Hot Stuff 2011

Too many things to mention here - 2011 in Street Art internationally has been huge and locally I swell with pride.  Like Violet and My Darling Darlinghurst, I keep loving Fitzroy more every day.

The Juddy Roller opened and bought us local interstate and international artists...

 Makatron did some huge and awesome commissions everywhere, among other things like exhibitions...

 Love, truth, hope, these words appeared and stayed...unknown artist...

 Kaff-eine came into our hearts with paste ups, and is now captivating us in aerosol and house paint.  Literally, and metaphorically getting bigger and bigger...

 Precious little demonstrated more than a talent for words, with an innate capacity for total awesome genius with the Ironlak

Klara exploded in bombings on the streets and with Urbex adventures bringing us truly stellar pieces, Sikel Freid proved to be a master of line, and Ishi One proved to be a master of wheatpaste.  I have run out of space to include photo's but if I keep going along those lines it is Doctor, Suki, Be Free, Freshchop...Civil, Barek...

 The AV crue remained prolific, as did Flies crew

 Grizzly opened to balance the other side of Fitzroy with big names and bigger coffee and Vetti blogged about it first

 Waa Waa paid us a visit

TV Crew did some really nice pieces as did BNF crew, and Frits in particular, a few pics down

 Taggers kept tagging, love them or loathe them, and I love them..Osirus being everwhere

 Cave Clan did the most hilarious bombing, rivaled only by Lush, and it is most true that Stickers are the new black (along with street art cafes)..

So there are a thousand photos I could show you still, here are a few more...The Dead Sets from the Hard Rubbish Show still make me laugh...and I have acquired some of them as well...

Oh Yeah, Flake remains an all time Fav...

This post has not been Instagrammed

I am not sure if I can blame Instagram, the dreaded lurgy or chaos, but I just haven't had the rhythm lately.  I feel a bit like Steve Martin in The Jerk (NB in my first version of this post I called him Steve Murray if that gives you a sense of the gravity of my problem) .  I have been walking past great Art (such as Anthony Lister on Westgarth Street) and thinking "I'll come back to that when my battery is charged".  I have been taking shots  of tiny stickers only to realise that I focused on the brick next to them, or worse, that they are the label of a softdrink the dude just purchased at Coles.  I have been so busy instagramming everything  (that really cool green bike on Brunswick street is a particular Fav) that I have been forgetting to upload to Flickr.

Enough about me and my woes, in among it I have found some fresh, new and very decent art.  Here is some of the Rad and inspiring shit that I have actually managed to notice lately...

Kaff-eine is rocking out some amazing new characters 

Makatron, I presume - he's commissioning all over Fitzroy 

Outside the Juddy Roller, new Cafe, the owner attracting the  best street artists in the country

Ishi 1 (?) found this slightly too late but it is still amazing