Remember the Hennessy Cognac-bottle designed by NY artist KAWS? Following the success of their artist collaboration, Hennessy has teamed up with graffiti legend Futura 2000 to design their latest special collectors edition bottle! This video follows Futura around New York City as he talks about some important experiences in his childhood and discusses his graffiti background. Pretty nice footage and some interesting statements by one of the most influential graffiti artists from the US make this graffiti master interview worth watching. ...

Imagine a guy setting up his camera and starting to paint a German train. And now, imagine two cleaners coming round a corner, bumping directly into the poorly covert writer! The resulting hit and run is pretty to watch if you’re a fan of schadenfreude like me… As was written on Ektopia, this is “the best little graffiti video, from start to finish, that I’ve seen for a while.” Watch the entire train graffiti story, including a brilliant finish, and let us thank this one minute hero, who had the class to publish this video! ...

This fall, the Manhattan auction house Doyle New York is going to host New York’s first art auction dedicated to street art and graffiti! This street art auction’s aim is to span the late 1970s through the present day, for what reason Doyle New York is currently seeking works to feature by such artists as Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, KAWS, Os Gemeos, David Choe, Faile, Barry McGee, Zephyr, Dr. Lakra, Swoon, Lady Pink, Dash Snow, Futura 2000, Crash, Ron English, D*Face, Seen, Dondi White, and many more… ...

Since 2011, the urban art festival Crimes of Minds invites different artists from different countries to the French city of Brest to paint some walls. Today, about 20 graffiti and street artists including C215, Jef Aérosol, Best Ever, Guy Denning, Da Mental Vaporz, Morten Andersen and many more followed their invitations and started to transform the city into an urban art museum. Before the project will release a book and a film with some videos of each episode in 2013, here are some first photos (by Kevin Perro) of the finished collaboration mural by Liliwenn and Bom K (DMV)… ...

What does the Higgs Boson look like? That’s a question, many people around the world would like to know. Artist Josef Kristofoletti now got the great honour to paint a part of the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)! Commissioned by the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Kristofoletti painted a three story tall mural on the side of the ATLAS control room directly above the detector, near the Swiss-French border outside of Geneva… ...

In history, garages are well-known for their contribution to mankind. Garages gave birth to Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Iggy Pop and other garage bands, etc. Now, a Berlin-based art project gives away nine free garage studios for artists in Berlin… *This is an open call for a nice project in August. The winner gets 1.000 Euro. The participants get a GDR-style double garage for 3 weeks to do whatever he/she wants. ...

Benjamin Gaulon, aka Recyclism, has an interesting hobby: For his 2.4 GHz project, he installs wireless video receiver in public space to hack into wireless CCTV cameras… This device (which is now part of consumers popular products), can be used for wireless surveillance cameras, but it can also be used for parents to monitor their children. Such systems are becoming more popular as they get cheaper. But what most users of those devices don’t realise is that they are broadcasting the signal. (2.4 GHz Project) ...

Spontaneous sculpture artist Brad Downey and Akay (tenderly named Brakay) again visited the lovely Italian city of Grottaglie! For Fame Festival 2012, both artists created an explosive paint installation consisting of several paint bombs, colorizing an abandoned house… Not sure how they initialized the detonations, but it looks like they did not use electricity to do that. Maybe it’s some kind of yeast or something like that. If anyone has a clue, please write a comment - I’d love to have some details! ...

Similar to the latest Urban Art Link-Tips, it’s been a long time since the last Urban Art Recap was published in September 2011. Nonetheless, I’d like to give you a short summary about the five most popular street art, graffiti and urbanism things on Urban Art Core in June 2012… Fin DAC’s Female Stencil Art Series London-based stencil artist Fin DAC worked hard on his latest female stencil art series (see above), combining hand-cut single-layer stencils with freehand spitting. With that, Fin again gave some beauty to the world! ...

With large scale murals spread across Australia’s east coast, Shida is a heavyweight of the street art scene down-under. For the Polish Urban Forms Foundation, he brought one of his vibrant, energy-loaded murals to Lodz! Urban Forms fundamental mission is to saturate cityscape with creative, multilayered and modern art, that would allow to improve current image of Lodz, giving it a truly artistic and original value. The main tool to reach our aim is large format painting done directly on the side elevations of buildings, as it changes appearance of a given space permanently. (about Urban Forms) ...