It’s been a long time, since the last Urban Art Link-Tips literary came into the world… the latest are from back in December 2011. Nevertheless, I really like the idea of giving a short overview about things that happened during the last weeks and didn’t made it into the Urban Art Core stream! Here we go… - **Ever**, one of the best young muralists in South America, just posted that pretty [video of his recent trip to Mexico](http://blog.vandalog.com/2012/07/video-ever-in-mexico/). - [Urban artist **Vinz**](/usual-misdeeds-vinz-austria/) recently created this very nice [*Don’t Be Afraid*](http://urbanshit.de/?p=8934) mural in his home-town Valencia... …and also my French friend Shaka put up a new mural in Melun, France! ...

Attention all British folks - The UK’s most ambitious permanent street art project See No Evil will return from 13th to 19th August! Announced as Europe’s largest street art event back in 2011, See No Evil brought 72 international urban artists, including some of the finest names, to Bristol. During one week, artists like Aryz, El Mac, Mr. Jago and many more transformed wide areas of the city into a massive outdoor art gallery. This year, See No Evil is again going to become one of the major street art festivals in good old Europe, allowing you to see some of the world’s best street artists in Bristol, alongside huge projections and art installations… ...

Famous German 3D graffiti artist Mirko Reisser aka DAIM, who is well-known also from posters and TV, just spent a day at a beach. Probably because the sun was long in coming, DAIM started to build his version of a proper drip castle - a sand graffiti showing his name in his well-known three-dimensional style… On his own admission, it took him 6 hours to build this great, but still somehow unsteady letter sculpture. Whereas it just took 30 minutes for the sea to destroy it again. For that reason, you maybe could call this result of a graffiti maestro playing at the beach a temporary sand graffiti installation or just an urban sandcastle! ...

This years Urban Art Clash is still running in Berlin! The Urban Art Clash is pleased to announce a large-scale exhibition featuring current positions of contemporary urban photography and aerosol art that will be opening in May 2012 in Berlin, the global epicenter of this international art movement. Artists from different countries, all major players in the Urban Art genre, have been invited for a week residency at the historical Kunsthaus Tacheles. Located in a ruin in Berlin-Mitte on 5 floors of exhibition space is the ideal location for the urban art exhibition. ...

Almost a year after his collaboration show with Stormie Mills, famous abstract graffiti artist Remi Rough is back at Unit44 gallery in Newcastle and just shared some photos of his latest artworks for that recent solo-exhibition! Entitled How to use colour to manipulate people the show presents sculptural work and paintings, that are a big departure from his earlier graffiti paintings… The sculptural work is reminiscent of Serra, his lines and forced shapes brought to life as 3D objects in both wood and clay. ascending to a third dimension seems almost obvious with Remi’s work. Whilst Remi’s new paintings are more referential to his earlier work from 5 years ago, using bitumen and matt emulsion and still maintaining a tight narrative of tension which is a constant in his work. These are abstract works, yet they are firmly rooted in reality. (Unit 44) ...

Did you know that 20,000 Toys worldwide have no access to fresh spraypaint and that Every day 5000 toys do scrapcan tags over good pieces? Because of his big heart for Toys and the fact that this is only the tip of the iceberg, graffiti writer Lush just found the new “charity” ToyVision, a humanitarian fund for graffiti toys, who are in desperate need for some spray paint and guidance from the elders… ...

Between September 13th and 16th, 2012 the Stroke Urban Art Fair 2012 will take place once again at the Postbahnhof in Berlin, bringing hundreds of artists and more or less urban art related galleries together in one big arena… Within the last two years, more than 60,000 visitors came to see artists and galleries from all over the world (Poland, Brazil, Austria, USA, Italy, France, Chile, Spain, Switzerland or the UK - just to name a few). Urban Art is now! In fact the huge variety of subcultural dynamics of the last 30 years in this melting pot is self-replicating. Terms such as “Low Brow”, “Street Art”, “Graffiti”, “Illustration”, “Graphic Design” or “Comic Art” are fused with classic notions of art as well as unconventional resources and are newly interpreted in a fresh, innovative context. ...

Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy aka Sweatshoppe developed video painting, a technology that allows them to create the illusion that they are painting videos onto walls with electronic paint rollers they built! Their latest video again showcases their live interactive video wheatpaste, this time in the streets of Berlin, Bristol, Belgrade, London and Paris. Over a two week period the duo pasted their videos in over 10 spots including the Berlin Wall, Les Invalides, Cordy House and even a two-story tall video painting in Bristol… ...

Whoot, what happened here? Did I miss something? That was the first coming to my mind when I stumbled upon Kilian Martin’s weird, awesome skateboard tricks just now! Hailing from Spain, and known internationally as professional skateboarder creating an all new way to extend freestyle into the realm of street skating, Kilian Martin’s unique movements set him in a class of his own. Recently he spent some time in an abandoned water park together filmmaker Brett Novak to create his next video Kilian Martin: Altered Route… ...

Is urban art influencing urban development and planning? How does creative street culture cause social restructuring? And does graffiti equal gentrification? With its new monthly Culture Talk series, the network for cultural development Platoon is going to discuss those and similar questions! Furthermore, the NGO for culture, art and communication is going to open the doors of its new headquarter in Berlin for the first time… Urban Art vs. Gentrification? The discussion about street art and graffiti triggering first beginnings of a gentrification process is not new, at least in Berlin. Nonetheless, almost everyone in town, being threatened by gentrificational impacts has a different opinion and blames someone else. Platoon is now going to bring together artists, scientists and scene players, who all are probably part of the extensive social, economical and cultural shiftings taking place here and elsewhere… ...