Saturday, 26 February 2011
CONCRETE WALLS
CONCRETE VOICES from Birds of Prey Productions on Vimeo.
Trailer for documentary Concrete Walls.
A Documentary About The Living Walls Conference
Atlanta 2010
By Christine Sylvain
GRAFFITI REMOVED FROM GRAFFITI
After seeing photos of the tagged mural, Cassady, a professional art conservator, volunteered to come to the corner of Frankford Avenue and Norris Street two days per week to remove the graffiti.
Now we know that some fine art conservators of yesteryear have been considered vandals, creating more problems and long term damage to works than they solved, what we hadn't realised was that they actively pursued and enjoy it.
This story strikes us as slightly insane, from the sublime to the ridiculous, as Fecal Face say, it's like taking the double bass and pianist out of a Jazz Trio because the drummer became famous.
From :Source
By John Paul Titlow
When Lauren Cassady first saw the photos on Facebook, she was infuriated. A friend of hers from the East Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia had posted pictures of the side of a building with a large graffiti tag containing the word “Spain.”
Graffiti on a brick wall is not that unusual in Philadelphia, but for residents of the neighborhood, this tag was particularly irksome. It was made on a mural by Shepard Fairey, the world-renowned street artist most famous for creating the iconic “hope” poster of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Friday, 25 February 2011
Thursday, 24 February 2011
NICK WALKER PREPARES FOR NYC
Nick Walker - Part 1 from Butterfly on Vimeo.
In his Bristol based studio, Nick Walker prepares for his trip to New York, and shares his latest Vandal stencils and upcoming news.
Pics from the studio
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
VHILS, BLOWING UP
Next level stuff from Nuart10 participant Vhils with Orelha Negra.
Vhils x Orelha Negra Collaboration
http://www.alexandrefarto.com
http://www.facebook.com/orelhanegra
http://www.myspace.com/orelhanegra
Credits:
Direction and edition: Vhils aka Alexandre Farto
Photography Director: Vasco Viana
Executive Producer and Additional Post Production: CINEMACTIV
Pyrotechnics: Pirotec
Production Assistance: Leonor Viegas
Help and Support: Alexander Silva, João Vidinha, Jucapinga, ±, Fidel and Fábrica Braço de Prata
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Monday, 21 February 2011
THE PIER (PIREN)
Here's the film that documents The Pier piece that we discussed earlier. Subtitles on the right under "Interactive transcript".
The Pier
STEN & LEX INTERVIEW
Terrific and insightful interview from Nuart friends and family Sten & Lex.
Pioneers of "stencil graffiti" in Italy and self-taught street artists. All the work of Sten & Lex results from an individual path that developed far from art academies and design institutes. Their activity starts in Rome in 2001. They were the first artists in the world to introduce the half shade technique that they have nicknamed "Hole School" in stencil. In their last book, Sten & Lex: Stencil Poster (Drago, 2010) they describe the evolution of their style and their new technique, the "Stencil poster," that they illustrate in detail in this interview.
Interview Here
THE PIER
PIREN - trailer from Stavro Filmproduktion on Vimeo.
Not sure if this work was conceived as a film or whether that came after the fact, the cynic in me would say the trailer, the book, the film, the product, the extras, the t-shirt, the stickers etc etc is a tad unnecessary and maybe detracts from the power of the work had it just been created for its own sake and then discovered. However, that would perhaps be over romanticising the nature of art, particularly in todays climate where we have access to technologies that enable us to distribute works to a global audience, something that street art has excelled at and benefitted from. So maybe this is just a very good example of the coming together of a usually disparate set of media around a single idea. Art Concept, Production, Film, Book, Distribution.. including this Blog, we all become complicit in a bigger story and debate that perhaps makes the world a more interesting place. And if not, if it all becomes too much..we can at least retire to a place under the Pier to escape this onslaught of media noise.
Ok, that's too much thinking for a Monday, ultimately it's a great piece of work and I for one am looking forward to see the film.
THE PIER
EVERYTHING CAN BE CHANGED, EVERYTHING CAN BE TURNED INTO POETRY
Somewhere under a pier in Malmö, Sweden, Erik Vestman and Nils Petter Löfstedt stumble upon an undiscovered hollow. For six months they build Malmö’s most secret room with white walls and a parquet floor.
