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Lazy Habits

Tom — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:36:18 +0000

Good friends and frequent collaborators, Lazy Habits, are one of the UK’s foremost live hip hop bands and their horn-heavy uptempo tracks feature as the soundtrack on quite a few of our videos. The guys asked EndoftheLine to produce a video for their critically acclaimed single ‘The Road’. The resulting video features Probs painting an enormous post apocalyptic industrial cityscape. We also designed and painted the front cover of their incredible new album.

Check them out at www.lazyhabits.co.uk

Their new epic tour has kicked off. They are hitting all the major uk cities and you can see them at Hootenanny in London on the 27th of April.

Peace out

Soul Calibur V

Tom — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:40:29 +0000

Soul Calibur is easily one of our favourite games, it’s got it all. Brilliant characters, including skimpily clad ladies with improbable boobs, fast moving action, one of the most intuitive and forgiving control systems of all the fighting games, and, best of all, a truckload of over-sized weapons. Namco came to EndoftheLine looking for a unique viral video to promote the 5th instalment in the series. Probs and Zadok took out the Great Eastern Street wall with a Soul Calibur V themed production, the resulting time-lapse footage received 80,000 hits on the Namco youtube channel in it’s first two weeks and spread across the internet like a tidal wave. Namco were overjoyed with the reaction and we were commissioned to run an interactive photobooth and live-tee shirt printing setup at the UK and EU Soul Calibur V championships.

Streetfighter Fight Club

Tom — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:52:40 +0000

Probs created a series of character portraits on canvas for Capcom to give away as prizes on their ‘Fight Club’ tour to promote the newest instalment in the Streetfighter series – a battle royale between the characters of Streetfighter and rival franchise Tekken. He also painted some boards to be used as backdrops at their events. Streetfighter artwork had a big influence on him as a kid and you could tell it was a commission he particularly enjoyed.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Tom — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:25:33 +0000

For the launch of Paramount Pictures Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, and taking inspiration from the spectacular stunts performed by the film’s star, everyone’s favourite midget Scientologist – Tom Cruise, our own Jim Vision learnt to abseil in order to create an enormous mural in Farringdon. In freezing cold weather, and onto a vinyl surface that was constantly moving in the buffeting wind, Jim created an 85sqm reproduction of the movie poster. The resulting painting hung for four weeks in the heart of Farringdon and the video, one of our biggest productions to date, was produced entirely in-house.

Christmas Walls Roundup

Tom — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:37:54 +0000

It occurred to us we haven’t updated you on the Shoreditch walls for a while and right now there’s a whole lot of fresh pieces to go and ogle, so you should do that because in January we’re coming with a tidal wave of whitewash to start 2012 all shiny and new.

First up the mighty Revok came through town recently and Roids got in touch looking for somewhere to paint. Our favourite carpark wall was due for a repaint and the results are everything you’d expect from these heavy-hitters. As much as we loved the Ghetto Farceur piece that was up before this one really takes the biscuit.

The Great Eastern Street panels have taken a new lick of paint courtesy of EndoftheLine. Probs teamed up with Otwo and Robots Revenge who was over from Italy (and very happy to be painting this particular wall…apparently it’s a pretty famous wall over in Italy). Probs took out the left panel and painted a police car as though seen through one of his signature shattered glass panels. Otwo took out the middle with his equally shattered-looking abstract X styles, whilst Robots Revenge took out the right side.

On the opposite side of the road our good friend Zadok is, at the time of writing, out in the cold painting those panels. Anyone who has been following Zadok’s work over 2011 will know how sick he is and this is looking like being a magnificent end to an already impressive year,

Games is one of our favourite writers and another writer who has had a great year – killer piece after killer piece. He recently teamed up with Omerta in the carpark and brought typically dope styles to scare the stencil-loving hipsters. He’s got another piece in the carpark from a few weeks back too, also super clean, there’s seriously no stopping this guy.

Another well known name who was in town recently was Tilt who painted a huge big union jack out of his trademark bubble letters on Village Underground. The letters were the lyrics of Sex Pistols – Anarchy in the UK. You’ve doubtless seen this already but we couldn’t round up the walls without mentioning it – He’s kind of a big deal. A big French deal, and they’re the best.

Enough talk already, check the pictures and tell us what you think in the comments section.

Have a great Winter break and we’ll see you in 2012.

Ghost Protocol part 3

Tom — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:54:50 +0000

The third installment of a film franchise is almost always the worst, but this isn’t true of our Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol production – it just keeps getting better and better. Jim is totally comfortable in his abseil harness, the sun is shining for the third day in a row (in December!) and all the background and lettering is finished already. Just Mr Cruise to paint today but it’s already looking amazing, people need convincing that it’s hand-painted when they see it!

The video for this one is easily going to rival our Tron video we reckon. The weather has been a gift, consistently bright conditions making everything look lovely and clear through our viewfinders. A mixture of timelapse and video shot from the ground, cherry picker, surrounding rooftops, people’s flats we could blag our way in to, the middle of the road, and from directly above Jim – a rope’s eye view. We can’t wait to share it with you so stay tuned for that but until then feast your eyes on the gallery of todays pics and let us know what you think in the comments section.

Ghost Protocol Part 2

Tom — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:53:19 +0000

That’s right it’s the sequel, but this one is actually even better than the original. Whilst the world waits with baited breath for Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol to hit their movie screens we’re eagerly watching paint hit our East London vinyl screen. The sun is shining, the cameras are rolling and Jim is doing all his own stunts. The sight of all 6’5 of Mr. Vision swinging from skinny ropes 60 feet up in the crisp December air has been stopping pedestrians and getting honks from passing traffic all day. We’re starting to get through the initial footage and it looks amazing, our timelapses have definitely hit new heights, and not just physically! We can’t wait to show you the finished video but for now you’ll have to make do with these shots and keep your eyes peeled for the photos of Tom Cruise being painted tomorrow.

Ghost Protocol Part 1

Tom — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:27:46 +0000

Ghost Protocol, the latest installment from the super-successful Mission Impossible franchise, hits our cinemas this month and as part of the promo for it we’re dangling Probs from a rope in Clerkenwell for the next three days so that he can paint a massive mural of Tom Cruise. Jim had to attend some lessons last week to be allowed to do this and is now a fully qualified Spiderman. Check out these first shots of him getting the initial lettering done, and yes it’s as high as it looks! Leave comments below and if you’re in the Clerkenwell area tomorrow or on Wednesday come and marvel at Jim swinging in the breeze.