A somewhat overlooked Cans Festival 2 hit London this past weekend, serving up a much-needed follow up to the massively successful Cans Festival, organized by legendary stencil artist Banksy, that hit London earlier this year in May 2008.
The Cans Festival 2 delivered exactly what we’d expected: a fresh batch of some of the dopest work out today in the world of street, stencil, aerosol, and urban art.
NoLionsInEngland took some amazing photos of all the work which currently graces the tunnel on Leake Street in London. He writes, “Leake Street tunnel re-opened this morning to reveal a lush kaleidoscope of freehand spray graffiti and ensemble of burnt out cars…" [more here] That particular car (seen above) was painted by the lovely Lucy McLaughlan (Juxtapoz #89) What we wouldn’t give for a joy ride in that sweet whip…

On top of all that, Cans 2 also offers a fun lil twist for dedicated viewers in the form of a treasure hunt of alphabet letters. (Hopefully UK-based street artist Eine doesn’t mind folks hitting up his signature letter theme!)
NoLionsInEngland reports, “Cans 2 presents a teasing little treasure hunt for us…an alphabet ‘learner’ (‘A is for ATG’, ‘K is for Kool School’) of letters sprayed at various points in various styles…" [more here]
There are only 23 letters though! We’re no alphabet-ologists, but last time we checked, there were supposed to be 26. Hmmm… looks like the E, the F and G peaced out.
J may actually be for J Star, but we like to think it could also be for Juxtapoz. Just let us have our dreams, okay?

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