MORE ON THE PROJECT HERE
Sunday, 20 February 2011
NEW FROM ROA
Difficult to keep up with ROA this year, seems not a week goes by without a piece of significance appearing on the streets. From Mexico to London and now this wonderful piece in Newcastle. Perhaps the finest yet.
Roa was hosted by Unit 44 Hoults Yard, more artists will be presented throughout the year for their White Walls project
Friday, 18 February 2011
BRICK LANE. STREET ART DOC
Brick Lane in Art: The other side from Shafiur Rahman on Vimeo.
Be interesting to see a final edit..
By Shafiur Rahman
This is a portrait of a street and an area - as seen by artists, particularly street artists, and others who live and work or even just visit here. I wanted to shoot a social documentary which would frame the street, its life, and the complex web in which it operates. I wanted to hear the area's "official" stories. And of course the other side of those stories.
I started filming in the fall of 2009. Seems a long time ago. And so this little trailer is a quiet announcement that we are serious about the final edit now...Watch this space I guess. Filmed in London, Paris, Berlin and Madrid. Yeah.. Brick Lane is a long street.
HOLTON ROWER
Ok, so it's not street and it's not urban.. just paint, gravity and imagination filmed really well. Classic.
Holton Rower
ATLE ØSTREM
It's not often we get to post local news, but we think you might like this. Atle Østrem, one of the regions foremost writers these past years who has been pushing the culture for longer than I care to remember, including hosting the likes of Cope2 with Xplosif Festival, has a new show. Some of you may recognise the style from his collaborative work with Dolk and Pøbel. Check out more on the website below.
Atle Østrem
GOODBYE CHARLIE BROWN
These Banksy LA pieces are not lasting very long are they..Goodbye Charlie Brown, maybe see you on ebay soon.
Thursday, 17 February 2011
GRAFFITI 1 SOFA 0 FROM ID-IOM
Great little billboard takeover from UK's Id-iom.
From Id-iom
A big empty billboard next to a busy road. What more could one ask for to lift the spirits on a dark and grey morning? After a bit of manic brainstorming and stencil cutting we had everything ready to rock. I was convinced that time was of the essence and that the boards would probably have new adverts on by the time we got back to them but it would appear the Gods were on our side. We donned our hi-vis jackets and set to work. I think this probably sums up the struggle to get out during the winter months when it's really just not as fun as summer time...
Payment (of sorts) came via the loud cackling laughter we received from a car waiting at the lights behind us when we took the stencil down. It's things like that make it all worth while!
Cheers
id-iom
More here
STEVE POWERS, TED TALKxPHILLY
Terrific talk from Steve Powers aka Espo on his work with Os Gemeos and the "A Love letter for You" project.
Stephen Powers explains how his local graffiti roots influenced "A Love Letter for You", an ambitious series of 50 murals in West Philadelphia. Powers presents photos and stories from a similar community project spawned in Brazil.
Stephen Powers is a graffiti artist turned studio artist turned graffiti artist. In the 1990's, he left Philadelphia for New York to pursue his artistic ambitions. Stephen returned home in 2009 to paint "A Love Letter for You" in conjunction with the Mural Arts Program and Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. Stephen is a 2007 Fulbright Scholar.
firstandfifteenth.net
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxPhilly, where x = independently organized TED event.
BANKSY BILLBOARD TAKEOVER
Grown men fighting over the Banksy Billboard, laughable.. "Get outta the car dude, they're taking it".. "Call the cops, call the cops". "you touch him I kill you man"..
Brilliant.
A blank billboard on Sunset, a much nicer gift to the people of LA.
Watch the video on celebrity channel TMZ..if you can stomach the adverts.
TMZ
Photo's. Lord Jim
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
BANKSY LA PT 3
More pieces showing up in LA including a great Ad takeover.
More on Banksy's site.
BANKSY IN LA PT 2
Is that Jamie Oliver throwing gang signs in front of a Banksy in LA ? yes it is my friends, ha ha, the critics/cynics will have a field day with this one.
Really like the atmosphere on the second shot, check out more on Lord Jim's flickr.
Source
Puts the Charlie Brown piece more in context.. Charlie, Twisted Firestarter.
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
NEW BANKSY IN LA
The Oscar campaign obviously starts now.
