Roller Painting: Street Art's Boldest Technique

Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy aka Sweatshoppe developed video painting, a technology that allows them to create the illusion that they are painting videos onto walls with electronic paint rollers they built! Their latest video again showcases their live interactive video wheatpaste, this time in the streets of Berlin, Bristol, Belgrade, London and Paris. Over a two week period the duo pasted their videos in over 10 spots including the Berlin Wall, Les Invalides, Cordy House and even a two-story tall video painting in Bristol… ...

Supported by Obey, Russian graffiti crew CHO is going to publish their first film! Entitle Комендантский Час (what simply means curfew), the video report includes great bombing, painting, pasting and running action mainly filmed during their trips to and in Spain, France and Russia… Watching the trailer with its nice footage whetted my appetite, for what reason I’m waiting eagerly for the release on December 1st. I’m pretty sure it’s getting huge, but as long as you’re waiting together with me, you should probably check out some other great graffiti action videos, like the 1UP subway graffiti action or the Copenhagen Trains documentary. ...

Whether Spain, Norway, Germany, Poland, Portugal or recently Austria, in the last weeks famous mural artist Blu was quite busy in Europe! This May, he caught up with Sam3 and Os Gêmeos for a huge mural art collaboration in Lisbon, went over to Madrid in June for another large-scale wall painting, did some new pieces in Berlin, was in Warsaw, visited Stavanger for a great collaboration with Ericailcane, flew back to Madrid and created another masterpiece and recently hit Vienna to take part in the BLK River Festival… ...

One of my favorite urban artists, the Bologna-based painter Blu is known for his large-scale, surreal but always meaningful pictures in the public space. With his most recent mural artwork in Madrid he becomes part of the mural art trend I identified in the last days…If you don’t know what I mean, check out the new mural artworks in Lyon, Antwerp, Lisbon and Wroclaw! His very playful and comic-style pieces often carry a political or moral statement, yet without being patronising. (about Blu) ...

It’s an amazing huge painting, four of my favorite mural artists recently created in Lisbon! Os Gêmeos, whose graffiti art exhibition is still running, Blu, who was lately in Wroclaw and Sam3, whose new book was published several month ago, came together to paint the facade of two abandoned old houses in Lisbon’s city. All four artists - for those of you who are new: Os Gêmeos are twins - are internationally well-known for their unique style, beautiful artworks and large-scale mural artworks. For this reason it’s just breathtaking to see them painting together. Additionally it is - like every time - incredible to see how they manage it to paint those huge artworks… ...

Famous urban artist Nomad, the self-proclaimed pink ninja, recently sent me some photos of his reservoir dam action on Grand Canary. Some days ago, he transformed one of the biggest dams into a wishing well by painting the slogan “Make A Wish” on its front. *It would have been more visible if he’d done it in black, but there is enough black surrounding our wishes. Let our wishes be pink and soft and playful. There was nothing aggressive in this intervention besides a militancy of attention that was absolutely necessary for a successful mission. ...

I had already mentioned one thing or two about light art and its different uses by street artists. This time I will show you a really interesting video, produced by Sweatshoppe, a viedo artists and multimedia performers collective. The developed the LED paint roller! It’s a paint roller, which actually doesn’t paint any paint. Instead it is made of green LEDs (light emitting diodes) which work in conjunction with a camera next to a projector which is programmed with software that tracks its movements. ...