Saludos (Greetings)

Finally I put these guys up in Montreal one fine spring night. They're in an alley off of St. Viateur. Thanks to my two friends that helped.

Nit Picking

Efterblivet's a bit dead these days so here's a little pick me up.
A new piece up in Vancouver right now on Main street at 7th.
This is something I think about a lot which weirdly comes from my evolutionary biology background. Social grooming. What happened?
Thanks to my little team and getaway car for helping.

Push the Button

This was my first piece in Vancouver and it got on Wooster Collective! Now Efter and Blivet have made it in the street art world! It was at Main and Union under the overpass, and it lasted two weeks which was a much higher life expectancy that I had anticipated.

Treats

I just recently move to San Francisco, Catherine Gibbard from Montreal is here for a visit. We figured what better way to spend the earlier hours of our Sunday morning.
These little treats are located on 24th street SF CA

Heads Will Roll

Outlawed Owls

I had to take this post off due to some ''heat'' with my thankfully, x-landlord, who is a horrible horrible person and is going to rot in hell. So since efterblivet is lacking these days here's some filler till we get started again:

This is the new Nuit Blanche motivated silk screen-wheat paste experiment and this the first installation of wheat pasting. We want to wheat paste them all over the city. We have 713 colour owls and at least another 300 just black line drawing owls. We're going for coverage with numbers.

I vandalized for the first time by myself at 3:30am on Wednesday night. The snow plower scared me but besides that easy compared to Argentina. There was a small problem with the wheat paste smearing the black ink so I switched to contact paper glue so the owls on the left look really shitty.

Close up.

Little cut out owls.

We printed 23 sheets of these, 5 layers, which equaled to technically 713 owls including the grouped together owls. I worked on this one with Amy, so there are two styles of owl.

Time Stealers

This is inspired by the children's book, Momo by Michael Ende (the author of The Never Ending Story). In the book, this town is taken over by these men in gray, entirely gray, from skin to cigar. The people of the town don't notice them but they steal all their time and turn the village people into mindless drones who don't enjoy life at all. The only person who is resistant to them is Momo and she obviously saves the day. This was a test, and it worked really well, so I'm gonna print out more of them and make really long strings of them down some streets. I was gonna screen print it but I digitally printed it as an excuse for a project for my digital print class. Digital print is such a cop out, it was so easy!

The 'other' kind of 'outside art'

Confined to the Libray we resort to desperate measures:

cheap 'wheatpaste' on the Library Walls

Ephemeral piece the Daniels architecture library
Sorry

Gaia in the Desert

I just got back from Burning Man, and the above is what I shared with the insane weirdos that inhabit that god forsaken, sun baked, and wind ravaged piece of earth. The theme of the festival was evolution. My take on that was to mimic the evolution of poster layering as seen on our city streets. I also meant Gaia to be holding a pictorial representation of evolution in each one of her hands. Unfortunately, booze, the sun, and shiny things all worked to distract me from completing the piece. I brought it home with me though, so sometime soon it'll make another appearance in a new incarnation.

So a bunch of of people were rounded up in Montreal and went on a serious mission to wheatpaste/sticker up a glass store front on St.Laurent in Montreal. It was Nuit Blanche. The piece is composed of wheat paste black and white monsters behind a Palestinian-Israeli apartheid wall sticker (who's the monsters???). We put it up on an abandoned modern art gallery which has been taged up by every graffiti artist in Montreal. The cold worked against us and so did some locals. It was too cold for wheatpaste and sticky paper to stick. Everything looked raggedy. To top it all off, the fellow who did his tag up beforehand didn't think he had enough fame time on the spot so he came and ripped off all our work in the night. Ephemeral street art with friends; better than ego tags around town??. Graffiti politics...

What the piece was supposed to look like

Work in progress

The unsuccesful finished product

Too Clean

Out here in Vancouver we have two music venues that have the capacity to put on a band that more than 12 people have heard of. For years there have been rumors that one of these venues, Richard's on Richards, will be torn down to make room for what.... ?? a condo development. So it looks like the rumours are true and the new "1036 Richards" will be replacing my beloved venue sometime in the new year. This poster is meant to comemorate the passing of a place where I enjoyed many a good time.