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A BOOK ABOUT STREETART? DIDN’T THIS WORD ALREADY BECOME MUCH TOO TRENDY? YOU MIGHTBE RIGHT BUT I DIDN’T FIND ABETTER WORD THAT DESCRIBES THE KIND OF WORK SHOWN IN THIS BOOK. AND I THINK IT DOESN’TREALLY MATTER HOW YOU LABEL IT. YOU COULD ALSO CALL IT URBAN-ART, POST-GRAFFITI-ART OR ?-IT WOULDN’T MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. IT IS A FORM OF ART ANDA MOVEMENT YOU CAN FIND IN THE STREETS RATHER THAN IN GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS. THIS BOOKTAKES THE CHANCE TO PRESENT THE IMPRESSIVE WORK OF STREETARTIST FROM ALL OVER THE

FEATURED ARTISTS: 108, ABOVE, AKROE, ALEXONE, AMBRIO, ARTMIKS, BETAMAXXX, BILD, BLINDSEE, BO 130, BUFFMONSTER, BURNCREW, CHEBA, CISMA, CKE,CRE, CROOKED INDUSTRIES, D-FACE, DAVE THE CHIMP, DAVE WARNKE, EAST ERIC, ECCE, ED ROONEY, EKO, EKOSYSTEM, EL TONO, EMKA, ESM, ETRON, FAHREN-HEIT, FLYING FORTRESS, FINDER KEEPERS, GRAFFITILOVES YOU, GOMES, HNT, HUMAN FIVE, INVADER, IRON, INFLUENZA, JACE, JOYSTICKERS, KAMI, KINSEY,KRSN, LA MANO, LAPS ONE, MACIEK, MAMBO, MAGIC, MICROBO, MONIEUR. AMEAT LOVE, MILK, MJAR, MR.HERO, MYSTERIOUS AL, NO2, OLSEN, OXO OVO, PEZ,PLUG, PMH, POCH, REGULAR PRODUCT, REP 1, SANTY, SENOR B, SEVEN NINE, SHIT INC. SICKBOY, STICKERWAR, SOCEY, SEKSY, ST.ARSKY, STAIN ] SCOUT, STAK,STICKERNATION, STENCIL REVOLUTION, STIRB, SUPA_KITCH, THE FLOWER GUY, THE LONDON POLICE, TOFER, TOASTERS, VIAGRAFIK, VINNIE RAY, WEARESHIT,WOOSTER COLLECTIVE, W/REMOTE, XOOOOX, WORLDSIGNS MAGAZINE, ZYME, ZEVS, ZOSEN AND MANY MORE.

