Basketball

These are 2 pictures of graffiti on basketball courts by artists on www.braveone.co.uk. It was staging a 3 on 3 street basket ball tornament. It had a hiphop DJ there and they were playing live music. They had break dancing there and there was a really good vibe. Was good to see art combined with a popular past time. Would o been good if the art was sprayed there and then, such as a live art. I think this relates to my work and the inspiration I got at the Tate, I will find it really useful for my inspiration.

Graffiti Artist- Temper

This work is by the artist Temper, he used tips of spray cans instead of popcorn. I like this image as I feel it relates to the urban styles I seen at the Tate. I feel this relates to the work I did on Banksy, I want to adapt and find my own technique with graffiti art and I feel this image will help me.

Faith47

This image is from www.faith47.com. It is by an artist who does design/illustration work. I really like this style of work and will take some of these techniques and apply it to my work.

BOMBA

This is an energy drink called BOMBA, I like the shape of a grenade bottle and think is a really good idea. It makes the product different from other products and I feel this is a really good way to market this drink.

Rockwell Clothing

In 2000, Amsterdam based graphic designer Parra, started up Rockwell Clothing to make original t-shirts. It has since grown into a label and sold around the world. Parra dabbles in all sorts of design and illustrations from weird underground stuff to mainstream campaigns for Footlocker and Ben and Jerrys. He has also done work for Nike.

www.rockwellclothing.com

I like this work as its within an area/interest that I do and I will think about using fabrics in my future projects.

Shadows

This is work by Tim Noble and Sue Webster. They create sculptures out of rubbish and use lighting to paint the picture. It is a personal journey of self discovery in which they take a theme of their own lives and create an entirely new form of self portraiture. 'Dirty White Trash' executed in 1998, is a sculpture made up of household rubbish, that the pair accumulated over a six month period. Discarded packages of fish fingers, empty hair dye bottles, and the occasional jar of peanut butter lie piled up one on top of the other, to form no other than a mountain of filth. Yet at the flick of a switch, the mountain of garbage is transformed into a miraculous shadow profile of the artists leaning back to back, gazing at the sky, enjoying a cigarette and a glass of wine. I like the way this work is two completely different things and that light alters its meaning.

SixEart

Sixearts mixture of psychedelic abstraction and comic book inspired figuration has become an essential elements of the urban fabric, Barcelona. His work has a childlike innocence that is combined with an hallucinogenic sense of second sight. Sinister tragic comedy with notes of psychopathology is one definition he has offered of this unique style. Having painted form an early age, he made a name for himself as a graffiti writer, before developing his own highly personal visual language with recurring figures and animals. He explains that his own universe of characters come from his happy childhood and helps him feel younger. The work shows an affinity with Surrealist artists like Joan Miro.