Stencil Art Studio | London-based stencil artist FinDAC is quite popular at the moment and I can truly understand why people like his fine stencil artworks - just remember the very successful exhibition of his beautiful Jimi Hendrix artworks some weeks ago! Last month, when I still was in London, he invited me to visit his studio in South London and of course I did. It was just the time when he created the paper stencils for that nice wall he spray-painted later at the Stroke.03 Urban Art Fair in Berlin and I remember, I was highly impressed by the great details and size of each stencil layer… ...

Yesterday, when I first read about that massive street art project, I was completely flashed. Some New York based guys - Workhorse and PAC - organized over years an astonishing and especially secret street art project in the underbelly of New York! More than 100 urban artists were brought to an abandoned and almost forgotten or unknown New York City subway station during the last months to paint and create without authorization one of the most spectacular street art locations worldwide! ...

I well remember that amazing stop motion film “True Colors” by Tomislav Topic about the power of pure color and creative ideas. In about five minutes, which were recorded in almost four month, he and his crew brought color to life and created in that way an urban art showpiece project. Recently the making-of was published which documented the development process and which proves that there’s indeed no digital fake - everything is handmade! ...

I already wrote about the street art, skateboard and punk documentary series “DIY America” earlier this year, but yesterday I found that interesting Os Gêmeos interview you have to watch! The identical twin brothers from São Paulo talk about their art and their Sunday painting trips as well as about the consistent further development of graffiti. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became a major influence in the local scene, helping to define Brazil’s own style. Stylistically, Os Gêmeos are heavily influenced by the cryptic art of the São Paulo–based pixação graffiti movement as well as American hip-hop, which the twins grew up with in Brazil. The brothers have gained international fame, displaying their work in exhibitions in major cities in the US and Europe. ...

Documentary | I already informed you about the upcoming new graffiti and street art documentary “Bomb It 2” and showed a first trailer. Now, the after first videos showing urban artist from Bangkok additional parts of the film are online, presenting deeper insights into the film’s concept by featuring the street artists Klone, Inspire and Know Hope in Israel! The sequel to BOMB IT, Jon Reiss’ explosive graffiti documentary which told the story of the street art movement from humble beginnings to global phenomenon. This time round, Bomb It 2 ventures into uncharted territory, reporting on the street art scene in Asia, Australia and beyond. (babelgum.com) ...

…is the name of the third book of the “Untitled” book series. After “Street art in the Counter Culture” (2008) and “The Beautiful Renaissance” (2009) this 192 pages book again is about the most important art movement of our time and features artists from around the globe including Banksy, Dan Witz, Ron English, Obey, Mark Jenkins, Elbowtoe, Swoon and many more. But it also covers this year’s “Fame Festival” (Do you remember that brilliant animation Blu and David Ellis did last year?) and the “Ghost Village” project and discusses the hot question: “Is Street Art an extension and evolution of Graff or a corruption of Graff’s pure rebel yell into an easy to swallow rebel lifestyle?” ...

Tape Art | Again I have some new info about Berlin-based tape artist Buffdiss (here in action). The Australian-born urban artist combined his trained eyes for impressing patters and his graphically skills to create an interesting new tape art series in an abandoned environment about the “Dido and Aeneas” opera in the last weeks! “Dido and Aeneas” by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell includes a prologue and three acts and is the story of the love between Dido and Aeneas, intrigues and suicide. It is remembered as a monumental work in Baroque opera and although you can like Buffdiss’ tape artwork even if you don’t know the whole story I recommend to read the short synopsis on Wikipedia… ...

Street Art News | It’s urban art eye candy time and again I have some new and interesting info about street art, graffiti and urbanism from around the world. This time there are artist interviews, crazy urban inventions, astonishing photos, and of course a load of eye candy. Here we go! Chris Stain Interview Chris Stain, who became infected by graffiti’s bold color, striking form, and independent nature in the summer of 1984, did a short video interview for “No Longer Empty”, including some impressions of his new mural artwork. ...

Today you can win one of five books about one of the most famous street artists worldwide on Urbanartcore.eu - “Banksy - Wall & Piece”. Update: The lottery ended, so any further comments won’t be accepted! The winners will be informed… Street Art Lottery | From now on Banksy’s so called street art documentary “Exit Through The Gift Shop” is also shown in German cinemas! For that reason I will give away five issues of Banksy’s “Wall & Piece” book! ...

Iranian Street Art | I already wrote about Iranian street art pioneer A1one and his interesting mixture of stencil art and proper calligraphy, but today I found a great documentary by the Webistan Photo Agency in which he talks about his backgrounds, street art in Tehran, his own art and why in Iran they know that the wall graffiti and street art are important not only in Iran. In Iran, both Hip Hop and graffiti have the same age. This culture is not established yet. It’s like an child - it’s just growing but right now it’s more fight and just doing websites… (A1one) ...