[rustyb]

gzone said:

yep I think POLAR BEARS ARE F*CKED will be a print... the PSYCHO PENGUINS are a series of 10 stencils on canvas, but im working on something else for those badboys...

any clues for us?

[Octopus UK]

I'm holding off getting my "Pandas Rock" framed because I would like that and the penguins to complement each other.

[rustyb]

how is Death Planet going? It looks amazing, if I wasn't a poor student I would probably have it bought by now

[mainartery]

Think his work is great - and pandas rock - pure cult art

[Pure Evil]

ulsterman said:

gzone said:

yep I think POLAR BEARS ARE F*CKED will be a print... the PSYCHO PENGUINS are a series of 10 stencils on canvas, but im working on something else for those badboys...

any clues for us?

Im going to see if I can get the PSYCHO PENGUINS lasercut out of white paper and put another sheet of black paper behind it ... so it is an A2 piece of artwork, but its not a screenprint... part of the fun of that image is that the original is a stencil that I've cut out of acetate and its all pretty tricky, so Im going to make an edition of lasercut stencils... if you want to use that to spray your own penguins onto something then its up to you really...



I sent this to California in a wooden crate with high density foam and foam pellets (ghost turds) and FEDEX took it out of the box and delivered it in sh*tty cardboard on 9/11... what a horrible feeling... DESTROYED BY FEDEX...

From now on I am ONLY using a professional art shipping company for originals this is really disturbing... It feels like being punched in the gut .

Apparently the crate never made it to the USA
"I'm guessing UPS binned your crate because there are now lots of regs
covering packing materials ( mostly timber ) into and out of the USA. "

[goffy]

Maybe the stupid fu ckers though Bin Laden has started sending bombs by post. That is an absolute disgrace, and sickening to see it that state.

[Pure Evil]

heres my new neon bunny ...... Its a f*cking INFINITE NEON BUNNY... Im doing these in all kinds of colours...

[Glitter G]

What is this about? I think it'll be great if you can explain it

[Pure Evil]

Its a neon bunny in a perspex box .... it hangs on your wall and you plug it in and it reflects an infinite line of bunnies that fade off into the distance ... stop by the gallery and check it out , it looks insane... Im going to Beijing on monday to find somewhere to mass produce these babies in different colours..

AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆ AMAZING!!! ☆what's ＮＥＷ☆

I took a tag of mine off a wall just off kingsland road, and made it out of neon, so it now has the feel of a shop sign or an advertisement in the street...

[Daniel Silk]

Just wanna say a BIG thank you to Pure Evil for letting me have a rest to charge my and ma camera batteries at his gallery yesterday ;D
My legs feel like I walked a million miles yesterday So its a week off recovering and getting a load of videos made from the photos I had taken ;D

BTW if you haven't been to Pure Evils place in Leonard Street make sure you take a look he has got some really great pieces available and some originals for £300!

[Pure Evil]

cool.. Im in Beijing setting up my show out here.. its bike city... its even crazier than I thought it would be... I'm going to add some pics to www.flickr.com/photos/pureevilbunny as soon as I can hook my laptop up with some wireless action..

PE

[Pure Evil]

Neon bunnies are 1500 squid...

Im getting 10 made in a week for my SOLO SHOW opening next friday...

[Pure Evil]

SHOW OPENS in Beijing in 6 hours... I pulled an allnighter at the space last night and its getting there..

pics at www.flickr.com/photos/pureevilbunny

dont know whether to put money in the trap or a banksy print...

[ogrgel]

gzone said:

SHOW OPENS in Beijing in 6 hours... I pulled an allnighter at the space last night and its getting there..

pics at www.flickr.com/photos/pureevilbunny

dont know whether to put money in the trap or a banksy print...

or banksy himself could sit on it

nice work mr evil

[Pure Evil]

the trap is just going to have the word HOPE as bait. Thanks to jam for the suggestion. Show opens in an hour im having a bottle of duvel.

[jam]

My first 'colaboration'...

Good luck with the show PE!

[mcnuts]

hope you get a commission for that !

