Do you remember How & Nosm, Nunca, Retna, Faile, Andrew Schoultz and around 25 other urban artists painting those old, abandoned (military) airplanes for the Boneyard Project? Recently, this new official video produced by filmmaker Jason Wawro was published, documenting mainly the ideas of this unique art event with statements by Faile, Andrew Schoultz and Bast, talking about their ups and downs (gravity and liquid aren’t friends!) during the creative process. The video also includes several amazing images of different plane painting processes and background info about the entire process. ...

This is definitely the best stencil street artwork I’ve seen this year! Although it certainly looks like a new Banksy piece, unfortunately nobody is as safe as houses and knows if this great origami stencil artwork in London was made by the British street art legend or not. Nevertheless, it’s fucking lovely! If you know details, let me know… New Banksy Stencil Artwork Photo via The Lonely Villein, info via verynearlyalmost.com.

Old-school ways of printing, like screen printing, are currently re-experiencing another revival with artists, using those very technical and manually adjustable proceedings to create limited print editions with a rough and sometimes vintage style… Regarding Paul Collier, another of these revival experiencing printing techniques is letterpress printing. When I stumbled upon the nice and intimate Upside Down, Left to Right letterpress film by Danny Cooke, I immediately felt like a small kid watching his grand-dad working! I’m a big letterpress fan, mainly because of that certain feeling you have by stroking the printed surface and the knowledge of how difficult creating good letterpress prints can be, for what reason I really loved this short film. ...

For their experimental visual project Stenop.es, Paris-based photographers Romain Alary and Antoine Levi are just using a primitive technique: The Camera Obscura, a pinhole camera… Two layers are merging while the landscapes takes place in the interior’s intimacy. The idea is as simple as it is ingenious. All they have to do to create such an pinhole camera apartment is to entirely darken a room (probably using some kind of transparency) and adding a tiny pinhole to one of the windows. The result is an upside-down projection of the real world taking place everywhere inside, creating that astonishing effect of merging the outside landscape with the indoor space. ...

Last Friday, Berlin-based Quintessenz Creation crew (don’t forget their upcoming exhibition together with Danny Doom in Hamburg!) was invited by a somehow popular sporting goods manufacturer to paint a mural at Sage Club in Mitte, which is why Berlin now has another colorful facade… Using nothing more than liters and liters of paint together with several alienated fire extinguishers, the Quintessenz boys bombarded the prepared wall (they previously painted a shoe silhouette using latex-paint) and created in that way meters long drips in different colors which now are visible from long distance. I for one took cover from the paint-rain and tried to take some photos from the roof, documenting the action. ...

Art censorship is not new, nevertheless it’s a problem everyone should care about. Paintings, images, murals, posters, stickers, and photos are transporting subtexts and opinions which is why certain governments, lobbies and other powerful people try to control those message by the use of extensive censorship… The latest popular example of art censorship is the story of British graffiti artist Shok-1 and his Heart Noose mural in China: Invited by the Chinese government to paint a huge mural back in 2011, Shok-1 painted a somehow controversial piece showing nothing more than a heart-shaped noose. I for one don’t know the deeper meaning of this symbol, nevertheless Chinese politicians decided to censor the mural by reinterpreting the entire image. Now, several weeks later, Shok-1 had the chance to revive his mural in London - far away from the Chinese governments reach… ...

Olek is an crochet artist. The New York-based Pole started to crochet things for friends not long ago, went on to crochet urban environment (one of the most popular one is the purple Wall Street Bull) and since then became that famous, museums are offering to buy her entire installations! And although some would describe her works as grandma-style, there’s a certain idea behind the very conceptual urban crochet artworks, as she pointed out in the accidental interview Global Street Art did with Olek a few days ago… ...

As if those countless street art iPhone apps are not enough (there’s already an augmented reality tagging app, the All City street art app, an urban art guide app and several others), Geo Street Art launched two new street art iPhone apps this week for locating street art in NYC and London, as RJ recently mentioned. Curated by a global network of experts, working in collaboration with Geo Street Art, the Geo Street Art Apps comprise comprehensive guides to the global street art scene. ...

Advertisment confuse every day our choises exalting qualities that doesn’t exist and creating a sort of shame world. Today, in a moment of financial insecurity, we must discover the real value and authenticity of what we have and we need. (BR1) Italian street artist BR1 just came up with a new, inspiring and very critical street installation, presenting crumpled poster ads destroying a window of a Berlin bus shelter. This installation is not vandalism in the first place, it’s much more a creative metaphor trying to get to the bottom of today’s advert-society. It illustrates the everyday fight between ads and urban environment and it is also using a certain humorous remark and wink, what makes it a simple, but effective piece of urban artwork. ...

Looks like the Soviets really built an UFO, or at least a building which looks like an RLV, a reusable launch vehicle… According to Timothy Allen the Communist UFO-shaped Buzludzha building (pronounced Buz’ol’ja) in the Balkan Mountains is Bulgaria’s largest ideological monument to Communism which was left to ruin after the revolution in 1989. Nowadays, Buzludzha is still there, icebound, almost forgotten and abandoned, with stories that sound like parts of science fiction classics… ...