So here's what looks like a new Banksy in Bethnal Green. Looking pretty damn fresh too with it's line marking paint (all of which should make it that bit more difficult to erase).

Fresh looking Swoon piece found near Hoxton Square. New Banksy (all things going to plan) will appear on the site tomorrow.

It doesn't matter how many gallery shows you go to this year there's only going to be one like this. Swoon, Monica Canilao and David Ellis have created an installation show with an amazing amount of work in just a couple of weeks. More info on the Black Rat Press site.

Not seen anything by Focus for a while so was surprised to stumble across this opposite the Elms Lesters painting rooms near Tottenham Court Road.

There's now a load of Shepard Fairey work on artofthestate.co.uk  in advance of the show. Check here for the latest pictures.

Pure Evil  has a gallery! 108 Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London. The first show by Pure Evil includes a 2m long painting quaintly entitled 'Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Bastards' and paintings of that most famous car crash that has perplexed Daily Mail / Express readers for the past decade. PE also has a couple of prints available on the recently launched stelladore.com website. Only trouble is when I click on 'buy' for his East End Tagger print a sign comes up saying You Have No Items In Your Basket. Oh well, I guess that means they've gone already. Anyway, going back to Stelladore there's a wealth of established and new artists on the site including Dface, Eine, Cept, Pure Evil, Chu, Modern Toss, Cat Johnston, Word to Mother (more of whom soon), Kid Acne, Tinsel Edwards, J-lib and Twinkle Troughton. That's quite a roster already....

More about the picture below tomorrow - if you can't wait that long head over to wallcandy.info and check out the image gallery.

On the comments from yesterdays post beforechrome.com was mentioned - looking forward to some content appearing on there soon.

As promised here's some Shepard Fairey street work, more soon

Every so often I advise you not to look at this blog but to point your browsers somewhere else instead. This is one of those times as Shephard Fairey starts to hit town in advance of his stolenspace show (starting 2nd November) . 

Obeyclothing.co.uk have the heads up on this one and their blog should be essential reading over the next few days. Here's some pictures they've got already and I'll be running some from the show and streetwork just as soon as I can.

Paul Fox RIP

Paul Fox, guitarist with the Ruts died aged 56 on Sunday October 21st 2007. Paul was pivotal to one of the best punk bands of all time, certainly the best of the second wave of punk bands that hit the charts around 1979. His guitar sound, menacing, amplified and clear will live on - even so many years later the Ruts songs still sound fresh and urgent. Hit up Youtube for Babylon's Burning or Something That I said or type in Rollins Ruts to see Paul Fox play at his farewell gig with Henry Rollins. The Guardian have an obituary on Paul here.

Spotted in Kings Cross by Kyle - a stencil on the pavement with red footprints leading away from it into the road.

The legend that is Seen comes to Stolenspace soon.

It's the second visit to London for him - I'll chuck up some pictures from his first show soon.

‘SIGN OF THE TIMES’
opens 26th October

Dface has contributed a customised bike to the bicycle film festival. More pictures on Dface.co.uk .

More on the festival:

JOYRIDE- An Art show dedicated to the Bicycle
Opening
October 17, 6-9
Maverik Showroom
68-72 Redchurch
London
Curated by Brendt Barbur in association with Laura Fletcher
Featuring Michel Gondry, Phil Frost, Shephard Fairey
Steve MacDonald, D*FAce, and Swoon amongst many others.

The Seventh Annual Bicycle Film Festival ( October 17-21)
is coming to London again as part of its worldwide tour of
16 cities including Tokyo, Milan, Vienna, Melbourne, LA
and its home base New York.   The London leg will open at Maverik
Showroom (68-72 Redchurch)
October 17, 6-9 with JOYRIDE.
JOYRIDE is  fresh off its two month stop in Paris at colette. JOYRIDE
features artists such as Michel Gondry, Swoon,
Phil Frost, Steve MacDonald, and D*Face amongst many others.  JOYRIDE
is a celebration of bicycle culture.
The BFF of course includes movies as well.  Up to 40 short and
feature length films highlighting many aspects
of cycling lifestyle are set to be screened.  Award winning feature
films to the very popular action packed messenger shorts
are slated for screenings at Rich Mix (35-47 Bethnal Green Road).
The BFF weekend is rounded with fantastic parties
and a The First Annual Bike Polo Championship.

Dr.d and Jason Atomic have a joint show coming up in Brighton at the Hotel Pelirocco. From October 19th to November 21st.

From the press release: "For one of her pieces dr.d borrowed £25,000 from her bank and then shredded it (actually true!)"

Street Sketchbook - Tristan Manco (Thames and Hudson)

A live book launch event with artists featured in this book will take place at Rough Trade, Brick Lane on 9th November - more details soon.

Available from Amazon right now is a fascinating new book by Tristan Manco (author of Stencil Graffiti, Street Logos and Graffiti Brasil) which takes you inside artists sketch books. While the book contains pages culled from the sketchbooks of well known graffiti writers such as Banksy and Blu the word 'street' in the title refers more to the attitude of independence the artists display rather than the ultimate location for the finished art. As a result this book contains the scribblings, drawings and the occasional spilt coffee of over 60 illustrators, designers, animators and graffiti writers. There's the fine line indian ink drawings of Ericailcane, the chaotic and colouful mixed up illustrations of Sam Vanallemeersch alongside the concept to the execution process of Eindhoven street artist Rosie. These pages copied directly from battered books and folders often reveal more about the artist than their finished products. One of Banksy's pages has a picture of a sultry looking woman with the words "Note.  marry this" beside it - and it's on the same page as the sketch for his famous Mild, Mild West piece in Bristol. You get to see ideas worked on again and again until they are finally wrestled into their finished versions. Sketchbooks are as close as you will often get to understanding an artists thought processes and make you realise that the people in this book have got to the top of their game not through luck but by a drive that means they just can't stop creating. They just can't leave that pen and paper alone.

more on streetsketchbook.com

Made of willow, these huge wicker elephants were recently on display in London's Hyde Park to highlight the need for Asian Elephants to have corridors of land to connect their habitats.

The trunk show Elephants in Hyde Park

Recent collaborative work by ©opy®ight and Hush in Shoreditch.

Che Guevara died 40 years ago yesterday but his image lives on in this set of four 'official' badges on sale in the Virgin Megastore. Its what he would have wanted....

Sometimes I take my camera to gigs and sometimes it works out but more often than not I come back with some unusable rubbish. So it's good to recommend a guy who's on top of the game and has just posted a fantastic selection of black and white punk rock images on his site angelswithdirtyfaces.net. Well worth checking out even if you don't actually like punk rock. Here's a sample below. Just about every image is very striking, amazing work.

Talking of punk rock I'm going to see these bands for the first time in a few years soon - looking forward to that. Add to that Bad Brains and the Steve Ignorant Crass thing and by the end of the month I'm going to be hard of hearing.

The Krah is part of the 101ers crew (great website) - this was done in Shoreditch back in July / August of this year and featured on Wooster.

For the second year running the Serpentine Gallery has teamed up with an artist to work with an architect to design their summer pavilion. This year its the turn of Olafur Eliasson who was responsible for the fantastic Weather Project at Tate Modern.

These pictures were taken a while ago now - thats sunshine lighting the pictures, remember sunshine? 

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007