VHILS AND ERICAILCANE @ FAME 11

VHILS @ Fame Festival 2011 from fame festival on Vimeo.

Loving the style of this, looks like a lot of fun !

Erica il Cane @ FAME festival 2011 from fame festival on Vimeo.

Explain the stick shaking pleeeease

MARGARET KILGALLEN. SHORT DOC

For all our SF friends. Last chance to see the Margaret Kilgallen show. Closes Aug 5th.


Margaret Kilgallen is currently the subject of a retrospective, Summer/Selections, at Ratio 3 in San Francisco, and KQED, the San Francisco Bay Area's public television station, created this nice short documentary about Kilgallen, with an interview with book conservator and Kilgallen friend, Daniel Flanagan.

Margaret Kilgallen: Summer / Selections
Through August 5, 2011
Ratio 3
San Francisco, California

Via Juztapoz

CONOR HARRINGTON IN LONDON

Conor Harrington in London

via hookedblog

NICK WALKER IN PARIS

Nick Walker in Paris from Butterfly on Vimeo.

Thanks to Butterfly

NEW FROM EVOL

Evol never fails to impress, his work for Nuart was exemplary and livened up a whole neighbourhood, it's still a talking point in the city and a pleasure to pass the pieces on the way downtown to Nuart towers. His latest work for MS Dockville Music Festival in Hamburg, though far from his usual urban playground, is equally stunning.

From Evol
Earlier this year I have been kindly invited to an art festival as part of the MS Dockville Music Festival, which is going to happen in mid August.


Usually I prefer to work on site by interfering with already existing structures.
As I came there first, this is what I found: end less meadow, trees and blue sky.
Not exactly what I play with usually. So I decided to cut open the idyll, and pretend there is no endless meadow, but only rooftop-​gardens of the disgust underneath …


8 exhausting days of hard work (at least for people who usually cut paper only).


Thanks to my adorable helpers Matthias H. and Matthi R. and the Dockville Team, esp. Laura, Doro, Arvid, Felix, Christoph..

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via Evol's flickr

VIGILANTE VIGILANTE

"Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression" Official Trailer from max good on Vimeo.

A feature documentary about anti-graffiti vigilantes and the cultural significance of graffiti and street art. Premieres August 12th at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Hopefully we can get this to Nuart too, looks like an interesting take on the theme.

A new breed of crime-fighter now stalks the urban landscape: the anti-graffiti vigilante.
These dedicated blight warriors stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods and cities of street art, stickers, tags, and posters.

Yet several of these vigilantes have become the very menace they set out to eliminate. In their relentless attempt to stamp out graffiti, they have turned to illegally and destructively painting other people’s property.

VIGILANTE VIGILANTE is the story of two filmmakers who set out to expose these mysterious characters and discover a battle of expression that stretches from the streets to academia.

check out the website here

OUTSIDE IN

OUTSIDE IN from NUART on Vimeo.

Photo : John Roger

OUTSIDE IN. STAVANGER NORWAY
CLOSES AUG 7TH.
Featuring 140 works from over 30 of the worlds leading urban artists..

Banksy, Os Gemeos, JR, Blu, Blek le Rat, Barry McGee, Ed Templeton, Mark Gonzales, Shepard Fairey, Dolk, Dan Witz, Borf, Faile, Jose Parla, Jeremy Geddes, David Shrigley, David Choe, Dotmasters, Swoon, Bast, Logan Hicks, Escif, Herakut, Ha Ha, Nick Walker, Charles Krafft, Martha Cooper, Steve Powers, Kaws, Retna, Chris Stain, Skewville, M-City, Date Farmers, Mark Jenkins & more..

We were looking at Deitch’s Art in the Streets and thought there were a few important artists missing. We were also a tad jealous so thought we’d knock up our own little provincial version here in Sunny Stavanger. Pop 120 000.

Dug through the portfolio’s and ripped everything down from the office and homestead walls and voila. 140 works from 30 of the worlds leading practioners of Street and Urban Art (or something like that), From Jeremy Geddes in Australia to Bäst in New York, David Shrigley in the UK to Charles Krafft in Seattle. The Gonz and Ed Templeton to Banksy and Os Gemeos AND BEYOND... I think you’ll agree, we pushed the envelope on what can rightly be termed "urban art", we've seen street art fans tastes develop far beyond a liking for the early humorous one layer stencil (Thanks Banksy) and it now embraces the likes of Hyperrealist oil painters such as Geddes as well as.. well, you get the point I guess.

The framing bill almost killed us, but what the hell, we have our own little expo. Over a thousand people through the doors and this little unlikely wooden housed city on the West Coast of Norway again, rekindles its love affair with all things 21st century street.

More images here

ART IN THE STREETS

Art in The Streets : Los Angeles from Juan Enriquez on Vimeo.

Great little video from Juan Enriquez, last chance to get yourself to MOCA for Art in the Streets which closes Aug 7.

ERICAILCANE & BLU IN ITALY

JR TALKS TO AL JAZEERA

HERAKUT IN NEWCASTLE

Herakut - OneThirty3 from onethirty3 on Vimeo.

THREE DAYS

Three days. from CHAIR on Vimeo.

Beautifully shot film from Russian collective, and like they say, makes a pleasant change from timelapse and hip hopped action shots of street work.

"we are a collective from Russia, Nizghni Novgorod city and we have just finished our small video that describes the way we approach painting. We tried to build this video not as an ordinary time-laps or action shoot, but the representation of atmosphere of places during the painting."

Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. 2011

Shooting by Vova Chernishev
Music by Loess - Greensland.

