Shorties were climbing on chairs and resorting to dowels to get their stickers as high up on the wall as possible outside Eastpak’s Aquario space last weekend at its Sticker Exhibition show, the latest fun partnership between Eastpak and street artists. After Brazilian collectors Jair Cordeiro, Joao Correia and Alejandro Akira had received stickers from 170 artists in 25 countries, they figured it’d only be fitting to mount an exhibit, so they gathered their collections for display, but added another element: Everyone was invited to also bring their own stickers and get stickering in between all the free ice cream and beer served at the event (thinking about that now, those two would have made some great beer floats). Drunken stickering? The results were pretty rad, even if this photo I took came out a little blurry (full size after the jump). Check out more photos here. The show moves on to Rio de Janeiro after Nov. 15.

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Thanks to the show “Pimp My Ride”, turning an automobile into a blender or an XBox on wheels doesn’t seem so strange. While XZibit and the crew at West Coast Customs may have cornered the market on turning cars into complex appliances, Tim Roberts would like to make his mark by turning your car into a work of art. The founder of Infectious Car Art first experienced the miracle of the moving canvas when his college roommate paid a muralist $1,000 to paint his favorite character on a beat up old hatchback. The problem with that was that the decoration was permanent. Roberts company has remedied this problem by creating easy to install and remove vinyl designs created by some of the dopest designers around. Zeptonn, Dalek, and Jon Burgerman are just some of the names responsible for creating some of the most divine decals available to adhere to your automobile, whether you drive an Audi… or AMC.

There’s a giant candle sitting on the birthday cake for Wallspankers PDF sticker magazine, which is festing its 1-year status with a new edition that’s pressure-cooking with an arsenal of graff-style drawings and designs available for you to download, print out and dirty up walls with. Created by a hundred artists from all across the globe, the edition packs in more than 350 black-and-white potential adhesives. MWM Graphics and Knuckle Sandwich Press started the project last year to unite art collaborators, but Wallspankers has since grown to encompass an online gallery and an anniversary book called WS:1234, which has a release date sometime later this year. Anyone wanna join me on the playground for a good ol’ fashioned sticker swap?