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Spamhead of the week...

Like every other sod who owns an email account, we here at Mytarpit Towers get more than our fare share of spam. This week we received a bumper batch and one of them was silly enough to include his picture.
So (ahem) Ladies and Gentlefolk may I present our first Spamhead 'o' the week (pause for effect).....
ARMAND BENITEZ (applause)

'Bout Ye Liam!

Got a cool email from a cool designer!
Thanks for giving a tarpitter a new home!
Welcome to Mytarpit Towers Liam!

Check out his site!
......HERE..

BelfasTarpitters

Whilst doing the Black Market fair some Tarpitters escaped!.......

(I love the fact that Belfast Council think that people who quaff ale in public places do so out of old style tankards.)

Mytarpit...accepted at good retailers everywhere!

Who doesn't want to drive one of these!
If you've found a tarpitter and given it a new home thank you!......drop me a line and let me know.

Fair-Do's

Filth and I were invited to take a table in the first of many (hopefully!) Black Market Art Fairs in the Black Box (Belfast). I'm not hugely keen on touting my wares at these events but we thought we could have a laugh!
The gorgeous Rockpoolcandy helped us out...I say helped us out but what I should say is ran the stall, talked to people and drummed up interest in our pieces. I quickly realised that I'm not a people person, and I'm definitely not a salesman!
I decided to sell some silk screen prints that I've been working on and take along the Ghostboards to see peoples reactions.

The feedback was great. I sold a print (YAY!) and Filth sold a board of his artwork. We also got a brilliant invite to take part in a festival.....more later!
Filth's stuff was soo cool, I could've bought his boards myself...see below.....

 

 

(all 3 of the above images content copyright Filth '08)

Will we be doing another one...maybe. It was cool 'n all but I think I'll have to make stuff specifically for it....although I still prefer to set my work free and let people take 'em if they like 'em.

There were other cool underground artists there but I couldn't help think that it'll be a cooler fair when/if it's solely art and artists....BUT it's a great idea and I'll be supporting it in other ways.

Big thanks to Helen and Ryan for inviting us and for being bloody talented artists!
There is another Black Market on Sunday Dec 14th...go along and spend some cash!

Ghostboards

"Mr. Tarpit, sir, where do skateboards go when they die?"
"Well Jimmy, first of all it's Mr. MYtarpit to you, secondly we here at Mytarpit peel them off the pavement, bring them to Mytarpit Towers and feed them into the big Painteriser (TM) machine."
"What's a Painteriser (TM) machine, sir?"
"Well aren't we full of questions today Jimmy! Well it takes the essence of all the fun and excitement that the skateboard has been part of and translates it into a painted image, a snapshot of the skateboards life and dreams if you will."

"Mr.Mytarpit, my dad says your full of it!"

"That's funny Jimmy, I didn't think you'd met your real dad, when did he get out of prison?"

 

More Ghostboards HERE.

Wham, Bam, Fank yoU Sam!

Wow! It's like London buses, you wait long enough and three emails come at once!...

I found a silouetter version of one of your halloweeners in an allyway.
Nice Canvas.



Short but sweet!
Thanks Sam.

I know the majority of my canvases are taken and given new homes by cool people who just took them because they liked them, and that's what this is all about. But it is cool to get emails or comments from the people who took them.

Thank you.

Aloha Jen!

I found a brilliant coffee emporium on my latest stint in London in Brick Lane. Really cool vibe about this place, so nice that one of the Hell'0'weeners decided to stay. He now has a new home with the lovely Jen (who by the way makes a damn fine cuppa coffee!):

I spied No.5's Ghoulesk form, whilst digging for loose change in the couches @ work  
............ ok, ok so maybe wih the help of a friendly customers directive finger.  
Nevertheless, I was intriged and thought it awsome! enough to have the urge to pull it from its dark corner.   I admit it was with a slight twang of guilt,  as I thought maybe it was to be left..... but found my efforts encourged, and Tarpitter newly adopted.  
Its Brilliant!!!! aaaaaaaaannnd it glows.  
Thanks.  
You spiced up my morning of monotonous milk taming.  
My eyes are peeled for more  
JEN x

Cheers Jen!

Howdy LuDwiG!

I never get tired of receiving feedback from the cool people who take one of the Tarpitters, so thanks to Ludwig (cool name!):

Hi

I found a tarpitter on a lamppost on brick lane, just where the bridge is being built.
It is a silhouetter, number 4.
I had to double back on myself as i wasn't sure whether i had seen what i had seen.

It's really cool, cheers.

ludwig

Shortsighted s-of-b's!

Yip, it's a sad fact but our world is ruled by short sighted, narrow minded S.O.B's!
Having spent a lot of time travelling through some of the coolest cities in the world one thing struck me, they'd be nothing without the artistic back bone that runs through them. Everywhere you go you can see examples of how it's the artists and musicians who move into undesirable areas of cities 'cos they're cheap and turn them into the hip areas of town. They inevitably bring colour, sounds, cool bars/deli's and give it a great vibe. Then as night follows day they become victims of their own success and get priced out of their little Bohemia's...the suits move in and cash in on it all, suffocate it all, kill it and move on. This is a natural process, it's always happened and it always will.
Look at the east-end of London it was a hot bed of underground art, some small pockets of it still are. It's a cool place to live and visit. Couldn't afford to live there but hey-Ho!

Anyway, there is a little city that is trying to encourage this type of evolution.....BELFAST.

But in their usual stupid-assed way they doing it all wrong. All the art is being shipped in, the galleries are starting out as pretentious idiots, and the powers that be (that's a joke for a start) are throwing money at wrong people/organisations in the hope that they can buy a creative legacy.
There's a cool little shop in a grey area of this grey city is LOKO. They sell locally made skateboards, cool gear and most importantly the paints and materials that the local artists use and need. They got local artist DRIS to transform their shop shutters with a brilliant piece of art....

.......and what do they get for their troubles...they have to paint over it.

Meanwhile up the road a rather posh gallery gets a huge amount of cash from the local government to change it's logo. Now I don't live in Belfast,  but I've been to LOKO and I can tell you that we need shops like this to thrive, because it's shops like them who encourage artists to thrive! And frankly this place shines out like glitter on a turd! I could go on, but just let me say that if Belfast doesn't encourage it's local underground artists it's creative boom will be short lived and hollow!

Right I'm off for a pint!