Stephen Wilkes is not unknown when it comes to astonishing fine art and commercial photography. For more than two decades he has been widely recognized; his photographs can be found in magazines such as Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, Time, Life Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. For his urban photography series Day To Night, Wilkes photographed during one day the same spot over and over again to document the specific daily routine and the places unique flair during day and night. The special thing about those photos is, that Wilkes merged them together in one single image, what allows him to show day and night-time together as it would be one impression! ...

If you start loving to watch lime-lapse videos of metropolises from around the world (here Dubai and here New York & Istanbul), there’s no way to stop watching them… Recently I stumbled upon this very time-lapse video of the Russian capital Moscow. Belarusian photographer and film-maker zweizwei created this beauty around four months ago, using different camera bodies and several lenses. It shows Moscow at its best and is in my eyes, one of the best time-lapse city portraits I ever watched! ...

Infamous Swedish artist Nug is going to open his solo tagging exhibition Human Behaviour at Skalitzers Gallery in Berlin this Saturday! Nug, whose latest project (the concept is fuck you, yes you) for the Fame Festival 2011 in Italy got loads of publicity around the globe, has gained wide recognition in recent years for his graffiti-inspired actions! In Berlin, NUG is going to show the fourth exposition in the Fine Lines series, exploring the role of tagging within contemporary art… ...

In Cairo, Egyptian graffiti artists made this military street barrier disappear, by painting a fantastic mural that makes the concrete wall visually transparent! Here’s the story about the Sheikh Rihan mural: *Following deadly clashes in Tahrir that erupted last November, and resumed more than once after that, which have left over 50 civilian protesters killed, SCAF, the military ruling junta of Egypt has built walls around Tahrir square and its side streets to prevent protesters from passing around. More than 4 walls have been erected, turning Downtown Cairo to a maze-like area with citizens forced to find longer routes to cross the obstacles. ...

The Shard tower in London becomes more and more impressing. I remember standing at the foot of it back in 2010, when the ugly construction site just showed a massive concrete spear raising into the sky. Now, two years later, The Shard (also Shard London Bridge or Shard of Glass) proves it is worth being called Europe’s tallest building. With its irregular triangular shape architecture, the dominating glass facade and the viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, the 310 meters skyscraper is became another attraction in London after its completion in April. Paul Raftery, architectural photographer, and Dan Lowe, director, have recently collaborated to create a timelapse film showing the final weeks of construction of The Shard tower in London Bridge. It was shot over many days during the early months of 2012, from locations spanning from Greenwich Park to Hampstead Heath and simply impresses! ...

Well-known London-based urban artist Ronzo just started to put up his Birdz street sculptures series on the streets of London! Ronzo, who not just created London’s unofficial mascot - the Credit Crunch Monster - but also installed several other street sculptures, is a constant cornerstone of the British street art scene. Hence, he was featured in the latest Very Nearly Almost (VNA) magazine… Personally, I couldn’t just go out and paint walls with the same tag or words every night. ...

For all fans of influential street artist Invader, a dream becomes true: Shot in winter 2011, this movie invites you to spend one night in Paris with the French street artist Invader! Invader, well-known around the globe for the amazing space invader tile artworks he puts up during so-called city invasions, is one of the leading street art heroes since the early days of the street art hype. He is not just travelling the world (check out his stuff in South Korea), but was also featured VNA Magazine and in Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop! ...

After the analog Urban Art Guide Vienna, the All City Street Art App, the Geo Street Art iPhone App and the Adidas Urban Art Guide, now also Buenos Aires got its first street art map! Street Art Map is a project dedicated to gathering, locating and preserving the street art movement in Argentina through photographs. Similar to all the other apps and websites, also the Street Art Map Argentina covers just a limited area. Providing a interactive (Google) map as usual, the project allows volunteers to submit their own photos. ...

Is Pasha 183 (also P183) the Russian Banksy? Since January, the international urban art scene debates about this controversial question… P183 is a Moscow born and based multi media artist, whose work has recently received international coverage and acclaim. On January 31, 2012 the British Guardian published an online post about Moscow’s Banksy and his street art and started in that way an worldwide media campaign including internet-wide discussions about whether the British are going to declare each and every urban hacktivist or public intervention artist as a new Banksy… ...

In one of the industrial harbours along the Rhine river, a light graffiti crew used the strange, dirty and old scenery to awake Gorillas! GorillaLighting is a light art crew from Germany who is not just projecting Gorilla faces onto facades, but also (probably inspired by Luzinterruptus) illuminating plants, recently for the Luminale festival in Frankfurt. Projected as light graffiti the gorilla portrait breathes nocturnal life into the unreal world. Huge fronts cry for attention. Grotesque steel giants wait for a character. ...