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Day 25 -Friday

Worked from home for most of the day, Simon aka Brunch aka Kevin brought an electronic drum kit and a ipod touch so it was cool playing round with them.

At 5.30 I went to the Looksy meet up. Simon and Marie Young from iJumP were there and Ilai Amir who is also one of the key people involved in the Looksy movement.

Ilai is really cool and doing some great things so I’m going to list them off:
- He runs a film and website development company called Bruv Design - Almost ready to launch
- He blogs at Dizzy Again
- He volunteers for Connected Media and The Outlook For Someday

After the meet up we drove into town to check out the Public Access preview by 42Below and Sideroom.com “Month of Street Art” exhibition of stencil artists which was packed out and amazing!

Public Access will feature works by the prominent local street art crew Cut Collective. Comprised of four central artists Component, Flox, Trust Me and Enforce 1, Cut Collective have established a firm reputation in the Auckland street art scene. Their work ranges from commissioned artworks to gallery exhibitions, curation, public murals and workshops. Local artists Peepshow, Kool and Gasp join the Cut Collective crew to round out the stellar Public Access lineup.

It was a great exhibition and I highly recommend you go check it out if you are in Auckland.

Day 26

Bummed round most of the day and then flew back to Crimeschurch - good to be home to catch up with the crew but really looking forward to moving to Wellington in November.

I would like to say a thank you shout out to:
- Escape Rentals for the usage of their awesome van for the month

- Wade Hammond for putting me up at his pad for the week in Welly

- Tim Norton for letting me use Silicon Welly as a base for the week

- Patrick MacFie and Nigel Lewis from Start-UP who mentored me and let me work with them in the Icehouse

- Joel Soma for his contacts and help in the art buyers scene

- The PT Chev crew - Malc, Joe, Simon and Tim

- Dylan Bland, Simon and Marie Young, Rich Henry, Ben Young, Margaret Lewis, Vera, Weltec, Massey, WITT, Wintec, Unitec, Elam, Whitecliffe and everyone else who took time out to meet me and give me advice and help.

It was a great trip and I learned so much, it’s really cool to be able to get out there and meet people after all the hard work, time and money that has gone into getting to where Art Klick is now. I have so much more to learn but I love it and really want to help our countries talented creatives get their names out there and make a living from their passion.

From now on this blog will be focused on the New Zealand art’s with guest posts, video interviews and artist profiles. If anyone would like to contribute or has a story they would like to talk about please feel free to give me an email on james@artklick.com