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By: Ronan MacEwan
Date: 28th May 08
Ambience: Outdoor
Difficulty: Won't hurt a bit
What:
Cuprocking, Andy Uprock
Where:
Section 8, 27-29 Tattersalls La, Melbourne
When:
TONIGHT! Wed May 28, 6.30pm
How much:
Free as pickin up a cup and sticking it in a hole
Don't you think it's hard to stay cool in an age of relentless cultural turnover? There is always some new-fangled form of music or art or something to be obsessed with and drop into buzzer bee conversation. Luckily you are reading this because the word of the day is... 'Cuprock'.
Heard of it? It's a new form of street art for us all! So drop your stencils for a moment and come down to the glorified shipping container that is Section 8 where you can sit on dirty cushioned milk crates in your three hundred dollar jeans to watch Sydney-sider Andy Uprock stick cup shaped rubbish in a chain-link fence.
Vice and Mooks think it's cool and have thrown some coin at it, which means free drinks. The coloured pixel-like result will most likely look hypnotically pretty and make you wish you had thought of it. We can only hope that he is using recycled materials and that the thousands of cups are securely fixed, so as to avoid the choking of possums up the road at Edinburgh gardens. That would not be cool.