On a hot-looking sunny day last week, RNG crew went big in Moscow! Although they cross handshaked each other (in Germany there’s a saying that cross shaking hands is going to bring ill luck) the RNG crew was in luck or well-prepared when they bombed that huge noise barrier in Moscow, some of them just wearing pants… This, in addition to the almost legendary CHO crew actions and the beautiful tram graffiti, is a conformation for my personal theory about graffiti in Russia, Russian crews and the somehow visible Russian mentality. Anyway, this RNG bombing was a huge effort - show them your love! ...

After his astonishing Point of View exhibition in Berlin, Australian urban artist, photo-realistic painter and writer Matt Adnate is going to open his Lost Culture show in Melbourne! Born and raised in Melbourne, Matt Adnate, has spent years traveling and painting the world. He has contributed to the scene through countless street art murals and exhibitions. In recent years his studio art has been the primary focus with major group, collaborative and solo exhibitions. His work can be seen in cities such as New York, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Sydney and Mumbai. (Rtist Gallery) ...

I just read about the USA and their prison problems and first was quite flashed when I noticed that the State of New York is hoping to sell its old prisons, before I entirely thought about it… As the New York Times explains in their New York Has Some Prisons to Sell You article (which by the way reads like a property description), the ideal buyer is someone who craves space to spread out, and who does not mind a property that has had thousands of guests over the years, what made my day because including me I know several others who could use such huge urban places to transform them into architectural research centers (as BLDGBLOG describes), to create impressing exhibition spaces, urban art centers, youth clubs, etc. ...

The global graffiti documentary Bomb It 2 is in its final stages of post-production and will be released in fall 2012! After all the different Bomb It 2 video parts were already published back in 2010, this is the final step… In the sequel to Bomb It Jon Reiss travels to Bangkok, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, the Palestinian refugee camps on the West Bank, Perth, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Chicago and Austin and features artists including Klone, Know Hope, Great Bates, Huskmitnavn, Ash, Phibs, Stormie Mills, and many more. ...

Wow, I’m totally flashed - Portuguese hero and artist of destruction Alexandre Farto aka Vhils just redesigned one of the oldest concrete blocks in Lisbon! In Eixo Norte-Sul, a district in Portugal’s capital, Vhils added parts of a face onto the facade of an abandoned concrete tower. Right next to the motorway, it’s now attracting people’s attention… For Vhils, who visited California and Shanghai before, it’s one of the first stops at home for a while. Hope to see some more new works of him in Europe in near future! ...

Looks like companies are going a step further with their urban art ad campaigns. After using stencils for guerrilla advertising, paying graffiti artists to paint some backdrops or planning large action street theater, they are now willing to let their ad agencies install impressing advert sculptures… Belgian paint manufacturer Levis (Akzo Nobel) recently came up with an urban guerrilla paint sculpture! The installation, planned and created by Belgian ad agency King George, consists of an XXL Levis paint pot mounted onto an existing lamppost eight metres above the ground so it appears to be floating. The post itself has been painted red, creating a stream of paint that looks like it is coloring the car park where it is situated, as was described on designboom.com. ...

I’m pretty sure, some of you already heard about the international Park(ing) Day, right?! The idea behind this interventional project is the create temporary parks throughout the cities around the world, but of course you can build those parks whenever you like… …like Joe Baldwin together with the Altgeld Sawyer Corner Farm did in Chicago back in 2011. For a few hours, he turned nearly an entire Logan Square street block into a 280 square meters urban park: ...

For a lot of people around the globe, the stencil artworks by British street art icon Banksy are the quintessence of politically influenced street art comedy. Whether the flower throwing anarchist, the peace symbol painting soldiers, or even the Child Drawing series, Banksy knows how to combine political statements with more or less subtle jokes… Not long ago, the Twitter account Banksy Ideas was registered, describing itself as The R&D dept at Banksy HQ and developing parodying ideas for new Banksy-like stencil artworks. Here’s some of my favorites: ...

I’m a big fan of French urban artist and adbuster Ox, who should definitely not be a stranger for you! Being busy for the last years, Ox created his billboard takeover artworks, adapting their environment in amusing way, all over the globe… Recently he wrote from the nice French city of Angers, where he did his best for the Artaq urban art festival. Again I have to say, that his paintings, imitating for example certain bus and tram designs, really work out! ...

The MIT’s Green Building recently hosted the world’s largest Tetris game! The 90 meters tall academic and research building was designed by noted architect I. M. Pei, whose window facade suited perfectly for a 17x9 pixel Tetris screen… Tetris on the MIT Green Building As The Tech pointed out in a corresponding article, the mysteriously appearing Tetris hack, which was described as The holy grail of hacks was the culmination of over four and a half years of work by an undisclosed number of hackers! The group of hackers used the already installed LED arrays to light up the windows with a variety of colors for the super-sized video game, allowing not just students to play a fully functional game of Tetris on the Green Building! ...