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darbysniper Status: Member Location: England NOT THE UK D:< Country: United Kingdom Gender: Male Age: 17 Type of artist: Emoticonist Registered: Jul 25, 2006 Last online: 4m ago

Email: c.vaughan.essex@gmail.com Msn: emolotricity@googlemail.com

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I am 16. I am fairly active physically, but spend a lot of time on the internet.

I can usually be found on #storm-artists on irc.sff.net

So, like, today I went to The Cans Festival with [conorschild].

We met at 12:30 outside Halfords, and I'd forgotten my wallet so Mum had to drop that back to me, so we got our paint and headed up town. We got to Waterloo, and found Leake Street by following the hipsters. Bastards with their Starbucks coffee and their brand new "vintage" Led Zeppelin tops and their bloody Thundercats shite.

This was our stencil (To scale, actual size was 15cmx15cm);


Based on .

So, after queuing for ages, we got in and looked around, and there was a fair mix of honest to God shite, and pretty damn awesome stuff. Figuring that there were people much worse than us, we registered ([conorschild] using the street name "David") and found a nice empty spot. Sprayed our tag down, and moved onto another (Both on the pavement for practice ). Then we sprayed it on an empty section of wall, and some woman came over and bawled (Or bawww'd, whatever your preference) at us for painting where we weren't supposed to (Despite not being told "PAINT IN THE AREA WITH THE LOSERS"), but this black guy with security sorted it all out and just confiscated our paint until we left -- which we never retrieved, because [conorschild] was embarrassed. They also asked him to chuck the stencil away which took me bloody ages to do. Anyway, some of the work in there is staggering, mind-blowing stuff. Didn't think much of the Sonic on the car, but the anime and the face made of relief in the wall, the sand-art (By Dirty Beach) was absolutely brilliant. I also liked the ribcage with wings with "Freedom" under it, awesomely drawn. There was also someone playing a piano which was awesome, because the music coming out of the van parked in there sucked. The half-subterranean cars were an awesome touch.

Big apologies to the person we painted near -- we hope we didn't ruin your work!

Anyway, after becoming both real artists and rebels in one day, we went to Camden and saw it has been destroyed and turned incredibly soulless. Shit sucks, so we went home.

And that, friends, was my day.

PICS: Ratty's records of the day
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