Koonung Creek Series (1-8)

Koonung Creek is part of the Yarra water catchment in Melbourne. It exists in a highly urbanized altered and modified environment. Alongside it runs a bike path, part of a broader well-connected network of trails. 

Graffiti on the streets is all about speed and agility, the ability to put some work up and move on. Often you'll see street bombing with simple basic one or two colours, classically chrome and black. Bike paths however are fascinating spot for graffiti. You often get well protected spots where the artist can take time and create more elaborate colorful pieces.

Christmas Day

It is Christmas. Which actually means nothing to me. Its become one of those traditions, if you don't believe it, you have to celebrate it anyway, otherwise your a bad sport. I wouldn't stop other people celebrating it but would question what does Christmas actually mean for you. I think the materialistic nature, associated spending is absolutely fucked. In saying that enjoy the public holiday however you please.

Christmas graffiti!

The Underclass

In Australia we don't really have class system like Britain or India. That's not to say a social hierarchy doesn't exist. Its just more unfamiliar than most in countries. Australia is a developed country by international standards. I think as a society we tend to ignore the lower class or what I'd prefer to call the underclass. Those people that were not necessarily given the opportunity whether it be a caring family, a stable upbringing or have lost everything for whatever reason. We are no position to judge because who's to say it couldn't happen to you or someone you know and care about. All it can take is a trigger something minor change that has major repercussion. Mousey was fatally stabbed and killed in 2014, RIP.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/homeless-man-mousey-fatally-stabbed-in-melbourne-city-park-20140105-30bzi.html

Ringwood wall part 1 of 3

Its not often you find high quality walls in the outer suburbs. There is always graffiti along the train lines and down the drains, but away from these culturally accepted area's it becomes scarce. Next in line comes the blank canvas concrete walls behind industrial area's. These places are often harder to find. Once an artist gets onto another artist then a crew or group of writers will go down and have a chilled out paint session. The result will often be a high quality wall like this one.

RIP Rennie Ellis

I attempted a Rennie Ellis styled photo. 

Rennie snapped amazing photos which take you back to Australia in the seventies. His photos speak words, and document lifestyle and catch little significant moments in time. Check out his tribute website.

http://www.rennieellis.com.au/

9 to 5

Tired, and stressed look, (multiple bags around the eyes) consumed by the monotonous repetitive nature of life: birth, school, work, death. Nature is beautiful (flowers) and music is the key to sanity? Or music speaks louder than words?

De-Preston

Legal wall on a main road I've already forgotten exactly where it was (somewhere close to Preston). Radiating with style, flow and colour. Gram  (bottom left) is one of those freak of nature graffiti writers with a hand style that would rival some of Melbourne's best. This work breaks up the monotone landscape of a harsh, artificial suburb. 

NOST!

In your face, don't give fuck attitude and they're about to come and bomb throw-ups on your house. Nost crew is a law onto themselves. Graffiti has loose rules, and most artists follow them as a guide. Nost ignores the no go zones and constantly pioneers new spots that have never seen a spray-can. We don't know it now but Nost and Pork are the  equivalent of 70K back in the early 2000's. Pushing boundaries, getting good spots (heavens), abandoned buildings, train lines and trying many different styles. If they were arrested now they'd still have 100's of tags, throwies and pieces around Melbourne for years. They have successfully smashed the system, probably harder than any crew has ever done before.  

150th Post, Celebration of Female Street Artists

In a male dominated movement female street artists and even more so female graffiti writers often don't get the attention they deserve. Graffiti is for graffiti writers, and street art is for the people. Street art work often has a specific meaning, whereas graffiti is something everybody does but most people grow out of. Give a kid a pen and they go write on their bedroom walls, tables, toilets, pencil cases and work books. I think more often then not females want to make the world more beautiful through art and males want to see destructive creativity (cars crashing, violence of a sort in video games, contact sport etc.). So maybe boys and men are more hard-wired to bomb graffiti. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-05/meet-the-women-of-australia's-street-art-scene/6984378

Kaff-iene often does a anthropomorphic characters, which perhaps is saying we are all animals and the animalistic instinct still remains a part of humans.  

 The notion that innocent kid would just take to walls and completely fuck this society's perception of normality.

Seeking personal space and comfort, in a homogeneous society  

Thought bubbles on Hosier Lane

Lush is one of those unique graffiti artists which is always pushing the conformity envelope open to new ideas and concepts. He often mocks himself through self-deprecating humor. Lushsux his blog on tumblr makes everyone question why does he suck and it deliberately generates attention, subconsciously. He has brought a lot of attention to the scene, which in itself is another blog post. I don't like a lot of his work and think in many ways he perpetuates an all to common misogynistic attitude amongst writers. The sexual objectification of woman in his work, is absoutely fucked up. As a a society we need to be continuously pushing gender equality.

http://lushsux.tumblr.com/

 Mocking the superficial social media world, where everyone needs to take a photo (selfie-wank) to somehow justify their existence in this increasingly homogenized world.

 Making fun of tourists that come to Hosier lane and who don't attempt to understand the culture and just see what is surface deep.

Insecurities of everyday citizens