know your (sub)culture

I'm a big fan of stickers.

At certain points of time I may or may not have put up my own stickers, posters, stencils and tags in various spots around the world and I certainly appreciate the time and effort it takes to get up on a global scale.  Today I've returned home after another trip (pictures to follow) during which I may or may not have put up some stickers and I'm psyched by the idea that someone I potentially may never meet could potentially see something that may be somewhere else in the world.

Being a fan of the "street art" (note I use "street art" as an all encompassing term to describe anything of any loose artist "value"/interest found outside of a conventional space, I attach no meaning/association with it in so far as pretension, attitudes or motivations of the people who work within the medium) I've spent a considerable amount of time wandering around cities looking at walls, sign posts and all the other things the urban environment has to offer us and checking out what people have put out there.

I can't remember when I first came across BNE's work but it was a long time ago now (I have some pictures of his stickers dating back to 2003).  More recently during my time in Singapore and Malaysia I came back across his work and upon my return became familiar with his new project.

As some of you who have been to Asia will know there's varying amounts of graffiti/"street art" in some of the big cities.  I'm not sure the length of time between my visit and BNE's but to be able to maintain such a heavy presence in Singapore is amazing.  What I'm trying to say is I have a lot of time for BNE given his ability to get up with such ferocity.  

Anyway as I mentioned BNE's working on a different level now.  He's set up a foundation working towards providing clean water to people sorely in need of it.  As I'm sure most people with a logical mind will be aware food (including clean/drinkable water) insecurity is one of the major contributing factors to the ills in the world.  The above sticker pack has been released to help raise funds for the BNE water foundation, something you defiantly need to get behind.  I have a few different sticker packs (know your contemporaries) and this is easily one of the coolest presented ones I have the fortune of owning.  Being the looser I am I'll be picking another one so I can keep this intact/sealed and am happy to do so knowing my money will be going to a good cause.

To conclude, the lack of water around the world is bad, it's kind of a mute point in this post as I'm a big BNE fan but help out some serious grass roots charity and buy some stickers and/or see what's up here.