Half a year ago, about 1,000 photo of the international urban art photo community Streetfiles were shown as prints at the Graffest in Gdansk. Now, this wide collection of graffiti and street art photos is in Berlin! Actually the name should be “0,6% Streetfiles” or something, because right now we have 186,000 photos. But we printed no new photos, so the name stays the same. Please mind that all photos are half year old and older. We made just a quick selection. ...

Did you ever heard something about the “Book of Urbanism” before? I do not, but I like it! “Book of Urbanism” is a projects platform for interventional art projects in urban landscapes, temporary architecture, media architectures, architectural art, public art, interdisciplinary projects and city development projects. The central question is how public spaces will looks like in future? Everything is about urban design, city interior and art in the public space! ...

When industrial design meets typography - Dutch artist Pieter de Leeuw, who just graduated in Industrial Design, designed a very interesting bookshelf as his thesis! It contains out of several separate letters and tries to give the consumers maximum freedom of using it. The wooden letters in various colors can be arranged to the user’s liking and could also be used as seating. I like those crazy interior designs! On the one hand it’s really simple, but on the other hand there’s a great concept! However, I need such a letters bookshelf for my next apartment… ...

I like skate-parks. I like it to make some nice shots of boys and girls skating, flying and falling down. I like the atmosphere of those places, where young urban people spent their spare time. And I love it, when there’s some colorful interior! In Swiss Lugano, a urban art collective, named Nevercrew, painted a whole skate pool some time ago. Now it’s really a pool - a fantastic octopus pool! The Nevercrew is specialize in creating murals, graphics, videos, comics and sculptures. ...

For graffiti artists around the world, fire extinguishers become more and more popular. Whether Katsu, Moral, KR, or others, everywhere urban artists use the high-pressure tanks to paint their tags in oversize. But there’s at least one disadvantage with that modern technology of mural painting - when the pressure capsule is empty, you can throw away the fire extinguisher… More comfortable is it to use smaller pressure sprayers. Yes, I mean those (pesticide) tanks you can buy for little money in every DIY market. The guys from Just Straight Photos recently made some action with there own ink tank! It’s nice to see, how good this special high-pressure tank works for painting some big tags… ...

20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an American TV channel and a German urban artists collaborate to celebrate the end of separation in an artistic way. “Go Beyond Borders” is a tape art project by Berlin-based street artist El Bocho and CNN. In the last days, El Bocho and his crew created unique art installations using tape at historic sites along the former Berlin Wall and made some videos of their actions. ...

Last weekend, the “Wallbreakers Festival”, which toured through Germany the last months, ends with a big get-together in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The last part of that street-art-exhibition-series was a exhibition, including live painting and music session, by Neoangin aka Jim Avignon, who presented some really interesting paintings. The idea behind the “Wallbreakers Festival” was it to discuss 20 years breakdown in an artistic context: “2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A historical moment in German history, as well as for the cultural scene of the Street Art movement. On one hand, the Berlin Wall represents a salient symbol of the Cold War and the separation of Germany. On the other hand, it represents a creative areal of a peacefull revolution and the biggest open-air galery in the world.” (artwallbreakers.com) ...

In August, the German street artist Evol hit Dresden and painted a whole stencil art city in a 10*8m hole in the ground on a abandoned slaughterhouse. That area was formerly - in 1832 - painted by Caspar David Friedrich and was used for utilization of carcass as recently as 15 years ago. Caspar David Friedrich, by Bianca Schemel However, Evol did a great job, the photos went around the world then. Now, there’s a video documentation of that urban art installation, which shows in a very crude way the richness of detail of Evol’s stencil artworks. It’s impressive and somehow terrifying. I think this artwork fits for Dresden… ...

Anamorphosis, which means something like deformed image, is the recent urban art project by writer and graffiti artist Ninja182 - and it’s all about perspective! Ninja182 uses innovative (but not new) contemporary painting techniques to create mind-blowing graffiti artworks, which can only be seen in its completeness from a specific angle in the room - from every other angle, the intended image looks distorted and unrecognizable. Although this technique has been used many times by artists, Ninja182 nevertheless impresses. With this action, he made not only a good style job, but occupied an abandoned house! High-level art in urban landscape…Yes! ...

As I told you yesterday, the next version of legendary urban art exhibition project “Backjumps”, started in Berlin. Backjumps #4 presents different unusual artworks and projects by the seven Berlin-based urban artists Pigenius Cave, Brad Downey, RZM (Ritsche Koch/Zasd/Christian Marien), Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf. The exhibition shows, in which ways it is possible to explore and use the urban landscape. Pigenius Cave explores with a homemade “Tricycle” the canals and underground access ways of the city. Brad Downey presents artworks, which demonstrate his sculptural as well as his performative dealing with the city. RZM deals with the world of sound, architecture and texture of Berlin locations. And Matthias Wermke and Misha Leinkauf show a video installation, in which they move through the underground and suburban rail network of Berlin. ...