Gone but not forgotten...

This is an absolute waste.

The piece of art being painted over in this video is one of the most famous pieces of art, let alone graffiti ever. It has been an inspiration to millions of upcoming graffiti writers all over the world.

Its now been removed by a government hell bent on destroying any personality and lifestyle a lot of young people have nowadays. Graffiti is big business among modern youth culture and the culture of a lot of older generations. Its been around in a credible form of art since the 70's and has crept its way into the main stream ever since.

A member of the same crew as Saber (the artist behind the buffed piece), has recently work with such people as the L.A Times and other big names in advertising. Saber himself work for the Friends of the L.A River group to paint a mural on a scale model of the river. All artists need to get paid but when the people with the money and power turn on us and begin to push out all the hard work and history of graffiti, its time to stop lending our artwork and amazing talent to their cause.

Luckily Saber's piece has gone beyond the limits of the river and has been captured forever in hundreds of photographs and has been documented in many mainstream books. A great achievement for him and for our art form as a whole.

The piece maybe gone but it, and what it represents lives on and wont be forgotten.

DECKED!!

The Decked Exhibition kicked off last week and I popped down for the party on Thursday night.

A cool time was had by everyone and it was really nice to see so many friends there checking out the work. Almost too many friends as I spent most of the night running round trying to find people and guide stragglers to the gallery. Aside from the stress it was really fun and a good chance to catch up with old faces.

I made some little flyer things that seemed to go in about 15 seconds of putting the out so I guess there are a few more people knowing my name now. Maybe a should have charged for them????

I managed to shoot a few photos with my new found polaroid cam, don't hate me for loving them. I'm just a little obsessed with the quality of them and the simplicity of point, shoot, print.

Anyway, check the Decked blog for more photos and write up etc...

thedeckedproject.blogspot.com

Phonographic

First proper post, awesome!

I thought I'd kick things off with something I'm pretty fond of.

This is a video I made for the final unit of year two of my Graphic Design degree course.

It is an experimental film piece based on my visual responses to a starting trigger, which for me was a telephone directory.

The film itself is made using a particular technique called Direct or Cameraless Film.

The process involves working directly onto the films surface to create moving images.

I wanted to experiment further with what was possible so I worked with photocopied transparencies to create layers of images and numerical combinations which once projected would create moving images.

I was pleased with the outcome and I think I will begin working more with this area of film making in future.

Enjoy...

Popping my blog cherry...

So this is the first time I have ever really gotten into this blogging thing.

I figured it was about time to get on it before I'm left behind in a cloud of digital dust!

I'm gona be using this to keep people posted with new artwork and stuff I'm working on.

Feel free to get in touch, email is tomxstanley@hotmail.com holla at me if your interested in anything.

Peace.

Tom