The Home Unleashed by Miranda Donovan

Artist Miranda Donovan recent show The Home Unleashed showcased graffiti in a different way. Instead of plastering the walls in spray paint Miranda created these works of art which she then hung onto the pristine walls of a gallery.

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Miranda Donovan HQ

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Identity of Banksy on EBay $US999,999

There's no denying that E-Bay features many interesting items to purchase some of which received worldwide attention. A user under the guise of 'Jaybuysthings' in the states recently offered the true identity of Banksy for sale on the network. What he offered was a piece of paper with the lads true name written or typed onto it.  Although we didn't get to see the bid it apparently reached  $US999,999 with Free Shipping Offered. The American informer said he'd tried selling the idenity before on EBay which was qucikly shutdown 'because I was selling something that was not tangible' he said 'It is now tangible,'

We found some quotes online from 'Jaybuysthings' original Item Desciptions;


"The Identity of 'Banksy'"


'If you win this auction I will mail you a piece of paper revealing the true identity of 'Banksy','


'I have uncovered his identity by matching up the prices of his sold pieces to corresponding tax records. I will reveal no more details.'


'The winner of this auction is the only person I will ever share this information with. The piece of paper will say his name, nothing more.'

'I give you 100% assurance that it is most certainly the full name of the street artist known as 'Banksy'.'

Read more:: ORIGINAL SOURCE

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PHILISTINES - Saturday 5th February @ The Junction Rooms

PHILISTINES - Saturday 5th February @ The Junction Rooms, 578 Kingsland Road, Dalston  9pm - 2am, free entry.

Philistines exhibition launched back in September 2010 on a Thursday at The Junction Rooms in Dalston. Word of mouth resulted in its popularity of being 'not just an art exhibition' but also a place to meet like minded characters and listen to groundbreaking music.

This art and music event has since had much support from the local community and it's popularity has seen endless interest and numbers through the door. Many art pieces have been purchased and others commissioned, there's always a handful of artists floating around so come down and say hello personally. Philistines is a hot ticket and one of the coolest places to visit.

Please note if you cannot make the actual event, this is an ongoing exhibition and can be viewed at other times and by appointment only with the man himself, Philip Ignatious Salacious Stein (see http://junctionroom.co.uk/ for hours of trade.) The exhibition resides at The Junction Rooms, 578 Kingsland Road, Dalston.

Philip Ignatious Salacious Stein will be celebrating his 50th birthday so expect lots of surprises and special guests at the party which will be held on two floors across the cool venue in Dalston. Pen the diary, it's a free masquerade ball with guest DJs, surprises and features affordable and exclusive art to purchase.

We move from a Thursday to a Saturday. This successful art/music event has gone from strength to strength... A project and exhibition which brings together street artists, collectors and lovers of art and music.

This is what happeneds at Philistines in December:
Aloosh EP Launch, Guest DJs, interactive artist Lubix Slumbarave....
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Karma on Prowl in Streets of Amsterdam

This work is so fresh that the artist hasn't even woke up from painting it last night (friday) Irish street art sensation Karma is currently on the prowl in Holland's Amsterdam. We're not sure how long he's there but we're gonna try to hook him up with another artist interviewed in LSD Magazine and that's the stencil supremo FAKE... we'll see how that goes... Meanwhile back on the ranch, keep out of trouble Karma.... Dont do anything that Team LSD wouldn't do....

Read Karma's Interview in latest edition of LSD Magazine - Stand and Deliver

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LSD Magazine presents Revolve by Hedflux (Music Video)

Riding the twisting, turning, subversively yearning synthesized sorcery of the fresh cut release by the author of LSD’s Soulflux column, Hedflux, rolls the explosion of visual lucidity penetrating public consciousness spray by searing spray and reclaiming the streets for the rays of individuality. Chewing through the restraints of cavernous conformity and the liquid bonds of group-think, the mischief, the bursting forms, the awe inspiring colour and the wry, winking subliminal resistance bursts out of the frames and rides the currents of direct action deep into the reshaping of our sensory identity…..

