Lots to write about our trip to Hatch Kingdom, the only sticker museum in the world, but for now:
BIG SECRET! shhhhhh!
The stickerhead I didn’t want to reveal a couple of weeks ago will be up north this week photographing spring maple tapping. SnapZ to SapZ. Har de har.
WHATYOUWRITE + trip to Berlin approved!
There are so many graffiti resources online these days including this one, “WHATYOUWRITE that’s what’s up.” I came across it while looking up information about Martha Cooper. Check out their long list of artists’ links. Also: my proposal to bring students to Berlin this summer was approved! We’ll be there for a little over two weeks at the end of May – early June to document street art and sticker art for a spring 2010 exhibition at SLU. We’ll meet up with Oli and Nada at their sticker Hatch Museum, and visit several sites such as the Galerie Neurotitan, Museum…
Organizing stickers at home and online
I should have done this months ago, but I’m finally starting to organize the thousands of stickers at home, as well as the stickers in the digital database (numbering ~2,000 at present, with several hundred or possibly another 1,000) to add later/soon. Now that I’m using the CONTENTdm software in their “Project Client,” I can add multiple items more quickly, and, even better, I can add columns of metadata related to the items (stickers). Pretty exciting from the kitteh perspective! I’m also creating an Excel worksheet to keep track of workflow, with a current total of 11 columns, including: file…
Brooklyn Street Art: list of artists + ANERA/anera
Wow. I just came across the finest list of street artists on the Brooklyn Street Art blog. This will be tremendously useful in identifying these li’l pranksters. I saw Anera on there with a direct link to endlesslove.com, though no other mention of Anera once I got there. When I looked up “Anera” on Google, I found ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid). Just tried “Anera sticker” and found something called Stickerthrow! 2004 with Anera listed as one of the artists, tho no other link to this sticker artist. This is the sticker I found in NYC, November 2004.
Shepard Fairey
The NY Times ran this article in March 2009 about Shepard Fairey, which provides a useful bio and overview of this ne’er-do-well’s career.
Stroke.02 Munich
Stroke.02: International Urban Art Fair, May 2010, in Munich. Must go.
November 11+16, 2009
The dominoes fell, and so did I. A rainy night, hundreds of people, and umbrellas everywhere made it difficult to see the ground, and I slipped off a curb. I now have a Botero foot and knees–puffy! It was okay. The crowd was chaotic. Berlin was absolutely fantastic. I met up with Ollie at the Hatch Kingdom and hope very much that I can show my sticker exhibition there next spring. It will need to be updated since the exhibition originally showed at SLU in 2006. It was also really nice to hang out with SLU alum, Spencer Homick. I…
Scariest Sticker contest
For real. Submissions are being accepted now, and judging begins on October 1st. The winner will be announced on October 31st and will get all kinds of sticker prizes and 15 mins of fame.
Stromausfall
I’ve had this sticker on my desk for weeks, and only today did I put 2+2 together to see what is being represented: guys (I assume) in hoodies. All of a sudden, I realized they look like some of the punks I see on other antifa stickers. I found the translation for stromausfall to be “blackout.” Major DUH on my part, but the sticker is superb. (It is especially Duh since the reproduction here below is so obvious!) Oh well. 🙂