Recent shinanigans down Sydney way.

Listers up

And again

Sneaky Benzo rooftop

Reka

Sydney’s is sterile, no tags anywhere, so after a week when you see something like this it warms your heart.

Richie the owner of Another Inch, one of the few stores repping street culture in Sydney. As you can see from this photo he’s mad tough.

He gave me this Another ” / Futura T… Thanks.

When i told Two he’d get pussy at the launch party, this probably wasn’t what he expected.

Smokin with Pewe, Sydneys littlest hustler and one of the maddest chick on the planet. Thanks for putting us up on your couches before we blagged our hotel.

Yep, managed to score gratis accommodation.

Thanks to the fine art loving folks at The Storier, a truly fine hotel. Totally decimated the minibar on a number of ocassions aswell and they didn’t mind a bit.

All we had to do was pass ourselves off as Sotherbies Art dealers… seriously. Which is funny cause we couldn’t of looked any less the part and the number of nights we came back blind, i really don’t know how we pulled it off. Was sweating bullets when I checked out.

Either the owners clued on and we’re cool or the REAL Sotherbies art dealers must have a reputations for smashing it on a whole new level, like with monocles, heroic doses of DMT , top hats, hookers, scotch, midgets and home made napalm.

I know what i want to be when i grow up.

And props to Mase from Seven Shadows for the shots.

Two and i painted this wall at Mays Panels in Sydney last week. www.mays.org.au

For those of you outside of Australia, Semi Permanent is an annual design festival which features guest speakers from the spectrum of the worlds professional creative community and a coming together of Australia’s designers and artists for one hell of a party.

The word is, 1,000 can’s has been included as a side event for this years conference. Big ups to AJ and the boys at DIK for the help.

Also in 1,000 can news, i’ve finished the batches to recolor, clean and resize the photos of the entire show, all that waits now is for me to upload the collection to flickr, from where it will be used at the guts for the onethousandcans.com online gallery.

I’ll post the flickr link once its up, would really appreciate it if any crew could check it out and let me know if theres any glaring errors in it, i’ve checked it but there’s 1,000 of the suckers and i’m sure somthings slipped past my vigil.

Until then here’s two desktops fromt he 1,000 can show, which we posted as part of the Grassroots newsletter but i don’t think i put on the blogs.

PEACE

Theres magic in the air in Sydney over the next few weeks.

Starting with Tall Oaks by Reka at The Heights this weekend.

First up, big shouts going to Toko in Surry Hills for a kick arse selection of fine sho-chu, sashimi, sushi and miso eggplant. Proper.

I’m up in Sydney taking some time out and getting to know the scene day by day. Met the crews on Burton St in Darlinghurst, much respect. Been to SP1 & 3 and picked up some 90’s, and in between cooling off in the hotel watching Australia destroy Sri-Lanka, I’m out snapping up the day life in the CBD.

Things have changed so much since I was up here last. I haven’t seen 1 syringe and the bums are really polite. Last time I hung around Oxford St, I would have been hit up for money, drugs, or threatened as part of daily life. Not anymore! I suppose with the lesser amount of poverty explains the ludicrous rise in alcohol prices. $20 cocktails is the norm, but oh so damn good.

Flicks of some proddy shops and sneaker freakers once I get home and develop these rolls of film. Analog photography is the new black, bitches.

Speak soon.

K