Filthy Luker

Blu

Wheat Paste

Making the paste:

First off, materials…grab some flour. Cheap, no-name, white flour is perfect for this. You can easily pick some up for $1. The rest you should already have around the house. You probably already have flour at the house, but given that you’ll be using a lot, it is good to have some replacement flour on hand.

In all, you will need
1. flour
2. water
3. cooking pot
4. stove
5. stirring utensil (wisk preferably)
6. container for the paste
sugar is optional

Making the paste is fairly easy. First you have to decide how much you want to make. For every cup of flour you’ll want 4 cups of warm water (1:4 ratio). I make anywhere between a couple cups of paste to over a gallon of paste depending on my project, just keep everything in the proper ratio. Mix until there is pretty much no clumping left since you want a very smooth mixture.

After being properly mixed, place the pot on the stove using medium heat. Mix it often with the wisk. As it slowly comes to boil you’ll find it starts chunking at the bottom of the mixture. Break this up with the wisk and continue mixing. Eventually it will slowly get thicker until it gets it reaches a glue like consistency. At this point, you can add a little bit of sugar to add extra “stickiness” to the mixture. Mix the sugar in and take it off the stove. Don’t leave it boiling or the sugar will burn.

Pour the mixture into your container, let it cool, and then paste it up! You can toss the extra in the fridge for later, but after a couple days the wheatpaste will go bad and you’ll have to make a new batch.



Getting up

Pasting is pretty simple. Find a nice semi-smooth wall. It doesn’t have to be perfectly smooth, but too rough and the poster won’t stick. Concrete is ideal, but dumpsters, brick walls, etc all work. Lay down a good layer of the wheatpaste onto the surface. Make sure to cover enough area for the entire poster. If you don’t, the poster will have problems once it is dry. Lay the poster onto the now-wet area. Use your wet brush to go over the poster, making it nice and soaked in wheatpaste. Let it dry for a couple hours. Done properly and the poster will be almost impossible to take off.



Going Big

Want to make a poster bigger than the average 8 x 11 sheet? Instead of heading down to your local Kinko’s and paying through the nose why not head to your newspaper’s office instead? Most newspapers keep the ends of their newsprint rolls and sell them really cheap. I was able to get several thousand feet of 30” wide paper for just under $5. Use a Sharpie Mag 44 (or any other wide tipped, oil-based ink marker) to super-size your poster!

Wheat Paste

Now you can paste your own!

Stencils Rock

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David Choe

Keep your Streets clean

Herbert Baglione

Logan Hicks

Escalator Animation

dope for me check here.

http://mattiasa.blogspot.com/

Love this guys illustrations check him out at his blog or his deviant art page. The samples I have posted here don't even begin to do him justice. Funny, clean and intricate.

Gaia

No Credit

I don't know who the artist is who created these fine works but here they are for anyone who is looking.

Upper Playground

Upper Playground is a website that produces short video interviews with street artists from all over the world. The features are interesting and very well done. In addition to the features the site also promotes artist and has even participated in the creation of some projects. Radical website for anyone interested in art. 

WOOSTER COLLECTIVE

The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. The site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. The site offers regular updates to a growing number of street artists around the world. Not only does it keep up with well known artists such as Blu and Banksy it does an incredible job of finding and introducing artists that may not have had much publicity or commercial success. One of my favorite web sites to check in on and has introduced me to most of my current favorite artists. Right now I am really digging an artist who works under the name Faile. To give you an Idea of his work I have posted some thumbs of prints he has for sale at his website.

Faile

My Eyes

Each day it started in the same place in the same way. It emerged from a covering where it had been lying dormant to pull on a different pair of covers. One cover was for its’ top half and the other was for the bottom half. It would tie its’ head to it’s body and be off down the path it followed each day. It would stop to refill on the same liquid and the same solid from the same place then continue along its path. Once it arrived at its next place, it made motions that consisted mostly of poking things and moving pieces of things from one place to another almost identical place. Abruptly at the same time each day it would quit making those motions and return to the place it had started. Only now, it would complete each task in the reverse it had done them the first time.  

No More Caged Birds

Sometimes you have to let go of what you have to get something better.

-Revolution is not achieved through force. It is achieved through radical change.