After that phenomenal collaboration with Nawer in Krakow, the Amsterdam-based urban art duo Graphic Surgery just finished a new mural! Located in Dresden, Germany, the 25 meters high wall has been painted as a part of the CityBilder project, which recently took place in town and also includes urban artworks by Frm & Otecki, Moneyless, Saddo, Jens Besser and others. The finished mural now shows an abstract bundle of black and white lines and is simply named Bauhaus after the famous German school for crafts and fine arts. Here are some pics… ...

Guerrilla, A Street Intervention is a nice half-animated short film by Sjors Vervoort which had its premiere back in August in all Dutch Pathé cinema’s, as a The Rise of the Planet of the Apes supporting film! I just stumbled upon that nice project today and loved to watch it - the idea is smart, the outworking authentical and the urban environment and atmosphere great. Supported by the Netherlands Film Funds, the films main actors consists of cardboard, plastic bags and some nice ideas… ...

Let the links speak - it’s time for a next round urban art link-tips! Better late than never: Sam3 murals in the beautiful city of Porto… Brad Downey was here: Publisher Onestar Press recently published a new Brad Downey book entitled The Vanity Project. It’s about pseudonyms and being incognito… Berlin-based creative collective Peachbeach painted a huge canvas for the Dudes Factory at the Stroke Artfair… Form Gallery in Perth, Australia just opened its doors for a new Roa show entitled Paradox! ...

Copenhagen Trains: Vandal Tactics is a brand-new and interesting documentary about danish graffiti in general and the local train writing scene specifically. By presenting nice underground impressions, this 55 minutes short-movie mainly features train graffiti actions which took place between 1997 and 2007 in the Danish capital… Live actions, heavy bombing, mind blowing color productions, top to bottom throw ups, all on those infamous red steel trains that was an object of desire for generations of writers worldwide. ...

One of the most interesting think about spray-paint is my eyes that it allows you to customize almost everything, for example your car, trains, concrete, trousers, caps, and even umbrellas! Dutch graffiti artists Sons and Romeo just showed how it’s done and who knows, now as the weather is getting wetter and wetter, probably I will try spray-painting my umbrella myself… We had some fun customizing our own graffiti umbrella. Romeo came up with the idea of painting an umbrella in graffiti style a while ago. Since it was raining we couldn’t paint outside, so we decided it was about time to pimp the umbrella’s. (Sons) ...

Although some friend from London recently told me that this year’s Meeting of Styles wasn’t as wicked as last year’s, on the hundreds of photos you can find online it looks like a big and crazy outdoor party! This annual British edition of the international Meeting of Styles event brings together some of the most talented graffiti artists from all over Europe and has grown from 15 artists and one main wall in its first year to a full scale outdoor block party and street exhibition in 2010 and 2011, including 60 handpicked graffiti artists painting walls, canvases, and boards throughout the day to a backdrop of hip-hop, reggae, ska and more… ...

Spanish-born twins How & Nosm currently painted a massive mural in Los Angeles! As a part of the L.A. Freewalls project, the mural sticks out a mile and is probably one of the largest murals I’ve seen in the last months… What first started as a simple version of the Anarcho-syndicalistic black-red flag worked out in the end as an impressing, detailed wall painting! In my eyes, the mural was the best and effective advert for their Achtung! show, which recently opened its doors in LA’s Known Gallery. ...

Last Ride is the name of an interesting installation-painting by Portuguese urban artist Mr. Dheo, addressing car crashes with lethal consequences. Documented in an disturbing video Dheo explains the intention which brought him to paint this piece on a scrap yard… As an autodidact, Dheo’s first contact with graffiti appeared in the age of fifteen and soon his drawings turned into countless letter studies. Months later he did his first street painting and started to meet other artists to whom he related and that motivated him to carry on. ...

In August 2011, 72 international urban artists, including for example Shoe, Aryz, Nick Walker, Mr. Jago, El Mac and SPQR (just to name a few), came together in Bristol, UK to celebrate Europe’s largest street art event. With about 13,000 involved spray-cans a whole street, including then huge buildings was transformed into a massive outdoor art gallery during See No Evil… Recently, Hurricane Media published their video documentary of the entire event and gives in that way a great insight into the ideas behind the event, which attracted thousands of visitors, and its final realization. Riddled with some nice impressions of the live painting actions the video documents not just the final pieces but also the amazing festival atmosphere. ...

As all of you already know, Australian graffiti artist Matt Adnate recently opened his Point of View show in Berlin and after my photo-series of his studio work, the Berlin Collective created this pretty nice documentary of the rest of his Berlin trip! As a graffiti artists I always had to work in the night, had to run around and I never really had the freedom to just paint. (Adnate) Combining nice footage and some statements by Adnate, the video gives some interesting insights into the artists world and explains why he likes to paint for galleries or in abandoned buildings. ...