A Room For Romeo Brass

I very much enjoy watching films, and one of my favourite film makers is Shane Meadows. I recently watched A Room For Romeo Brass, which has Meadows distinct style of mixing humour with ruthless violence. This ensures you are thoroughly gripped through the whole 90 minutes. It's thoroughly entertaining, and if you haven't seen it, you should watch it. Yet again the lead, Paddy Considine gives us a brilliant character that you could watch all day. If you liked Dead Man's Shoes, then you'll love this.

www.shanemeadows.co.uk

In Search Of...

Recently I have been travelling a lot. From Gainesville, Florida, through Georgia, Tennesee, West Virginia, Virginia, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. When I reached the UK, I travelled to many cities including Birmingham, London, Brighton, Leeds and then over to Dublin.

During this period, Blake and I discovered some great street art. In New York we went in search of work from the artist Neckface and were rewarded with finding one of his famous scrawls on a large wall behind the Tennement Museum. We also stumbled across some great wheat pastes of bear and a bison which we thought could have been the work of another local artist, Swoon. And of course Shepard Fairey had left his mark with numerous Obey Giant stickers and wheat pastes.

For photos of New York click here

In London, we went on a well beaten track in search of some of Banksy's work. We found a couple of stencils of rats on South Bank, opposite the Houses Of Parliament and in Brighton we saw the famous kissing policemen which dissappointingly was obscured by a wheeley bin and some pallets. After removing the said rubbish, we found a protective perspex cover, which seemed a little too 'museum like' for Banksy's style. But we went home happy after seeing some really impactful work, with a clear message.

For photos of London and Brighton click here

Dublin too had a great array of work and styles. It seemed many of the artists had taken to a new method of street art, which involved wheat pasting an image to a tile and then fixing the tile to the designated area. Around the Temple Bar area we saw some Faile stickers, and some unknowns which had great style and managed to pop up everywhere we went.

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Design Related

Whilst studying in the US last year, I met some people who had set up a new web environment for design enthusiasts called design:related. The New York based designers aim to create networks between established designers, design students and others with an interest. The beginnings of my newly budding portfolio can be found at this site:

designrelated.com/riannaw

Enjoy!

Save the Fradley Whale

During a grey day in the middle of the Staffordshire countryside, my boyfriend and I decided to brighten up the canalside with a bit of street art. Blake, my boyfriend is a keen street artist from Miami, Florida and a rather good illustrator. He went about constructing a huge two-part whale in my house, which we later intended to wheat paste underneath a nearby canal bridge. We mixed the paste and gathered up the whale in our backpacks and equipped with a rubber dinghy, under nightfall we pasted up the oceanic beast.