*CREATE AND SURVIVE #1: THE THOUSANDS, STREET ART AND... *

CREATE AND SURVIVE is a series of on-going visual art radio documentaries, made by the Organart team in conjunction with London arts based radio station Resonance 104.4FM. Tune in worldwide via www.resonancefm.com .

*CREATE AND SURVIVE #1: THE THOUSANDS, STREET ART AND... * The first in the series of radio documentaries from the Organ team, finds Michael 'RJ' Rushmore, he of respected street art blog Vandalog, and curator of The Thousands art show (as well as writer of the accompanying book – The Thousands: Painting Outside, Breaking In) in conversation in the gallery at the Village Underground, East London, with Sean Worrall and Marina Anthony from Organ. Informal conversations about Street art, the pieces in the show, and some of the major (and not so major quite yet) players of the ever evolving street art scene...

Create And Survive number one will run on Resonance 104.4fm on Thursday 11th Feb at 8pm Tune in worldwide on line, or via FM in London..

More information via http://www.organart.com/aaacreateandsurvive1.htm

"WHITE SPOTS 3"

The "Wall Of Love" as Graffik Gallery chose to call it (with their tongues in collective cheek), is being built, some of the pieces have gone up on the Organart website, really don't get some of the textures with digital imagery but there you go, some of the pieces up... I guess we get to see it all in the flesh later this week (Graffik opens for Fridays and weekends) . That one there is a piece on canvas called "White Spots 3", I believe you can buy them all direct from the gallery as Valentine gifts, very reasonably priced they are... Of course it you would like to buy one as a gift then there's still time to act, shout this way and out will come the paints and... Just get in touch.. a unique piece of art rather tha nma mass produced card...

And this week's 1p painting experiment sees two pieces going out, one to Newcastle (again) and one to Liverpool. More of that later...

No pieces were left at the Southbank yesterday in the end, weather turned, rain lashed down and so straight to the radio station without leaving any art... however, it seems another piece has found a home, got an e.mail last night from someone who found a piece of leaf art on card and wanted to know more, didn't say where he was or where he found it but did say he liked it and wanted to know why it was just left on the street....

WILFRED and LEAFHEARTS and WALLS OF.... Busy busy...

busy busy creatively good times... Sunday is me on the radio day, playing music (but that's Organgrinding and this is the No Organgrinding blog), playing the music that others don't on London's finest radio station, Resonance 104.4FM - on at 9.00pm UK time, you can hear it worldwide via www.resonancefm.com - you should check out Resonance FM, an arts based radio station, lots of art on the radio...

Here's a couple of cut to the chase 140 character Twitters from just now....

@Sean_Worrall A load of my specially commissioned one off Valentine's canvas spray pieces in Graffik & Portobello Rd restaurants as Graffik's "WallOfLove"

@Sean_Worrall #Radio day again, I'm on @ResonanceFM, 9pm UK time,104.4FM #Ldn or www.resonancefm.com, a bag load of the stuff other don't play on FM radio

You see, delivered some new pieces, some of that hand painted vinyl, some fresh canvas pieces and such to Graffik Gallery last Friday... and they commented that those leaves look like hearts - well lots of you do, leafhearts. Now it could be that I'm heartless, the truth is I'm painting leaves, but who's to say, if you see hearts then You are as right as I am when it comes to what the paintings are about and what can be seen on the canvas... So the good people at Graffik asked for more heartleaves, and why not? I showed them some on the website and that was indeed what they wanted. THe idea fired me and so an all night session of work (again) and waiting for the sun to come up on Saturday morning (and hoping for no rain) and spray paint hitting canvas in the dawn light and a 1o new pieces of "Leaf-heart" art (along with the four they had requested from the website) delivered at 10am Saturday morning for the Graffik "WallOfLove" that's happening both in the gallery and in a couple of the Restaurants over the street on the main drag of Portobello Road, just up a bit from the Westway bridge (do I get a free meal? I can't afford to eat in Restaurants...). I'll take some photos and put up the new work on Monday, busy here today getting tonight's radio show together and painting more pieces and this really is a non-stop operation, both the Organ grinding and the non-Organ Grinding...

That's a painting of "Wilfred" up there, a battered beatbox who has a lot of history to him, belongs to Marina, did time at the GLC Capital Hop Hop Jam of '85, served well on Robot dancing, street busking duty, he's the real deal... and he's now been painted several times on cardboard, vinyl and in that case up there, on canvas. That one is from last year, one of the works delivered on Friday and now on view (and indeed for sale) at Graffik - is that a leaf or a heart there? Busy busy, creatively busy.... The Wall of Love Valentine art will be up on line tomorrow...

And later on today I shall leave some more Cardboard pieces on the Southbank... This is what I like about so called "Street Art", the marks, the way it evolves, the uncluttered real way it gets out there... I don't consider myself a street artist, I don't really have the right to claim I am, but I do like the marks and the atittudes and the way work evolves and how it gets out there to people, and spray paint has been my medium of choice for years (and years...) And I do like the idea of leafhearts.... not really that hearltess then?

7" singles, 12" singles, born again black vinyl

Putting old ORG Records stock to good use today, four slices of fresh unplayed vibrant black vinyl painted during the day and given a whole new life now the bands have been and gone. Now the question is, if I sell these, do I still have to pay the bands some royalties? (well they are records released on my record label somewhere back in the last century), Now should I paint on the rarest record I can find rather then this redundant old stock?

The world famous Ringling Brothers Mechanical Bird Circus

And off went the mechanical bird to join the circus. The world famous Ringling Brothers Mechanical Bird Circus.

Today's daily piece of creativity, I 'finished' it last this morning... There's always five or six pieces in not so 'finished' states here. I need a bigger workspace...

MECHANICAL BIRD

This is how the mechanical bird looked before the paint came in and he went off to the circus... a work in progress that's now full of colour and out there in the leaves and... all part of the CROW CROW COLLECTIVE thing

1p painting experiment part 3...

Part 3 of the ongoing 1p weekly painting experiment. This week a piece called WHITE LEAVES, RED SPOT, you can view it and indeed bid on it here on ebay. So far two pieces have been put up and both have sold for just 1p each, double the number of views for painting number two, or double the number thinking the work to only be good enough for Michael Landy's Art Bin (or maybe not?) I certainly don't see the work or the sale as a 'failure', I'm rather enjoying this, kind of like leaving the pieces on a virtual street... so far rather like the results and feedback...

And today is Imbolc, we're looking for those green shoots of Spring... an important day, maybe even more so that the turning point of the Winter Solstice? Green shoots to paint? New crop of leaves?