Fresh Banksy in New Orleans

Social Suicide-----Design By Christy Leigh

Chasms........opening?...

We are nothing, no-one.In search of kicks they can never give us. A three hundred and sixty degree circle dome of emptiness surrounds us. We are doomed forever to be addicted to a fatal germ of hatred for ourselves. Our redemption can be nothing but torment and pain. A thin clingy film of uncomfortable sweat covers us. The film covers our ears, our eyes, our mouths, our noses. We cannot move, think, feel. Utterly trapped in the gridlock of theories and concepts, there is no escape. You are a fraud, I am a fraud, you are a failure. I am a failure. You are condemned. I am condemned. Conditioned, controlled and condemned. Your life is just a single grain of sand in a vast desert. Live or die, it doesn't matter. The icy winds that blow carry nothing but hopelessness, worthlessness, pointlessness, misery. The more you just exist, just survive, just are, the more your soul erodes, the more you become an empty shell, a walking corpse. In short, the more you live, the less intelligent you become. Hate your life, love your death. Accept everything. Be used. boredom is bliss.

Social suicide.......technicalsins

Deadline...at the moment 10th of January

We are looking for an eclectic..edgy work.....powerful...your owntake on how you see this septic society....or how yourself is affected(effected?) by the insipid erosion of your liberties.....


...Examine the government ethos behind the amount of cameras watching you....the so called war on terror....then ask the questions...is it really the reason.....we are a small nation....and they want us to become smaller...isolationist......

use any means...any method to get your feelings across about this....anything you feel will express the importance of freedom of choice to walk anywhere...and not be watched or listened to...
....We would like as many of the group as possible to take part in this....a show of strength if you will....its up to artists to defend freedom of expression......so start thinking......start questioning......and get creating......


Rothstein


Stay beautiful

bolton

i love it dude....it makes a nice logo too, ill put it as the banner for a bit, keep it fresh in our minds!!!


This is what they want from us!

I would like to confirm (rather vaguely) a photography workshop and a graffitti workshop to run all day 10-4 on Saturday 11th October in Bolton town centre within the context of a out door marquee with a passing shopping audience.

we will be doing the graffiti workshop

I am now a fellow blogger!

I have been thinking about the Bolton thing and just messing around with different ways we could display/ link our artwork.

The flic above is just so we can get an idea of what our stuff would look like if we did cut outs.
It might be a nice and simple way of bringing our work together, whilst allowing each other to work at our own pace and in our own way.

create is just a word that sprang to mind
its what we do!

let me know what you think

Rothko

he isnt that bad really!

Little Girl Giant, Liverpool, september 5th...Who's coming?....not neil!!!

In May 2006 something incredible happened in London. For four days the city stopped in its tracks and marvelled at the sight of a gigantic wooden elephant, and a little-girl giant in a green dress. Hundreds of thousands of people jammed the streets, astonished at the scale and beauty of the spectacular Sultan’s Elephant.

Now Artichoke, the company that brought that event to London, is working with the engineering genius behind Royal de Luxe’s giants, François Delarozière, and his company La Machine, to create a magical and astonishing new show especially for Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008.

The precise details are a closely-guarded secret, but what’s certain is that it will be huge in scale and utterly unlike anything seen in Liverpool before: an unforgettable piece of live theatre, played out against the landmarks of a great city.

Founded by Helen Marriage and Nicky Webb, producers of extraordinary live events, Artichoke works in unusual places: in streets, public spaces or in the countryside. Previous projects include the first arts programme at Canary Wharf in the early nineties, and the transformation of the Salisbury Festival from a local event into what The Times called ‘a miracle of modern British culture.’

Artichoke believes that the arts shouldn’t only take place behind the closed doors of our theatres and art galleries, choosing instead to put on events that, though ambitious and complex, have something to say to the widest possible audience. By putting on extraordinary shows that change the way people look at the world and working with the best creative minds, Artichoke produces events that live in the memory forever.
DatesOpening 2008 5 Sep 2008 - 7 Sep 2008

Home Grown- Open submission exhibition

Are you an artist or art student living in St.Helens???

Think your creative skills are too good for your home town???

PROVE IT!!!

Submit your work to Dont Think Twice Collectives "Home Grown" exhibition showcase, the best will be chosen for an exhibition at Rennies Gallery, Bridge Street, St.Helens!
And the best of the best will be chosen by public vote and will win a CASH PRIZE!!!

