Since some days, about 2,000 people are following me on Twitter. That’s why I had the idea to create a list of interesting people who are tweeting about urban art, street art and graffiti. Therefor I sift through my following-list and wrote down the twelve most interesting twitterer for urban arts worldwide. Do not hesitate to write a comment, if I’ve forgotten anyone important! Here are my twelve top urban art twitterer, sorted by their actual followers count: ...

For the last three days, the giants visited Berlin! I was on the streets today to take some photos of the big and very impressing marionettes. Me and thousands of other people were astonished about the vitality, the giants radiated. The parade was a huge spectacle with live music, confetti and cheering people… If you want to get some impressions, take a look at my photos! “spielzeit’europa | Berliner Festspiele and the legendary French street theatre company Royal de Luxe present The Giants Arrive – A Fairy Tale for Berlin: an open-air theatre spectacle to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. ...

Now it’s time for the weekly urban top shots! This Friday I have three very impressing photos for you, but first of all I have to say “thank you” for the about 300 members of the Urban Artcore Flickr-group, who submit their best urban photographs at regular intervals. 309 members and 1,346 photos of architecture, urban art, street art, graffiti or other street photography in only 60 days - i think our Flickr-group is on a good way! ...

Next week, a phenomenal extreme sports event will taking place in Berlin - Freestyle.Berlin! If you are interested in urban sports or other freestyle activities, you should read the next lines from the press release very carefully: Freestyle Berlin 2009 “On a full weekend, the 60 world’s best athletes in the disciplines of snowboarding, freeskiing, FMX and skateboarding compete for cash prizes totaling more than US$ 110,000 and the titles “freestyle.champ” and “crossover.champ”. ...

Projecting pictures, graphics, videos, tags or 3D objects on building becomes more an more popular. The guys of the Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) have received lots of positive exhortations for their creative light artworks and also the graphically architecture projections by Urban Screen became famous. ...

The famous street & urban art exhibition series “Backjumps” is back! In its fourth version, the “Backjumps” will present seven selected, Berlin-based artists from November 7th to November 29th. “Backjumps Version 4 #1” is the prelude to twice-yearly “laboratories” and researches of current strategies and forms of urban art and aerosol culture expressions. Participating artists are Pigenius Cave, Brad Downey, RZM (Ritsche Koch/Zasd/Christian Marien), Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf: Pigenius Cave explores with a homemade “Tricycle” the canals and underground access ways of the city. He documented findings, lost treasures and places of this underworld. ...

Call for papers - The SpaceDepartment calls you up to co-design the Spacemag #2! The second Spacemag issue will, under the working title “Gaffa-Urbanism”, thematize urban phenomena and principles: “Gaffa-Urbanism is the result of a spontaneous and improvised combination of objects and ideas in a urban context. Often, the Gaffa method leads to new cultural forms and patterns of urban functions. “Gaffa-Urbanism” extends the concept of informal city.” (SpaceDepartment) Improvisation, unusual, under the hand, appropriation, just in time, MacGyver, unplanned, pockets-innovation, non-conforming, need to be undesirable, hobby room, underground economy, life plan, experimental, compromise, temporarily, enough… With these thoughts the SpaceDepartment calls you up to submit contributions of any form, which capture the “Gaffa-Urbanism”! ...

Google Street View is already highly controversial. Whether technological revolution, or “Big Brother”, there are different arguments for and against the Google feature. A really pro argument are the Google Street View artworks by Kentucky artist Bill Guffey! He uses the Street View pictures as references for his landscape work: “Using Google Street View, I’ve completed a series of paintings, one from each state in the U.S. Except Hawaii (they don’t have Street View there yet). Some scenes are typical of the area, others not so much so. […] ...

I like Ron English and his political and creative liberating of commercial billboards. But this time, he did an other spectacular intervention. Ron takes graffiti to new heights yesterday morning by skywriting the word “cloud” over the lower Manhattan! I don’t know how to make these so-called “Cloud Graffiti”, but it’s really wonderful and inspiring. Let’s see, when there will be the first skywriting adverts… None the less, nice action Ron! For more info, visit his webiste popaganda.com. ...

There were a lot of photos, videos and documentations about the Berlin Wall and its East Side Gallery, but I have rarely seen such beautiful pictures like this! “The East Side Gallery is the longest preserved stretch of the former Berlin Wall. It is the largest open-air gallery in the world with 106 original mural paintings on 1.3 km-long created by artists from all over the world after the collapse of East Germany. ...