So Sneaks and Peaks are having a year up in Digbeth this Saturday, the likes of us will definitely be there! Live painting, music, trainers and the rest you can read below. Get yourselves down there if your near cause its not one to be missed….
SNEAKS & PEAKS – BIRMINGHAM’S FIRST SNEAKER & APPAREL MEET
SATURDAY 6TH APRIL 2013, 12-7PM. CUSTARD FACTORY WAREHOUSE, GIBB STREET, DIGBETH, B9 4AA
Sneaks & Peaks is a exclusive Sneaker & Apparel meet, where traders from around the country descend on Digbeth, Birmingham to sell rare, new releases, need to own & hard to find Kicks from the likes of Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Reebok and more.
Also showcasing independent clothing brands, from start up brands to labels smashing the street wear scene.
In the main room we have 40 confirmed traders including the likes of;
The Candy Store – Birmingham & London’s premium Street wear store.
Rustafari’s Kicks – High end, hard to find kicks that don’t break the bank.
Dark Circle – leading Apparel brand as repped by established artists Rita Ora & Kendrick Lamarr.
HEKstyle – Graffiti portrait custom kicks seen on the feet of Stooshe & Jessie J.
Big Eyes Little Soles & April’s Kicks – both specialists in kicks for chicks & smaller sizes.
Co-promoters Elchok & Sneeky Fox will be showcasing their own brands as well as bringing you an array of dope kicks.
……….To name but a few.
Beat suppliers for the main room include The Record Store & Shadow City.
The Back Room Lounge offers more of a retro vibe with Vinyl, Art & classic casual kicks. Traders include the established Urban Village & Retro World.
Funk, Soul & Reggae flavours provided by DJ’s Goosensei, Spinks & more.
And if that wasn’t enough – due to popular demand, we’ve now installed a Sneaks & Peaks ‘Swap & Sell’ area. The concept speaks for itself – you bring your kicks (a maximum of 5 pairs per person) & negotiate to trade, swap or sell.
In the infamous arches of Gibb Street we bring you ‘The Bat Cave’…
Treat your taste buds with our gourmet street food vendors including;
The Meatshack – pure burger awesomeness.
Habanero – Mexican taste bud treats.
Platinum Pancakes – sweet tasty crepes.
The Bench 504 International Graffiti Shop will transform this area during the course of the day showcasing B-Town’s leading Graff artists providing live Street Art.
PI Media & Urban Tricks Academy will showcase their breathtaking Free Run & tricking skills throughout the course of the day.
Doors open at midday prompt – just £1 on the door.
After Party brought to you in conjunction with Provide shop, Strictly Invitation only for those in the know.
Contact – Stef (Elchok) 07850-448802/John (Sneeky Fox) 07926-480530
Contact email – sneaksandpeaks@ymail.com
Instagram @sneakspeaks
Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/Sneaksandpeaks?fref=ts
Facebook event page –
https://www.facebook.com/events/250522298411937/?fref=ts
Posted in Birmingham, Chicks, Clothes, Original Content, UK
So there is a little exhibition on next week at HQ Leicester fit for Kings as described, HQ do put on a good time so I’m sure it’ll be worth checking out.
Here’s some nice dub steez by mr Wisk
Anybody that also wanta to send anymore photo’s to us, get them to admin@keyseventeen.com
Posted in Arty, Music, Original Content, UK
Planning weddings, and being very busy at work, is playing havok with my spare time, so updating blogs etc and getting out and about has been a rare event recently, hence the lack of activity from my end on here recently, so apologies. So with a spare hour on my hands, I’ve have time to address the balance somewhat. Here’s the latest offering from our feature about graffiti photographers called Five Of The Best. Recently we chatted with Delete08.
Name: Delete
Location: London based but getting out to France, USA, Spain, Italy as often as I can afford it.
Years snapping graff: Been taking pictures on and off since the mid-80′s but took a very long break until decent affordable digital cameras started to appear on the market around 2005 and then haven’t had a day off since! Started posting to Flickr in 2008 (which is why some people call me Delete08). I’m particularly interested in tracksides, edgelands and the out of reach plots that push you to climb one just more wall – and then just one more – to get the shot you want. I love the way graffiti can take you to places in the middle of a crowded city that very few people even realise exist.
Equipment: I take most of my pictures with an old Panasonic G1. It’s small and light enough so it doesn’t get in the way when climbing fences and in the dark it just seems to suck the light in. But as the saying goes, the best camera is the one you have with you – so sometimes it’s my phone.
When I looked back through my pictures to chose these I realised that pretty much 99% of the graff in them is gone now – even stuff I shot last week has either been buffed, dogged or burned – and that is one of the reasons I do this. I think it’s vital that walls are constantly changing but at the same time it’s great to have a record somewhere of all all that skill and creativity (and sometimes just the bottle).
Here’s some links to his work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/delete08
http://deletism.tumblr.comAny links to your work
Posted in Arty, Burners, Damage, Derelict, European, Five Of The Best, Halls Of Fame, London, UK
Tagged bus, Delete08, Five of the best, FOTB, France, graffiti, graffiti photographer, London, photographers, reflection, wall
Courtesy of Reas
BBC removes Blue Peter episode which shows racist graffiti
The children’s programme Blue Peter has been criticised after it showed graffiti featuring swearing and racist language.
