As a faithful reader, you may noticed that the Australian tape artist BUFFdiss is in Berlin for a few month and that I was several times on the run with him… Yesterday, I met up with him and the famous French graffiti artist Nelio (Those of you, who already visited Lyon should know him!) to explore an abandoned warehouse in the south of Berlin. It was a great day - we had a lot of fun and took nice photos of rough walls and nice new artworks! Here are some of the shots I took… ...

One week ago, my friend the Portuguese street art blogger Target wrote an interesting article about an at that time upcoming street art installation by the famous urban art collective Faile. One whole week, the Faile-team and their helpers worked hard on their massive, big and unique installation and what came of it is a fantastic temple in the city of Lisbon, which is part of the art festival “PortugalArte10”! Today, Target uploaded impressing shots of the creation process… ...

Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo-Contest 2010… Now it’s time, the Urban Artcore’s second international Urban Art Photo Contest starts! It was a hard preparation, but finally everything should be fine and now it’s your turn: Street Art, Graffiti & Action What we (the jury and me) want to see are impressing photographs of street and graffiti artworks as well as urban artists in action or similar things like colorful atmospheres in abandoned areas, breathtaking impressions of public artworks, etc… Important to mention is that superficially not the artwork itself counts, but the photo’s quality (style, light, atmosphere, interesting angle, etc.). That means we want your top shots! ...

There are only some hours left, before we could take a more or less long, but wonderful weekend with a lot sunshine, cold drinks and maybe a bathing trip. But before you will now close your eyes and dream of your early weekend, you should have a look at this week’s Urban Art Eye Candy! This time I collected some great new mural artworks, stencil spray-paintings and other impressing artworks from all over the world… ...

True Colors is a brand-new and amazing stop motion film by Tomislav Topic, which shows the power of combining different urban art disciplines in one great artwork! When I saw the video first I was really impressed by the fantastic ideas and the kick-ass outworking. Tomislav mixed wall painting, tape art, fire extinguishers, 3D-objects and some other crazy things and tells in that way a nice and creative urban art story… ...

Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo-Contest 2010… As mentioned four weeks ago, the second Urban Art Photo Contest will take place this month, strictly speaking it will start next Monday, July 19th, 2010. But that’s not the only new info… The Jury I’m proud to announce the juror’s of this year’s Urban Art Photo Contest. These are two people, you probably all know: Luna Park - Luna, from New York, is a librarian, progressive street art and graffiti enthusiast and maybe one of the most active urban art documentors worldwide. ...

Another kick-ass example for the multimedia ability of urban space: Andreas Heikaus from Hannover created a state of the art motion tracking system to project a speedrun of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. along a sidewalk. My first idea when I saw it, was that it would be even better on whole block of houses…fantastic idea, thumbs up… This video was part of my Bachelor thesis at the University of Applied science and art Hannover. The Super Mario Bros. game, released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, is not longer bound to the television size and get interactive with a new environment. The emphasis of my thesis is on the matchmoving work. It is the process of matching CG elements into live-action footage. (Andreas Heikaus) ...

What an amazing weather! The sun is everywhere, it is hot and I had some time to walk through Berlin-Kreuzberg for taking some photos of Berlin’s summer street art. Today I decided twelve of them to give you a nice insight into what happens on the streets in Germany’s capital. There are, in addition to some great stencil spray paintings by Emess and C215, a lot of paper artworks by Alias, Mean Marek and the three Israeli street artists Foma, The Drip Up and Klone, who recently visited Berlin, and a new piece by famous graffiti artist Roa, who is in town at the moment. Furthermore some rather inspiring urban artworks by less known artists leaped to my camera’s focus… ...

Although I kept my fingers crossed for the Netherlands yesterday, I had the idea to celebrate the Spanish football team as the new world champion by collecting a list of awesome graffiti and street artists from Spain. Because I’m not able to know every single urban artist by name and mother country, it’s o you to complete the list by adding comments or writing e-mails! Famous Urban Artists from Spain Sam3 - The mural artist paints walls around the world, thereby the size of the wall doesn’t matter. Some weeks ago, he painted together with other well-known artists a facade in Lisbon. (www.sam3.es) ...

Last Friday, the two Hamburg-based stencil artists Dash3Ultra and Mittenimwald opened their urban art exhibition at ATM Gallery in Berlin. Both artists are well-known on the streets of the Hanseatic city and that’s why I decided to join the vernissage. It was a really nice evening with nice people and of course some rather interesting artworks… Although Mittenimwald’s stencil style reminded me a bit of some of these overloaded artworks by Shepard Fairey and the pixel style by Dash3Ultra seems not working that good behind glass as it normally does on the streets, I could suggest you to visit the “Quantomirokaze²” exhibition! The reason for that is their completely contrary, interesting technique of spraying stencils, which makes it possible to directly compare what different things are possible to do with the same tools… ...