What do you think about the “Lorem Ipsum” placeholder text? I love it, and today i read an article about Zoe McCloskey from Chicago, who used this fake-seeming Latin designers use to mock up designs for a street art project. (“Fake-seeming”, because it is not really a fake text, but ask Wikipedia for more!) She pastes sentences like “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr.” on walls and billboards to stimulate people to think about the meaning of words. But read yourself, what Unurth has learned from her: ...

Ruedione from Heidelberg, Germany, is one of the best known graffiti photographers worldwide. For years he was an active graffiti writer himself, what makes it possible for him to have a close contact to the writers scene and thus access to illegal live graffiti action. His photos - mostly in black/white - visually describe the emotions during writing. It’s his lifework to document and preserve the moments that kept him writing his name on a lot of surfaces for years. ...

I think, everybody knows about the political problems in Iran - about the demonstrations, the violence, the vote rigging and so on… And I think, you can imagine how dangerous it is to comment these social and political issues over there. Then you also can imagine how extremely dangerous it is to make politically street art right there. Indeed the Islamic Republic of Iran has no laws, which prohibit graffiti or street art, but this means nothing. ...

At the beginning of the year I wrote an little article for the German Bigod blog about a very interesting project from the US, called “Empire Begins”. Today I will bring this article up to you! Not in the mountains, not in the country and certainly not to relax! Bicycle in the city - In the urban agglomerations, where the traffic is so dense that any overtaking is an adventure. Where one gets momentum by holding on a car. Where only reflexes and skills play a role. Where every mistake can be deadly. There are these boys and girls at home, on the streets of New York! ...

Are you even noticed the many shopping carts cruising through the cities? Or do you ever wonder how abandoned shopping carts end up? Jesse Rostens short film “Cart” deals with those questions around the useful and often used, but mostly unloved everyday objects. He evokes them to life and impressed with wonderful pictures and a beautiful soundtrack. Also reasons why the film won the Best of Festival Film Award at the Sundial Film Festival 2009. ...

Near to the Berlin-Hauptbahnhof, a very interesting urban art installation takes place: “Write the Wall”! It’s a community work of many different artists, which will change its view every day. 20 years after the fall of the berlin wall everybody is talking about the breakdown. We are constructing a temporary memorial and artistic canvas for visual and lively remembrance, dynamic reflection, and a critical assessment, emphasizing art & action. (From the flyer) ...

For some years, the urban sports Parkour and Freerunning, founded by the the French David Bell and Sebastien Foucan, are more and more trendy sports in the cities around the world. In serveral métropoles an increasingly number of enthusiastics join existing Parkour- and Freerunning-Groups or create their own to train with each other. ...

Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo Contest… I have great news for all the people - about 160 - who already joined the Urban Photo Contest and for those, who will join the competition! Today two packages with T-shirts, marker, spray cans, bags, pencils, stickers and sketchbooks by Montana Cans arrived! So we updated the ten prize-packages. For more info, visit the Urban Photo Contest site! The Prizes Prize 1: Part of Rebellion #1: Flying Förtress (book) Power of Style: Berlin Stylewriting (book) Art Inconsequence: Advanced Vandalism (book) Black Ink: Illustrations by Ata “Toast” Bozaci (book) Montana Gold spray can (Shock 9000 Black) Montana marker (Bombing 0.8 inch) Montana T-shirt Montana accessory bag Montana pencils, rubber, lanyard, sketchbook & bag ...

In my opinion there is hardly nothing better than to spend half a day at a flea market. I like the tiny alleys between the almost infinite number of stalls and wagons. I love it to search and find things of which I never knew that they exist, handmade shirts, old books or crazy furnishings. But what i like most, is to watch and photograph other people which are extremely absorbed in the search after a bargain! Flea markets are an indispensable element of urban landscape! ...

Do you ever heard something about The Krah? *The Krah is a decrepit but talented young man who has wasted most of his youth scribbling on everything and using any medium he could get his hands on. As vandalism was the most fun thing to do, The Krah started painting the streets and the subway trains of Athens in 1997, but his graffitis, stickers and posters can also be seen on the streets of a lot of other citys around the world, all over Europe and cities such as Tokyo and Bangok. ...