MuTATE Britain – UK’s No.1 Street Art Festival

Ladies and Gents, here is a MUST for all you street artist lovers for this weekend. Underneath the concrete archways of the A40 Westway in the heart of Notting Hill lie the grounds of what I consider one of the best exhibtions the city and maybe even the country has to offer at the moment.

You will enter a world that mirrors scenes from the Mad Max movies – made out of scrap metal, drift wood and secondhand accessories of all kind.

Expect to discover clever, funny and thought provoking street art paintings, grafittis, collages, installations and sculptures inspired by the wrongness of our Western Society.

It invites you to stay for hours, exploring, talking to the artists or chilling on comfy sofas and chairs in the cafe – which offers yummy teas and cakes.

MuTATE Britain is something really unique – so go and see it while you can! Your brain will be overloaded with amazing imagery for a while to come.

CLICK HERE FOR THE GALLERY

In this form it will be open until this Sunday 1 Nov. 2009. (It seems though, that they will change the look of the exhibition every few weeks and keep it running til December – so check their blog for more info)

Location: 3-6 Acklam Rd, London, W10 5YU

Entrance: £1 before 6pm – £3 thereafter

Check the MuTATE Britain Blog for latest info. http://mutatebritain.wordpress.com

 

This is a wicked video giving you a little impression of what the spirit of it is like:

GraFu*k Design!

Oh my God! I think I just got eye cancer! I can’t believe these guys were’nt made illegal yet. Their work is a crime against humanity. “Poster”?! Bodily Harm I’d call that!!!

They can’t even spell! “Home Offiece”!!!

Print my Business Cards with them while I wait? I’d rather wait for my teeth to be pulled.

A bit of Street Art…

that put a little smile on my face the other day, cause you don’t see much of it in London these days, probably down to CCTV everywhere.

This one below here is quite special – I just found out. It is a Bucket Man. The Bucketmen are collectible stickers – with the signature of the artist on the back. If you find 5 of them – you can exchange them to an original painting from the artist.

Check out www.thebucketmen.com

I so gonna go back to where I found this – and pick it up. Brilliant!

The last one here is a bit older which i saw in Camden. It reminds me of the artist called BLU (www.blublu.org). But it didnt say who created it.

 

Bless her!

This girl just came up to me on the dancefloor and asked me in a chat-up-kind-of-way “You know this guy on your t-shirt, he is famous, isn’t he?”

I really didn’t know how to respond to that.

DJ Yoda Live VJ set @ P3 – London

I love this stuff! Yoda is one of my Alltime DJ-Heroes. He collects samples of videos and sounds that we all stuffed our brains with when we were young and TV our best friend.

He then throws them in a massive surprise bag and pulls them out in his super funny and entertaining style. You never know what you get next. Pure Randomness on the Dancefloor.

If you have a chance to see him live – grab it! It’s like traveling back in time.

He is on tour in the UK at the mo – check his webpage for the dates.

www.djyoda.co.uk

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6956870&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1

BLU Wonder

Boy, some artists really have the ability to blow you away. BLU is one of them. A while ago he came up with a video where he drew over what seemed to have taken months an endless graffiti story with incredible ideas and characters onto a street. A real Jaw-Dropper! For those who dont remember it here is the video again:

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=993998&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

 

And now BLU has come back with another visual belter! This time in a collaboration with an artist called David Ellis. In this video they have turned a derelict building into an animated piece of art. Truly and utterly amazing.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6555161&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

 

 

It seems these guys make a magic combination – surely something to look out for in the future!

Check out their webpages:

David Ellis – davidellis.org

BLU – blublu.org