This year Das Boat, Sake, Sterf en Yen took on a 6 days mission to the Zwarte Cross in the Achterhook. After a drive with a rented van and some wrong turns we quickly setted up our basecamp consisting of 4 experienced festivaltents in a circle. After a hookup with Diederik, whom we gave our LastPlak book, as a token of gratitude for being able to paint at this friendly festival again. Then he welcomed Sake to the world of Zwarte Cross by folding out a map with the infrastructure of this temporary party town. Since the paint was still at the Feestfabriek’s headquarters, we passed the time with exploring the festival area and climbing into a watchtower to overlook the hugeness of it all. Later that evening we ended up drawing stickers, sketching, at the crewbar. A few guys from the organisation joined us there and introduced us to the new drink they had created and brewed especially for the festival called “Nozem” On the next day we were set on some missions at specific spots. Since the festival wasnt open to the public yet, we did most of our paintings on that day during a 12hrs shift of walking back and forward across the festival area, needless to say that made us very thirsty ! Alltogether we had a really great time at Zwarte Cross, meeting new people, helping security vollunteers by delivering them coffee, and even moved our feet on various dancefloor/stages.
Feestfabriek,and all the people of the theatre area : THANKS again for these days! And also thanks to the ANWB man who helped us out with replacing a flat tire on the rentbus on our journey homewards!

Last saturday we had our book release in Roodkapje.

In the harbour of Scheveningen we painted a huge mural of 60 meter long and 7 meter high. It’s on the hangar of “De Vloek” on the Hellingweg. 17 artist from all over Holland participated and it took 2 weeks to complete the job. Artists are: Sake, Uilskuiken, Ces53, Pinwin, Das Boat, Thor, Mick La Rock, Bust, Grrt, Ox-Alien, Amik, Oles, KBTR, PZE, 10:Gu, Nol & Edo. Here some pictures.

Last saturday Oles, Sake, Das Boat, Ox-Alien, Sterf & Yen went to Eindhoven for the annual “Step In The Arena” graffiti jam. Here some pictures.

For the HKU (Hogeschool voor de kunsten Utrecht) we painted a big pile of washing machines, fridges, tables, doors, etc at their anual Trend Event with this years theme ‘Create through recycle’. here some pictures

Yesterday Oles, Pinwin, Grrt, Ox-Alien, Das Boat & Sake went to Eindhoven to paint for the Hidden Beauty street art shop. Ended up painting and drinking a lot, but what’s new.

Ox-Alien, Oles, Sake, Pinwin, Das Boat & some friends painted the fence next to trainstation Blaak here in Rotterdam again.

Last sunday almost the whole Lastplak crew together with Bust painted the Marnixbowl in Amsterdam. It’s one of the biggest skatebowls of Holland and it took us 9 hours to complete the job. It’s one of the dopest things we painted so far and it was well worth the muscle pain the next few days. Here some pictures.