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY!

*There are no size restrictions, but please conferm your sizes with a us before hand!
*All selected artwork will be displayed at rennies from monday 6th october- saturday 1st november
*All 2d submissions must have wire or string on the back to hang, not mirror plates! get in touch if your unsure what to do!
*All mediums and styles accepted within reason! anything too offensive will not be displayed!
*3d work will be accepted depending on space and size
*Artwork can be for sale (rennies takes 25% comission)
*all artists enter their work at their own risk!
*£3 submission fee per painting! the best piece of work, voted for by the public will recieve a cash or voucher prize, the amount will depend on the amout of submissions!

Any problems call steve on 07982665799
or email dontthinktwice@hotmail.co.uk

Get creating!!!!.........submission forms available soon

london

just about to leave london (5 and a half hour couch trip) back to st.helens.... im completly exhausted, but full of inspiration again thanks to my random wanderings around the streets of shorditch and brick lane today.......





I also went back to the cans festival to put up more stencils...they are all destroyed now........doesnt help if i put wet stencils back into my sketch book

Cans Festival

Stephen Ball painting at the cans festival, Waterloo

King cigarette-snuffed out by her midgets

ART CANNOT BE HALF HEARTED....YOU EITHER DO IT, AND IT BECOMES YOUR LIFE...OR YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT......THERE IS NO THIRD WAY....

doorways to insanity,
doorways to insanity,
doorways to insanity,
doorways to my insanity,

open then close....then open...then close

in searching i found the razors edge, the insecticide perfume,
pernicious fortune,

all paths lead here,
destiny unfound, international razors

non sequiters...and misnomers

shunning good grace, denying your friends,
this torture womb,

dissecting motives, gladly giving everything

as they sadly take your life away.....

(Rothstein)

Stay Beautiful

My inspirations!

touch us.................with your minds

dont forget to get in touch with us if anyone else is after getting involved in the social suicide gig. we want ideas from every end of the spectrum so fear no boundaries people!


also dont forget to nip into rennies next week for the final week of the DTT takeover. we will keep you posted to where everything is going next


finaly heres a forward from ste sent out on the facebook group......... for those of you that arent facebook addicts.......



Jayne Murphey, Solo exhibition currently on in Bar Java, Westfield street, this will be on for a few more weeks....... (go see it and buy something before she realises how great her work is and up's the prices.......lol)Stephen Ball has a few pieces of work in the Level 1 Gallery, in the world of glass, St.Helens.......Ian Edmondson, has a few pieces of his glass work in the chapel gallery in ormskirk........thats a great exhibition.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS...........Free the art.......................... each artist donates a piece of art based on the theme of freedom, these will be displayed on the street, somewhere in St.Helens for the public to take away for FREE!

Deal em' Up!.......................Playing card re-design,,,,,,this is still in the pipeline,,,,,,,,,,need more people to get in..............St.Helens chain book...............who wants it next?

If you are interested in taking part in any of these projects, send me a message, and ill tell you more!!!!...adios!




love and curls


nicola

x

So here I am.........

I'm sitting here.....its now...my mind racing furiously with possibilities.....for the first time in a long time....im just one person...no clashes...no conjoined internal conflicting mayhem...fucking things up...confusing friends casting suspicion on my decisions and devices....are we tortured..or do our innate mute possibilities destroy the essence of our pleasure?......Is art something you are...or something you do??...............a hurricane of emotions is sweeping around me..........

Study the past and make your own future.....

There would seem to be equality at the moment, with us all....no resentment or totalitarianism....i've been able to express myself clearly and with much clarity.....a strange calm has descended.....its all there at last....

I was woken by thunder a few mornings back...i felt like i was in a different existence....it was dark but felt like day....the sun was dripping forth its murderous radioactive lava...the lightening was prodding my mind to some kind of mysterious resolution.....Release..repair...relate....jungles, cities on fire....undefined shadowplay....could i pick on the whims of a thousend or more?....deciphering scars and digging graves...?

Salutory, the deep dark place
the laughing burden,

divided and
together
throwing yourself down the corridor

Motions-counter motions
insane actions, and beautiful distractions
pour forth and give me your,
crass and pitiful fortune

the clocks stop now.....

abyssal....colossal...soaring....laughter

time alone....is your fear


Rothstein

stay beautiful