South America appears to be in vogue for graffiti and street artists at the moment. Hardly a week goes by without reports about new projects, photos or videos from the fourth-largest continent. But mostly that are reports about established and/ or famous international artist, who made a trip there. What is not so much coming to light are the local artists - but there’s an end to it! “Graffiti Argentina” is called a book by Maximiliano Ruiz, which focuses on the more unknown artists. ...

Do you know “The Urban Cookbook” by writer, author and filmmaker King Adz? It brings together what not fits together at the first glance - street food, street art and street style! Creative recipes for the graffiti generation! In addition to 50 urban cookery recipes, the book also contains interviews with 25 street artists like Wooster Collective from New York, E-Boy from Berlin, JR and Invader from Paris, Helmut Smits from Amsterdam and D*Face from London. ...

“Collapse Times” is the name of an interesting urban time lapse video clip by Luis Simione and Marcelo Demari. In contrast to these two city portraits, this short film’s focus is not the city character, but a special morphing effect. This effect makes the night light time lapse more dynamic and livelier. Take a look and enjoy urban feeling!

“24h Berlin – A Day in the Life” is television’s longest program ever! Without actors and tricks, about 80 camera teams filmed a whole day in Germany’s capital Berlin a year ago. The film makes it possible to get impressions of the life in this modern metropolis. Today it firstly comes to television, for exactly 1440 minutes, that’s 24 hours! You can watch “24h Berlin” in real time via life stream! ...

Yesterday I informed you about the current exhibition by Berlin based street artist Emess. Named “What’s the colour of money?”, the stencil art show presents a large number of interesting and often humorous mashups with money, politics and the market as the main themes. I had some time,attended the opening, marveled about the more than 50 stencil portraits of Queen Elisabeth, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and others and took some nice photos for you! ...

This is the second part of the “Urban Top Shots” series, which features every week the three best Urban Artcore shots of the last seven days. Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too – Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr group and add your photos! This week I was excited about these 3 photos: Feinkost, by smotret top urban shots 2 ...

“What’s the colour of money?” is the new street art show by well-known Berlin based stencil artist Emess! Who are the the famous personalities of money, production, time, freedom and market? This is the question Emess asks and answers in his recent, more than 50 stencil portraits, which show that street art’s roots are also touched by constructivism, pop-art and Dada: “In this series of portraits, Emess uses the well-known prints of the famous personalities depicted on currencies like the dollar, the pound, the Danish and Swedish krona or the Turkish lira. Emess combines the antique handicraft style of wood and copper engraving with the pop-iness of modern song titles and beyond that deals with our profane relationship to our beloved money. ...

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It’s phenomenally how much fantastic slow motion and time lapse video clips with wonderful urban impressions there are on the Internet! Do you know the “London - harder, better, faster, stronger” clip by David Hubert? It’s an impressive time lapse short film, made of 3328 single shots from the London city in 2008. Mixed up with Daft Punk’s “Harder, better, faster, stronger” it mediates a great street feeling! ...

A tag is not only the signature under an artwork, it’s the expression of a big part of the writers identity! Berlin based contemporary art gallery Skalitzers will present the first in a diverse series of shows exploring the role of tagging within the world of contemporary art. Cope2 at Skalitzers From September 12th to October 3rd, famous writer and graffiti artist Cope2 will have his first solo-exhibition in Europe, named “Fine Lines”! ...