Conor Harrington is an urban fine art king, we all know that! Combining spray and oil paint for several years now, he is one of the big guys when it comes to merge the urban, street influenced dynamics and the classical painting techniques… In the summer 2011, the Irishman home to Ireland for a big project including three murals, with both the journey and the paintings being inspired by Austin Clarke’s poem The Lost Heifer. Luckily for us, the entire trip has been documented and was finally published (six hours ago) entitled Black Herds of The Rain! ...

Last weekend several thousand people (including many Guy Fawkes) protested against ACTA not just in Berlin. Of course I joined the demonstration in my city due to the fact that ACTA violates my opinion about how internet culture should work… Anti ACTA means Pro Internet *Since Spring 2007, 39 countries (27 member states of the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia, México as well as a few other countries) negotiated in secret a trade agreement aimed at enforcing copyright and tackling counterfeited goods: ACTA. Leaked documents show that one of the major goal of the treaty is to force signatory countries into implementing anti file-sharing policies under the form of strong criminal sanctions. ...

Two of the very best and popular European graffiti artists, Nychos (here in Berlin) and Flying Fortress (here in Berlin) just teamed up in Vienna and made together a propper and massive start into 2012: Mother Bear Graffiti Nychos and Flying Fortress, both well-known for their clean, detailed characters created an impressing piece, showing the anatomy of a pregnant mother bear - what a great idea! Hopefully they are keen for some more collaboration productions this year - I will keep you posted. But now, watch the documentary and like their styles! ...

Writing about boneyards usually is not my favorite exercise, but after that phenomenal neon sign boneyard in Las Vegas, I have to write about the Boneyard Project today! Plane Graffiti on Abandoned Aircrafts What started with a somehow disturbing promo-video almost a year ago, recently resulted in amazing plane graffiti: More than 30 artists have participated in the Boneyard Project’s Round Trip including DC Super 3 planes painted by graffiti artists How & Nosm, Nunca and Retna, a C97 cockpit by Saner, a C45 plane by Faile, and a Lockheed VC 140 Jetstar by Andrew Schoultz (via aviationpros.com)! ...

It’s all about stickers, stickers, stickers - The Stick Core sticker exhibition will show stickers by artists from all over the world, discovering this specialized urban medium as a part of street and urban art culture! With their wonderful diversity of color, form, elements and expression, in the last years stickers got featured in several exhibition around the world, like the Oversized & Underpriced shows in Berlin. This time, it’s the Idrawalot Gallery by Karl Addison which s hosting and supporting the second part of Stick Core Berlin… ...

Tram graffiti are somehow special and furthermore rare at least in Berlin, for what reason it’s great to see those fantastic pictures from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, the crew including Skar, Stop, Hiro, Enot, Egor and Poolk created for their tram graffiti video, which is simply called Tram! It documents in a minimal and quite manner the wintry atmosphere of a local tram yard and shows us graffiti artists taking advantage of the favourable, frosty situation to paint some iron… ...

Punk, skate and graffiti influences versus cute ninja rabbits, foxes and other illustrative characters - that’s the wild mix content of the Danny Doom vs. Flamat exhibition which opened its doors last Friday at Neonchocolate Gallery in Berlin, presenting culture clashing artworks by urban artist Danny Doom from Berlin and by Leipzig-based illustrator Flamat! As some voices revealed, this art-show is the first part of a more complex art tour by Danny Doom (e.g. including the so-called living-room art tour) who is going to celebrate this last doomed year 2012 (just remember the Maya calendar!) with several different art events taking place probably around the world. ...

About 2500 old NYC subway cars, including 1000 so-called Redbirds, have been buried about 80 feet underwater off the US east coast during the last years, as the Spiegel recently published! After running round about 40 years in one of the world’s largest subway networks, this is their last stop… Redbirds - Anti-Graffiti Subway The Redbirds, which are named after their cinnabar red anti-graffiti coat of paint and got famous during the early 1980th, when New York Cities graffiti scene reached the peak, are now helping to create an artificial reef off the coast of Delaware (named Redbirds Reef), what sounds really weird in my ears… ...

I just fell from my chair. Toronto-born, Tokyo-based entrepreneur, occasional artist and almost architect Christian Forestell (here a short interview) is right away starting the world’s largest painting project entitled Bikini Lines to benefit children orphaned in the 2011 Fukushima disaster! Bikini Lines - The Cactus Dome Painting Bikini Lines is a proposed massive, mixed media project inspired by a lack of standardized nuclear disaster reporting, in particular the panic that set in over Tokyo following the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent meltdown. Based on crowd-funding, the project’s main focus is on painting the huge Cactus Dome on the Marshall Islands, an enormous, foot-and-a-half-thick, 107m wide dome consisting of 358 gigantic concrete panels built over a nuclear crater, seriously! ...

Already some days old, but still fresh is the dope, quality interview the VNA team did with The London Police boys in Amsterdam for the 17th issue of London’s finest Very Nearly Almost magazine! At first it was a very simple doodle. And I mean simple, it was essentially a stick man with a round head that I’d draw…(Chaz about the Lad) Chaz and Bob are present in Europe’s street art scene for over a decade. Together this duo traveled the globe, decorating streets not just in Europe, but also in Brooklyn, Hong Kong and other places, for what reason their iconic, fat outlined character (simply called the Lad) became popular around the world! And now, enjoy this The London Police interview! ...