Yesterday, the German urban artist duo Herakut painted live in Berlin! I was there for taking some photos… Herakut - Between graffiti, street art and art Hera and Akut combine with their mixture of graffiti and contemporary fine arts the urban roughness of the streets and the natural richness of detail. Yesterday, the both artists showed in an impressive way, how they interact with each-other and in which way they create their artworks. Tinting paint, water and spray-paint became in several hours a dirty, interesting and impressive mixture and lead to a harmonious whole. ...

Tsang Tsou Choi, or the “King of Kowloon” was a Hong Kong citizen known for his calligraphy graffiti. Although he died in 2007, he is still at the center of interest in the Chinese urban art scene. Graffiti-works sold for record sum For 500 000 Hong Kong dollars (the equivalent of around 44,000 € or 65,000 USD), one work by him went to an unidentified bidder on the telephone. The sum was more than seven times as high as expected. ...

Today, I read about a new graffiti book, which will be released on November 7th - its name “All City Writers”. The “All City Writers” book is a collaboration between Andrea Caputo and the fashion label Carhartt. They combine 1230 pictures, 620 articles, 410 full-colour pages, and more than 250 involved writers to an amazing documentation of New York’s influence on European graffiti in the ’80s. “The book, a massive volume of more than 400 pages, has been conceived as an imaginary newspaper. The chronicles it contains have not been penned by real journalists or narrators, but by people who define themselves as ‘writers’. ...

It’s an event of superlatives - The “ARTotale – Urban Art Project” goes into its third day and the artworks continue to grow. Fortunately, Just is on the spot! Germany’s best street art documentalist not only presents the video live stream, he also publishes a selection of his top “ARTotale” photos every day! Whether Ben Eine, Evol, Pius Portmann, Swoon, Vitché, Moki, 1010, Tilt, Daniel Man, Brad Downey, Boxi, Victor Ash, Jay-One, Dave the Chimp, Tryone, Daniel Tagno, Zezao, Bronco, Faith 47, Loomit, Herakut or Daim, Just got them all! ...

It’s always remarkable what ideas street artists can have. Today, I’m fascinated about the “Urban Jewelery” street art by Belgian designer Liesbeth Bussche. She combines urban interior with oversized jewelry parts and creates in this way huge necklaces made with chain-linked ropes, earrings made out of concrete balls and other jewelry street installations. Bussche is currently exhibiting at the “What’s New?” exhibition at Galerie Sofie Lachaert until November 8th 2009. ...

For years, Obey aka Shepard Fairey is a well-respected artist on the streets around the globe. Even though it’s been a while ago that he pasted his well-known Obey posters and stickers, they can be found on and off the streets till now - although there are only a few. But that’s history, because Obey was on European invasion some days ago! That means, that there are new giant poster walls and new stickers on the street signs of Amsterdam, Paris and London now! ...

“Dreamyourtopia” is a urban art project at the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 12 internationally known and famous street and urban artists, including Dadara (NL), Nomad (DE), Dave the Chimp (UK), Peter Fuss (PL), The London Police (UK/NL) and Roa (BE), will build their own fortress: “Potential immigrants should download immigration form WXRZYQSFG-23587-492A from the Dreamyourtopia website, print it out, fill out both sides of the questionnaire, and bring it with them to the Officer On Duty operating the Checkpoint. ...

Graffiti Workshop | Famous writer Loomit explains in a recorded presentation workshop in front of a huge crowd of students of the Leuphana University how to do graffiti. It’s the first video clip from the urban art project “ARTotale” in Lueneburg. He shows how to create perspective letters - starting with the shades right through to the lights and insides. It’s a quick, but interesting video workshop for those of you, who never made graffiti on their own. ...

“Lueneburg gets redesigned”! This was the headline of an article I wrote some weeks ago about the street art event “ARTotale”, taking place in the German small town Lueneburg. ARTotale - Leuphana Urban Art Project on ekosystem.org Today, this outdoor group-exhibition event starts! More than 35 internationally known urban artists, including Akim, Victor Ash, Ben Eine, Brad Downey, Boxi, Bronco, Dave the Chimp, D*face, Faith47, Flying Förtress, Herakut, Loomit, DAIM, 1010, Mode2, Swoon and Zevs will redesign the public space of the city of Lueneburg and the university campus. ...

Breaking News: Herakut will be painting live in Berlin this week! The German artist duo Hera and Akut are working together for years. Their contrasting styles and their strange way of creating artworks, has made them famous urban artists. Their book “Herakut - The Perfect Merge” shows in a strong way that the mixture of two such different styles can lead to a harmonious whole. ...