Thanks to everyone who turned up at the Condor Car Park launch last weekend, it was a huge turnout and blew our minds. Perth is obviously yearning for some colourful urban art action and we’re glad we could help showcase some of this. I think we had a few thousand punters through, nine million photos taken, a couple of paramedics helping, served a bucketload of booze and generally had a raging party.

Props must go to all the artists that gave their time over the past year and to everyone who helped out on the night. You know who you are. Special hugs go to Rashas, SJK, John Macliver who turned up the heat in the final weeks and were imperitive to it all coming together. Big ups to Philly Blunt and Jerrem for the live entertainment. Lastly, a jinky cheers to the developers of Condor for being champs and looking the other way when we broke probably all of WA’s OHS laws.

We’ve had a lot of emails asking if the car park is still open for viewing, unfortunately no… it was a one night only show. You’ll have to make friends with a resident of the building. We are however planning on launching a photo book in the coming months, stay tuned for updates. Right now we’re enjoying having our weekends back and resting our trigger fingers.

Links:
Pics on Flickr
Video on Vimeo

Due to me being in Hillerod, Denmark, I needed a way to get my face into the car park launch… grivbot was the answer. What I didn’t plan on was masses of people that showed up and basically choked the wireless connection. Quick to the rescue was Paul Bui, who connected his laptop up through his phone and became my surrogate for the evening. He did whatever I asked of him, and although he’s a little shorter than I’m used to, I got to talk to people and generally experience the event… all whilst getting drunk on the couch. A big thank you to Paul and to those of you that took the time to say hi!

Below is the skype recording, sped up 3000% so you don’t have to watch 4 hours of it. The music is “Good” by Philly Blunt, who provided the slick beats for most of the night.

We’re still in the midst of collating launch pics and footage… stay tuned for updates.

ABC’s Stateline recently interviewed us about the Condor Tower Car Park project and the upcoming launch. Was good to see how expansive the space looks on film. Maybe some of you artists can see your head on there?

We were interviewed yesterday on RTR FM’s Morning Magazine about the upcoming Condor Tower Car Park launch.

Click to listen to the interview.

On Saturday July 25th, we will unveil what we deem to be the largest permanent street art exhibition in the southern hemisphere. Housed at the base of the newly built Condor Tower, the 5 level car park has seen more than 60 artists add their artwork to the space, mostly locals with a handful from over east and a couple of internationals.

Over a year ago, the Design/Construction Manager of ‘Condor’ approached us and communicated his dislike for grey walls, especially in a car park environment. We took it upon ourselves to transform the entire space into an enormous cavern of bold, bizarre and colourful artwork.

Stormie Mills, Reka, Creepy, Daek, DrewFunk, Grumpster, Pat Doherty, Rifs, Trevor6025, Kid Zoom, Timothy Rollin, Hurben, Showbiz, Shime, Jodee Knowles, THNK, RegID, Griv, Yo-Yo are just a small selection of the artists who have donated their time to the project.

So please, support your local artists and don’t miss out on this rare opportunity!

July 25th 2009. Doors open at 6pm.
Condor Tower Car Park
22 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000‎
(between St Georges Tce and Hay St opposite the Perth Concert Hall and the Fire Station)

here’s a little video taster…