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„IT WAS ABOUT 4:30 AT NIGHT AND I WAS WALKING AROUND IN THE 2ND ARRONDISSEMENT NEAR THE OPERA HOUSE. I HAD ABOUT 20 WOODENARROWS IN MY BACK PACK THAT I WAS PUTTING UP IN THE AREA. ALONG WITH ME WERE BOTH OF MY 6 FOOT POLES THAT I USED TO ATTACH THEARROWS SO HIGH TO THE PARISIAN WALLS. I'M WALKING DOWN THE BARE STREET AT A FACE PACE. THERE ARE JUST A FEW OTHER PEOPLE OUT ATTHIS TIME. TAXI'S AND HOMELESS PEOPLE. NO ONE ELSE. I AM WALKING ON THE SIDEWALK AGAINST TRAFFIC(ON THE LEFT SIDE) I SEE COMINGTOWARDS ME A COP CAR DRIVING REALLY SLOW. THE COP CAR PASSES ME AND THEN HITS THE BRAKES AND DOES IN REVERSE BACK TO WHERE I AM.INSIDE THE COP CAR WAS SOMETHING THAT I HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE. THERE WERE FOUR COPS IN ONE LITTLE CAR. THREE GUYS AND A LADY. THEYSTART YELLING AT ME AND TELL ME TO COME CLOSER TO THE CAR. I SPEAK FRENCH BUT DECIDE TO PLAY THE "STUPID AMERICAN" PART AND PRETENTTHAT I DONT UNDERSTAND THEM. "WHAT?" I DONT SPEAK FRENCH. WITH THE COPS BROKEN ENGLISH HE ASKS ME WHAT I AM DOING OUT AT THIS TIMEOF NIGHT, AND WHAT AM I DOING WITH THESE TWO 6 FOOT POLES? I TOLD THEM THAT I WAS PLAYING MY "GUITAR" AT A CLUB AND THAT I WAS WAL-KING HOME. ONE OF THE COPS LOOKED AT ME AND SAYED AGAIN IN HIS BROKEN ENGLISH, "GUITAR OF WHAT?" I THEN FLIPPED OVER ONE OF THE POLESOVER TO MEET THE OTHER, AND AM SLIDING THEM TOGETHER UP AND DOWN.I TOLD THEM THAT IT WAS A MAKESHIFT GUITAR THAT I HAD INVENTED.I MIMICKED PLAYING THE GUITAR SLIDING THE POLES UP AND DOWN. THE COP WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED AND ASKED ME WHERE WERE MY GUITARSTRINGS? I TOLD HIM THAT THEY BROKE WHILE I WAS PLAYING AT THE CLUB AND HAD SINCE THROWN THEM OUT. DURING THIS WHOLE TIME I'M STILLPRETENDING TO PLAY THIS "GUITAR." THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT ME IN FRENCH, BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THAT I DID NOT UNDERSTAND THEM. "IL ESTFOU, CE N'EST RIEN! ALLEZ, ON CONTINUE." (HE'S CRAZY, ITS OF NO IMPORTANCE, LETS KEEP GOING) THE COPS THEN APPOLOGIZED AND TOOK OFFDOWN THE STREET. I WATCHED THEM LEAVE AND STARTED TO FINISH THE REST OF THE ARROWS.BEFORE THE NIGHT WAS OVER I STUCK THEM ALL UP.“Above^, San Francisco.USA

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CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE FEELING YOU GET WHEN PASTING UP A POSTER IN THE MIDDLE OF A DOWNTOWN BUSYINTERSECTION FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE?„LIKE THAT FIRST BITE ON AN EMPTY STOMACH. I LOVE THE SMELL OF PASTE. IT GIVES ME A RUSH. I FEEL SO RELAXEDWHEN I GO OUT BOMBING. I GUESS KNOWING THE EFFECT IT WILL HAVE KEEPS ME GOING AS WELL AND KNOWING I’MUSING MY PIECE OF THE PUBLIC SPACE. I LOVE THE QUIET OF NIGHT, THE EMPTY STREETS. LA IS A DIFFERENT WORLDWHEN IT SLEEPS.“Dave Kinsey, Los Angeles.USA

„ONE TIME I WAS PUTTING UP SOME STREET SCULPTURES AND A POLICE CAR PULLED SLOWLY TO FOLLOW ME AS I WAL-KED ALONG THE STREET. I HAD ALREADY GLUED ABOUT 4 PIECES AND WAS CARRYING A BOX WITH 6 OTHERS. TRYING NOTTO LOOK SUSPICIOUS I STARTED PRETENDING TO SEARCH THROUGH THE BOX WITH MY HEAD DOWN AS I WALKED ALONG.UNFORTUNATELY, I COULD SEE WHERE I WAS GOING AS I WAS STILL CONCENTRATING ON THE POLICE CAR FOLLOWING ANDI TRIPPED OVER A LARGE PLANT STAND PLACED ON THE FOOTPATH BY THE COUNCIL. I FELL,L TWISTED MY ANKLE, GRA-ZED MY LEG AND BROKE THREE OF THE SCULPTURES IN THE BOX. FROM THE GROUND I LOOKED UP TO SEE THE PLOICECAR DRIVE OFF LAUGHING. I WENT BACK THE NEXT NIGHT WITH THE FIXED SCULPTURES AND A SHARP EYE FOR ANYTHINGI MIGHT TRIP OVER.“ECCE, Sidney.AU

clockwise: ARTIST: W/REMOTE > COUNTRY: ST.PAUL.USA | ARTIST: ACAMONCHI > COUNTRY: SAN DIEGO.USA | ARTIST: D-FACE > COUNTRY: LONDON.UK | ARTIST: JACE > COUNTRY: PARIS.FRA | ARTIST: EMKA > COUNTRY: BERGAMO.I clockwise: ARTIST: BETAMAXXX > COUNTRY: EINDHOVEN.NL | ARTIST: KINSEY > COUNTRY: LOS ANGELES.USA | ARTIST: BILD > COUNTRY: BERLIN.GER | ARTIST: SUPAKITCH > COUNTRY: MONTPELLIER.FRA | ARTIST: FISH > COUNTRY: VIENNA.A

