Monorex USA adventure...

Just got back from an epic 3 month reccie mission in the USA...

Below are a few random memories from the trip!

Enjoy

Love the Times Sq lights! Hate the crowds of people...

NYC Redbull soccer team

Madness in Detroit

Clever rework of the NYC subway map

Love this place

Charlie was obviously big news out there

Some hottie I met in the casino ;)

Wburg bridge

Old Vegas strip

Coming to the UK soon

Neon fence

Swoons house in the big D

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My main man CHARLIE from Brooklyn

Stickers went up everywhere

HUGE Pockys

Roa in Brooklyn

And Butt Paste....

The "Influencers" Doc...

A must watch! Very inspiring stuff and a great advert for NYC..

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NYC studio live / work set up

Been in USA for a couple of weeks and now that I am settled in Brooklyn (Greenpoint / Bedford) - I thought I should be polite and show you around my new live / work studio...

I am in a good location, next to all the cool bars and restaurants + round the corner is Mishka, Futura HQ, Kaws and more... Nice to have neighbors like that around!

I will be hopping around the USA a little over the next few months - reaching out to LA, Boston and Detroit, so I will keep you posted on my exciting adventures as they unfold.

Your not cool if you ain't got graff outside your front door.. ;)

You gotta love my simple set-up!

Look to the right of this picture and notice my funny but cool "walk thru" shower to get to the toilet

I need my Twinings tea!

Views from the room - Just see Williamsburg bridge creeping in the background.

Monorex is now in NYC!

Mr T has left London HQ to travel across the pond and set up on a temporary basis in NYC!

Watch this space for updates on his adventures over in the Big Apple..

Alife x Drake x Umbro x Monorex

The Crystal Pharoah and Alife just dropped a fresh video documenting the Drake gig at the Alife x Umbro pop up store.

Monorex were flown over to paint the large wall in the courtyard - adding every country that featured in the FIFA World Cup 2010... Good fun and a messy trip stateside!

More good projects like this bubbling on that side of the pond, watch this space...

Alife x Umbro - NYC

Monorex went on another mission across the Atlantic recently for a special project with Alife x Umbro - The brief was to paint a wall in the back garden of the Alife store with all the competing teams at the FIFA World Cup 2010.

There was also enough time for a holiday, so the guys got stuck in and partied hard at night while rinsing the credit cards dry in the day shopping....

Good times were had and we met some amazing people along the way...

More photos and stories to follow

NYC DIARY - Hard at work (Days 4, 5 & 6)

So the story continues....

Some more memories from the ECKO vs MONOREX battle

Quote from Disco Teck regarding the Monorex battle vs Ecko - "Our concept used 'Rex and the city' as the title and had 'ol Henry the 8th sat in the middle holding Carrie Bradshaws severed head on a platter...we added a Roast Rhino to the feast with a big apple shoved in its mouth to wind Mr Ecko up (which it did). It was a fair fight, with team Ecko grassping the 'live illustration battle' idea, and bringing some pretty funny disses (if not obvious social stereotypes). Of course there was no way we could win over the hugeley patriotic crowd, most of which had no idea who Henry the 8th was, or that 'Rex' meant 'king' in latin. So we lost...and raved it up london style till we got thrown out."

Daniel starting to loosen up ;)

JUNE 16TH - MR T's BIRTHDAY AND GALLERY BAR EVENT!

Below is a card Disco Teck designed for me - all the guys signed it and I was really chuffed as you can see..

Peeps signing my birthday card!

We started off the day nice and slow with a small picnic gathering in Brooklyn Bridge Park - The sun was not really shining but that did not take away the feeling of relaxation and detachment from the city I felt for a couple of hours.

If you have not been down to this park, you are missing out! As this place is a hidden gem that features in many Hollywood films.

Sick views and nice breezy air!

Gallery Bar (Orchard St)

A sick custom fixie we saw on the way back home in the Fixed gear London gallery show

JUNE 17TH - USA vs UK @ PUBLIC ASSEMBLY

After a couple of last minute hiccups we were set for the main event of the tour, thanks to YUME and ELURA for making this all happen.

Even though the venue was not a perfect arena for a Secret Wars of this stature, we dealt with it and both sets of artists put on an amazing show...Thanks to everyone that helped out!

Team USA warming up below

The Last Emperor came down from Philly to perform - check his SECRET WARS track on his myspace - CLICK HERE

The final wall by Team UK - Based on the old skool film "The Warriors"

Quote by Disco Teck - "This time arround we used the classic film 'the Warriors' as our inspiration, putting a twist on the Baseball Furies gang, with our own Cricket Furies, cruising around in a beat up london cab. We had one of the famous lines from the film 'can you dig it?!' on one side, with Obama (characature by the mighty Alfa) popping up on the right responding with his famous line 'yes we can!'. Get it?! clever innit."

The crowd vote was used to judge the 2 teams - Team UK won by a small margin... Thanks to all those that came along for hopefully the first of many Secret Wars events in NYC.

The UK wall was sold to our new friend Sam from giftd - She is originally from England but now lives out there and it was here first Secret Wars.... In my opinion she probably owns one of the best walls in Secret Wars history... Good bargain buy!

Photos by Jay, John Mcgall and Sam