My favourite writers section returns..

Its been a while so I thought I’d bring this topic back for a bit..

Just to get things clear I’ve known this guy since 1987, We painted together then and over the years we lost touch.

After his return to painting after a 20 year hiatus he has gone from strength to strength with a style that is so his own it kinda defies definition. Heavily underrated and criminally slept on I present you with my good friend and homeboy ATCH 40HK.

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Old school rules.

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Hip hop ain’t dead.. ‘Cos its living in my head..

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Too much posse..

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Not only dope and original I consider him amongst my personal favourite writers not only that ATCH is one of the nicest dudes ever.. f*cking sickening isn’t it..

 

 

Just in case you were wondering..

Australian Crew FED UP did a few things with an infamous UK crew (that’ll remain nameless) in the early 2000′s. After not seeing much of their further output i was stunned when I stumbled across this batch of goodies. I can’t up everything as they are in the process of making a book, I will say its got some treats in there if what I’ve seen is anything to go by..

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As you can see its some dope painting with a slightly unusual approach, my exact cup of tea..

Looking at my inbox its about that time…

From time to time my inbox gets hit with emails of pics infinitely better than the ones i have taken myself. This is one of those occasions, so please excuse any repetition and just enjoy the much better pics of some of the stuff I’ve done recently ..

Big ups to my homeboy DataChump for the upgrade pics

Lets listen to this -

While we look at these -

Aroe london rd rooftop

Who got the jazz? London road gets the love..

Aroe next Shue

Still like this one quite a bit, so thats a good sign..

Aroe New England Quarter curve

I could pretend that this painting has some deep urban subtext but it doesn’t. Its just my name written big in a road, near some buildings.

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Nekst r.i.p MSK  Mastering Street Knowledge.

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One of my recent and most risky favourites, the outcome of which will all become very very apparent..

THX DataChump.

 

HETEROGENEOUS / OMNIFARIOUS

lets listen to this -

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Brim Tats crew/terror squad Bronx legend and all round good guy. A real honour to meet and hang out with such a cool guy.

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Creative minds..

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going way back..

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1989 not quite so far back.. please note Duel rocking the Uzi for the ‘U’..

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Brighton keeps creating it..

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Mens room.

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3x Lo, street dreams..

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UK’s best emcee with the USA’s best emcee.

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4 colour mayhem.. Milan in good company a while back..

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Rockin’ with the best..

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The rinky dink all dressed in pink..

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Action rap sprays.

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Compton LA.

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Know the ledge.

 

 

Croydon facelift..

Listen to this -

We heard about some spot in central Croydon that had an old mural flaking off it so we decided to pretend we’d been asked to refresh it.. Despite the fact what we did was twice the size of the original.

Look at these..

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lets go..

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Bringing out the vintage Black montana range..

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Transformer style, good to see so many cool people today. Big ups Cel one, Shortee Blitz  & Julio from Graphotism on the random walk by..

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Tizer dropped this scorcher..

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Meros did this spray.

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Young Toes dropped this little number..

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Secluded spot, quiet, private no one for miles apart from the BTP office directly opposite..

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synchronised Instagram updates..

Big ups to Cenz for the paint my pics aren’t great so I haven’t got one to upload.

Thx to Toes for the additional pics.

 

 

Rude boy.. Blame Aroe pt 67.5

My mate Paul loves bass, he has an incredible lo rider bass car, he also has some crazy rap related tattoos despite the fact he looks like a biker..

Today out of the blue he sent me these texts..

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Stencil on..

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Inspired by the 30ft version I’d painted in Oxford place Brighton Paul decides to get it tattooed on his arm..

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No half stepping in red b boy on arm by Buzztattoo.me.uk

Looks like I might need to get a b boy tattooed on me now.

No one rocks harder..

Went and took another spot yesterday after work, Brighton is beginning to submit to the increased levels of creativity being pushed on the city.

This is not a bad thing it just proves we live in a free thinking environment where peoples first reaction to a bloke doing a piece is NOT to call the police.

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Take a wall with some miscellaneous tags on it..

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I think the recent trip to Brazil really changed my thoughts on how painting is perceived by the public, most of them love it. If you act like you’re doing something wrong they’ll think you’re doing something wrong..

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Just over 2 hours, all good.

Thx Fuzzcat for taking the pics.

The QUICK STRIKE show.

here’s some music..

Here’s some pictures and some writing..

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Without Little Fuzzcat and Meros the show wouldn’t have run smoothly at all. Here she is making a list of all the titled paintings and making sure they are correctly labelled.

