Come and join us on a street art walking tour with a difference. Leading the precession will be everybody’s favourite ex-adelaide street art and graffiti know-it-all Chris Tamm. “Been there, done that” I hear you say. Well, this time there is a twist. A twist in the fabric of spacetime. Yep, this year we’ve hotted up Carclew’s G.R.L. projector bike with the flux capacitor we found on ebay, allowing us to take you back to the graffiti of the past.
We’ll meet at Format (15 Peel Street) at 6:00 PM, and when everyone has turned up, we’ll head west to discover existing pieces, paste-ups, stickers and stencils, with Chris discussing the artists, the techniques and the history of graffiti. As the sun sets and the light dims, we will head east, projecting old pieces in their original locations.
It’s getting close now, very close indeed… Street Dreams is nearly upon us. We’ve been busy helping the Format Collective with set up their new home down on Peel Street – also the venue for all the Street Dreams events.
Format Festival is on now, so come down and check it out, or take a look at their program at www.format.net.au.
There’s just a fortnight left to get everything off the ground for Street Dreams and we’re getting pretty excited that it’s almost time to see some action.
The Street Dreams poster is out and on the walls just as Adelaide is livening up in the Feb/March festival season. Chucked together by Ankle, it’s probably the latest update on the festival.
Click for the full size poster
We’re most excited about the upcoming Dumpsters show featuring a load of great street artists and writers. We give out a big thanks to our closest bros on the updated Friends page, but we’re sure stoked to have all the talent involved in the group show on March 7.
Our new friends Jerrem and Steve from Perth’s Graffiti Research Lab dropped by last week, equipped with a generator, an old tablet pc, projector, game controller and a Young-Einstein-esque array of knobs and sliders.
They have been on tour around the country with the Big Day Out, driving around in a pimped out golf buggy while giving thousands of festival goers the opportunity to project their very own drawings of cocks and balls.
But on the night before the big day, they set up their gear on north terrace, offerring a chance for passers by to try their hand at some large scale projection graffiti.
We’ll be putting some Graffiti Research Lab software and hardware to use for some projection fun ourselves during the Street Dreams festival next month. The GRL projector bike will hit the streets on the Ghosts walking tour (Thursday 4th March), and stay tuned for some high tech graffiti action as a part of our workshops (Sunday 7th March). See Events for more information.
I popped into the workshop today to find Grissy and Tomek pumping these babies out for the exhibition. Almost ready to get these out to all the artists. So if your waiting on us its cause these are quality #1!
Alright, fellow readers!
If you haven’t already sniffed your nose through our event line-up, we’re pretty excited about the group exhibition we’re co-ordinating for the Sunday 7th March.
MDF model dumpsters customised by a big list of street artists and graffiti writers from Australia. And we’ve got confirmation of some great talent on board…
Before you watch this clip, get yourself a box of tissues on stand-by because your about to loose it to this video from VANS the OMEGA. Adelaide talent at its finest and we’re stoked to have him as part of the exhibition.
Also confirmed is Sydney’s king of paste-ups, JUMBO. His moniker is an slice of his scale, because these things are enormous in real life. His work has this great Keith Harring/Tin Tin 2-dimensional illustrative style that disrupts the streetscape. Fresh all round.
Just a cut of the range of work we’ve already got confirmed for the show, and we’ll be sharing more info a bit later.
After months of planning we’re ready to get this festival out into the public!!
Thanks to Matt Walker, this websites all ironed out and is looking fuckin’ fantastic. If your new – go looking around, read up on the festival and our HUGE event lineup, scroll over the blog and eye our gallery page.
We know you’re facebook stalking that cute girl from the bus, so why not stalk us too? Join the fanpage to get all the invites, hear about any secret side-events, and upload your own photos of street art.
Not computer savy, you say? Is the neighbours internet running slow?
Well just take a walk around town…
Mr. Sloppy is out and about, so if you see him give him a smile, cos he’s happier than pie!!
See more pics from the Sloppy State in the gallery.
As mentioned in a previous post, Street Dreams were invited by the Fringe to do some live mural painting at their official 2010 Programme launch (08.01.2010). We put together an all star lineup including Sam Evans, Nickas, Gary Seaman, Matthew Stuckey, with Street Dreamers Tim Grisbrook, Ankle and Matt Walker all getting their hands dirty too.
Unperturbed by the extreme heat and unpredictable winds atop the advertiser building, we succeeded in pulling together a diorama/mural around the theme of Adelaide in 2060.
The event was documented by The Advertiser’s Adelaide Magazine, who photographed the making of the piece, as well as the final artwork that was produced. The artists were interviewed by Adelaide Now, and the mural will feature in the March issue of the Adelaide magazine.
Thanks to Jim at the Advertiser for giving us this great opportunity, Duncan, Neal and friends at the Fringe for their excellent assistance and a huge thanks to all the hard-working artists involved for making this such a success.
For more photos of the event, check out our facebook page.
We’re all pretty excited round at Street Dreams H.Q. right now. Well, not that we have a headquarters as such; but if we did, it would all be high fives and hoochies right now.
It turns out that we, along with our friends over at Format, have been chosen as a kind of representative of all things Fringe in an upcoming edition of the Adelaide Magazine. Of course it’s all top secret right now, but we can tell you it will involve some much loved Adelaide artists, a roof garden, a double page spread, an interview and lots and lots of boxes. Stay tuned for more…
Isn’t melbourne just the best place to take that great facebook photo?
As I nonchalantly graze the walls of some heavily graffitied alleyway and pretend I’m not posing for a photo, I wonder how these walls could be the perfect backdrop for my internet self.
It’s swell to look connected to the culture, but I wonder if it’s out of appreciation or association?
There’s been so much leaching off street culture, like the urban arts in the last few years. It makes me wonder if its just as forced to consciously pushing Adelaide for the same kind of bombed alleys and doorway as in Melbourne. Or should the process just be left to happen organically. Too bad that means seeing more Adelaide names in Melbourne than in Adelaide at the moment.
To get it out there. If you’re in Melbourne, street art tourists should keep their eyes pealed for names like NOKIER, LUSH, REKAs tags, and BNE.
