You’ll have seen in the post below that I said I was going to ask grafitti artists to paint some cars. Well, D*Face has only just gone and agreed. Honestly, I can’t contain my excitement about the whole thing.
I mean I found his site via the Wooster Collective and I didn’t recognise the name. The moment I got there I knew I’d seen his work before. Whether it was in Bristol or London, who knows, but that cheery little face was familiar. So all excited I pinged him a mail. Now, he’s agreed to help
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Senor D*Face’s famous flying head
And not only did he agree to help, D*Face replied with a lovely email and loads of good questions. Signing off with :
“Sorry to reply with loads of questions, but I think what your doing is amazing, I’d like to add to the whole event. I’ll happily take care of the artist side and organise things for that. It’ll be my pleasure.”
Argh! It’s enough to break my heart when folks are that kind out of the blue. My lip starts to quiver whenever Roger Federer cries after he wins Wimbledon – imagine what random charity does to me. D*Face, I’d like to say thanks three thousand times and that still wouldn’t be enough. I loved your mail, we’ll do you proud
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Me when I read the mail
So now we’ve got a load of grafitti artists willing to make the cars look out of this world beautiful. The man even said he could organise 30 painters.
“But we don’t yet have 30 cars” I hear you say.
And to that I reply: “Not yet we don’t”.
It will be the coolest paint job in the world
ps. coming soon : a post that tells everyone where we are with the parties (one in London one in Barcelona), attendance and more travel details. Keep the faith folks.
There’s a guy called Hugh Macleod who blogs about a wine called Stormhoek and “He’s kind of a big deal”, as his Ron-ness would say. To promote the wine he’s organising 100 Geek Dinners, when he gives wine to dinner parties organised by geeks. Simple but very effective.
Now the wine is South African, made by a Kiwi, most of it is drunk in California, but how about we have the first Freak Dinner. And how about we have it in when we have dinner in Bordeaux?
20, 40, 60, 80, 100 Kill Cancer Rally drivers fancy dressed to the nines tasting fresh wine in the heart of the Gascogne. Hell, it’s a bit like Google releasing free spreadsheets just to wind up Microsoft (and I think that comparison probably does confirm that I’m more geek than freak) but it might be quite fun.
So Hugh, what do you think?
“Quiet please, I have a serious announcement to make. STORMHOEK!”