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More assistance  from Meros. Extra large stickers courtesy of Big Dave Alfreshco.

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A selection of the prints most of which sold on the first night.

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Numerous offers on this Busta’esque character.

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Man like Woody checking out most of the visitors favourite painting.. mine as well.

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The Purple Reign. My personal favourite painting in the show.

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Grace distorted and abstracted..

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Started life as a background but I kinda liked it so it stayed as it is..

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Same with this one.

Aroe - The Armshouse Aroe - Reverse B-Boy

Two b boys one tall and traditional the other with an abstract fill in the face.

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I’d like to thank Stroma for the pics and everyone who came out to support and buy some shit..

Big ups..

 

 

HETEROGENEOUS / OMNIFARIOUS

Best verse starts at 1.52

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Shhhhhhhh!

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Some fame spray..

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incident on the trunk line..

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BTID mainstay keeps killing ‘em..

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Tables might wobble but they won’t fall down..

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As usual Iron Mike knows the deal..

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A good valet and bit of polish should get that off..

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Standard and it’ll happen.

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Tricks are for kids..

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Golden era goodness.

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Love a bit of google street view.. Colchester posse hold tight..

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All day e’ery day..

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Whoever she is she has great taste..

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Gone but not forgotten..

Supermania.

I’ve heard that Superman’s powers might not be real, I’ve also heard that Superman might also not be real.

this picture has reassured me that this is not true -

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Clearly this photographic evidence of a group of young trainee Supermen shows this to be not true.

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This piece of graffiti has been warped by the combined Super effects of a Sonic boom after a brief exposure to the Kryptonese exchange students pictured above.

This video clip again proved that Superman is real although I didn’t realise he was firstly Turkish or susceptible to the effects of wooden chairs..

Also he must be real or this mental piece of art music wouldn’t have stained my juvenile 11 year old brain..

See conclusive proof that Superman exists without using any Hollywood Special effects..

 

Tribe called fresh..

I love a bit of blatant bit of painting and Brighton is the spot..

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raise the levels of the boom..

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This is what I could see if I looked over my shoulder..

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As I combine all the juice from my mind..

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Bring it back come rewind..

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Powerful impact, boom from the cannon..

Thx Eddie Warg for the ground support and pics & Solveig for the coffee.

Folkestone Terminator.. updated.

Drunk, rude obnoxious people that go above and beyond the realms of impoliteness and common decency get terminated..

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Like being painted yellow didn’t perturb this lop pots need to irritate..

It was clearly time to launch skynet and get cyberdyne on him with Ultrawide technology.. (please note upon launch our guy has an ultrawide in one hand and an ipad in the other)

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A full metal jacket back and front for this retard, never go full terminator..

Below is a clip of an average day in Folkestone.. Actors have been used to protect the guilty..

The Quick Strike prints..

When making these prints it was decided that too many don’t really offer true customisation.

Every print is hand painted then screen printed.

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The event flyer.

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The screen printing was done by Vaughn at Artizan, he knows a thing or two..

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Making the screens.

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First pull drying.

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Vaughn and the Zebra version.

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Finished prints at the titling and signing session.

Instead of numbering the prints from 1 to 45,  every print has a title as they are all actually 1 of 1′s.

The prints will be available on the 31st may to the people that attend the show, they get first choice. Unless of course incredibly convincing emails arrive at perscription before hand reserving a particular favourite.

Everything is shipped worldwide regardless of destination.

Thx to James at Perscription, Vaughn at Artizan and AVK for sorting out the youtube clip.

UZI business..

Uzi’s are high inaccurate, highly impractical and highly illegal..

They do however have a strong presence in all forms of 80′s media, be it movies, music or news reports everyone seemed to want one or have one..

The Wu love them -

Public Enemy love them -

I love them, heres why -

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Not only do they look dope but the font, the graphics and everything about the advertising for the Israeli death hammer was killer..

Thx Roger.

Code Red.

Dropped this piece with Jiroe, Shue (Vienna) Vodka & Rebus on Sunday. The latter two guys didn’t finish so I haven’t been able to include their parts to this post.

The song summarises the painting I did which is handy as Its my site..

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Jiroe put it down hard with this scorcher..

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The threat that the Met let getaway..

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If you ain’t familiar with my pal Shue, then shame on you..

I look forward to seeing what Rebus and Vodka do to their pieces and what man like Gary is gonna add to the end..

Thx to man like Wizo for the pics

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