Our friends from the Big Bug Collection can be sticklers for stickers. And even more fun than sticking random stickers to random surfaces, is of course to design stickers yourself. The result:
by Eliska
by Mariëlle
by Tom
by Diede
The party pics of the last Kattekwaad party in Area 51 have been added to the live events. Here is a photo impression of your heroic all-night painting crew and a glimpse of their work.
(lucky lottery winners)
When our Big Bugs walk down the grey streets surrounded by pavement, brick and concrete jungle, their minds never sleep. They can’t help but to make patterns there where they are not, to see the invisible, to oil their genius mind machines by letting their creativity wander there where their sight meets the road. Their eyes spot opportunities around every corner to create.
It might not come to you as a surprise then, that a big white paint spill that had been on the sidewalk for months was not safe to the burning eye of awesomeness.
Some people collect stamps. Others find pleasure in turning giant paint stains on the pavement into works of art.
The Big Bug Collection crew has been working hard to provide you the awesomeness you have been looking for so desperately. So say goodbye to your sleepless nights! The time has come. The shop has been updated…
Find these awesome designs and more in our Etsy shop. You can find unique hand painted shirts that no one else in the world has, and silkscreen prints in a very limited edition. Everything hand made by your favorite heroes of all time.
(pictures by Bram Berkien)
Dear Tom,
You will be following your own path to success and happiness. Apart from the Big Bug Collection. May the horse be with you. May everything you touch turn into gold and fireflies light up your world. Goodbye Tom. To you and your epic conversational skills. We wish you all the luck and awesomeness in the world.
Tom: ‘Oh that’s really Diede’
Us: ‘Diede?’
Tom: ‘Oh I meant to say cool’
‘Eliska, you have blood on your ehm…(deep awkward growl) tit.’
Come tonight to the Kattekwaad Party and win one of these two awesome shirts!
Tom with Eliska’s: “Destiny’s fracture”
Mariëlle with Diede’s: “John, everybody’s favorite post-apocalyptic rainbow eater”
Pictures by Bram Berkien
Tell us 10 random facts about yourself.
1. I am obsessed with polka dots
2. I am not a morning person
3. I once had a nose bleed because I was accidently hit in the face by my best friend in elementary school.
4. I lived in Canada, Gabon, India and Chile
5. I am last-minute with about everything I do
6. I work project based and then get bored and seek for a new challenge: I ran half a marathon almost a year ago and haven’t once touched my running shoes ever since.
7. I can make my belly look pregnant by filling my lungs with air
8. I like things with rainbows and glitters. I know. I simply can’t help it.
9. I talk a lot to myself
10. I am learning to play the ukulele
Why did you join the Big Bug Collection?
Because I love to create and to paint. Painting shirts seemed like an interesting new challenge, as well as gaining learning experience from starting up a company. I love to work with like-minded people who are in it just for the fun of it as well. It’s a cool way to stay creative and challenge each other.
What do you do with your life when you are not painting awesome stuff for the Big Bug Collection?
Studying, fooling around, sketching, drinking coffee, making dresses, baking gingerbread houses, making kites, folding paper cranes, playing my ukulele, having fun and enjoying life. I blog about my daily adventures and mini projects at Magical Day Dream.
Tell us 10 random facts about yourself.
1. Well first about the picture. As a skilled eye may notice, it seems like it is not 100% real but might be photoshopped, because the face is just too pretty to be real. Now comes the shock, I did all that, in paint! Sick right? I know, it made me wet myself a little too. Moreover, I did it in my old version of paint, and all the other colors dried out, so I did all that with just purple pink and black, and still bam, an unhealthy amount of insanity
spilled on digital canvas like it was murder.
But one may wonder why I would put all that awesome skill in making a drawing, while I could spend all that time in being me. While being who I am takes a lot of effort (to be honest I can only be me, like 80% of my time, rest of my time is done by my stunt double, Pablo Michael while I during that time am a 50 year old black lady in a magazine store with a limb, simply to cool down (get it? I’m cool and I need to keep that up! and I need to keep that up (epic!))).
Well let me enlighten your darkened souls. Like two months ago somebody tagged me in a picture once again. And well, in my case that means that random dads call me threatening me to marry their daughters because they got pregnant by looking at my picture (the dads not the daughters of course). All the guys I hang out with turn gay (except for my lesbian friends who turn bi with extra sexual sauce. Of course they will never admit this, but you can see it when they look at me.) Good relationships fall apart (ask Rihanna), and next to sticky seats anywhere in the world the biggest problem is the people that fall in a depression because they can not reach me because they are to far away or to ugly. So that’s why I drew you this picture.
2. The word ‘hardheid’, is invented to describe me at birth, because they could not figure out whether I was a boy or a girl. It was only later discovered that seven out of my thirteen legs, were my penis (scientists are still uncertain about the leftover four, 2 of them fornicated and had offspring, and one of the two others is currently being trialed with charges of massacre and cannibalism. The last one just smiles.)
3. I actually invented fire, not those hipster douche bag caveman with their anti conformist hair dues, I just can’t claim my rights because I am in a witness protection program due to my leg.
4. I would like to change my sex life for my artistic process, my work would be done quickly and I would be quit satisfied, and sex would take forever and get harder and more eccentric as it progresses, and I could finish with, THATS WHAT I CALL A PIECE OF ART. (of course none of this is true, me and my hand have an awesome sex life, we only formally complain about each other sometimes in our official sex life feedback sessions)
5. I once picked up shit with a stick and threw it on the front window of a car passing by………….
Why did you join the Big Bug Collection?
Why did I JOIN the Big Bug Collection they ask me? I created them bitches (incertain a komma where you like. I find that them, bitches and, them bitches both work, like a hooker on a football team). No but really, I send the others letters with an owl telling them that wizards sucked compared with the shit we do and that they needed to stop helping Harry with trying to win from a guy with that kind of hardcore face and fantastic political agenda (yes we all saw it, no-one dared to ask, but yes, Tom did play himself or “Hermione” in all the movies).
What do you do with your life when you are not painting awesome stuff for the Big Bug Collection?
I pour water over stuff. This one time I poured water over Haiti, their still recovering.
Today our crazy Czech will tell a little about herself. Meet Eliska.
Tell us 10 random facts about yourself.
1.hair colour chameleon
2.mornings allergic
3.party animal
4.bloody weirdo
5.movie and music addict
6.art lover
7.awesomeness maker
8.crazy czech
9.open book
10.and shoe size usually 39EU/8US
Why did you join the Big Bug Collection?
Love to create stuff and work with other awesome artists. Want to be free and make my own art according to my best (strong) belief and don’t really give a crap if anyone likes it or not…
What do you do with your life when you are not painting awesome stuff for the Big Bug Collection?
Sleep… Well except that I create other awesome stuff like handmade painted helmets, skateboards, a bit of a graphic design here and there and grafitti and doodles…
Check out more of Eliska’s art here.