Featured artists:
Stop - flickr.com/​photos/​stop1er/​
Skar - flickr.com/​photos/​skarskarskar/​
Chair - flickr.com/​photos/​chairock/​
Jacob - flickr.com/​photos/​57387027@N02/​
When - flickr.com/​photos/​57059833@N08/​

FAITH 47 AND DAL

In July 2011 Faith47 and DALeast took on the wall outside EYEBEAM Art and Technology center on W21st street in Chelsea, NYC.

Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa and China respectively the artists made their only piece in New York and one of the first they've painted together. Wooster Collective was there to capture the process.

Via woostercollective

SWEZA QR RADIO

This is QRadio the new QR-art project by Berlin based artist SWEZA.

This is a cool wheat paste project called QRadio from SWEZA that is up in Berlin. The posters have code printed on them that turn your phone into an interactive tape that plays 1 of 5 different tracks.¨

Via Citrusreports (one of favourite blogs)

BLU & ESCIF WALL IN VALENCIA

Man do these guys work quick, no sooner do we hear they're heading to Spain and BAM! two new massive pieces appear. Can't wait to see what else appears before they head over here. Watch this space.

Photo credit and more images from smart hype here

STEVE POWERS

Flights of Genius by Stephen Powers from Jun Lee on Vimeo.

Ogilvy & Mather New York and Joshua Liner Gallery unveil a series of commissioned murals by celebrated artist Stephen Powers that reinterpret the words and quotes of agency founder David Ogilvy.

Power’s bold graphic style, reminiscent of vintage advertising illustrations puts a unique emphasis on famous Ogilvy sayings and transforms them into actionable words designed to inspire the viewer. Painted in bright colors on the North stairwell of the agency’s headquarters office, the murals run from the first to the 11th floor of the office building.

The murals are being unveiled to coincide with the 100th birthday of David Ogilvy, one of the most influential and important figures in modern advertising.

Curated by Joshua Liner and Jun Lee

NEW FROM VHILS

Vhils (aka Alexandre Farto) doing an amazing piece of work on the side of Post No Bills‘ new spot in Venice CA. This piece will be a highlight of the upcoming ‘EUROPEAN BAILOUT SHOW‘ opening next week.

‘EUROPEAN BAILOUT SHOW’ featuring works from:
Antony Micallef – Conor Harrington – Ian Francis – Jonathan Yeo – JR – Mode2 – Paul Insect – Stanley Donwood – Vhils – Zevs

All photos courtesy of Patrick Iaconis of C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice, CA

ON THE HOP WITH THE DOTMASTER

Dotmasters "On The Hop" from Martin Hawkes on Vimeo.

We were recently commissioned by the local brewery Lervig to produce a mural for the side of their building. After hanging the show Outside In, we hopped on a plane to Bergen for the (___)Capitalism? event then straight back to Stavanger to start on this. The Dotmaster really pulled one out of the bag with this. Martin Hawkes, film maker with Saft Film, actually, he is Saft film, came along with his assistant Frank and a bunch of ropey looking equipment including a 6m piece of aluminium rail. Turned out to be Martin's home build opensource camera tracking system. 5 days and nights of rain later.. and Bam ! Perhaps the best shot wall we've ever seen.

Congrats to all involved. Looks awesome !

Dotmasters "On the Hop"
For Reed Projects
Music "Se Lest" Sigur Ros
Filmed and edited by Martin Hawkes, Saft Film

BLU, ERICAILCANE & ARYZ FOR FAME

Blu, Ericailcane and Aryz pull of four pretty impressive pieces for Fame Festival in Grottaglie, Italy. Congrats to all involved !

VHILS IN BERLIN

ROA IN BERLIN

New Roa wall in Berlin to coincide with his latest solo show at Skalitzers, more on the show here, via ekosystem

Wall made possible by Skalitzers & KJOSK.
http://roaweb.tumblr.com/

CLASSIC BÄST DROP

Earlier this week one of our favourite artists (well, mine at least) Bäst had one of the years finest online releases. Classic old school Bäst style at sensible prices. Much respect !

TRULY DESIGN. TORINO

Impressive

Medusa, anamorph - Ninja1 and Mach505

"Turn thou from their sight, Risk no glance. The sight of Gorgon, if she cometh, would bring thee night from which were no returning."
- Dante, "Inferno", Canto IX, vv. 51-57

Remember how Perseus had to look at the Gorgon Medusa's image reflected in the mirroring shield given to him by Athena to avoid being turned into stone? Well, also our Medusa can be seen only from a certain viewpoint. Have a look for yourself, you'll be petrified.
This challenging anamorph was created in the factory/urban lab which hosted Sub Urb Art.


More from Truly Design here

T&J ARTWALK OSLO

Oslo get's its own Street Art event. T&J Artwalks. It's for a great charity. So that's good.

Human Rights Watch

From the Press Release.

Some of the world’s most recognised contemporary street artists are coming to Oslo to show their support for Human Rights Watch by creating an Art Walk in the centre of Oslo 7-17 August. The art walk is a temporary art installation consisting of large artworks on the facades of eight central buildings covering more then 600 square meters of art for everyone to enjoy.

In addition there will be a sales exhibition of contemporary street art held at Blomqvist 19 August to 4 September, with sale proceeds benefiting Human Rights Watch. We are proud to announce that the exhibition will consist of artworks from artists such as D*Face, SEEN, The London Police, Shepard Fairey, Vitaly Rusakov (Mizer), Logan Hicks, Will Barras, Flying Fortress and Martin Whatson. The exhibition has been made possible through generous donations from artists, galleries and organisations.

Stay tuned on the blog to follow the daily updates on the creation of the art walk. Or if you have the possibility, have a walk around town and see it for yourself!

Check the website and blog here