A riving mass of twisted black plastic and metal moulding together out of a fog of electrical static - also known as the digital age in which we live in. Wireless communication and even a man on the moon but still there is no soloution to the mess of wires involved when listening to music. Two pieces, the first is a single colour the second highlighted with metallic silver.

Wired I

Wired II

After the walk from Vauxhall tube I was hoping for a lot from the Altermodern exhibition at the Tate Britain, but was left a little underwhelmed by it all - except for a few artists work. But the work that really grabbed my attention was by the German artist Franz Ackermann. His work really took me on a journey of colour and movement, and made a grey and until then pretty quite London day jump around singing in excitement and fun – definitely worth a visit to see his work for yourself.

I woke up on Wednesday to the vision of the new world that had arisen overnight from the ashes of republican America; wars had ceased, crime had just disappeared, poverty and disease no longer existed. This may be a slight exaggeration but if you had voted Barack Obama in the US presidential election it seems this is what you believed would happen.

Obama being sworn in is clearly a great moment in American and World history and will undoubtedly have a huge effect on how America is governed and perceived globally, but are people expected far to much from Barack? he seems to have been elevated from the realm of politician to messiah.

It is now only a few days until America finally cast its vote and gets rid of the tyrant George W Bush once and for all - but where will this leave Me. For all his downsides; war mongering, his cabinets connections to big business and that childish grin to name but a few traits he was a great target for me and any other sane person to laugh at and mock. Although I can only be happy that such a crooney is leaving a position that wields so much power.

Even though I need some political fodder to keep me going I am sure both new candidates will provide this over time - it’s the American way. McCain certainly appears to be of the same breed as good Old W, so if he gets to power I am sure I will have my hands full pretty quickly, whereas Obama appears a bit more clean cut which is likely to give me less ammunition, but alas it is not me that decides instead it is that crazy nation that is America.

I am still completely amazed even today – 2 days after it happened. I was in a warm and friendly pub in the safe and familiar streets of Soho on Friday evening with a friend I haven’t seen in a while, deep in conversation and completely unaware of the hideous incident occurring under my own nose when some utterly despicable person stole my book from the table, my book, my copy of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - who in hell steals a book. What has society come to when someone steals a book from you?.

I feel I should report this to the police before some others fall foul to this menace!

Below are a selection of pictures from work on my latest stencil, it’s a full size 180cm tall 6 colour piece. It is printed and then stuck onto 1 ply corrugated cardboard. Keep your eyes peeled as it will come to a street near you very soon.

With the recent release of the new 3G IPhone and its new software that allows third party applications to be downloaded from iTunes and installed onto the phone, can this new technology summarize the ideals of the American nation?

At last count I found 15+ ‘Tip calculators’ (because moving the decimal place is too much like mathematics), 5 ‘Magic 8-balls’ and unsurprisingly only 2 currency converters. Further cementing the fact that Americans are willing to tell the rest of the world what to do even though they have never left their own shores, instead most are very happy to sit in restaurants getting obese whilst their Magic 8-ball cuts out the need to even exercise that flabby muscle known as the brain “Should I have fries instead of salad? - You may rely on it”, maybe they should try traveling around the world…. but the Magic 8-ball says NO!

It’s creamy and ready for print, urban ice-cream is on its way to the printer and will be coming to a street near you soon, of course if they find themselves stuck to the walls illegally this has nothing to do with me or a crack team of knife toting hoodies - lets just put it down to magic.

I have taken a few days break from the new stencils I am working on to draw up a new sticker that I had the idea for a while back. It was originally going to be a t-shirt and a slightly different design, but in the last few days I have combined two parts of the same idea to create ‘Urban ice-cream’. I have attached the first sketches for the sticker that will be ready in the next few days.

How are you doing? are you enjoying the weather?, well that’s enough about you for now. I just want to let you know that i have been working overtime on lots of new and exciting stuff: new stencils, ideas and building the Leinz online shop - so much to do and so little time.

If you are on the south Bank, London in a few weeks keep an eye out for a new Leinz stencil that will be appearing as if by magic on a wall near the river, so long as the feds don’t get to me first!

I also have some bad news - someone tried to get Leinz added to Wikipedia but they rejected it, a travesty i know so I have harden my resolve to work even harder to get myself wiki’d… if it’s the last thing i do.