Pixacao: Exploring Brazil's Unique Graffiti Art

Joao Wainer is a photographer who lives in São Paulo and documents the Pixação Graffiti in his hometown. He already released several photographs and videos about that unique urban art and writing style, which comes from the favelas into the big Brazilian cities. For this reason, “Cool Hunting” did a nice and interesting Pixação graffiti video with him. In this short documentation, he explains some letters and talks about the ideas behind that graffiti movement. Unfortunately, the video is some month old, but a must to see. And because I haven’t wrote anything about Pixação yet, I will now show you this nice film. ...

Oh yeah, it’s Friday afternoon and there are only a few hours to the opening of this years Backjumps, but before I go off immediately, I will present you the three urban top shot of the week! For those of you, who haven’t heard something about the weekly urban top shots, I will explain it shortly: Every week I feature the three best Urban Artcore shots of the last seven days. Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too – Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr-group and add your photos! ...

Here’s the seventh issue of the three urban top shot from the Urban Artcore Flickr-group! Over 330 members with about 2000 photos of architecture, urban art, street art, graffiti or other street photography joined my group - thanks for taking part! The “Urban Top Shots” series features every week the three best Urban Artcore shots of the last seven days. Perhaps you have a great shot of urban art, graffiti, architecture, street design, or other urban impressions, too – Become a member of the Urban Artcore Flickr group and add your photos! ...