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Off the Beaten Tracks Photography
I really like the photos of those guys…Sven Marquardt, Peter Franck, Matthias Gephart and Sebastian Klug are photographing off the beaten tracks for years and are now showing their latest works at Neonchocolate Gallery in Berlin!
Photographing the often bizarre protagonists of the multiple parallel worlds which can be found in every sociopolitical, urban environment (punks, easy-jet party dudes, etc.) the four photographers got quite popular in the last months…
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Czarnobyl - Heavy Metal Stencil Art
Last time I visited Czarnobyl’s studio in Kreuzberg, the Berlin-based street artist showed me some test and preparation works for a new series of stencil artworks. Finally he finished a few and uploaded some photos I just stumbled upon. The new series focuses on a great style-mix by combining rough backgrounds with multi-layered greyscale stencils, what makes the it transporting some heavy metal feelings, if know what I mean!?
Czarnobyl is one of Berlin’s most famous stencil artists and describes his style as cyber-punk stencil art. I for one really like his new works, what do you think?
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“Beautiful Losers” - DIY Documentary
I have some interesting news about the grandiose “Beautiful Losers” movie: The film, which had its global premier at SxSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas in March 2008, is available in its full length on Youtube since a few days ago…
“Beautiful Losers” is a documentary film which gives some very special, entertaining and interesting insights into the live of some of the protagonists of the DIY (Do It Yourself) street art movement. It shows in an impressive way the creative life between skateboarding, punk, hip hop and graffiti.
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Urban Top Shots #2
This is the second part of the “Urban Top Shots” series, which 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!
This week I was excited about these 3 photos:
Feinkost, by smotret
top urban shots 2
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McGee meets Templeton & Pettibon
Barry McGee, Ed Templeton and Raymond Pettibon represent - everyone for himself - the subcultural worlds of skateboarding, graffiti and punk. They are classified as underground-heroes, who are established in the top class of contemporary fine arts.
In april their different artworks were presented for the first time as an art group exhibition:
“McGee’s sad, sullen faces and neon-colored geometric panels reflect the archetypal image of man overpowered by omnipresent media, Templeton’s portraits of suburban youths perfectly illustrate the harsh alienation of teenage life, while Pettibon’s drawings and paintings focus sharply on issues of personal/social unrest, life during war and the constant power struggle between a man and his destiny.”
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