October is 'Waiting for Godot in Temple Bar' by the world famous Jef Aerosol. Jef did his work on Culture Night in Dublin in front of a group of interested artists and fans.
ADW's work in November is more politically inspired, showing a bored peasant girl (Minister for Health Mary Harney) looking out over a half door with the cobwebbed word 'progress' ala Charlottes Web over her head.
The great Maser is lined up for December
Came across the website of the great Tom Robinson with donational free downloads of all his solo stuff.
Love the words to Back in the Ould Country recorded on tour in Ireland - I saw him in the Purty Kitchen in Dun Laoghaire. If memory serves me well a drink sodden event!
Back In The Ould Country
I had guinness with a Hot Press photographer in a Dublin pub
He wore a crucifix and a short fat beard
Showed me pictures of Gavin Thursday, Three Men And A Dog
With the Joshua Duo stood around looking weird
Met a Sid Vicious lookalike and he was six foot four
Had spikes on his dog collar made of solder
He was sitting in Bewley's caff in a dirty old gaberdine mac
He was 17 but he looked about ten years older... that was
Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country
Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country
10am one Sunday, Diceman hadn't been near his bed
And he was gargling creme de menthe just to keep awake
He'd been rolling through night, and got ossified in Sides
He look so smashed and happy it made my day, that was
Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country
Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country
Headed into Limerick on the Clonmel road
In a beat-up rented Nissan with no brakes
Saw a Garda on the beat with two size 13 feet
Ten convent girls and a nun on roller skates... that was
Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country
Back in the Ould Country, back in the Ould Country
Fink produced '3 Little Punk Pigs' for the August Twelvedoors project. Best yet!
Picked up by Stencilarchive which was cool.
Saturday morning 7.30am I felt like a real street urchin spraying the door black- this was to be the base for the next days art work.
Sunday 10am O,D L & A along with their families and friends came to do the door. Mark had prepared the letter stencils which were stuck to the newly blackened door. The spray paints came out and we went for it in a haze of purple and pink florescent spray.
The letters were finally peeled off to reveal a rainbow of ability!
Group photos followed, Mick the official photographer will be over in the next couple of days to do his bit for twelvedoors.com
The biggest challenge of twelvedoors.com lies ahead. up to now my biggest concerns have been convincing my partners in work that this was a good idea and lining up street artists to give the door a good seeing to.
This weekend we have 5 children under the age of 12, all with Down Syndrome, painting the door! The children can't wait to be let loose with paint in spray cans in the centre of Dublin; the parents ie me and my buddies are a little dubious.
We have decided to paint a base coat of black/navy early on Saturday morning to cover over the existing work. We will reconvene at the door at 10am on Sunday. Mark is creating a stencil with the letters A,B,L & E in a large chunky font. The children will paint the stencil space with all the colours we can muster.The door is 6 foot 6 inches by 3 ft (irish doors are not metric!) so we will have some room to play with.
KK will film the work and take photos and we will have the official photo early next week
I am not sure how the play on disABLEed will work but we will give it a go!
Hopefully we can fit in the letters on a grid basis rather than vertically. Any thoughts or suggestions will be welcome!
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Konk has a chequered history having fought the law on many occasions. Unfortunately the law won. He is
The Door is gaining momentum with requests filtering in from other street artists to take a month.
It looks like June is taken by a subversive sect of underground artists going by the name '10'.
July is marked for Will St Ledger.
August is provisionally earmarked for a travelling roadshow of artists who may be hitting the strrets of Dublin in late Summer...
Many moons ago I said I would and now finally I have got www.twelvedoors.com up and out.
I ran the idea by Will St Ledger and some of the street artists in Dublin and got a great response.
We initially did a holding door by Konk to get us going.
John Bowes cames on board for April with his Marilyn Monroe.
Each month we will have a new artist and a new door until we complete our 12 month cycle.
Over at my other blog, dollarshort.org, I'm blogging frequently during the DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge. Please check out this post about the challenge and how you can support the kids.
