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Theres always time on a Thursday lunchbreak to take a few minutes out and check out some cool assed videos from around Oz and NZ, and thats what the Transmissions are for! Watch on, viewers, as we compile this weeks videos we’ve seen around the traps …

 (image via The Conspiracies of Ha-Ha by Kieran Mangan)

Kieran Mangan has been doing a whole series of comics based on The Conspiracies of Ha-Ha lately, they’re fkn hilarious, and they want to turn it into a book – go and check it out, and donate to this more than worthy cause!! You should also check out this great video of Ha-Ha as he talks about his work, street art in Melbourne … and his theories on several conspiracies … but, seriously, if you haven’t seen the comic yet, you should!

Drypnz has a show coming up on Friday night, and he did this ultra cool preview trailer for it – take a look, its kinda fantastic as hell.

We missed this one a few weeks ago, but we wanted to put it up in light of his upcoming show – Drypnz does some silos. Nice

Michael Pecks show "The Landing" opened last night, and it was simply incredible. This is a really great short feature documentary on the artist and his work – also, check out the first part of our two aprt feature on Mr Peck here.

Just when we think we’ve seen everything that D*Face has been up to, Artygraffarti posts up some fun filled hotel room pasteup adventures from the man – very cool.

Prizm, Ben Frost and Anthony Lister teamed up recently for some tattoo mayhem. Mad!

Ben Frost Ghetto Ink from The Institute of Excellent on Vimeo.

"Acclaim Magazine sat down with Sydney born and bred, Tokyo based, Graphic Artist and co-founder of China Heights gallery Mark Drew to get the lowdown on his hat design for New Era" – he also has a show coming up in December, which we’ll let you know more about soon. Great collab this one!

I think that’s all we have for this week, apologies if we missed anything! You can send links through to any cool videos you may have or that you have seen here.Rockin!

"I Wish I Want You Have I Don’t" is the curious and slightly emotionally laden title of a new show coming up from Drypnz, one of NZs most vibrantly creative street artists, and definitely one we rank up at the top.

As he says about his upcoming Wellington show "This body of work is an examination of the ideas of Want, Need, and Have. As a consequence, the presence of Envy and Coveting are illustrated."

The title of the show surely is slightly cryptic, helped along by the statement "There will also be specified open days to be announced that correspond with title, one evening focusing on ‘I Wish’, one ‘I Want’ etc" …which leads us to believe that there will be several small pop up events associated with the show, possibly some live art?

We don’t know, we do like a puzzle, and we’re looking forward to finding out more!!

Who: Drypnz
What: I Wish I Want You Have I Don’t solo show
Where: 15 Courtney Place, Wellington, NZ
When: Opening Friday 18th November, at 7pm – Viewings after the opening will be by appointment with only some days being open to the public.

Check out Drynpz website, his facebook page, and the facebook event page for more details.

Tanja Jade, aka Misery, should be no stranger to those who are purveyors of all things illustrated, street and graff’d. Based out of New Zealand, she has, with a hell of a lot of diligent work, turned the fantastical world of her imagination into a mini empire of cool.

With painting, street art, fashion and toy design and so many more talents under her wing, Misery is a force of creative nature that is a perfect example of what an artist can accomplish with a heavy dose of determination and diversity.

For a nice primer, There is a whole heap of cool media, links to interviews and some great stuff in her shop over at her website, Miseryland.

We’ll be down at Backwoods for this opening for sure!

Who: Tanja Jade aka Misery
What: Momoka solo show
Where: Backwoods Gallery, 25 Easey Street, Collingwood, VIC
When: Show opens Friday 18th November, 6pm til 9pm and runs til 5th December

Check out Backwoods Gallery website as well as her website for more info on the show and the artist.

The grandly named and amazingly talented new crew, Aotearoa Skellywag Crew are having their first group exhibition tonight at Aucklands Rakinos Bar.

We’ve been following the exploits of these creative dudes over in NZ over in NZ for a while now, and their numbers include some of the finest that the land has to offer – artists such as PNTR, Yelz, Cracked Ink, Cinzah Seekayem, Smud and Kidd C. Grand.

We’re really looking forward to seeing shots and images from this show!

Who: PNTR, Yelz, Cracked Ink, Cinzah Seekayem, Smud and Kidd C
What: ASC group show
Where: Rakino Bar, Level 1, 35 High Street, Auckland, NZ
When: Show opens Monday 7th November at 5:30pm.

Check out the Aotearoa Skellywags here on Tumblr.