[scavos]

Great suggestion jam.
I've just seen the pic of your great work of art destroyed by Fedex - really sickening to see what they've done. Worse things can happen I guess.
Good luck with the show PE.

[Pure Evil]

Just uploaded up a walkthrough of the show with pics of everything : Http://www.pureevil.eu

If you cant afford a trip to China its the next best thing... mind you, flights are about £400 and the place is amazing..
Im staying on Nang Luo Gu and its an amazing part of Beijing thats still got lots of character although they are trying to clean it up... bit like a Beijing Brick Lane really.

[Jef Aerosol]

good luck for the show Charley ! That trap is awesome ! And Congrats for liking Duvel ! You're definitely a man of good taste ! See you in London next week-end ! Cheers...

[Pure Evil]

I would like to invite you to an exhibition of paintings by my father JOHN UZZELL EDWARDS in my gallery space at 18 leonard st, london, Ec2a 4rh. The opening is tonight (thursday) at 7pm and the show will run until the 16th of december. Thanks, pure evil

[stuey09]

gzone said:

[shadow=red,left,300]I would like to invite you to an exhibition of paintings by my father JOHN UZZELL EDWARDS in my gallery space at 18 leonard st, london, Ec2a 4rh. The opening is tonight (thursday) at 7pm and the show will run until the 15th of january. Thanks, pure evil [/shadow]0

I'd love to attend Mr. Evil but I'm getting my eyes tested on that day.

[Coach]

stuey09 said:

gzone said:

[shadow=red,left,300]I would like to invite you to an exhibition of paintings by my father JOHN UZZELL EDWARDS in my gallery space at 18 leonard st, london, Ec2a 4rh. The opening is tonight (thursday) at 7pm and the show will run until the 15th of january. Thanks, pure evil [/shadow]0

I'd love to attend Mr. Evil but I'm getting my eyes tested on that day.

lol stuey! ;D

[Pure Evil]

im well gutted that evel knievel has died im going to build a shrine to him at the open studio and put out a special commemorative hand tinted PURE EVEL KNIEVEL print in memory of him. The king is dead. He is jumping buses in heaven now.



CLEARWATER, Fla. - Evel Knievel's hard life killed him — it just took longer than he or anyone else might have expected. The hard-living motorcycle daredevil, whose bone-breaking, rocket-powered jumps and stunts made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.


He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs. He had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his many spills. He also suffered two strokes in recent years.

Longtime friend and promoter Billy Rundle said Knievel had trouble breathing at his Clearwater condominium and died before an ambulance could get him to a hospital.

"It's been coming for years, but you just don't expect it. Superman just doesn't die, right?" said Rundle, organizer of the annual "Evel Knievel Days" festival in the daredevil's Butte, Mont., hometown.

Knievel's son Kelly, 47, said he had visited his father in Clearwater for Thanksgiving.

"I think he lived 20 years longer than most people would have" after so many injuries, Kelly Knievel said. "I think he willed himself into an extra five or six years."

Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as "America's Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed attempt to jump an Idaho canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980.

For the tall, thin daredevil, the limelight was always comfortable, the gab glib. There always were mountains to climb, feats to conquer.

"No king or prince has lived a better life," he told The Associated Presss in May 2006. "You're looking at a guy who's really done it all. And there are things I wish I had done better, not only for me but for the ones I loved."

He garbed himself in red, white and blue and had a knack for outrageous yarns: "Made $60 million, spent 61. ...Lost $250,000 at blackjack once. ... Had $3 million in the bank, though."

His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel's trademarked image in a popular West music video.

Although he dropped off the pop culture radar in the '80s, Knievel enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years. He made a good living selling autographs and endorsing products. Thousands came to Butte every year as his legend was celebrated during "Evel Knievel Days."

"They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives," Knievel said. "People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner."

He began his daredevil career in 1965 when he formed a troupe called Evel Knievel's Motorcycle Daredevils, a touring show in which he performed stunts such as riding through fire walls, jumping over live rattlesnakes and mountain lions and being towed at 200 mph behind dragster race cars.