Photo via Lauren Conrad's Twitter
Monday, 14 February 2011
RETNA : THE HALLELUJAH WORLD TOUR
Nice little timelapse of Retna's recent show going up. Below is the beautifully shot promotional film for said show.
RETNA: Hallelujah World Tour from viejas del mercado on Vimeo.
Saturday, 12 February 2011
SOUNDS OF THE CITY
Thought we'd add to things whilst waiting for Nuart..what better way to entertain a 4 year old on a cold and sunny Norwegian day. Nu Kids on the block!
Friday, 11 February 2011
MILO PROJECT
Taking a leaf out of Mark Jenkins book, French street artist Milo Project places fetal positioned mannequins around the city. Love the old guy trying to stop people and pointing the work out
Thursday, 10 February 2011
STREET ART MEETS REALITY IN LONDON
Street Art and Reality on Hanbury Street, London. from Shafiur Rahman on Vimeo.
"Joe Deane, Joseph Loughborough and Ben Slow paint on Hanbury Street, Brick Lane. Ben and Joe paint a piece called "Ma o Shishu" or mother and child from a photograph I found in a book about photography and its power to change in South Asia. Their piece changed the street. Everyone who passed - young and old, local or tourist - responded very warmly to it. As did the restaurant owner who owns the wall. But there was another (AND MORE IMPORTANT. ED) hidden story just behind the painting...of destitution and homelessness in London. 21st century London".
Joseph painted with amazing speed and created two striking pieces one of which lasted only a few weeks before someone decided to make it their private property.
This video is part of a larger project on Brick Lane seen through art and artists.
Filmed March 2010. Music by Moka Only
FAITH 47
Faith47 from The Ginkgo Agency on Vimeo.
Faith47 is a painter and street artist known best for the giant murals that adorn the city of Cape Town.
You can see more of her work at her website, faith47.com.
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
RECYCLING THE CITY
Recycling the city / Reciclando la ciudad from clara subirats on Vimeo.
Researching themes for Nuart 11 we came across this video in our inbox from last year, may have posted it previously but definitely worth another look.
From the Director
Clara Subirats, from Barcelona (Spain), this summer I did an NYU documentary course. My final project was a short-documentary about how street artists change our idea of public-private space recycling what they found in the city.
ARTISTS: Specter, The Signtologist, Public Ad Campaign and Jay Shells.
"How to manage and deal with the increasing tension in urban space? I want to face that issue using the main expression of their specific way of life that is clearly exposed through the official and private signals that are placed on the streets and spaces. These signals are showing what is possible to do and what is forbidden. But, my focus is the artistic expression of the disagreements and the debates around that issue. Is there an artistic contribution to this debate? I think Art has been and is a very good and intelligent way of express discomfort and disagreement with the mainstream rules, because usually that obliges us to think on the artist goal and how affect our way of living."
Monday, 7 February 2011
KID HITS UP AGNES B
Agnes B, a longtime supporter of Graffiti and Street Art culture, gets a makeover. Not sure if this is an illegal piece or not, which is maybe cause for concern if you're a writer. If legal, we like it, if not, we love it.
Flickr source
RETNA : HALLELUJAH WORLD TOUR
RETNA: Hallelujah World Tour from viejas del mercado on Vimeo.
shot cut & conceived by viejas del mercado
Marquis Lewis aka RETNA was born in Los Angeles, California in 1979. Since first creating a name for himself in the early 1990s, Retna has become an “eternal broadcaster” of sorts, shining a light to the kinetic urban soul of Los Angeles. Take a look at his video.
At an early age, Retna was introduced to L.A.’s mural culture. While still in high school, he led one of the largest and most innovative graffiti art collectives the city has witnessed. He is perhaps best known for appropriating fashion advertisements and amplifying them with his unique layering, intricate line work, text-based style and incandescent color palette reflecting an eclectic artistic tradition. RETNA became just as notorious for his ornate painting technique as his timeless style: he used paintbrushes mixed with the traditional spray can. Many of his pieces synthesize the line between fine art and graffiti, between power and opposition, between tradition and advancement.
RETNA THE "HALLELUJAH" WORLD TOUR in collaboration with. Vista & Bombardier Aero-Space opens 2/10/11. Space Curated by PM Tenore.
