"Scrap Cans"

It's been awhile... but it's NOT out of laziness this time! Been very busy with work and an extra special top secret collaborative project with a few other artists and adventurers in the area! Can't say too much at this point except to keep your ears glued to the streets these next few months. Speaking of, check out my local spotting flickr for some rad new stuff I've been finding around and my first time ever being on the receiving end of a blind-collab!

Tonight's project are three scrap cans. For those of you who actually know what a can looks like after your tip explodes on you or clogs up you know it doesnt actually end up that perfect. Thats because I purposely put on a tip that was way to big and bled the last tiny bit of paint out to make these.  Added some vinyl stickers to the back and went out to drop them!

The cans were never used for anything illegal. In fact I purposely chose spots where their respective colors were no where to be seen on anything in the immediate area. The white and red are pretty much random but the purple is tucked away neatly in the underbelly of a standing antique passenger car set.

--SKEM3

I need to learn how to take photos

Every time I'm working on a project I seem to be rushing to get it finished and on the street as soon as possible (mostly because I'm usually behind on posts and there are always stacks of things to get done). Because of this I've noticed how shitty most my photos turn out. Which sucks cause after someone has taken a piece...or torn it down...these pictures are all I ever have to show for it. I need to work on that.

          Today's project is another art drop of my wolf stencil on a nice heavy piece of wood I found the other day. It's kinda high up but if you can't climb you could try reaching though the fire escape stairs! Also, I've (lazily) begun to update my local spotting flickr lately. Caught one project in particular that I thought was pretty rad. Go check it out!

-SKEM3

this day is an island

If you didn't spend most the day outside today you messed up, its the last nice one for awhile. Rain and cold will be running the show for at least another week. Today's project is a bird house I found in the garbage and fixed up. I figured since spring seems to never come the birds have been out in the cold and rain for more then their share.

 

I rigged a clipping strap to the back so it can rest on one branch while being held tight in place by the higher one (no nails or anything were put into the tree). The perch was made from a broken chop stick pounded into a smaller hole. Then I filled her with bird seed in hopes that it might entice them more though, I'm not sure how fond they will be of crawling inside of an eyeball ha. Installing was less then easy since its so high up and so far out but it fit great! Now I just hope someone walking through the park will catch a bird living in there some day!

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

CHASE

 

Got the chance to see an amazing street artist, CHASE, at work last week. Super inspiring dude. We ended up doing a kind of impromptu, hand done, sticker trade. Super pumped to have a few originals and in the excitement of free art I decided to share them with everyone and put'm up. Found a few high up places I expect to see a decent life span. Dude's huge and way sick, make sure to check him out!

--SKEM3

Where have I been?

So those of you who follow pretty closely may have noticed I haven't posted in 2 whole weeks... and I guess I dont really have a decent excuse for that besides exhaustion and fucking snow in the middle of April...

Tonight's project is kind of a test for a series I'd like to do. I framed a print of a photo I took and then dropped it in the exact place I took it at. So, the viewer should be able to stand back and compare the dichotomy of the scene that I captured and the scene that exists in their present:

Getting a good photo of it was less then easy but that could just be more excuses.

On another note I recently discovered that FreeStreet was featured (kind of) in an article in the March 31, 2011 publication of the High Plains Reader. I say 'kind of' because they used a photo of the jet ski sign for an article completely about the gay community in Fargo. Confused? Me too. There is not one mention or any relevance to the sign of ANY kind in the article. Nothing at all against the gay community, I just can't help but feel a little cheated! I emailed the writer, Josh Boschee, about it but no light was ever shed on the subject.

--SKEM3

Long Week

 

Well I finally failed! Looks familiar right? I Promise I have new things cooking just a victim of circumstance:

The ONE night I had set out to put something new up there was a thunder/hail/snow storm all in one night! Shit is messed. THEN another night I went out to put up a different project and that whole operation completely crumbled on me as well! Even today when I put this drop up I had to run all the way back home before I could take a photo for the blog because my memory card wasnt formatted right. Fuck I wish the warm weather would stick around for more then a few days in a row.

Speaking of, if you haven't heard yet, Fargo is not only in the running for the Toughest Weather City Tournament but we're also about to win!

--SKEM3 

I'll count it

Keeping up with getting a new piece out there every week is proving to be a little more challenging than I initially expected. But if I can finish this in 2 minutes then I'll have technically made it in under a week!

Tonight we have an old framed print of a kid...sniffing his hand? I bought it for 2 bucks at a pawn shop for the frame, but then decided to do a blind collaboration with the original artist. Mounted on a nail sticking out of the brick wall, this little boy's contradictory themes will either give someone a good laugh or piss them right off ha.

Also! check out the new LINKS panel to the right! There you can find some old work of mine and a bunch of other local FM street art as well!

--SKEM3 

Pictures of sad children

You Always Right!

 

Your Mother Was a Whore

I Can See You Have a Lot of Maturing Left to Do

Well its freezing again! Way too cold for any kind of adhesive or mounting. So instead,  I wove this drop series in between vines to hold them up. Pictures of Sad Children is a small series of paint marker on cardboard. All the quotes are abridged versions of the kinds of things my step mother would always say to me. Now that I've got them out I've discarded them in the alley and have moved on. Awesome.

Also! a first here on FreeStreet, we have a spotlight on another local street art endeavor. Ran into Fargo's own Yarn Bombers the other night, caught'm in action doing their thing. They've been getting up everywhere lately it's crazy, just killin it. Every time I go out to put something up I stumble upon at least one or two more of their works. Here are a just few of my favorite:

Keep it up guys

--SKEM3 

Cuddle Time?

 

Quick update tonight. Ceramic cartoon-esk TV. Not sure if it can get any more windy out then on nights like this. (also, it's a lot higher than the picture might suggest)

It's time to get (ch)ill

 

 

This weeks project was a product of random inspiration and pure humor. We bought a clock at a thrift store for a buck and turned it into bling any narcissist would die to show off. The numbers were replaced with magazine clippings and reads "Go F*** Urself" (put your fingers down, it's twelve letters) Then we replaced the "big hand" with a clipping of a guy doing squats and the "little hand" with the same guy holding a weight in place of his junk. As the seconds go by the poor fellow is forced to insert his...well watch the video:

                              

***UPDATE***

Turns out after a week or so of being up a crazy guy "found it in a dumpster" and tried to sell it to THIS, our local skate shop, for 3$! only 3 bucks?!?! needless to say they bought it.

Bitter Start

Interesting start on this bitter Thursday night. To christen the Free Street project we put up our first piece along with the piece used for our title bar (for now). Both are made of magazine clip outs pasted onto scavenged cardboard panels.

   First piece was put up at the bus station (if you couldn't recognize the sign). Literally less than 5 minutes after we put it up we had to watch defeat-idly as a couple of workers happen to pull up right after us and take it down.

All this means is we can only get better results

                                                                Much more to come

***UPDATE***

Turns out the worker that took it didn't just toss it they took it home with them! Big ups to you man. Sorry if the debate it struck left you in a sore place with your boss. Appreciated.