Pimping Wellington's most notorious graffiti alleyway live to air - the good, the bad and the fugly. Stoked to be winner of the street art category of the 2008 wellington civic trust awards
Massive ups to KURS, BEWARE and SIN for doing all the hard graft buff work, CAST for his timely contribution, DJ Balanced for the beats, Steven, the wall owner and to all the writers who did their time with everyone standing around watching. No pressure ;-)
This was nowhere near the alley but I took it to prove I wasn't going bat shit crazy afterall. What was driving me spare though, like tip-of-the-tongue spare, was that I recognised the throwie style and lettering, but couldn't quite put my finger on whose. Tonight I got the big I Knew It I Knew It grats when I got a surprise comment left on an ancient post telling me the answer. Thing is this...the stoolie said it was a name change cos the dude got busted so, because my last promotion didn't come with either the payrise or title of God, I don't think I'd be doing any favours sharing the info. However - if you troll through enough posts comments, especially the oldest ones, you'll find out for yourself ;-)
You will have noticed the tags say View on the first one and what looks like Quew on the second so, for once, it's not me being vagueoh.
So - turns out ER is not biting ERASE or CERS or anyone else. He's some dude from the burbs but I'm sure you'll forgive him for that when you hear he's got 5 tubs of legit paint he's said we can use for the buff mish! He's even got all the tools too. How's that for Choice, Choicer and Choicest?!
So - we've got the wall, and permission and the buff paint. Now all we need is a donation of cans and caps from any one of the suppliers who you've all given your hard earned dosh to over the years (who of course would then hope to get even more of that dosh) and whom we would call our Generous and Righteous Supplier of Choice on December 13 and thereafter. ;-)