 REVOLVE  by HEDFLUX IS OUT NOW
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Otto Schade - London Solo Show - ON NOW

OTTO SCHADE - SOLO SHOW

Otto has been creating some great pieces in London recently particularly in the east end. We've interviewed him in a past issue of the magazine and encourage everyone to go see the man's high end works...

Lava Gallery. LAVA Gallery 1.11 Kingly Court, 

Carnaby Street W1B 5PW, United Kingdom  

Opening  Party: 

Thursday 6th January 2010 | 6PM-9PM  

Exhibition from: 

7th January -19th January 2010 Otto Schade Website 

LSD Magazine - Stand and Deliver - Issue 6

Carving an electric groove through the snow as we hit radical imagination's flow - from the deep soul ride to the world outside LSD Issue 6... Stand and Deliver is ripping your neural networks a searing new synthesis. From the giants of underground dance to visual poetry's seductive glance, from the corporate sly hijack to the spray soaked funk attack, LSD 6 is out now, ramping up the pressure, piling on the heat and lifting you clean off your feet. Cascading with sizzling content - this is one virus your hard drive is begging for loud and proud... Let's Go...


Big Love from Wayne Anthony (Class of 88), Sirius23 & Team LSD

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J.P Malot - Shoot the Bank Canvas Sale

JP Malot Works - ALL FOR SALE

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LSD Magazine Interviews - Pip Rush / Bert Cole - Arcadia (Issue 5)

We know our way round a party here at LSD, but this is pure next generation stuff as every single synapse crackles into a lightening bolt of gobsmacked wonder and the barriers crumble before the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of heaving minds, bodies and souls coming together in breathtaking unity and rushing their fucking nuts and their bolts off. After the spellbinding spectacle that was their field at Glastonbury, we caught up with Pip Rush and Bert Cole - the visionary nutters behind it all for a word...

Can you tell us a little about your backgrounds 

PIP - I grew up in the countryside in Dorset within a family of artists. My brother Joe had just started the Mutoids when I was born so got a lot of inspiration seeing their shows as a kid.Tried the school thing but didn’t enjoy the system, Started working on and off with the Mutoids 15 years on, learned how to build big scrap sculptures and enjoyed some wicked parties around the world. 

BERT - I grew up in the Dorset countryside with an early passion for mechanics, machines, improvisation and acquiring the skills for making things. I went to my first Glastonbury 20 years ago and witnessed Archaos aged 10 which helped my wheels get turning.  I took off on the road at 16 with tent company Kayam that took me all over the world in amongst festivals and events and was quickly made a tent master and spent the next 11 years touring the globe in the summers with a motley tent crew moving giant structures for events from orchestras to raves. In the off season I started to put on my own free parties and was becoming more interested in getting people together with music and entertainment outside of the normal system.

How did you come together to create Arcadia?

PIP - I started a traveling arts café and travelled round European festivals and squats building party environments. It was hard graft with no funding and we spent a lot of time trying to fix the trucks and acquire diesel... But it was loads of fun, and we met hundreds of creative, driven people. We rocked up at a Spanish festival one day and bumped in to Bert who I vaguely knew from childhood. He was erecting these massive tents, having fun with his crew playing about with serious machinery. I was really inspired to see the possibilities when you had quality tools and good food…and I think he was also inspired by how much fun our freestyle creative lifestyle was…


The next year we scored a good budget from a festival in Ireland and he came out to help with his crew. It was a real potent mix of crews and we built an amazing environment full of sculptures, with a big tent in the middle with bands and stuff. Sometime in the early hours we had a chat about how a linear stage and a separation between the musicians, crowd and sculpture was all wrong, so decided to try and merge it all in to one 360 arena…. From the outside we looked like a dribbling mess, but on the inside wed just hit on an idea that was about to grow beyond our wildest visions!