ROA, SEGO & SANER IN MEXICO
Very busy month/year for Roa, you can catch him at London's Black Rat Projects on Thursday 10th with a unique Pop Up installation.
From BRP's press release
We are excited to announce the first artist in residency project which lends support to an artist for a flexible period of time with the view to breeding experimentation and facilitating a freedom of expression un-connected to commercial gain. The Project Space is currently inhabited by Belgian painter ROA whose large-scaled and often lenticular works can be spotted around east London and internationally. For this exhibition his work takes a sculptural turn with doors, windows and un-expected openings breaking through the contained frame of the Project Space built in the centre of the gallery.
But for now, check out these amazing shots from Mexico.
Roa: "Mexico is just wonderful, wonderful nature and people".
I have some credits and people to mention; the whole trip was on invitation of Gonzalo Alvarez from MAMUTT ARTE in collaboration with MUJAM (Roberto), so two organizations from my friends Gonzalo and Roberto. And I painted with Sego and Saner."
More great photo's on ekosystem.org
JOSÉ PARLA, NECK FACE, CAMPBELL ETC
1-2-1 w/jeffstaple for REDU Homeroom from jeffstaple on Vimeo.
The seventh installment in the "1-2-1 w/jeffstaple" Series is a special one. This 1-2-1 features 5 artists who participated in a group art exhibition and fundraiser for letsredu.org and donorschoose.org. The effort is to raise awareness for America's failing public school systems.
Each segment, jeffstaple, Founder and Creative Director of Staple Design & Reed Space, talks to someone one-to-one. Direct. Intimate. No BS.
For this segment, Jeff talks to Jose Parla, Scott Campbell, Neck Face, Lucien Marc Smith and Luis Gispert.
BANKSY BOOK DOWNLOAD
Banksy's third book, or perhaps booklet is a better word, is available as a free PDF download. Probably for a limited time, so act now.
Download here
Thursday, 3 February 2011
CONOR HARRINGTON VIDEO
Crossing Lines from Andrew Telling on Vimeo.
Crossing Lines is a short film that documents Irish artist Conor Harrington trip to Tel Aviv, Israel and Bethleham, Palestine in May 2010.
A Telling Production Presents ’ Crossing Lines ‘
Camera, Edit & Score - Andrew Telling
CONGRATULATIONS !
Congratulations to the winners of the BSA competition ! Prizes will be dispatched soon. Thanks to everyone that tuned into the film and entered the comp. Don't forget to follow BSA for a comprehensive look at Brooklyn's art scene and tune into Brooklynite for more screenings, chats and events.
brooklynstreetart.com
brooklynite TV
ROA & SEGO
New collaboration piece, and one that really makes sense, from Roa and Sego.
Check out more on Unurth
Roa
Sego
FUNDAMENTALS GROUP SHOW.
We hadn't seen this video of the Fundamentals show before nor heard of the gallery, this from summer 2008, but worth a look for Matthias Wermke / Mischa Leinkauf Illegal handcart alone.
With recent shows from both Stephen Smith aka Neasden Control Centre and Maya Hayuk, I think it'll be worth while keeping a closer eye on this space.
Fundamentals - legal and less legal ways of using our playgrounds. Twelve artists, with origins in the graffiti scene, show public space work created for this exhibition. With works by Matthias Wermke/ Mischa Leinkauf, Erosie, Boris Tellegen, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine, Influenza, François Morel, Honet, Navid Nuur, BLU, Jeroen Jongeleen.
Fundamentals show
STEVE POWERS, A LOVE LETTER FOR YOU
Great to see the film of Steve Powers Love Letter project finished. Looks like a very well shot feasture from the guys at ghostrobot, think we'll have to try and secure screening rights for this years Nuart.
Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and is sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.
www.aloveletterforyou.com
www.muralarts.org
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
BROOKLYN STREET ART COMP
Well that was a fun night, last night we joined our Brooklyn brethren for a few virtual beers and a chat about Nuart whilst watching the "Eloquent Vandals" documentary on Brooklynite TV
Cheers to everyone who tuned in and a big thank you to both Brooklynstreetart and Brooklynite for making all our dreams come true.
Speaking of which, Brooklynstreetart are running a competition. Check out the site for a chance to win some Nuart goodies.
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