Traditional graffiti culture, spray paint techniques, and tools. Artist profiles, train writing, removal art, graffiti documentaries, and the history of marker and spray can expression in European graffiti scenes.
Graffiti culture through tools and technique—spray paint mastery, can control, and the traditions of European train writing and tagging. Discover artist profiles, technical skill development, and the underground graffiti scene.
This collection documents traditional graffiti practice, abstract styles, and the culture surrounding train writing, removal art, and legal walls. Explore how graffiti writers develop technical skill, the social dimensions of the scene, and documentaries that capture this crucial street art tradition.
Some weeks ago, I presented the “Calligraffiti” book by Niels Shoe Meulman to you and described it as a very interesting art book because it contains a lot of amazing and very exactly and detailed artworks. Some days ago, Shoe agree to give my an short interview and I tried to get as much as info about his personal background as well as about the ideas behind Calligraffiti. I hope you’ll like it…
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Graffiti Series: DIY America
The producers of the “Beautiful Losers” DIY documentary recently published their graffiti documentary series, which is part of the street art, skateboard and punk documentary, “DIY America”…
Roots and Drive - Graffiti Part One: In the first part the well-known graffiti artists Craig Stecyk, KR, Todd James, Sleezer, Epso and Earsnot talk about the history and spread of graffiti, as well as what motivates them to create graffiti.
Legal vs. Illegal - Graffiti Part Two: The second part is about the dangerousness of Graffiti action. Graffiti artists Sace, Abhor, Amaze, Deadcat, Sleezer and Earsnot talk about legal versus illegal graffiti.
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Graffomat - Graffiti Vending Machines
Do you have already heard something about “Graffomat”? When I read about it the first time, I thought “What a great holy shit!?” and shaked my head, because I could not believe in its authenticity…
…“Graffomat” is the name of maybe the first graffiti vending machines which will be entering the market soon:
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Graffiti Talk: Os Gêmeos Interview
There are many reason, which describe why in my opinion it is great to get to know as much as possible about the mostly unknown artists behind that often wonderful artworks on the streets, walls and trains in our cities.
One reason is, that interviews give artists the chance to explain their artworks, their emotions and the history of their doings, what gives them the chance to make people understand and in the same way to bring their artworks in a public dialogue…
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Turmkunst: News from the Art Monument?
Yesterday I had some time to visit the “Art Monument” (Turmkunst) tower again. There isn’t much to see yet, but Flying Förtress, who will paint the facade until April 15, has still some time to finish his work.
Nevertheless I took some shots of the tower’s basket including Flying Förtress and the one new grounded tower facade. This weekend, I will go back and bring you some new impressions of the nice exhibition inside the fascinating tower and some photos of the facade updates.
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Art Monument Berlin - First Impressions
After that great April Fools’ joke (sorry for that…), I will now show you the first impressions from the urban art event “Art Monument” (Turmkunst) in Berlin!
In my opinion, the opening or better the starting shot and the first brush stroke was very successful. A lot of people joined the festivities around the about 40 meters “Bierpinsel” tower and watched the first live painting action by Flying Förtress, who will paint the facade until April 15.
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Art Monument Berlin Cancelled
Actually the urban art event “Art Monument” (Turmkunst) should take place in Berlin today at 2pm, but unfortunately the organizers had to cancel it…
As you maybe noticed, Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte, the architects of the “Bierpinsel” tower, which should be repainted by the four famous graffiti artists Honet, Flying Förtress, KR and Sozyone, brought an action against the event.
In their opinion the contemporary repainting of the tower by graffiti artists is incompatible to the futuristic architecture of the 70th. (Several German newspapers wrote about the dispute…)
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Traceless Graffiti: TOFA’s Light-Writing
Often, light-writing or light-graffiti is also described as traceless graffiti. There are several articles about that relative new art form, which combines the style and motion sequences from the traditional graffiti with the technical knowledge of photography, in my archives…
One of the protagonists of light-writing in Berlin is Chris Noelle aka TOFA, who is visual jockey (VJ) in real life, initiator of the “Light-Write Festival”, which took place in Berlin in 2009, and responsible for the creative design at the well-known Tresor club in Berlin.
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Graffiti Documentary: Focusing Martha Cooper
The legendary “Subway Art” book by US-American graffiti photographer Martha Cooper, which was published in 1984, is a milestone in the medial writing documentation.
“I’ve seen it grown from a specific, localized New York City phenomenon to what it is now a worldwide overground predominant movement and that’s gonna been an pretty exciting thing to watch…” (Martha Cooper)
My friend RJ from the Vandalog blog met her last December and did that interesting interview with her.
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Calligraffiti: Graffiti meets Calligraphy!
A month ago, I told you about that very interesting art book by king calligrapher Niels “Shoe” Meulman. Now it’s, in addition to the Modart No. 01, in my possession and I’m very happy about that!
With prologues by John Langdon and Adam Eeuwens, who are internationally active graphic designers and typographers, the about 120 pages book impress with high-quality photographs of Shoe’s artworks as well as with some great digital vector artworks.
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