In addition to “The Urban Cookbook” by writer and author King Adz, which is a collection of creative recipes for the graffiti generation, there’s another cookbook out now - It’s name: Street Art Cookbook. Street Art Cookbook is a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) bible on street art written by Benke Carlsson and Hop Louie and was published two weeks ago. It’s maybe the first street art handbook, containing dozens of different techniques, tips and tricks for creating urban art pieces. ...

Before the Three Lions will beat the German team tomorrow, I collected some interesting news and info about street art and graffiti from the last week. There are great photos of new amazing urban artworks as well as recently published art books and very interesting new urban media apps. Cantina, Kreuzberg - Some very inspiring urban artists repainted the facade of an house in Berlin and Just took some great shots! ...

As mentioned yesterday, another live-painting took place at the Project Room by Jaybo aka Monk in Berlin. Two well-known artists, Augustine Kofie and El Mac, started painting in front of the crowd at 7pm and finished their artworks four hours later. It was gorgeous to watch them paint in their totally different styles and to be able to understand how they’re working. The huge count of small details in Kofie’s artworks and that great shadow-handling by El Mac made me and my friend happy. For that reason, I want to make those of you happy, who had no time to come to that interesting art event by showing you some photos (More on Flickr!) I took while the live-painting. ...

Today the time has come: Augustine Kofie will paint live at Jaybo’s project room in Berlin! After the away game in London some days ago, the project room will now open its doors in its familiar neighbourhood… Since 36 years, the urban artist Augustine Kofie creates mural artworks and pieces in the streets of Los Angeles. Although his street artworks count among graffiti it’s something more - they conbine elements of cubism, futurism and pop art and create in that way an unique style of abstract lines and design. As the name of the upcoming live-painting describes, Kofie will paint one of his geometrically-inspired (he calls it “drafting style”) artworks. ...

In addition to the nice Wooster Collective meet-up and the Mode2 live-painting I was on the run with Australian tape artist BUFFdiss. Armed with some rolls crepe tape and wearing some darker clothes, he created two nice tape artworks on an old industrial area…and while he taped around, I took some dark action photos! BUFFdiss started creating tape artworks several years ago and moved in that way on from the traditional graffiti and its spray-cans…it was really impressing how fast he made the artworks ready and at the same time we both were impressed with the reactions by some passing people, who were really wondering about what he did… ...

Andre Merilo caught some great impressions of New York City when he traveled the Big Apple together with his JVC GZ-HD7 camera in April! The two-part high-definition film he created shows the details of that great, loved and hated city and facilitates its power and dynamic… New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over global commerce, finance, media, culture, art, fashion, research, education, and entertainment. (Andre Merilo) ...

Berlin-based stencil artist Boxi is in addition to Evol, Czarnobyl, Orticanoodles and C215 one of the most famous stencil artist in Europe and the entire world. Yesterday, I found an amazing video which documents the alternation process of one of his most recent artworks, a “six layer hand-cut paper stencil and spray paint on photograph by Ross Morrison.” It looks quite gorgeous how he creates the reflections in the visual cover of the helmet - That really floored me! ...

As I mentioned some days ago, famous graffiti artist Mode2 painted live in Berlin yesterday! The outstanding artists created a great mural artwork at the “Jacki Terrasse” in Berlin and I was allowed to take some photos of the otherwise camera-shy artist and his doings… It was really great to see how easily he painted that rough wall just with brushes. The new wall now shows a collection of different rawish characters and creates for that reason a very comfortable urban atmosphere. The great thing about Mode2 and his mural artwork is, that he painted everything without having any sketch on paper or some thing like that…I was really impressed! ...

What an amazing weather today! For that reason and my meeting with stencil artist Indigo this afternoon, there’s only time for another urban art eye candy edition… This week I collected very interesting info about new graffiti and street artworks, interviews with infamous artists and quite nice urban art impressions from around the world. Have fun while skimming through the links! Favela Painting - About 30 houses (7,000 sq meters) of hillside favela in Rio De Janeiro were transformed into a huge community art project. ...

Mode2’s latest urban art series was about porn and nude people and I’m very curious to see whether he will also paint one of his amazing bold nude portraits this weekend at the “Jacki Terrasse” in Berlin… Mode2, one of the founding members of the Chrome Angelz, has struck a bridge from traditional graffiti and cartoon-like characters to realistic human figures. For that reason, his latest artworks, combining graffiti-inspired sketches and contemporary drawing art, were part of the “Post Graffiti Art” called exhibition at the Lucas Carrieri Art Gallery in Berlin! ...