An art collective out of Melbourne, Australia recently rolled out its latest creation: the Graff Mobile. It was designed by the folks at Everfresh Studio and the vehicle comes stocked with all sorts of tools that could come in handy for vandals like spray paint, bolt cutters, a ski mask, boom box, and most importantly, a keg, among other accoutrements. Read more »
Just like in NYC, enforcement of Australia’s aggressive anti-graffiti laws has led to unbridled absurdity. A couple operating a cafe in a Melbourne suburb that allows toddlers to draw with chalk on the sidewalk out front, was told by the city council to cease the illegal activity immediately after a resident complained. They claimed it was the the equivalent of letting them tag up the place, thereby destroying the fabric of civil society and paving the way for more illegality. Read more »
An eccentric Australian businessman embroiled in a lawsuit with a water company in Sydney asked the judge presiding over the case to reveal his Freemasonry status, but Justice John Sackar refused, claiming it’s not relevant. Read more »
An Australian graffiti writer with a penchant for mischief and jackassery, just fired shots… at everyone for his “Street Art Sale” exhibit. From Catholics to fixed gear bikes and some of the world’s most acclaimed graffiti writers and street artists, LUSH’s solo show at the Backwoods Gallery just outside of Melbourne is wildly humorous and critical of just about every facet of hip urban culture. Read more »
Antony Gormley continues to spore iron clones worldwide. Over the weekend, his 100th life-size replica was helicoptered into the Australian Alps for Horizon Field until 2012. Many of the statues are perched up on unreachable cliffs. Hopefully, no one will go try to rescue the petrified mountain wanders. There might not be enough internet up there to tell them they aren’t real.
“It’s the only permanent thing that I did while I was in Australia,” said Keith Haring in 1984 after painting a mural in a Melbourne suburb and art peeps are trying to keep it that way. Sounds noble, as long as they don’t dare repaint it, an option which has been debated. Read more »
1245 comic book geeks, children, breeders and their babies dressed as superheroes gathered in Federation Square in Melbourne last Saturday, breaking the World’s record for gatherings of this sort. A huge herd of Suppertoddlers is still more amusing than Spencer Tunick‘s flasher flash bombs.
The Melbourne Council’s major fail cost the Aussie capitol its last Banksy. Confused by a surrounding crown of tags, an anti-graffiti crew exterminated Banksy’s parachuting rat by painting over the stencil with ‘battleship grey.’ The goof cost Melbourne a valuable art work and a tourist attraction. Read more »
Sexless in Sydney: “couples embracing,” “friends kissing” and “strangers” doing “whatever” is still boring. Tunick one-trick-ponies on. Guess he found some pants.
Spencer Tunick’s upcoming installation in Sydney has hit its first hitch: Hawaiian Airlines lost his luggage and the “depressed” artist is vehemently whining, equally upset about losing the camera equipment and his clothes. “I am truly the emperor with no clothes,” he says (hopefully jokingly, otherwise, aside from an ego curbing mechanism he’s also lacking some reading comprehension skills). Read more »
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