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Speed it up, <1/2 hour paintings. No more.

The Bombs

Caracas graffitti is everywhere, legal and illegal alike. Most of it is raw, dirty and splattered in the best possible way. Enjoy.

Apparently Banksy hit Antimano

And Then There Was Boom

Only 2 of us left on the trip now. Winding down and reflecting on the 3 days spent at Nuevo Circo chilling with what I guess could be called staff, and may just be the coolest place in the entire planet. An unused bullring sitting in the heart of downtown Caracas reclaimed by artists, buskers, street urchines and undisireables, It´s now home to the largest graffitti wall in south america and some of the biggest concerts. Its been defended militantly against police and developpers during the early days of its occupation until Chavez offered his personal guard to be a constant presence, while we were there there was always something going on and everything was done strictly for kicks, never for profit.

Dirty Slackers

Getting treated too well in Antimino, in the heart of the Barrio, great people. We ran out of black paint, which seems impossible to get if you don't know exactly where to look, and ended up with pure oil. Do the best you can with what you got when working for an anarchist pirate radio station.

This is what happens when you try to rob us

Great people, good fun. Work starts soon but we´re getting great reception and support.

Colour

Lots of new multi-coloured spray paint is keeping me busy. Some oldies and a new painting I'm working on. It looks like crap right now. I'm still experimenting, but I am working with shitty $4 paint. It'll be a good challenge to pull off this one off.

New paintings on birch, both in progress.There was no colour used in the convict, weird that he looks blue. Venezuela plans are marching ahead slowly, I was shown the Thumbs Up! seasons for the Vice travel guide to psyche myself into travel mentality. I just finished off season 2, David Choe is a pretty amazing artist with a bit of cynicism and a lot of energy, it's tough not to like and compared to hitchhiking i'll be living in luxury.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqhLVUnCKOY

Improving slowly, my house smells like a campsite. Its kind of nice.

Free Time

For the first time since grade 10 I am unemployed and out of school, and am somehow still managing to falsely promise myself every night that I can get to bed before 4 tomorrow. Between a neglected bass, dusty novels, a brand new sketchbook and procrastinated responses to a facebook thread, I managed to get out to Active Surplus, where a crazy lady yelled at me in a mix of what sounded like Cantonese and English, but spelled out her insults instead of just saying them. Every purchase at that store is an impulse buy. I found a wood burner for $15 and rummaged my basement, which is a gold mine, for scrap wood to test it out. Here's what I came up with.