Explore the Graffiti World: Art, Culture & History

During the last days and weeks, I discovered some great beauty within the urban art world. So as not to let this stuck in my bookmark-archive, I thought in agin would be time for some Urban Art Link-Tips… For hardcore graffiti addicts the Soft-Can, a fluffy designer spray-can toy, couch pillow, decoration toy or living room accessory was developed! 100% handmade, heigth 30 cm, with 3 metal balls inside for real can feeling… ...

Open Streets is really interesting-looking documentary about the so-called post graffiti/ urban art scene. Put together by French Shock Films collective, the film features with Belin, Cope2, ECB, Klub7, MadC, Monk.E, One Hate Seven and Nychos several worldwide well-known artists who left behind street art and graffiti and stepped further to what usually is called post graffiti or urban art… Open Streets is about this important development in the public art scene and tries to explore reasons, motivations and ideals of its creative protagonists. Recently, the first trailer was published, giving some first insights into the entire documentary, its structure and the artists. ...

The global graffiti documentary Bomb It 2 is in its final stages of post-production and will be released in fall 2012! After all the different Bomb It 2 video parts were already published back in 2010, this is the final step… In the sequel to Bomb It Jon Reiss travels to Bangkok, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, the Palestinian refugee camps on the West Bank, Perth, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Chicago and Austin and features artists including Klone, Know Hope, Great Bates, Huskmitnavn, Ash, Phibs, Stormie Mills, and many more. ...

Tags and throws (short for throw ups) are still the fundamental basics of graffiti writing around the world. That’s not just a sentence, that’s a fact and although there are several more or less interesting graffiti websites in the interwebs, I just stumbled upon a new, quality blog focusing just on tags and throws! Under the motto We love Bombing, the aim of tagsandthrows.com is to capture the bombing scene of the world today - one artist at a time… ...

Compiled and written by old school UK writer Robert Whitelock aka Cute, the Monokrome book on 224 pages includes world class black and white graffiti designs by some of the major graffiti writers from around the world, including Nash & Does, Remi Rough, Hush, Asker, Itch, Inkfetish, Killer Gerbil, Denz, Kofie, Inkie, System and many more! Furthermore, Monokrome presents blackbook works from 31 featured artists and interviews with all of them and shows the talents of a mixture of worldwide artists with many different styles, and quotes from a handful of writers. And although it reminds me somehow on the urban illustration book Schwarz auf Weiss - Style needs no Color, the first impressions I got via the flip through below were all in all just positive. ...

One of the first posts here was the Top Urban Art Photographers top-list, giving brief introductions about a few of my most favorite graffiti and street art photographers like Keegan Gibbs, Nils Müller, Ruedi One, Ian Cox and others. Similar to the Urban Exploration Photography post this list became one of the Urban Art Core motors over the last months, attracting attention by many of our visitors and friends on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest! For that reason, and due to the fact that this is my 1,000th post on Urban Art Core, I decided to update the list of the top urban art photographers, to help you finding the right inspiration from the world of street art and graffiti! ...

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. ...

Paris-based, popular Graffiti Art Magazine just started their annual graffiti art awards survey. Until tomorrow you are able to vote for your favorite artists in 14 different categories with five nominees for each award! The public voting is straight forward: All you have to do is to go to Facebook and answer the polls! To make it even easier for you to participate, I collected links to some of the in my eyes major graffiti art award categories… ...

Yeah, we did it again! Another New Year’s Eve is over and I’m fit again after staying at home with some big headache…Anyway, after posting the Top 10 Urban Artists 2011 and the Top Urban Art Actions 2011 I got some nice e-mails asking for some more 2011 reviews and hey, of course my personal ratings are not really objective, for what reason I would like to give you the advice to take a look at the 2011 reviews by some of my favorite blogs! ...

Bringing together round about 100 of the most famous and talented urban artists from around the world like Vhils, Amose, Base23, Boxi, L’Atlas and Smash 137 (just to name a few), Walls & Frames - Fine Art from the Streets by Maximiliano Ruiz and Gestalten Publishing presents on 265 colorful pages a cutting-edge collection of recent artworks by young artists who are moving from the street into galleries. Street art has firmly established itself as a facet and attitude in the landscape of contemporary art. Today, young artists are going beyond their work on the streets to present their innovative styles in galleries. Walls & Frames documents the work of this next generation of street artists. ...