Graffiti
Style Wars: The Outtakes Project
November 17, 2011
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Style Wars was originally released in 1983, as a 69-minute documentary on hip-hop and graffiti culture. Here we are some decades later and pieces of abandoned footage are now beginning to come to the forefront. Out of 30 hours of film, only a sliver made the final cut, which of...
Retna Gallery Brown Mural
November 11, 2011
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Recently, a mural was put up by street artist Retna on the side of the Gallery Brown in Beverly Hills, California. However, this is not the first time the 32-year-old artist has left his mark in the area. The piece, like work he did on the side of the Chanel flagship store in...
FOTT presents: Better than Breakfast – “Stas and Egor” Video
November 11, 2011
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Russian retailer FOTT continues its Better than Breakfast four-part series with the release of their second video, "Stas and Egor." Better than Breakfast, a unique video series showcasing the boutique's Fall/Winter 2011 collection worn by free-spirited comrades of the store,...
Mike Giant by Sean Desmond
November 9, 2011
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Photographer and filmmaker Sean Desmond takes us through an interview with a legend of San Francisco street art, Mike Giant. This stop-motion video covers the artist's roots, including his humble beginnings, how his career as a writer unfolded, and the inspiration that has...
12oz: BNE Talks About the BNE Water Foundation
November 7, 2011
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BNE is considered one of the most prolific street artists of all time. Since the early '90s the artist has left his mark in various countries around the world, and to this day BNE's identity still remains a mystery. Alongside the rise to fame came the approaches by media and...
The Senseless Drawing Bot
November 7, 2011
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In order to explore the relationship between technology and art, So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi created the Senseless Drawing Bot - a self-propelling device that sprays linework using the concept of the double pendulum. Based on the dynamism of modern graffiti forms, the robot...
POSE x KC Ortiz – Whitewash Show Preview
November 1, 2011
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On Saturday, November 19, graffiti artist POSE and photojournalist KC Ortiz will unveil "Whitewash" - their second exhibition at Known Gallery in Los Angeles, and their most cohesive to date. For POSE, "Whitewash" references society’s attempt to eradicate graffiti and stifle...
3rd Estria Invitiational Battle @ The Honolulu Academy of Arts
November 1, 2011
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Providing young and talented artists with an appropriate outlet, as opposed to their local cityscape, the Estria Invitational collects graffiti artists from near and far and allows them to battle it out within creative quarters. Early in September, the third contest of 2011 was...
Faile @ Bowery & Houston NYC
October 28, 2011
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Artist collective Faile has contributed a creative touch to the famed wall on the corner of Bowery and Houston in New York. The large scale piece adds some color to the busy intersection, incorporating a very eclectic motif with layered pieces that include imagery seen from the...
Complex: The 25 Greatest LA Graffiti Writers
October 26, 2011
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Complex magazine has been known to put out top lists from everything to Nas's best songs to top Asian porn stars of all time. This time, they enlist revered graffiti artist Revok to compile this list of "The 25 Greatest LA Graffiti Writers." Revok asks readers to note that this...
Art in the Streets: Retna: Creating The Unconventional
October 13, 2011
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"Art in the Streets" is a collaborative celebration of the arts through Cadillac and The Museum of Contemporary Arts in Los Angeles, California. The project resulted in the installation of three public murals by renowned artists, including graffiti artist Retna. This video,...
The Seventh Letter: Revok, Rime & Roids Cross Country (Video)
October 10, 2011
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Watch as the MSK/Seventh Letter trio of Revok (LA), Rime (LA/NY) and Roids (UK) create the gallery work for their now widely successful Perserverance showing, before setting out cross country to deliver the work to LA's Known Gallery. Along the way, the artistic luminaries...
Blu @ Tudela Avant-Garde Urbano Festival, Spain
September 29, 2011
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Having last been seen in Valencia, Italian artist Blu has traveled north to partake in Avant-Garde Urbano in the small town of Tudela de Navarra. More and more quaint cities across Europe have been using world-renowned street artists and their work as a way to bump up tourist's...
SABER: Plane Skywriting Over Los Angeles City Hall
September 19, 2011
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There's "getting up" and then there's GETTING UP. MSK/AWR has taken to the skies above Los Angeles City Hall this afternoon in a not so subtle "how you like them apples" at District Attorney, Carmen Trutanich. Various skywriting-equipped planes zoomed around the...
Prime and Estria: Na’au Pono Interview
September 19, 2011
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Heroes come in many shapes and sizes. Some are decked out in skintight spandex suits while others have the uncanny ability to hit home runs. Along the spectrum, there are also those that defy social injustice by sitting at the front of buses and those that do forbidden art in...
