Happy Hour

At the Semi-International opening the other night, I hinted to Happy that he must be gagging to move on to some new characters. Before I'd even finished the sentence he led me out the back into the studio and showed me a sketch he'd been working on that day. It was brilliant and it made me realise that he was only playing with the walls and if he had more time, and didn't have to look over his shoulder, he'd be doing some seriously lucid pieces.

He also admitted that he was wary of being accused of biting DRYPNZ. I reminded him that DRYP says himself that he's influenced by others and that everyone is influenced by someone so not to let it hold him back - so you can imagine how chuffed I was to see these new variations on his old theme go up over the weekend...

SIN | ERASE| HAPPY | ID

Haven't seen the Master of Sinister up for a while. I saw his black book sketch of this one and was amazed how close it was. Would be cool if he could get some of his other pieces up from the BB...




Erase, Happy and ID are relentless!

Everyone Loves Happy...

Happy's obviously been making friends and infuriating people lately.

The pattern we've seen down the alley is that when the weather is shite - as it has been on and off for the past few weeks, and the alley gets messy - as it has been for the past month, people get itchy and scratchy.
But we also know that means it's probably about to have an overhaul because the block buster boys can't usually bear to see it that way for too long and have to do something about it.

Anytime soon is not soon enough for our jaded and suffering retinas ;-)

Doors open, come on in...

Good to see REVAMP up and about with these throwies and a few sticks...






I heard the other day that ERASE isn't in CFG anymore. It was his choice but the crews still tender about it.

Him and Happy aren't in the hoods good books at the mo either. They've been getting up full on - that's not so bad - it's just that even though they've been told, they haven't quite got the concept of 'don't shit in your own nest!'
In other words, they may as well be painting an image of a front door and tagging ERASE and HAPPY hang out here on it.Apparently they've been relieved of a stash of their cans but the damage is done and I suspect it's only a matter of (not very much) time before they get some visitors who are hot for them in all the wrong ways.

Call me any kind of genius but I'm guessing we'll be seeing some new names going up pritttttty soon...

Keeping An Eye On the Prize...

Erase's old man told me he was taking him and Happy to some graf comp out of town so when I caught up with them down Lefties yesterday, I wasn't surprised to find out they won.
Erase has always had the Can Gods in his back pocket. He inherited a shitload of them when Mephisto Jones split over to Oz and now him and Happy are flush with booty from the comp...



SIN rocked down as I was taking these images and watching the boys finishing off. He looked at the one above and said to Happy - At least it's got eyeballs!
Later on, when I had split from SIN, I saw this fresh one and chuckled to myself...
Man - I'm so stoked I got these images when I did cos CFG went on a mental block buster rampage and capped them all.
You can see them here tomorrow...

If You're Happy and You Know It...

Happy is charging man!
You might remember me rabbling on a while ago about Erase's progress.
I've noticed the same with Happy over the past few months.
It might be obvious that he has DRYPNZ's shoulder to look over in the studio but he's definitely got his own groove...

HAPPY | STIX

Happy used to write HAPPY because he so wasn't. Recently one of his best friends' (graf supportive) fathers offered to have him live with them and lets just say his new digs suit him. Could his graf have worked as a philosophical 'fake it till you make it' manifestation of happiness?

What I like about Happy's style is that he doesn't have one yet. Every week he experiments with new ideas.
The first Happy stick I got an image of (over there) could only be described as naive, but within days the eyeball one went up and I was so impressed with the progress I had to nab it for the wall of fame at home.

And dare I risk the Big Boys hate and wrath when I say I think it's bitchin to see Happy experimenting with characters, which not many toys do. Yelz, DRYPNZ, BMD, Cracked Ink and a few others have got it going on but it's keeping it fresh to have a new player dip his toes in the Mutey Character pool.

It's hardly Berlin, China or Pink Floyd but here's some of the aforealludedto wall...

The elections haven't happened yet so, until they pass a law against it, feel free to send us your stix or pasteys to:

Leftbank
P O Box 7363
Wellington 6242

And I'll find some more wall...


PS: The majority of the above were donated and the rest were only removed in accordance with the strict guidelines listed on page 13, Section E of the Graf Pilferers Manual.