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During the last days and weeks, I unfortunately had a lot to do, for what reason I was not able to mention all those great things going on in the urban art world. Luckily there are plenty other nice blogs out there with even nicer features on street art and graffiti I’d like to share with you in another Urban Art Link-Tips session… For the See No Evil festival in Bristol, Sat One painted a brilliant superhero mural entitled Mural Competition! ...
During the last days and weeks, I discovered some great beauty within the urban art world. So as not to let this stuck in my bookmark-archive, I thought in agin would be time for some Urban Art Link-Tips… For hardcore graffiti addicts the Soft-Can, a fluffy designer spray-can toy, couch pillow, decoration toy or living room accessory was developed! 100% handmade, heigth 30 cm, with 3 metal balls inside for real can feeling… ...
It’s been a long time, since the last Urban Art Link-Tips literary came into the world… the latest are from back in December 2011. Nevertheless, I really like the idea of giving a short overview about things that happened during the last weeks and didn’t made it into the Urban Art Core stream! Here we go… - **Ever**, one of the best young muralists in South America, just posted that pretty [video of his recent trip to Mexico](http://blog.vandalog.com/2012/07/video-ever-in-mexico/). - [Urban artist **Vinz**](/usual-misdeeds-vinz-austria/) recently created this very nice [*Don’t Be Afraid*](http://urbanshit.de/?p=8934) mural in his home-town Valencia... …and also my French friend Shaka put up a new mural in Melun, France! ...
Today is the international blackout day against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act), two bills which currently are on their way through the legislative process in the USA and whose aim is to censor our beloved internet - the majority of you already know that. Like Wikimedia, Google, Wordpress and other internet-affine companies and foundations, also Urbanartcore wants to set at least a small sign of solidarity with all those who are protesting against these content mafia bills, infringing free expression while harming the Internet. We are going to replace the logo with a pixelated version and ask you to join the protests, because these US bills will definitely affect the entire interweb! The reason: ...
Hey boys and girls, it’s almost X-mas, for what reason I’d like to give you another urban art link-tips special including the latest street art and graffiti news I wasn’t able to pack into a proper post. So stay inside, grab a coffee or tea and enjoy the following links! Peace. Designer Kyle Bean creates very interesting stuff like that London Tube Map made of drinking straws! Playing with wood, paint and shadows, the two French artists Sambre and Lek just constucted an awesome indoor installation in Paris. ...
After Urbanartcore reached nearly 1,400 friends on Facebook and 4,172 followers on Twitter, I set up the official Urbanartcore page on Google+ a few days ago. From today on it’s open to every urban art enthusiast who wants to celebrate street art and graffiti also via the google community! My idea with that new, official page is to spread the creative urban voice loud and far by providing the latest news, links, statements and event-dates from the urban art movement around the globe (especially those, I’m not mentioning on this blog!) by bringing together all the great sources I’m discovering every day. ...
During the last days, there were a lot of really interesting street art and graffiti news. Lots of artists spent hours and days to paint new murals around the world, to create fantastic sculptures and installations and to many other dope things. Here’s a small collection of impressing stuff, I got not enough time to write about…Enjoy! London probably got a new Banksy! As VNA reported, this falling shopping cart stencil artwork could be another masterpiece… ...
Let the links speak - it’s time for a next round urban art link-tips! Better late than never: Sam3 murals in the beautiful city of Porto… Brad Downey was here: Publisher Onestar Press recently published a new Brad Downey book entitled The Vanity Project. It’s about pseudonyms and being incognito… Berlin-based creative collective Peachbeach painted a huge canvas for the Dudes Factory at the Stroke Artfair… Form Gallery in Perth, Australia just opened its doors for a new Roa show entitled Paradox! ...
Unfortunately I didn’t found enough time to write in the last days - I rather enjoyed this year’s probably last sunny summer days - for what reason I again give a brief overview about what happened in the international urban art scene during the last couple of days… Saber did a fantastic typographic, aerial attack on downtown Los Angeles by writing into the sky! Remember: Art is not a crime, but Los Angeles would like you to think it is! ...
Because of my trip to this year’s IBUg urban art festival I wasn’t able to write about the latest street art and graffiti action, for what reason I’m going to give you a brief overview about what happened during the last days around the globe… The Photo is by Shok-1 by the way, who is a member of the Urban Artcore group on Flickr! Brad Downey and Akay visited the Italian Fame Festival and for example deleted some ugly cars in downtown Grottaglie… ...