Start shaking your cans, check your face masks, sharpen your best scalpel knife because the Cans Festival is on this weekend. Promising a huge array of artists working only with stencils there's also going to be an opportunity for anyone to turn up with their own stencils and decorate the walls in the designated area. Outside of this area normal British legal system rules apply.

Full details are on thecansfestival.com. Event location will be announced at 10.30am on Friday 2nd May on the cansfestival website. Event runs in London this weekend 3rd, 4th and 5th May 2008.

Artists listed so far are:

Bsas Stencil / Run Don't Walk / James Dodd (dlux) / Tom Civil (civilian) / Vexta / Prism / Daniel Melim / Altocontraste / Bandit / Roadsworth /3D Del Naja / Artiste-Ouvrier / Blek / Sten / Sadhu / C215 / Lucamaleonte / Lex / Orticanoodles / Kaagman / Dolk / Pobel / M-City / Vhils / Btoy / Coolture / Schhh / Borbo / Sam3 / Faile / John Grider / Logan Hicks / Pure Evil / Dot Masters / Dan / Eelus / Banksy

and maybe you?

Eine makes the 'Mother' club in Old Street exciting for a change and creates hell in Hackney Wick.

Original work on three sides of a building, stitched here to make it easy to see the whole thing.

New work by Cept found on the Roman Road, Bethnal Green.

Seen on a main route into the City of London on a prime spot for getting noticed by investment bankers as they head to work:

There's not nearly enough Dave The Chimp on artofthestate so here's the first part of correcting this. Mighty Mo provides the aerial monkey street onlooker.

Dave The Chimp street triptrych!

After 800 odd posts I've been taking a break from the blog thing for a while. You'd think in that time I would have come up with a whole load of new ideas but no, it's still going to be London, graffiti, punk and just plain weird photos.

So what;s happened since I last posted? A quick recap will appear over the next few days but I guess that this new Banksy in Newman Street, off Off Oxford Street, London was the main event:

Nick Walker has a new show opening this Thursday (i.e. today)  at the Black Rat Press gallery entitled V for Vandalism. Earlier in the week he was in London projecting images onto Big Ben and the Bank Of England. Pictures soon.