In 1966 he began touring alone, barnstorming the West and doing everything from driving the trucks, erecting the ramps and promoting the shows. In the beginning he charged $500 for a jump over two cars parked between ramps.

He steadily increased the length of the jumps until, on New Year's Day 1968, he was nearly killed when he jumped 151 feet across the fountains in front of Caesar's Palace. He cleared the fountains but the crash landing put him in a coma for a month.

His son Robbie Knievel followed in his father's daredevil footsteps and successfully completed the same jump in April 1989.

In the years after the crash, the fee for the elder Knievel's performances increased to $1 million for his jump over 13 buses at Wembley Stadium in London — the crash landing broke his pelvis — to more than $6 million for the Sept. 8, 1974, attempt to clear the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in a rocket-powered "Skycycle." The money came from ticket sales, paid sponsors and ABC's "Wide World of Sports."

The parachute malfunctioned and deployed after takeoff. Strong winds blew the cycle into the canyon, landing him close to the swirling river below.

On Oct. 25, 1975, he jumped 14 Greyhound buses at Kings Island in Ohio.

Knievel decided to retire after a jump in the winter of 1976 in which he was again seriously injured. He suffered a concussion and broke both arms in an attempt to jump a tank full of live sharks in the Chicago Amphitheater. He continued to do smaller exhibitions around the country with his son, Robbie.

Many of his records have been broken by daredevil motorcyclist Bubba Blackwell.

Knievel also dabbled in movies and TV, starring as himself in "Viva Knievel" and with Lindsey Wagner in an episode of the 1980s TV series "Bionic Woman." George Hamilton and Sam Elliott each played Knievel in movies about his life.

Evel Knievel toys accounted for more than $300 million in sales for Ideal and other companies in the 1970s and '80s.

Born Robert Craig Knievel in the copper mining town of Butte on Oct. 17, 1938, Knievel was raised by his grandparents. He traced his career choice back to the time he saw Joey Chitwood's Auto Daredevil Show at age 8.

Outstanding in track and field, ski jumping and ice hockey at Butte High School, he went on to win the Northern Rocky Mountain Ski Association Class A Men's ski jumping championship in 1957 and played with the Charlotte Clippers of the Eastern Hockey League in 1959.

He also formed the Butte Bombers semiprofessional hockey team, acting as owner, manager, coach and player.

Knievel also worked in the Montana copper mines, served in the Army, ran his own hunting guide service, sold insurance and ran Honda motorcycle dealerships. At various times and in different interviews, Knievel claimed to have been a swindler, a card thief, a safe cracker, a holdup man.

Evel Knievel married his hometown girlfriend, Linda Joan Bork, in 1959. They separated in the early 1990s. They had four children, Kelly, Robbie, Tracey and Alicia.

Robbie Knievel followed in his father's footsteps as a daredevil, jumping a moving locomotive in a 200-foot, ramp-to-ramp motorcycle stunt on live television in 2000. He also jumped a 200-foot-wide chasm of the Grand Canyon.

Knievel lived with his longtime partner, Krystal Kennedy-Knievel, splitting his time between their Clearwater condo and Butte. They married in 1999 and divorced a few years later but remained together. Knievel had 10 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

[goffy]

Lift up to heaven on angels wings.

[CHAMB]

met him last year.....solid guy

[Pure Evil]

you met evel? F*ck me ! Cassius my pal saw him do a jump at wembley and his foot was on fire. What was he like? Did he have, like, an AURA?Or was he just a bloke

[urallwrong]

Hi PE,

Grabbed a copy of "East End Tagger" recently, from Stella Dore. Loving it, thanks!

Where's the best place online to keep an eye out for your future releases?

[Pure Evil]

www.pureevil.eu

[CHAMB]

gzone said:

you met evel? F*ck me ! Cassius my pal saw him do a jump at wembley and his foot was on fire. What was he like? Did he have, like, an AURA?Or was he just a bloke

Just a regular guy, had a real aged, leather feel about him. He talked to me for a bit, shook my hand, signed an autograph. real class act.