Spanish urban artist Spidertag who is quite well-known in Europe for his yarn bombing artworks (he calls them spider tags) just spent the last days in abandoned buildings in Porto, Portugal and of course created some new stuff using nothing more than a few nails, a hammer and some yarn! It’s all about nails, yarn, geometry, abstraction and streets. (Spidertag) Spidertag got quite popular in Berlin, when he visited the city for several weeks back in 2011. Among other things he created together with yarn artists Moneyless and Hottea that one spot for a well-known sports equipment manufacturer… ...

Paris-based, popular Graffiti Art Magazine just started their annual graffiti art awards survey. Until tomorrow you are able to vote for your favorite artists in 14 different categories with five nominees for each award! The public voting is straight forward: All you have to do is to go to Facebook and answer the polls! To make it even easier for you to participate, I collected links to some of the in my eyes major graffiti art award categories… ...

2011 was a really successful year for German urban artist Clemens Behr who not just explored urban places and spaces around the world by creating amazing cardboard installations in public space, but also exhibited in Berlin, his adoptive home! Exploring urban places… Clemens loves working with recycled materials and basic geometric forms. His abstract installations, composed of cardboard, wood, paint, tape and found materials, often result in subtle confusions between 2D painting and 3D objects. ...

Dutch graffiti-writing master, sculptor and urban artist ZEDZ realized a new fine art print he subsequently painted on a huge bridge in Milan - he calls it urban regeneration… From Art Print Study to Urban Regeneration Know for his very architectural, abstract style, ZEDZ investigates new forms of graffiti, by regarding graffiti as 3D objects. In this way he links sculpting and writing and creates an unique way of painting walls… ...

Analyzing next trends often is an act of trying to shape the future based on past experiences. For that reason it’s like a big lottery with an intended purpose - But an interesting one! Crowd-funded Urbanism and more… Jeroen Beekmans from The Pop-Up City recently started to publish a series of ten trends for 2012 when it comes to city culture, urban design, marketing and technology. The list includes interesting ideas like Crowd-Funded Urbanism or Urbanism Made To Like and phenomenons like The Revival Of Psychogeography just to name a few. ...

The last post I wrote about famous Italian stencil street art duo Sten and Lex was about the great mural artwork they created in Lyon, France back in 2010 - Now it’s time again! Sten and Lex who are well known for their fantastic and often huge street art stencil works recently created a new mural in Rome! Based on a former wall portrait sketch, the duo created a stencil again and ported the image to the streets of Rome - more precisely on the door of a former porn cinema. Nice idea and successful realization! ...

Freerunning is a form of urban acrobatics - we all know that. Nevertheless I was totally flashed after watching the Storm Origins freerunning short film which was shot for a Channel 4 documentary called Concrete Circus! The film shows in action packed scenes the three frerunners Phil Doyle, Paul Joseph and Mathieu Ledoux running, jumping, flying and inline skating through an urban concrete landscape. Of course, the fire action is somehow exaggerated but the DIY SuperSoaker fake flamethrower seems to be good fun! ...

Do you remember those nice DIY Graffiti Umbrellas by the Dutch graffiti artists Sons and Romeo? Ema just wrote me about the young, German urban creation start-up Choke, which aim is to combine everyday products with artful designs from around the globe… They have a collection of quite nice umbrellas designed by famous urban artists like A1one from Tehran, Papermonster from New York and Cabaio from Buenos Aires! By the way, the inspiration which lead to those Choke Umbrellas came from the rainy streets of Glasgow, Scotland - the monotony of a modern metropolis on a rainy day is sometimes really depressing. ...

Yeah, we did it again! Another New Year’s Eve is over and I’m fit again after staying at home with some big headache…Anyway, after posting the Top 10 Urban Artists 2011 and the Top Urban Art Actions 2011 I got some nice e-mails asking for some more 2011 reviews and hey, of course my personal ratings are not really objective, for what reason I would like to give you the advice to take a look at the 2011 reviews by some of my favorite blogs! ...

After the top ten urban artists 2011 and this year’s most popular Urbanartcore posts here comes the third urban art recap of 2011: Top Urban Art Actions 2011! I tried to collect ten of the most inspiring urban art actions in 2011 and bring them together in one nice list, so that you have the chance to make sure you know all the great and extraordinary, subversive interventions and artworks… Explosion Wall Art by Vhils One of the most spectacular creational processes was the controlled demolition by Portuguese-born urban artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils - just beautiful! ...