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Anamorphosis, which means something like deformed image, is the recent urban art project by writer and graffiti artist Ninja182 - and it’s all about perspective! Ninja182 uses innovative (but not new) contemporary painting techniques to create mind-blowing graffiti artworks, which can only be seen in its completeness from a specific angle in the room - from every other angle, the intended image looks distorted and unrecognizable. Although this technique has been used many times by artists, Ninja182 nevertheless impresses. With this action, he made not only a good style job, but occupied an abandoned house! High-level art in urban landscape…Yes! ...

He’s one of the best-known young graffiti artists worldwide, his artworks has a high recognition value and he is a friend of very popular writers around the globe. Yes, I’m are talking about Brazilian urban artist Nunca! He was part of the graffiti festival in Gdansk, painted at the Tate Modern in London and collaborates with Jonone at the “Graffiti meets Thalys” event in Paris some weeks ago. Latin American cable television channel I.Sat recently published a documentation, called “Talking Walls” about the unique world of street art and graffiti in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Mexico City. One of the protagonists is already Nunca! ...

This is an amazing video - silver drips on black metal! As I already told you before, I love the abstract style of KR’s artworks. And when I saw the nice photos of the “Krinked” Mini Cooper, I was really charmed! Yesterday, Mini and KRink published the corresponding video clip, which shows KR while customizing the car, the car itself and the beautiful drippy lines on it. ...

Bigger, more colorful and even more detailed - This is seemingly a actual trend in the graffiti scene. In my opinion it’s to much. For me, a piece is a good one when it’s unique and has a attractive typographic character - Too many colors overlay the rather style… Quite similarly think the people from “Style needs no color”. They released their book “Black on White” with a big live painting (only in black and white) some days ago! Over 20 graffiti artists, including 3Steps, Faker,Mr.Cybe, Panik, Pesk, Ritak and Tabu, painted at the hall of fame in Koblenz. ...

It’s the fourth time this week, that I wrote something about New York-based street artist KR - a new record! Last weekend, I informed you about his cooperation with auto-manufacturer Mini, today the first photos of this event were published! KR customized a Mini Cooper S in his very own style in Hamburg. The car is outfitted in his signature silver-drip KRINK aesthetic and will be shown this Saturday at Vicious Gallery. Additionally you’re able to take a look at other new artworks by him. ...

I had already mentioned one thing or two about light art and its different uses by street artists. This time I will show you a really interesting video, produced by Sweatshoppe, a viedo artists and multimedia performers collective. The developed the LED paint roller! It’s a paint roller, which actually doesn’t paint any paint. Instead it is made of green LEDs (light emitting diodes) which work in conjunction with a camera next to a projector which is programmed with software that tracks its movements. ...

Last week, I got the new issue of the “Hidden Champion”. It’s a free Japanese urban magazine, featuring hidden champions of many cultures. This time, well-known graffiti artist Craig “KR” Costello respectively one of his fire extinguishers is on the front page! In addition to great pictures of his artworks, there’s an interview with him. By the way, do you Remember that KR is in Hamburg next week! This issue also contains portfolios of the skateboarders Quim Cardona, Yoshiaki Toeda, Joey Pepper, Henry Panza, Ricky Oyola and Rob Welsh, an interview with BMX-pro Masato Nishino, and articles about some other interesting people. ...

Craig “KR” Costello is in Hamburg next week! In cooperation with auto-manufacturer Mini, he will paint a brand new car which will be presented in the “Ersteliebebar” and at Vicious Gallery. KR, who grew up in New York, founded his own company for paint, markers, and other graffiti equipment, named KRink, several years ago. He’s is famous for his abstract and colorful fire extinguisher drip-pieces, which can be found around the globe. Now, he has brought fresh new artworks to Hamburg, which will be shown additionally to the painted car. ...

Whether Shepard Fairey, Ron English, The Mac or others, a lot of urban, street and contemporary artists were supportive of Barack Obama’s election campaign in 2008. This year, President Obama intends to reform the America health care. It’s one of the most fundamental things, modern presidents of the United State ever did. Until today, there’s no government health insurance company which covers all citizens. Obama wants to change this! It’s a step in the right direction. It brings back a piece of the principle of equality to the US-American society and makes health care more accessible. ...

What happens, when a nerd is simultaneous a talented graffiti artist? Right, he sprays so called pixel-graffities! Ano from Taiwan creates computer-game inspired spray-paints. The gaming-pixel-look of his artworks is apparently well-known worldwide. Only I have somehow never heard of it before. The interesting point of this style is, that it’s almost unique. Whether in Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Hamburg, Prag or Krakow, I haven’t seen a similar one ever. So maybe someone gets inspired by the following pictures from Ano’s photostream… ...