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When and why did you start StickerNation.net?Promoting artists through the medium of stickers started StickerNationback at the turn of the century. The concept let visitors download pre-formatted artwork for printing onto blank sticker paper. This allowedthe work to travel places the artists themselves would never go. After the purchase of a digital camera the site expanded to include aphoto archive of stickers whilst on adventures in and around London.The scene was quite small but with some real good artists emerging(Gas & Bed, Instant (D*Face), Solo, Regular Product, Zeel). As peoplebegan hearing of the site the Seen and PDF archive began to grow.Friendships were made and the sticker buzz became more intense.After a series of uncontrollable incidents the site was forced to close inSeptember 2001 and we went back to the drawing board. We had cre-ated a monster, too much time was required to keep it happy and fed.A new concept letting a global team of members update the site wasborn and went into production 6 months later. The screens shown hereare the fresh result of this idea and we relaunched in April 2003.

Where you are from?The team of StickerNation members are from across the globe, eachrepresenting their home turf. I'm from Manchester UK, although rightnow I'm living in smokey Amsterdam where there is a fantastic stickercommunity.

How many people are involved in stickernation and is that is your job or areyou just doing it for fun?StickerNation is maintained by an ever growing community of mem-bers, each is encouraged to document their local scene both withnews and photos. A core team of 10 contributors look after written fea-tures, artist profiles, site maintenance and design. My role is primarilydesign. As much as we would like the site to be our daily operation weall work for the 'man' elsewhere. The site is done for love but we hopewe can change this in the future. Funding will allow us to do biggerand better things although I do see the need to remain true to our ori-ginal concept.

What problems come along with doing such a website\Where do I start? There are countless problems in creating a websitelike StickerNation, from the obvious (design, technical, production) toStickerNation is. Come back each day / week / month and you will see

changes and updates.The amount of work can be quite overwhelming and v1 of the site clo-sed as it became too much. It was managed by just myself and almostgave me grey hairs... almost! As you can imagine building the new siteto include all the new features was incredibly difficult but will make thewhole maintenance far easier. It means we can focus on the contentand promoting sticky love.One major oversight became apparent when we relaunched the siteand that was traffic and bandwidth. Traffic costs money and within 3days we'd hit our monthly limit and had to close the site down. 10months of work potentially wasted. Big shouts go out to Media Temple(www.mediatemple.net) for hosting the site for us. We would havebeen fucked otherwise.

How is the process in giving birth to such a site?Just do it! It sounds blaz\'8e but it's really that simple. The web hasmade projects like StickerNation available to everyone. Don't wastetime wondering how and why, just get busy. Anyone who saw the veryfirst release of StickerNation will know how basic and humble a begin-ning we had.

Respect always go out to people who act on their word. Gas face tothose who dismiss others without showing anything themselves.

What is your aim for the future?StickerNation could go in many directions and right now we're trying tochoose the best path. I think as long as we adhere to the reasons whywe started then we'll be ok. Promote known and unknown artists;Document street art; Act as a news base for good design, art and illu-stration; To be inspiring. We initially focussed on stickering but since we launched the wholenotion of what street art can be has changed. It has become quite anexciting time. I think our biggest and fundamental change will be tocover a wider spread of street happenings from stickers to posters tostencils to sculpture. Boundaries are growing and styles influencesone another. Artist don't just work in one format anymore, why shouldwe? Ultimately we want to show and share everything we see aroundus.

Thanks to Dom Murphy

Stickernationhttp://www.stickernation.net/

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