BERT - I knew of Pip from an early age as we grew up pretty near each other but started to get more in touch as time went on and we realized we had some common interests. I worked as part of a team Pip put together to produce an area at Electric Picnic in 2006 and there was something really positive about working together and the ball started rolling there really as the momentum gathered to try and create, make or produce things in festivals that were nothing traditional but a fusion of influences and elements that combined, made for a full 360 degree all encompassing atmosphere in which people could really let themselves go. This was made relatively obvious from witnessing years of festivals and concerts always following the same old linear formula of stage and auditorium etc. We quite clearly decided to turn it inside out and upside down and create a hub from which effects, music, energy radiates in which people are amongst rather than simply watching. Where things have got to now is a mere evolution of what started for us there.

How important is recycling and mutation in within the Arcadia concept?

PIP - Hmm, it’s massive. Anyone with a few basic skills and a welder can make amazing things out of scrap with very little other resources. Also the inspiration that comes from visiting a scrap yard and seeing mountains of machines from past generations piled up high is massive in itselfe.… We get all our stuff from military scrap yards, Its interesting seeing crates and crates of 

BERT - I feel like we start with outlandish concepts and then search for good bits of scrap as building blocks, slot then in and re arrange them. This allows the concept, design and manufacture to organically and simultaneously develop along an exciting path.

How important is wider team spirit and the essence of collaboration in the bigger installations?

PIP - It’s all about that really, building creative stuff, pushing the boundaries and having a big party at the end really brings the best out of people. ‘Arcadia’ has attracted so many amazing individuals and groups in to my life, all who have inspired me and shaped how I live. I think everybody must have a similar motive, because they all give their heart and soul to work around the clock and make it happen… and they’re definitely not doing it for the money! 

BERT - It’s all about the people, community and spirit. What we do is fuelled greatly by huge amounts of enthusiasm, focus and relentless hard work towards a collective goal by many amazing people who have a huge range in skills, interests lifestyles and ideals. Together these form a multi faceted, ever changing collective who point in the same direction.

READ FULL INTERVIEW IN LSD MAGAZINE ISSUE FIVE

LSD Magazine Interviews - French Street Art Legend C215 (Issue 5)

Laced with a both a haunting realism and an otherworldly transcendence of the flesh into the immortal mysteries of identity, the supremely prolific and painfully genuine C215’s work drips with the whirlwind emotions of the human condition. He speaks through the universal language of communication, the human face to the universal elements of our existence and our shared hopes and shattered dreams through savagely emotive, yet silently reflective portraits that define the commonalities of humanity through the fragmentation we all feel so witheringly and all collude in so blindly. Yet while he urges silent introspection toward our attitudes and prejudices through his silent poetry, despite all the corrupting ills of society, greed and ego that penetrate us an overwhelming joy and embrace of all that is human shines through through the radiant energy that vibrates around his work and the exuberant and dramatic color schemes he so often hurls into the increasingly monochrome world around us. This is intangible complexity in all its conflicted clarity and the man himself took a moment for an exchange of ideas with LSD...

Can you tell us a little about your background and your early journey 

My life was reasonably stable until the age of 14 when I became a raging drug addict : hash, heroin, coke and moreover LSD. My LSD period was unarguably great for opening up channels of creativity, but led also to a certain self destruction. I travelled with the Nomads alongside Spiral Tribe in the early 90’s until I found myself in jail and was forced to re assess my condition, realising that it was time to get myself clean of drugs and start out on the next phase of my life. I began to study tentatively, before the momentum began to snowball and I eventually found myself with a masters degree in Art History, another in History and 2 bachelors degrees, one in German, and the other in English. I fee


What impact did the illegal rave scene have on your creativity and your perception of the world?

It gave me the opportunity to discover that you can be at the heart of a movement that is bigger than you and step outside pure individualism into communal goals, communal living, and a wider purpose. It woke me up to the fact that you don’t need to go to night clubs or museums to experience art, but that you can feel art, create art and be art by yourself, doing it with your mates in unexpected places each with their own intangible character like abandoned warehouses or caves. Ultimately, art is visual poetry, and poetry is always unexpected. 

