As I told you one week ago, Belgian graffiti artists Roa started his exhibition in Paris! For those who could not be in Paris until February 28th, have been published some nice photos of Roa’s phantastic animal graffiti by my friend Vito! Each of the spray-painted artworks, which are popular worldwide, seems to be as detailed as possible. Roa come to his painting in different ways, either as abandoned places, town, or gallery, and develops more and more the effects of anamorphosis, also in a goal context. After distinguished journeys in the streets of New York, London, Berlin and Warsaw in 2009, Roa now takes possession of Paris. (press release) ...

Maybe you know the traditional outdoor sport “Capture the Flag”, for those of you who haven’t heard something about it yet, I will say some words about it. “Capture the Flag” is a two teams game. Each have its own flag (or other marker) and the simple objective is to capture the other team’s flag, located at the other team’s base, and bring it safely back to their own base. Enemy players can be tagged by players in their home territory and are temporary out of the game. That’s all! ...

This Saturday, a new urban art gallery with a pretty cool concept will open in Berlin - Its name: 72h Gallery. The exhibiting artists have 36 hours for preparing their artwork. That mean 36 hours to create, spray, tinker, photograph, shoot, screw, hang, rock, be awake and paint. Ongoing the public is able to visit, view, fall in love, jaw, hear, feel and enjoy for exactly 36 hours. All in all it’s always an 72 hours action exhibition. ...

“The Clockmaker’s Retreat” is the title of an recently published article by the New York Times about the German urban (pop) artist Stefan Strumbel and his art series about “heimat”. Stefan has a graffiti background and became popular with his crazy cuckoo clocks, which combine traditional handicraft and modern spray-paint culture… Mr. Strumbel’s clocks, which are based on traditional models but are adorned with grenades and handguns instead of rabbits and antlers, now sell through Galerie Springmann in Freiburg for $1,200 to $35,000 (or 850 to 25,000 euros) each. ...

After I watched this beautiful time lapse video, I agree to the people who said, that the Olympic Winter Games have chosen a nice city this year! Although Vancouver is the third largest metropolitan area in Canada and the different views of the video are really nice, it’s not comparable with the time-lapse city portraits of other cities, like Tokyo & Yokohama, London or Hongkong. Nevertheless I somehow like that time lapse. Perhaps it is because of the small streets… ...

As you can actually see, I redesigned this blog in the last days. My claim was to bring a bit more structure and clearness in the theme, so that you are able to find the interesting post in a faster and more comfortable way. To break down some old structures, I removed some small features - but I don’t think you will notice that. Moreover, I changed the colors for a fresher look and feel. ...

Today I updated one of my most successful articles: Top Urban Art Photographers! With Ian Cox, MJay, Ozkar and Norman Behrendt, four more great urban art photographers were added to the list, which contains the creme de la creme of urban art photography. For me, the work of these photographers is very important. They fight against the incredible transitoriness of graffiti and street art and also document urban atmosphere in their own styles. It is really interesting and impressing to see the different interpretations of urban art photography! ...

After his travel to New York in October 2009, famous French urban artist L’Atlas visited India for his exhibition at Alliance Francaise. Certainly he hit the roads of New Delhi and presented his great paintings (I really love his artworks) in an urban context. “The 31-years-old has spray-painted two huge canvases at Alliance Francaise and is planning to temporarily vandalize the floor and turn it into a work of art, a painted warren. The canvases are a crisscross of interlinking lines resembling a maze a compass giving directions. They are not chaotic; instead they exude the symmetry of the mandala and have similarities with Indian rangoli patterns. […] ...

Yesterday I got an e-mail by Samantha Longhi. She is the founder of “Stencil History X” and the author of the corresponding stencil art book and informed me about the upcoming exhibition by famous graffiti artist Roa in Paris! Roa’s urban art shows are very rare and this is his first solo exhibition in Paris. After distinguished journeys in the streets of New York, London, Berlin and Warsaw in 2009, he now takes possession of the French capital. ...

Two days ago, I showed these fantastic urban time-lapse videos from Paris to you. Today I will present another city in time-lapse: Dubai! Dubai - as you maybe know - is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates. The one million city is the urban crown jewel around the Persian Gulf. That fact is already shown by Philip Bloom’s Dubai time-lapse, which was filmed in Dubai over 5 days and nights. ...