“Expanding the visual arts audience through discovery and discussion.”

Who: ‘Southern Gallery Express’ Bus Tour, ‘Goodnight Wanganui’ by Richard Lewer, Spencer Harrington aka Random: The Colour of Originality, Be Tender by Reuben Paterson, Emma Thomsen: Nonlinear Complications and many more.
What: Art Week Auckland
Where: Big Little City, Devonport, Auckland South/West, Karangahape Road, Newmarket, Parnell, Ponsonby
When: 13th – 23rd October 2011

Look at this line up … who wouldn’t want to party at this party!

With artists including Drypnz, Cinzah Seekayem, Reckt, BMD, Wert 159, Trust Me, Ghstie, Kame and more Taupō is “set to break its’ conservative mold this Labour Weekend, when sixteen of New Zealand’s leading street artists descend on the Central North Island town.”

“Graffiato is a unique and dynamic street art festival, providing artists with an abundance of blank walls and a weekend to create vibrant and colorful permanent artworks. Curated by Cut Collective member, Ross Liew, Graffiato is a new festival delivered by Erupt Events, Taupō’s Arts Trust, who also deliver the nationally renowned biennial ‘Erupt Lake Taupō Festival’.”

“Graffiato is going to permanently change the face of street art in New Zealand,” said Mr Liew. “For some time now, street art and graffiti has been gaining an ever-increasing profile across the world. While certain names have cut through and now register for many within middle New Zealand, our own country’s practitioners have often been left overlooked. Graffiato will change that.”

We can’t be there, but if you’re in the country, you can – so get there  and support New Zealand’s massive pool of talent!

It’s been a busy week for this editor, but thankfully I do have time for a few things site related – and, there’s always time for a round of great videos!!!

If you didn’t see it, that awesome work that Twist and Amaze did up in Sydney caused a bit of controversy – apparently they painted the wrong spot, but, imho, such a great piece from such great artists should be preserved … check out the video here.

We just saw this one – two of the most wonderful champions and philanthropists of Australian street art, Andrew King and Sandra Powell, were interviewed just before the spectacularly curated, and highly successful, Young and Free exhibition over in San Fran. This video is a great glimpse into their views, as well as a really cool quick look at some of their collection. There are also some great snippets and words from Rone, and his views on Melbourne street art. Absolutely fantastic.

Sniders Lane was painting up by the crew from Just Another Agency last weekend, and SEARious Jones did some extra touchups – nice, nice work.

SEARIOUS JONES in SNIDERS LANE from Joske Films on Vimeo.

Speaking of Sniders Lane, TemporaryGallery did an interview with Toby from Just Another Agency whilst the laneway was being painted last weekend. Some cool background on the laneway, and the agency!

… they also had a few words to Kirpy himself as he was stencilling it up.

Reka also got up in the States recently with Quel Beast and Infinity. Mad.

REKA x Quel Beast x Infinity – NYC from MaNY Project on Vimeo.

Deow painted up this work at Revolver in Queenstown, NZ – saw this one over at Ironlak. Nice tunes from The Nudge.

Zach Freshwater got up in Perth recently – heres a nice video of the work he did.

We missed this one last month – Lister did a short video with the guys over at Frank 151 whilst he’s been preparing for his next solo show in West Hollywood.

That’s all for this week – feel free to send us your videos to include in our Transmissions column!

Gimiks Born, is a builder of worlds.

As a storyteller, and lover of both pop culture and ancient histories and mythology, each frame of the work he produces contains a creative narrative that is nothing short of immersive. With cross skilled disciplines in design, illustration, painting and street art, Brisbane based Gimiks Born has, over the years, developed characters, icons and storylines that coalesce his various passions into a visual playground.

When we had the chance to send some questions off to Gimicks, we didn’t hesitate – the man has been on our, and many others, radar for some time. What we received back, unsurprisingly, was a veritable feast of words and imagery, and we found ourselves plunged into a creative land of fantasy, fables and Bitter Winds …

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19 Karen Gallery on the Gold Coast has three openings this Saturday night with solo shows ‘Tarts and Flours’ from Beck Wheeler, ‘The Fellows and The Bloodies’  fromKate McCarthy and ‘Runaway with me’ with Mica Still.

Check out the 19Karen website and the facebook page for more details.

We’ve been waiting for a show like this one to pop up, and it looks like our friend Cleo Barnett has organised something pretty damn rad for everyone to check out over in NZ.

"A bakers dozen of Auckland and Wellington’s best – armed with paintbrushes, spraycans, permanent markers, pencils, stencils and whatever else comes to hand – will be making their mark at The Basement.