Is there a beauty in the abandoned?

Whatever is abandoned can equally be saved, and that is the essence of romanticism. Abandoned warehouses, asylums and derelict wastelands reflect our own lives, with a strong sense of the ephemeral. We feel small and modest when we weigh our prized individualism against time and the wider universe, and consider how long any of us or anything we do will last within collective memory. Time being stopped in a specific place helps us to understand how short and transient life really is.


What does our attitude to public space say about us as a society?

In today’s Western cities we find ourselves living in an increasingly puritan atmosphere. Under the questionable cover of struggling against crime and terrorism, cities have been cleaned up to the point of obliterating any form of self expression with the glaring exception of branding and corporate advertising. The bottom line is that within in a modern liberal economy, public space exists solely to generate profits for commercial interests through the penetration and shaping of our daily reality - that’s it. It’s up to us to change this scandalous dynamic and speak about the place of human beings in the urban landscape. Raising that voice and letting it ring out and be heard would truly be a new humanism.

What effect does gentrification have on community identity?

Gentrification gradually forces cities of the world to fit the same mould. Communities are slowly being dissolved to allow this globalised uniformity to set in and genuine social relationships tend to disappear, leaving society and the urban landscape only really able to sustain business relationships. There are walls of separation everywhere: door codes, guards, cards, etc that break down the spirit of human interaction and communal trust and break us down into a dehumanised conformism.


How do you explore the forgotten in your work?

I try to show the neglected and the rejected people society chooses to blind itself to - the homeless, street kids, people who failed or had no chance to succeed and I paint their inherent beauty and dignity. In a world where people who have fallen through the net of officially ‘socially acceptable’ I try in my own way to bring their identities into the light and perhaps awaken the passing viewer to the real flesh and blood, feeling individuals that they may decide to ignore or whose conditioning may not allow them to embrace the common humanity they have with these forgotten souls.

Is there a universal language of the human face? 

Emotion is universal and eyes betray the same feelings everywhere. What is important is to find the link that unifies us within the same community and a shared humanity, beyond religion, politics, economic imbalances and social issues. My job would be to gather people once more around simple feelings they could share together, facing an unexpected homeless portrait painted in a street and speak directly to the individual humanity within the portrait that speaks to the primal in us all.

READ FULL INTERVIEW IN LSD MAGAZINE ISSUE FIVE

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LSD Magazine Interviews - Muro (Issue 5)

Bilbao born artist Muro has evolved out of straight up lettering into an astonishingly diverse and vibrant set of styles. Globetrotting from Europe to Senegal with cans in hand - his bizarre menagerie of surrealist wonder is truly the stuff that brings the concrete to life and sets the imagination flowing. Hampered by a language barrier on the interview front - we did a Q+A, but have tried to cram in as many images as possible into the piece......

Self taught or art school? 

Self taught 

How long you been painting and what influenced your decision to paint on the streets? 

Since 2000, influenced by the 90´s Barcelona scene  

Are artists safe from arrest in your city? 

Absolutelly yes, I´m actually living in a small town where graffiti has a good reception by the people. 

How important is street art and graffiti in your city? 

Not enought, it´s never enought. 

You’ve painted in many countries, how do you decide on what country to visit next? 

Sometimes I receive a invitation to paint in a foreing city and other times I go where I want.  

More and more artists are travelling to paint in Africa, how did Senegal respond to an artist painting on their streets? 

It´s always a surprise, they are very opened to receive people and treated me very good, maybe they're inocence makes them better people than us. 

Street art graffiti in most cities has a very short shelf life before someone goes over it or get buffed, do you have the same problem in your cities and how do you personally respond? 

I try to not get affected by this acctions because everybody knows that graffiti is a ephemeral art, but sometimes I get angry and painted again over it.

READ FULL INTERVIEW IN LSD MAGAZINE ISSUE FIVE

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