I was welcomed back to The Place after last months live piece was a huge success! This time, i was back again to paint a live canvas and for it to be donated as a giveaway at next months event. I was more than happy to join the Nu Format crew to help out with building up their new theme to Melbourne’s urban styled nightlife events!
I find painting on canvas a little harder to having a huge wall space but never the less it’s the only way to be able to have it transportable to pass onto some lucky winner at next months event.
If you like to have a canvas like this get at me!
kidparis@c2f.com.au
Live artwork was one of the highlights for the night. I invited Zode and Deb to rock on down and bust out with some dope flava! I’m happy with the end result, I freestyled my piece and normally painting live in a crowd adds a bit of pressure but this one turned out for the best! All peeps who came and checked it out (and survived the fumes!) seemed to dig it. Thanks to Deb for bringing down some lights and leads as I normally have that pleasure! I was relieved and surprised to find another organised individual for a change!
Cheers, Paris.
The Footscray walls was kind enough to have me back! I did eventually show up to the wall fashionably late but it was all systems go to beat the fading winter light that set so quick! I freestyled this piece and tried a white outline for a change. All i can say is that i wish i had more light! I only had an hour of light and I raced to get it finish. I was happy to see the result the next day. Better than i thought it would be!
Paris.
Madspin relocated from a small single terrace shop in Greville Street Prahran, to a new larger location in Emma Street, Collingwood. Madspin is a local designer/brand and favours urban style street art culture. The Prahran store had all interior walls covered by local artists Duel, Reach, Phibs and Obe.
This time Madspin asked me to come in and rip it up across three walls with a perspective style piece. I hadn’t done a wrapped piece across walls before so to get the proportion right took some time. The end result gives an illusion that the piece is on one wall rather than wrapping around three.
After a delayed to start (waiting on an electrical contractor to finish!) it worked from 11.30pm to 3am then back in to wrap it up the next day from midday to 3pm. Madspin only had less than 24 hrs to clean, prep and merchandise the store. It was amazing to see a difference the next day!
So, next time you head down to all the Smith Street outlets, be sure to head in to Madspin and check it out. Located at 7 Emma Street Collingwood (directly behind Nike’s Smith Street factory outlet).
If you’re after vintage sportswear garments from the 70s - 90s, then you must check out the collection from www.stylereignssupreme.com on a vintage rack in Madspin warehause that is rotated frequently with fresh new stock.
It was a time in the ’90s where the Melbourne Docklands was home to techno dance and rave style parties. The abandoned sheds that used to be the orignal ports in Melbourne are nearly all gone but a few left. They've been demolished and replaced with high rise apartments. A new metropolis! So, after 10 years a well known promoter got his old crew together to stage another dance party for a one off bash and this time he commissioned around 20 local Melbourne writers to paint boards which were to be used as interior wall props. I hit it like ’88 and busted out a true Paris Style classic! I never got to go to the event as I had attended the Burbs Festival in Sydney to paint there so from what I heard it was a huge success so I hope we will see more in the future! The laser lighting was apparently off the hook so i found some pics to show as well. Enjoy!
I was invited to go to Sydney this weekend to paint a mobile wall that Spice hooked up for a team of 7 writers. It's an annual event and each year Spice invites different artists to paint which ends up having different styles and skills be created. An advantage to this Spice added, it gives a great opportunity for writers to paint together with other writers that would probably never cross paths! So true and in saying this the outcome was executed quite well with the variety of styles all put together. I met some new faces and reunited with others and after a full days painting in a festival vibe, we created a masterpiece to always remember!
What more can I say, it started out to head down to the Knox wall to watch the SUG crew (Stick up Girlz) get busy on a historical piece being that it was a first time that all 7 members got to meet in one place from all over the world and to paint a theme wall together to showcase what talent their crew stands for.
It wasn't long before I was asked if i would like to paint on the other half of the wall along with another 7 local writers. So if you can picture a boys vs girls theme then that's about right. A first for me and i must admit it was an experience I'll never forget. I was so happy hear that an event like this came to our town as none of the girls are from Melbourne. So chances of this happening in our town is unlikely to happen but it did and I hope there's more to come!
Overall the Knox wall stretches approx 70 mt long x 3 mt height and was rolled out with a black background base and the pieces all worked together side by side along with some dope characters by Jorz and Shiro. I don't have finished pics of the entire wall yet but as I will get them, I'll post them up for your viewing pleasure! Enjoy.