The Dirty 13′s work has won awards, shown up in galleries and private collections and also on many, ahem, non-commissioned sites in and around our fair city."

These are the kinds of shows we absolutely love – great art from great artists representing the amazing New Zealand street art scene – fuck yeah!

Who: Deus, Tanya Jade, Flox, BMD, Cut Collective, Xoe Hall, Drypnz, Mica Still, City, Cinzah, Erin Forsyth, Frey Jones and Josh Monoghan
What: The Dirty 13 group show
Where: The Basement, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland, New Zealand
When: Show opens 28th September at 8pm til 11:00pm, and runs until October 22nd.

Check out the facebook event page for more info on the show!

Calling all aerosol artists! It’s you, and your crew, against the rest of the world! Break out the Ironlak cans and get ya game on, the prize is worth is weight in paint. All your rule and regulations, stipulations and reservations are below -  put this at the top of you list of things to do this year! Werd!

Information regarding the competitions rules and regulations was posted up by Ironlak the other week, and are as are follows.

"Regions:
1. Australia/New Zealand
2. North/ South America
3. UK/Europe
4. Asia.

Entries will be judged on quality of pieces and letter styles, overall theme and composition, background elements, characters and originality. All entries will be judged by The Ironlak Family.

Prizes:
GLOBAL WINNER: 800 cans of Ironlak.

GOLD PRIZE: 500 cans of Ironlak.*
SILVER PRIZE: 240 cans of Ironlak.*
ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD: 48 cans of Ironlak.
*ONE GOLD and ONE SILVER will be awarded for EACH REGION – TOTAL 8 regional prizes)

HOW TO ENTER:

Grab a bunch of Ironlak, get together with some friends (1-5 people) and rock a fresh production wall.
Email a large photograph of your finished production AND photographs of your used cans in front of the wall (compulsory) to: competition@ironlak.com

Pieces must be painted with 100% Ironlak paint
(roll/ buff paint is allowed as a base).
Enter as many times as you like. Be sure to include the names of the artists involved plus the city and country where the wall was painted.

COMPETITION CLOSES 30th NOVEMBER, SO DON’T SLEEP!
Keep a close eye on the blog for regular updates…
To view last year’s winners click here."

This looks like a great competition, and we can’t wait to see all the pics that will be coming out of the competition entrants, and, of course, cheering on all those involved! Game on!

Image: The 2010 WINNER of Category 1 – BEST PRODUCTION in AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND: RASE, DV8TE and ASKM – Melbourne, Australia.

Who: The general public
What: Ironlak Graffiti Competition
Where: World wide
When: Entries close November 30th 2011

For Further info check out the Ironlak official website.

We only just spotted this one, which opens up tomorrow in Auckland, and looks like a great showcase of a variety of talented artists – some of whom have graced our pages here before.

From Seekyam:

"Key speaker from the We Can Create programme, New York based illustrator, designer and fine artist Sara Blake is having a mini-exhibition at Alleluya Cafe in K Road’s venerable St Kevin’s Arcade.

She is flying over a selection of new work, never before exhibited especially for us lucky Aucklanders who’ll get first peek at this exhibition evening!

Alongside Sara’s work will be an artist showcase by The Busy Nice, featuring Henrietta Harris, Sarah Lanarch, Stephen Richardson, Cinzah Seekayem and Tane Williams. These artists produce some of the top illustrative work in our fair town and are each contributing original works for your optical pleasure.

This intimate evening will all feature music provided by The ARC and drinks specials from Coopers beer available on the night, this is not one to miss … But if you do … the exhibition will be reinstalled at the Aotea Centre THE EDGE where the We Can Create conference is taking place, 26-27th of August. Phew!"

We figure the press release says it all, looks like lots of cool art (and a fair bit of New Zealand street art influence) in the show, so we’ll keep it short except to say that it looks great! Love seeing shows like this happening over there! So if you’re up in the North tomorrow night, head down to K-Road to see the show!

Who: Sara Blake, Henrietta Harris, Sarah Lanarch, Stephen Richardson, Cinzah Seekayem and Tane Williams
What: We Can Create Sara Blake and local artist showcase
Where: Alleluya, St Kevins Arcade, K Road, Auckland
When: Show opens Tuesday 23rd August from 5pm til 7pm and then will show at the We Can Create conference from the 26th to the 27th August

Go and check out the facebook event page for even more details as well as Sara Blakes website! Also take a look at We Can Create.