Street art magazine Get Up or Get Out

A new street art magazine has hit the streets in several Australian cities - and you're about to get a copy.  

Get Up or Get Out was printed late last month and features articles from Houl, Vars, Bafcat, Dame Dismember and Will Coles. There are also interviews with Fukt and Bunkwaa, plenty of photos from Baddogwhiskas, and cover art (pictured) by SMC(3).

The project was run by Melinda Vassallo, author of Street Art of Sydney's Inner West,  and street artist Chris Tamm (aka Konsumterra). I was also the editor.

It's great to see a mixture of artists - all connected in some way - come together to create something unique. It's a celebration of the energy and talent within Australia's art scene.

Get Up or Get Out is free and available at shops and galleries in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide.

Or download a copy right here.

May Lane street art pt. III

Here is the third and final part of Acid Midget's May Lane Street Art Project series.

Today's music selection is 'Wait in the Dark' by Memory Tapes, from his new album Player Piano.

  Wait In The Dark by Memory Tapes 

This mixed media piece stares you in the face as you walk around. There are plenty of 'commissioned' pieces like this throughout the lane and a number of well-known artists have had their work hosted there.

Why are so many murals sombre? Is it because artists use distraught characters for emotive effect? No, I didn't think so.

The lady stencil reminds me of 2026. But as I often get names wrong, I'll save myself the hassle and say this was by Konsumterra.

You can do so much with found objects. This looks like a waving diabetic reindeer.

A crying Mongol.

If you see a cartoon pasted up in Sydney you can bet Jumbo or Zap did it. Looks like Zap did this one.

There was more to this piece than an iPhone lens can capture. I didn't want to stand at a sharp angle to squeeze it in. You wouldn't be able to read it. The irony is now you can't read the whole thing anyway.

Note to self: "Omar, you're a dick."

'Broken Memories' by Will Coles. He also did the next few sculptures.

'Dumb'.

A Postmodern cast of a newspaper stack and, top-left, a can which states "Asahi beer - my plemium bantazy."

You don't even know it, but each day you pack your child's lunch box with a 'soul-less' juice box. Then you get a few grey hairs and a divorce - and the kid is drinking motherf***ing Hahn Super Dry.

Just saying.

That brings these virtual tours of May Lane - one of Sydney's main street art and graffiti hubs - to a close.

Not everything I find on the streets gets blogged, so check out the Facebook page to see the extra bits.

Can we hold hands now?

Fin.

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Houl paste-ups outside dilapidated warehouse

 (All images: Botany Road, Alexandria, Sydney)

I went to Midas yesterday to pick up my car, which was in for an oil change.

Apparently the car was falling to pieces. Luckily the Midas mechanic was there to help.

He said "mate, you Midas well have the best", and charged me more than $400 for oil, a little bit of air-con gas and some paper for an invoice.

Anyway, on the way there I saw Houl paste-ups on the front of a warehouse.

It continued over a few buildings, side-by-side, which were run-down and abandoned.

There was evidence that graffiti writing and street arting took place inside these buildings; dozens of beer bottles were piled up behind boarded windows.

This character looks like a geriatric snail shell-headed dude with long arms and tuft of muff tucked under the nose, hunch hints this too, but blue eyes hide hints of youth and proof of age.

The hair I can't explain.

 

I'm not sure if Houl made this bone burger.

UPDATE: Thanks goes out to Skel E Tor, who commented on Facebook that these two burger paste-ups are by SMC3 from his Eat Shit and Die series.

Is Skel E Tor and SMC3 the same dude?

 

 

Or this devil burger.

 

Colin said this could be a Konsumterra piece in my last post on the Grafton Street wall in Chippendale.

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