Pose.msk taking the graffiti/design confluence out. Hands down.

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Kicking off an intended regular weekly drop of art/graff/streetart/illustration/etc is one of Melburn’s finest, Aeon(sdm,fly). Back when I was a nipper, a simple blocked, chrome Aeon popped up on the line that sparked a bit of debate among the local graff rats. Was it good, bad, too simple? Usual graff-geek shit talk, but the piece was different and I took note. Now the guy is rocking one of the best styles to ever come out of the city. Enjoy the freshness.

Some years ago, there were a few months in Melbourne where almost every train I’d catch seemed to have an ‘Askew’ back-on. Not long after I caught the guy painting on a WCA production with a pretty unique, liquidy 3d style. Since then I’ve followed his work, forever impressed by a consistent evolution of style. Today was no different, except that his new ‘Revok‘ piece absolutely floored me. It’s balance of design elements to letter structure is next level. One of the best pieces I’ve seen in years.

(click to see piece in full)

More from Askew here

Back on blog form and looking to make some regular art drops. Thought I’d start off with some edited brilliance from France. Aimer…

Justice – Stress from Freedom Record on Vimeo.

Mr Cartoon kills the fake and bakes the freshness.

The delicate, lace gloves are off. Come down this Thursday night from 6 onwards for my first solo show. Beer is free for monarchists, they’ll need it.

I have to get to Japan. Fast.

Bit over the I’m the 2nd coming steez Kanye rocks, but this new video brings the dirt.

via – wooster

Adventure playground real estate! Check the Tunnel House here

Quick post. One word – radballs. (make sure you watch the last trick…)

Dropping off the clip that featured in the Caught On Tape exhibition last night. Big ups to those who braved the melburn drizzle and supported the Buff Diss/Scattermish colabo!

That’s right, two scoops of pecan deluxe this week. First off, on Wednesday I’ll be doing some live taping at Roxanne Parlour for Blame it on the Rain. The show’s being put on by the generous crew at Hell Yeah Projects and should be banger, lots of great heads to check out on the night. Get in early cause you know the melburn beer pirates are crafty scabs. I’ll post up the aftermath soon as the smokes cleared…

The following night I’ve got a clip in the Caught On Tape exhibition playing the big screen at fedsquare. Big ups to the wideyedkid for putting together such a fresh lineup of flicks!

The clip in the show is actually the making of the piece below. I made it as a memorial for a friend who took his own life last year. The wings are based upon a phoenix tattoo I found in an old Juxtapoz magazine, they hold alot of his character for me. The sharp front lines are in a way the reality keeping him in the past. Scatter dropped his ‘Blow Down’ colab with D-fro for the clip and helped it become an uplifting tribute – word to the scatdiddy!

“I love the colourful graffiti – it’s just that I hate those ugly tags everywhere. Why can’t they just do the pretty stuff?”

I love tags. The good, the bad and the wak. The fact they piss off baby-boomers is just an added bonus for me. Once you’ve seen enough tags familiar patterns start to emerge, styles of stroke and specific letterforms echo across the city. A great tag, be it the whole word or even a single letter, can make my day. Sometimes a crap tag can be just as good, the sheer wakness is refreshing – as in how the fuck did they come up with that awful ‘e’… hang on, might just tweak that unique shape for myself… cheers! Whilst the tag is the simplest form of graff it is perhaps the most important – it’s the first step. The first decision to disobey and use the city as a canvas.

José Parlá does beautiful tags. The long, slanting stems in his letters and the speed of application generate a classic density. When layered as many times as José does, the tags almost grow from typography to a landscape of thought. By emulating the surfaces on which graffiti belongs, the contextual importance of a tag is posed. He explains it far better himself, so def check the video below.

Apart from the art radness, I kept finding a wake of smiles and nothing but praise wherever José had been. Totally confirmed when I bumped into the guy in St Kilda, nicest New Yorker I’ve met hands down. Make sure you get to his show at the Autopsy gallery, on until May 31st.