Parents complained after spotting foul language spray-painted on walls, in an item on last Tuesday’s programme.
One of the walls included the phrase “—— JNR” while another featured the phrase “Surprise Nigaz”.
A viewer writing on the BBC’s message-board said: “I was watching Blue Peter on Tuesday this week where they had a graffiti legend on. However when they cut to still photos in the picture it was clearly written ‘surprise nigaz’. Should we be putting such images on a children’s programme? (Are) people not doing their jobs properly and not filtering pictures? Or are they seeing how far they can push it?”
The BBC has subsequently been forced to remove an episode of the flagship children’s show.
David Davies, the Conservative MP who sits on the home affairs select committee said: “I’m horrified that a programme I used to watch as a lad which used to teach you how to make things out of toilet rolls and bits of string is now teaching children about racist and abusive graffiti.
He added: “Why on earth would they want to be doing a programme about graffiti in the first place. It is setting a horrendous example.”
A BBC spokeswoman said: “It was a human error and we apologise for any offence caused. We have taken the episode down from the iPlayer.”
Our main man Ruelo owning shit in the snow as usual….
Posted in Bombing, European, Original Content, UK
For the next installment of FOTB we caught up with NoLionsInEngland. He shares a few of his best pics of London life and what motivates him to take pictures of graffiti. I find that the best graffiti photographers are akin to the best writers, that being that they are very aloof, and have no interest in viewing-figures on flickr etc, only in creating a good piece/picture for their piers to enjoy. Anyway, enough of my bullshit, here’s the interview.
Name: NoLionsInEngland, it comes from the tune of the same name by Ian Brown.
Yeah, I wouldn’t describe these as my top 5 shots, just 5 shots that I like. Pref and Roids are next-level-but-one writers but there were loads of other writers that I wanted to give props to. I chose the Prefs shot as a kind of RIP to The Pit and I liked the greyscale effect of the Roids shot. Apart from being a nice reflection, I like the “virgin wall” element in the Hekla shot. The tube door shots have this great etching colour but also have that link to trains. Although I’ve lived in London for more or less 30 years I have always cycled everywhere and completely missed the heyday of running steel. Reno’s tree trunk carving was the first pic that came up in my 2011 tags folder, I love the way the tag has matured over time and the colours in the bark were gorgeous. The Undercroft shot just had an interesting dynamic, combining the graff clutter with motion of the ghostly cyclist. I found those shots a bit more interesting than the huge number of tight cropped, so safe HOF pieces. I still ended up missing rooftop shots, night time shots, vans and a hell of a lot more. It was fun to have to think for a few hours about picking 5 strong photos.
Location base, and locations travelled to for pics(worldwide). I live in West London, not too far from Trellick Tower and The Pit. Most of my photography is done in the Shoreditch area or anywhere that I am easily able to cycle to on my way to or from work. With busy work and family acitivites, photography as a hobby has to fit in around whatever free time I find and where I find it. That generally means lunch breaks a couple of times a week in Shoreditch, which of course is hardly graff central. I travel a lot for work, mainly to Greece but the routine of going to offices, staying in hotels and not actually having any slack time there means that opportunities to photograph anything other than passing shit while hanging out the window of a taxi is very limited. Maybe once a year I get a few hours to explore and put together an Athens photoset. You should have heard the groans from the family when we were on holiday in West Ireland last Summer and after driving 50 miles to another town I confessed “Actually……there’s just this one wall I want to find.” (http://graffoto1.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/phlegm-in-bantry-ireland.html).
Years snapping graff. I started photographing street art in about 2005 but it wasn’t until 2008 when graff took over Leake St that I got passionate about photographing graffiti. Graff culture is far richer and more interesting than that surrounding street art. While my photographer’s eye helped me readily appreciate can control, form, flow, fill and the intangible elements that make up great pieces, I’ll put my hand up and say that I am not the World’s most skilled reader of wild burners. Although I love the full gamut of graff from tags to burners, give me an illegal rooftop dub over a HOF piece any day.
Equipment used: Nikon D90 SLR, 18-105mm lens, Lumix TZ8 for travel or second camera on a “shoot”, Diana F+/Fisheye II (my daughter’s cameras which I steal from time to time though I then have to pay her development and printing costs!), Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod with 322RC2 head, Phottix TC-501 interval meter for rare timelapse missions.
Any links to your work: There is no link to my work at all, graff photography and writing is my release from work, my therapy.
Many thanks to NoLionsInEngland for taking part. If you do want to see more of his pics, search him out on Flickr.
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Posted in Arty, Exclusive, Five Of The Best, Original Content, UK
Tagged Five of the best, FOTB, Hekla, Ian Brown, interview, Leak St, London, MSK, NoLionsInEngland, Pref, Reko, roid, Shoreditch, The Pit, train, Trellick Towers, Undercroft, writers
If you like your underground breaks and beats to be dark and dirty, then you might like this dubstep producer called Shard Project who hails from Reading. DJ and producer for 20 years he is a regular at all of Reading’s noisiest nights and free parties, dropping anything from dubstep to DnB, and throwing in a set or two of three and four deck mixing. A classy crowd pleaser everytime.
Posted in UK
Tagged basslines, beats, DnB, dubstep, music, Reading, Shard Project, underground
