Alex Diamond has a crazy style. The comic-influenced drawings and paintings are floating around in Europe for some years. In 2009, he was part of the urban art project Artotale in Lueneburg and is in Barcelona for his current exhibition, called Demon Circus, right now. Today, I received an e-mail by Jörg from the Heliumcowboy Artspace including info about this nice video, which gives some impressions of the show, including an interesting stop-motion painting clip. ...

For about 2 hours, I aligned myself with almost 150 other people at the Kino International yesterday, to get tickets for Banksy’s “Exit Through The Gift Shop” street art movie - And now I’m a proud owner of two tickets for the film! “Exit Through The Gift Shop” is a documentation film, which contains exclusive footage of Banksy, and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists, including Shepard Fairey, Mr. Brainwash or Sweet Toof, at work. ...

I already wrote one or two times about nice parkour and freerunning videos, but this time I will show you the great trailer of a grandiose film about these two kinds of movement in urban space. My Playground is the title of that documentary film, by Kaspar Astrup Schröder. It’s not one of these regular action-videos, but it has a deeper theoretically background… The film explores the way Parkour and Freerunning is changing the perception of urban space and how the space is changing the traceurs and freerunners. Mainly set in Copenhagen the film follows the making of the first dedicated parkour park in the world. Designed by the danish team, Team JiYo. The film also travels around the world to Japan, United States, United Kingdom, and China to explore the common understanding of exploring the urban space seen from a traceur and freerunners perspective. ...

This is an important art event tip for everyone who will be in Munich next week! The self-proclaimed working class hero and urban artist Skore183 will exhibit new works about “Subversive”. “Skore183 grew up in a working-class family in Munich. Already at quite an early age he discovered art as a way of expressing his very own thoughts, ideas and concerns. Since the late 1990s Skore183 has been using the streets and walls of his surroundings as his canvasses. Rather soon, however, he lost interest in writing just his name and started to focus on the content of his artworks. ...

jose parla artwork Do you know José Parlá? Maybe some of you know him as Ease, what is his alias. He is a Brooklyn-based artist who is famous for his great wall-imitations and grandiose calligraphy paintings, which bring tagging to the next level. He always tries to capture the old, spray-painted spirit of the streets on canvas. Therefor, he developed different techniques to simulate often repainted or old and unclean walls by using mixed media, like concrete, oil and paper. ...

For me and I think also for you it’s always interesting to hear about, what the protagonists of urban art documentation think about graffiti. It’s interesting to hear, why and mainly how the started to document that new wave of public art! Three days ago, the guys from FatCat Films, published a five minutes video, which shows famous graffiti photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant as well as graffiti artist Blade, who spray-painted about 5,000 trains, talking about their opinions of graffiti on trains, subways and walls. ...

Yesterday I visited the opening of the 44flavours art show at the 72h Gallery in Berlin. It was a good exhibition in a nice show-room, but although there were some really interesting repainted silk-screen prints, I somehow missed a certain touch… In addition, I think that the 44flavour guys should have had a bit more time to give their artworks the lacking something! Nevertheless the 72h concept seems to bear fruits - The exhibition was well-frequented and there were artworks sold already at the beginning. ...

In my opinion, you could identify a good bar or event location by its bathrooms. Not that I need to have a clean toilet - what I need are some dirty tags, sketches or slogans on the walls! And I think, that Mark Ferem thinks the same… Mark is the author of the first “Bathroom Graffiti” book, which presents on about 190 pages personal expressions inspired by privacy. *If you’ve ever used a public restroom, chances are you’ve read some bathroom graffiti, or at least noticed it. Often bawdy, funny and smart, sometimes illegible, it is a ubiquitous means of expression found across the world. ...

Two days ago, I informed you about the interesting concept of the new 72h Gallery in Berlin and the upcoming show by creative crew 44flavours today. Now there are two new videos out, which give some insights into the preparations for that urban art exhibition, which is called 72hours vs. 44flavours. 44flavours is a Berlin-based urban art duo. In their artworks they combine older and newer techniques - it’s always a wild mixture of silk-screen printing, collages, lino- and woodcuts as well as painting and spray painting. ...

There is still some time until the urban art event “Art Monument 2010” will start in Berlin, but the artists are already in action! The urban artists Honet, Flying Förtress & Sozyone are planning their creative doings by now. In that video, the three talk about their feelings about the “Art Monument” challenge and describe their fears about working with a tiny lift in 46 meters height. ...