JUMPING JACK FROST AND THE TIGER CUB
its october...we are in london...we dont have any snow...least not yet...were in a derelict gasworks station...and yup thats a mountain peek up there....lots of artificial snow and one slope that is one hell of a long way up...way too many neon colours, bobble hats and shirts that look like dresses...gotta love the snowboarding scene...making ends out of an english winter...o and they love their bassline...its a bit like a surf festival but with angry bass instead of hellow mellow beats...lots of wide eye people instead of stoners...i wouldn't have called this a festival as rather an excuse for making some money as there was a lock down que on the main tent to see any of the live acts...at least the slope was a good consolation prize...just felt sorry for all the people that bought their tickets....not being a grandad about it all though as had a greet two days....thanks to upfest for setting this up and also to the jumping bean buritto boys and gal, for those tasty burittos...kept me going....
this is the first proper collab that linda zina aslaksen and i have done to date...we talk about it alot and finally got it together...kept people guessing throughout the two days, linking the two bits together, right at the end....
being that it was a snowboarding event i wanted to link in my love for the wooly pattern i wear so much...linda was working in blues so i opted for the pattern being blue...now im looking at the photo i see all the bits on the ears i could have improved on....
the link up in motion
"im so cold im turning blue you so lucky you got all that fur mister...."
"where you want me to plug you into then little man...?"
bit of the details on the fur...really happy with the colour palette....and managed to sneek in a bit of the fabric pattern in there too...
free hand pattern close up on the ear...few people asked if it was a stencil...made me smirk that did...nice up the homemade stencil cap there...
the blue tint to the eye helps to make this little chap look like a cub...well i think so...
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...damn miss zina you getting good there arent u....nice eye work...
little hipstamatic fun...
snub dropped in....and then zooomed back off again...think its another self portrait that one...
brave....liking that awesome grinners...
dank...showing some frightfully slick tones...gonna have to do a paint together soon....
other artists were... rob wass aka data, id-iom, dephect, pilot...the light was shit by the time i got round to taking shots of everyone else's work and the ones i didn't get too many people were stood in front of...for more shots take a peep at the upfest facebook...
