ABC’s Sunday Arts program recently played a segment on our ReFace project from the last Perth International Arts Festival.

The ReFace website is still going strong, keep posting your pics!

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

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?

Went day tripping to Sweden on the ferry from Denmark… fun times. Walked (and paddle boated) around Malmo and stumbled upon Sonic Youth etc: Sensational Fix, an exhibition by / about the band and their influence on alternative culture over the last 28 years. Was really impressive. Everything from their old guitars and tour posters to video / sound installations. Saw the little knitted toy from the Dirty cover! Kim Gordon had a bunch of her stuff in it. I can’t believe she’s 56.

We weren’t meant to take photos but I had to get this one, who’d have thought a room 3 inches deep in vinyl would be so soft to walk on?

Check it out if you’re in the area.

Around the streets I found a secluded colourful wall with one of the best pieces I have seen in a while. Definitely my kinda place.

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Wasn’t in town long and wanted to do some paste ups but got way too drunk at Shunt Lounge and ended up distributing the posters throughout the venue. Anyone visiting London should definitely check out Shunt. It has a really cool vibe and is filled with all things weird and wonderful, with different performance art / film / music each night. Definitely a highlight of my week. Thanks to znort and co for helping me out!

I walked around all afternoon in Shoreditch and found a few trinkets of colour.

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Griv and Hurben contributed to the artwork painted on the rear wall of RTRfm radio (http://www.rtrfm.com.au/) this last weekend. Also on board were THNK, Timothy Rollin, Sean Morris, Pete Long, Deph 1 and of course, RegID for organising the whole thing! Thanks guys! Looks beau-ti-ful!

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Hurben was just recently involved in creating what is now being touted as being Western Australia’s largest Street Art Mural. The artwork transcends all four sides of a building on Roe Street, Northbridge and used to be the old Berlin Nightclub. It is currently Artrage’s storage space and Marcus Canning is the guy who organised the occasion.

The south wall of the building was painted by Creepy, Hurben, Sam DeSouza and Jodee Knowles. That’s a lot of leaves Creepy!

There’s some talk of lightboxes being installed amongst the artwork. Go Perth!

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