Graffiti, Marker & Spray Cans

3D is in and trendy, Hollywood is showing is that with almost every new movie they throw on the market and although the 3D technique is not yet as convincing as is probably could be, I really like the idea of the new Taken By A Vandal graffiti documentary, bringing graffiti action three dimensions into our living rooms! Graffiti as seen through the eyes of the artist While watching this action-loaded documentary, we’re following the happenings as seen through the eyes of the 18 graffiti artist, who filmed themselves using head camera. This, and the fact that they decided to add a certain stereoscopic 3D effect, makes Taken By A Vandal become somehow confusing but also unique and very interesting. All in all you could say, this graffiti documentary shows train-graffiti action as just a minority has seen it before… ...

Using Lego for stop motion productions is quite popular for some years now, for what reason I wasn’t surprised when I discovered this short Lego graffiti film. And although it’s not the best footage neither a really mind-blowing piece, I can’t imagine how long it took to put this together. Furthermore I loved the idea and hope that someone tries to make a better one after watching this video… As long as we are waiting for another Lego graffiti stop motion video, take a look at the graffiti street animation Tumblingerstraße! It’s not Lego, but worth to watch anyway. ...

Two of the very best and popular European graffiti artists, Nychos (here in Berlin) and Flying Fortress (here in Berlin) just teamed up in Vienna and made together a propper and massive start into 2012: Mother Bear Graffiti Nychos and Flying Fortress, both well-known for their clean, detailed characters created an impressing piece, showing the anatomy of a pregnant mother bear - what a great idea! Hopefully they are keen for some more collaboration productions this year - I will keep you posted. But now, watch the documentary and like their styles! ...

Writing about boneyards usually is not my favorite exercise, but after that phenomenal neon sign boneyard in Las Vegas, I have to write about the Boneyard Project today! Plane Graffiti on Abandoned Aircrafts What started with a somehow disturbing promo-video almost a year ago, recently resulted in amazing plane graffiti: More than 30 artists have participated in the Boneyard Project’s Round Trip including DC Super 3 planes painted by graffiti artists How & Nosm, Nunca and Retna, a C97 cockpit by Saner, a C45 plane by Faile, and a Lockheed VC 140 Jetstar by Andrew Schoultz (via aviationpros.com)! ...

Tram graffiti are somehow special and furthermore rare at least in Berlin, for what reason it’s great to see those fantastic pictures from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, the crew including Skar, Stop, Hiro, Enot, Egor and Poolk created for their tram graffiti video, which is simply called Tram! It documents in a minimal and quite manner the wintry atmosphere of a local tram yard and shows us graffiti artists taking advantage of the favourable, frosty situation to paint some iron… ...

When you stick a camera in the front of a graffiti artist you will maybe try and establish a conflict between what politicians and media say about this art and what the actual artist thinks it is, which maybe makes an interesting film, maybe makes an interesting debate for media - it’s not an interesting debate for art… Filmed in Norway at Stavanger’s Nuart Festival 2008 by Saft Film, the recently released Eloquent Vandals documentary including interviews with some of the major urban artists of our time, including D*Face, Nick Walker, Know Hope, Herakut, Dotmasters, Graffiti Research Lab and many others and is available for download in full HD! ...

You can see a lot of train graffiti in Berlin and I already saw the weirdest things like semi-automated train graffiti devices, other stuff and of course I know fire extinguisher graffiti and ink tank paintings, but I’ve never heard about people using fire extinguishers to paint their trains - until yesterday… High Speed Train Graffiti On my regular way through Berlin I had to wait at Ostkreuz for my train and was pleasantly surprised when that blue dripping babe entered the station. In my eyes this is definitely the next step of train graffiti, taking the fire extinguisher technique to another level! And it perfectly shows what more anti-graffiti cops and criminalization carry through: ...

Although he’s not that well-known in Europe, Larry Lovebone is a king in American graffiti history - he was the first tagger, writing his name illegally using spray-cans! The short documentary series 1st To Do It, which chronicles some of the most innovative, daring and unknown maverick’s in the fields of art, music, sports and fashion, now featured him and his story, including comments by some of the most influential US-American writers… ...

A few months ago, Terence Pratt shot a nice time laps video of a Herkaut mural creation progress! Germany’s most famous urban art duo spent some weeks in Los Angeles, creating some amazing wall paintings presented by the Do Art Foundation! Herakut Mural Art Although I photographed Hera and Akut a few times now (e.g. in London and Berlin), it’s great to the the both creating those amazing murals! Furthermore I hope they will go on traveling the world as they did in 2011 - I’d like to see more Herakut mural art around the globe! ...

Dutch graffiti-writing master, sculptor and urban artist ZEDZ realized a new fine art print he subsequently painted on a huge bridge in Milan - he calls it urban regeneration… From Art Print Study to Urban Regeneration Know for his very architectural, abstract style, ZEDZ investigates new forms of graffiti, by regarding graffiti as 3D objects. In this way he links sculpting and writing and creates an unique way of painting walls… ...