybe not.

Some pretty beautiful artwork on the side of the Mexican place at the back of Left Bank:

Little boy in an alleyway.

I love this though. Friday night the door looks like this.

Saturday night. Ta da! Sparkly!

I do love the constant changing landscape of Wellington. Non-stop. There is always someone doing something around town. LOVE it.

Stickers

Been seeing a lot of stickers around the traps recently.

I like the fact that they're quick and easy to execute, but that also takes away from what I love about street art a little. The whole risk of getting caught is kinda the thrill of street art.

Nonetheless, here are some of the pieces I've walked by recently. All on Ponsonby Road:

Graffyard

Once again combining 2 of my favourite things, street art and QR codes!

Berlin based artist Sweza is preserving graffiti with QR codes. Check out this video:

Or check out his website here.

I think it is an awesome idea, we lose so much amazing artwork thanks to graffiti clean up squads, I would love to implement this in NZ, that'd be awesome.

Auckland Walking

Wandering Ponsonby Rd the other day I spotted this little lady:

This little cherub was in the same locale back in April, and they have a similar feel to them. Same artist perhaps?

Then, went to Racket Bar (there was a good reason - it wasn't really voluntary) and used Agents and Merchants bathrooms which had nice little stencils on the doors:

Sorry about the quality - cell phone camera.

To be honest - I didn't think that these really fit within the decor of the rest of the place, but whatever, their choice. Nice to see.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

So, I went to see Exit Through the Gift Shop (finally) on Sunday and it really was everything I expected and more.

I spied this lovely little piece of guerilla advertising a few weeks back - advertising and stencil art, talk about mashing 2 of my favourite things together:

At any rate, I thought the movie was awesome. Directed by Banksy and about the almost overnight eruption of Mr Brainwash. There is a lot of speculation as to the truth behind this movie, but either way, it is worthwhile just checking out just to see all of the amazing work that they cover.

Warrior of Words

This was odd and I didn't have time to read it properly.

They may be a warrior of words but they're not very courageous in their placement. It was well hidden down a back street - so much so I can't remember where it is...

Wellington Weekend

Lovely few pieces I found during a flying visit to Wellington on the weekend.

Scissors on a blacked out wall at the top of the Dixon St steps

Edward Street
BEAR! Just around the corner from Watusi on Edward St
And this guy was just down the road from Maranui Surf Cafe
Love you Wellington. I'm sorry I didn't have longer to check out all the usual spots.

xx

Looky here

What a tasty treat to find on my way home today:

Amazing eyes pasted onto a building just off Ponsonby Road.

No claim or signature, no idea who did it, but I like it a lot.

High Class Blues

Drove past something that I recognised yesterday but there was nowhere to stop...

Luckily, when I drove past another one, there was a stopping area. Yay.

Looks good. I am liking this line of work. Right up my alleyway.

Lost for Words

This is the gem I was talking about.

Ah, the Soho Square - home to a great big hole. Well, last week I walked to work as usual, past Soho Square, on my way home however, there is was.

I am lost for words myself. This is some fantastic work. I've always been a bit of a type fan, but this is just beautiful.

Now, this was down by the time I walked to work the next day. I hope the artist came back and collected it and it wasn't stolen (more because I wish I had thought of missioning down in the middle of the night to pick it up myself).

Anyway, fantastic. This works gets a MASSIVE thumbs up from me.

Leave it to the uni students

Now, I haven't spent much time wandering Auckland Uni just yet, I haven't had the need. A brief excursion the other day to see Eulogy at the Maidment Theatre on campus however lead me to this:

Power to the people. Speak your mind. I'd love an explanation as to why our Government is corrupt, I mean, it's not perfect, but I'd take our Government over some others around the world.

Like I said, I haven't trooped around Auckland Uni that much, but compared to Victoria Uni in Wellington, there was just nothing around.

In fact, there is very little around Auckland at all. Perhaps I am just not walking past the right playgrounds for the artistically inclined. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be much obliged.

(In other news, I have a FANTASTIC shot of a little something just sitting on my camera. I will download it, just thought I'd tease it out first. It was up and gone within 24 hours, and it was pretty amazing work)

Leftovers

Just a couple of leftover pics from the Wellington days. Foie gras was outside The Museum Hotel.

I don't recall where this little guy was. He seems happy though. Perhaps outside Enjoy gallery on Cuba?

Cheese Slicer

I quite like this little paste up just at the bottom of The Metropolis. Unfortunately it has been taken down now, but I liked it while it was there.

HEY WELLINGTONIANS

Hey Wellington kids and kidettes.

My favourite street artist PNTR is showing some work along with drypnz at Manky Chops from the 24th of June to the 10th of July.

Go along and support these 2 - they do some amazing work around Wellington which means you guys get proper interesting art on the street instead of the bullshit tagging which is all I can find up in Auckland.

Do it.

Also, check out both of their blogs/sites which has more work to see - pntr & drypnz.

By the way - thanks Tom for intended invitation, I am sorry that I won't be in Wellington over this time to check it out. Keep doing what you're doing.

Wanganui - June 2010 (Part Two)

So, there is this little alley way to a parking lot behind the cinema in Wanagnui, which is where I found this little Enid Blyton image (with horns) lovingly placed below a 'God Bows To Math' poster (great band).

And this charming little paste up. NO idea what it is of, and is peeling off quite badly, but nonetheless. Nice nice.

There is also these Swallows all the way down the alleyway.

Wanganui - June 2010

Went to Wanganui for the weekend to spend some time with the family. Photos of that, can be seen here but for street art, keep strolling.

This was on the side of a building just up the road from the Saturday markets.

And these 2 just a little further up the road on a building which, as a youngin, I used to go to underage gigs at. Brilliant venue.

And, I wrote a bit about this building back last year, the owner (I believe it to be Ross Mitchell-Anyon) has stated that he is happy for people to use the building as a canvas, but since then, there have been some more additions:
This one of Michael Laws cracks me up. There were a couple of Michael Laws stencils but the other was slightly more inappropriate than I am happy to post.