When you stick a camera in the front of a graffiti artist you will maybe try and establish a conflict between what politicians and media say about this art and what the actual artist thinks it is, which maybe makes an interesting film, maybe makes an interesting debate for media - it’s not an interesting debate for art… Filmed in Norway at Stavanger’s Nuart Festival 2008 by Saft Film, the recently released Eloquent Vandals documentary including interviews with some of the major urban artists of our time, including D*Face, Nick Walker, Know Hope, Herakut, Dotmasters, Graffiti Research Lab and many others and is available for download in full HD! ...

The first part of the urban exploration documentary Crack the Surface was a great success and is still one of my most favorite urbex videos! Luckily, SilentUK recently published the second part, focusing on urban explorers from America and Canada and their participation and experiences within their local and global exploring community… Urbex Photographers from around the Globe: Already watched both Crack the Surface episodes? Then you should definitely check out the stunning shots by some of the greatest urban exploration photographers! ...

You can see a lot of train graffiti in Berlin and I already saw the weirdest things like semi-automated train graffiti devices, other stuff and of course I know fire extinguisher graffiti and ink tank paintings, but I’ve never heard about people using fire extinguishers to paint their trains - until yesterday… High Speed Train Graffiti On my regular way through Berlin I had to wait at Ostkreuz for my train and was pleasantly surprised when that blue dripping babe entered the station. In my eyes this is definitely the next step of train graffiti, taking the fire extinguisher technique to another level! And it perfectly shows what more anti-graffiti cops and criminalization carry through: ...

The Black Hills (named after their dark appearance from a distance) are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota. In November 2011, Shepard Fairey and his team created a huge mural in Los Angeles to call attention on the many problems of the native’s reservation… We worked together with Shepard Fairey over the next several months to collaborate and bring something to the streets of Los Angeles. With help from Miguel of La Barracuda this 20x60 wall on Melrose Ave at Fairfax was secured. What you see here is the culmination of the tireless efforts of Aaron Huey and Shepard Fairey. ...

I already heard a lot about wired urban sports, I mean there are people playing Capture the Flag in Berlin, some use their bikes to play polo and others run burning through the city, but I never saw someone freestyle skiing in an urban environment. Maybe that’s because we don’t have snow that often here in Berlin or - and that’s what I prefer as a good reason - pro-skier JP Auclair is really killing it! His piste is the City of Trail, a smaller village in British Columbia! ...

Originally from Baltimore and Seattle the two urban artists James Bullough and Karl Addison (together known as JBAK) are pushing urban art in Berlin for round about a year now, creating colorful murals (like the purple one they did last year) by combining photo-realism, geometric forms and fine line drawing styles. JBAK - Urban Art Berlin Though their styles and approaches are different, their shared interests in art and culture and their desires to experiment within the limitlessness of their mediums, brought them together. Their mutual love of travel, urban societies, and the people who inhabit them, led to the development of a more cohesive theme of unity and humanity. (Jennifer Weitman about James Bullough & Karl Addison) ...

Although he’s not that well-known in Europe, Larry Lovebone is a king in American graffiti history - he was the first tagger, writing his name illegally using spray-cans! The short documentary series 1st To Do It, which chronicles some of the most innovative, daring and unknown maverick’s in the fields of art, music, sports and fashion, now featured him and his story, including comments by some of the most influential US-American writers… ...

The marvelous paintings and illustrations by graffiti-inspired Danish artist Jakob Tolstrup describe his worldview in the humorous way of someone who was born in the middle of nowhere - the countryside of Denmark. During the last couple of years, Jakob not just pushed his amazing painting series forward, experimenting with different techniques, materials and mediums, but also worked together with different galleries and invoiced several papers and magazines for his illustration works. ...

As I already told you, the first Mark Jenkins exhibition opened its doors yesterday presented by Gestalten! The famous street sculptor showed not just photos of his popular works, but also included new Jenkins sculptures made in Berlin. Furthermore, Gestalten used the artist’s Berlin residence to publish his first monograph The Urban Theater: Mark Jenkins. In addition to Mark Jenkins’s sculptural work, Glazed Paradise includes photographs of select installations that reveal how compelling the interaction between his artwork and its environment can be. (Gestalten) ...

In 1929, Johnny Weissmuller, an Austrian-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in movies, inaugurated the Piscine Molitor (also known as the Piscines Auteuil-Molitor or the Grands établissements balnéaires d’Auteuil) swimming pool in Paris (what is why I call it Tarzan’s swimming pool). As well as the beautiful La Jarry, this wonderful Art Deco building, which hosted the popular introduction of the bikini by Louis Réard in 1946, is planned to be destroyed in 2012! ...