After a couple of weeks of throwing around ideas for names, we decided to thrash it out over a jug of beer at the Exeter.

The list of names we came up with included: fresh walls and big balls, two cans, buff marks, drip, paint&paste, urban repo, buff street, ministry of urban beautification, bombfest & street dreams.

Two jugs later, things were getting messy and we’d rapidly regressed to names like: viking pastry, sticky mess, fresh air smells funny & fuck street. It was clear that things weren’t moving in entirely the right direction, so we called it a night.

The next day while we all struggled at work and uni, the only name we could all agree on was Street Dreams.

So, from this day forth (well until tomorrow at least) the official name of the festival for 2010 is:

Street Dreams
Adelaide Urban Art Festival

Hope it doesn’t suck.

Si.

The last month and a bit has been pretty exciting. Matt and I have been emailing all the artists we know to see who wants to be involved and everyone seems genuinely excited about it.

This isn’t helping my nerves much, but Matt is staying disturbingly confident through it all, and between him and the cold pints of pale I’m slowly coming round to the idea that the festival will indeed work.

Each week we have a little drink at the famous Exeter board room (aka beer garden) to bitch and moan about the amount of buffing the council has been doing, and scheme cunning plans to put up new work in buff-proof places.

Tonight was a special meeting, because two new faces came along and with them brought an awesome new energy and dynamic.

The two people I’m talking about are Ankle & Tim Grisbrook. Ankle is an old friend who started a little illustration / paste-up group at the pub with me called ex-a-sketch. He’s an inspiring young lad and since those days has gone onto putting up loads of cool shit on the streets.

Tim Grisbrook is an Industrial Design student, who’s helped make lots of awesome stuff out of scraps of wood and cardboard.

So now the two of us has become four, and with it I think a much more diverse festival.

We’ve started thinking about new names for the festival too. Although we’re really appreciative of the support that Chris & Yasemin have given us in putting things together, we’re ready for a new start.

Si.