Dscreet met up with famed photographer Alex Fakso during a recent trip to Buenos Aires and made the above film for Very Nearly Almost. Great stuff. You can read an interview with Fakso in Very Nearly Almost issue 21.

Had a fantastic time in New York last weekend finishing up The Art of Comedy, but that meant missing out on a lot of news, so some of this week’s link-o-rama is a bit more dated than usual:

• The Wall Therapy mural project in Rochester, NY is working on a short documentary about this year’s event, and they’ve recently released a trailer for that film.
• Station 16 recently released Hanksy’s latest print.
• I absolutely love this collaboration in London between Stinkfish, Cranio, Aeon Fly, and Dscreet.
• Vitche’s latest mural in Sao Paulo has some interesting elements that pop off the wall a bit.
• If you’re a fan of Horfe, you’ve got to check out this video of the Peace And Love crew, of which Horfe is a member.
• How and Nosm are the latest artists to paint the wall at Bowery and Houston.
• KAWS has work on the outside of a NYC subway car, but not in the way you might be hoping, just the way you’d expect.
• Erica il Cane and Blu have collaborated once again, this time on a mural in Bari, Italy.
• Hell yes: Two trucks painted by Aryz.
• A zoo in Turin, Italy closed down. This is what happened when artists were given access.

Photo by Luna Park

Dscreet has a solo show opening in London in a few weeks, and he’s just put out a teaser video for the show. Normally I tolerate teaser videos but don’t particularly enjoy them. Luckily, Dscreet is actually a filmmaker in addition to being a painter so the teaser actually looks pretty cool even as a standalone video. Check it out:

Dscreet’s show, The Other Sideshow, opens on July 12th at the Roktik Gallery at 214 Brick Lane in East London.

Photo courtesy of Dscreet

Amour. Photo by Morac19.

Half the can I used to be. And a day late, but that’s RJ’s fault.

Piece and photo by Sokem

Tag by Sniper. Photo by Herbalizer.

Shane. Photo by Morac19.

Ponk and 3Dom. Photo by Heavy Artillery

Size in London. Photo by HowAboutNo!

Jeroo. Photo by From Around The Wizzle.

NDSM. Photo by Wojofoto.

Getup by HowAboutNo!

WORDsmiths by Takt. Photo by Spam Crew.

Dscreet. Photo by HowAboutNo!

Photos by From Around The Wizzle, Heavy Artillery, Herbalizer, HowAboutNo!, Morac19, Sokem, Spam Crew, and Wojofoto

Ronzo and Conor Harrington

Dscreet’s latest film in the DOTS+ series is an interview with Conor Harrington. It was filmed while Conor was prepping for his recent landmark show at Lazarides Rathbone.

Photo by Russell Darling

Earlier this year, we posted about the above truck that Dabs, Myla and Kems painted in LA. Now Dscreet has posted this video of the truck being painted as part of his new DOTS+ film series…

Photo courtesy of Dabs and Myla

Don't Fret

Lots of news to share this week and I’m late with this post, so let’s get on with it…

• This year’s FAME Festival lineup is online.
• Nina Pandolfo has a show coming up this week at Lazarides’ Rathbone Place location. Despite Nina’s talent, it’s unfortunately difficult to shake the knowledge that she is married to Otavio Pandolfo of Os Gemeos and make comparisons to Os Gemeos’ work.
• Some great new prints and t-shirts from Horfe.
• Stick2Target has photos of some great new walls by Vhils.
• Let’s all go make parks.
• Thinkspace Gallery currently has a charity show running to benefit Born Free USA.
• Street Art Is Dead used to be a blog that mostly complained about the bullshit involved in street art. Now there’s a newish blog with that name that indiscriminately posts photos of street art despite quality.
• James Marshall aka Dalek has brought his Space Monkey character back in his work after years of interesting artistic development.
• Animal New York’s analysis of JR’s latest mural in New York seems pretty spot on… “Let’s agree that it is not an vicious affront to the eyes, but it’s not ‘absolutely genius’ either.”
• Banksy updated his website. A couple of really nice new pieces, both indoors and outdoors.
• Carmichael Gallery have a show that just opened with Yue Minjun, Mark Jenkins and Aakash Nihalani.
• The Duke Spirit used Kid Acne’s Stabby Women film series footage and used a version reedited by Dscreet (who also directed Stabby Women initially) for their latest music.

Photo by Don’t Fret

Jade and Seth

So I’ve been working a lot lately on Re:Humanities, a symposium of undergraduate work in the digital humanities. It’s taking place next week at Swarthmore College, just outside of Philadelphia. I hope you’ll come check it out if you’re nearby. I’ll be speaking about how the internet has changed street art, and there are a bunch of other great topics up for discussion for anyone interested in the digital humanities. Okay, that’s my personal announcement for the week, now onto the news:

• Conor Harrington, Dscreet and Ronzo collaborated on this wall over in Dalston.
• Sweet Toof and Paul Insect have also been painting some fantastic walls in London.
• Okay so this video of a piece by Verbo isn’t the best quality, but the piece is pretty awesome and very different from a lot of what is out there. I wish I could have seen the animation in the flesh and I hope he continues to work with this combination of mural and digital projection.
• 2 Many Printers is a cool little clothing brand with t-shirts by Husk Mit Navn, Ian Stevenson and others.
• This mural is probably my absolute favorite piece of public art that I’ve seen related to the Egyptian Revolution.
• Glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks Anthony Lister’s “Planet of the Apes” mural was problematic and a disservice to the art community.
• C215 has a show in Paris of stained glass windows based on his imagery.
• Shepard Fairey is involved in a possible new film version of 1984. Could be cool, although it’s a bit ironic since Fairey was involved in trying to rewrite history himself when he submitted doctored evidence in a court case.
• Niels Shoe Muelman has a show opening this week at 941 Geary in SF.

Photo by Jade

Photo by S.Butterfly

Burning Candy have a show, A Fist Full of Paint, on right now at Tony’s Gallery in London. There’s work by Rowdy, LL Brainwashed, Sweet Toof, Dscreet and Mighty Mo. For the most part, it’s the sort of show you’d expect from Burning Candy. I’m a fan of the crew, so I enjoyed it. But most of the work wasn’t going to convert any new fans. The possible exception to that are the pieces by Mighty Mo. He has continued to develop his style of making realistic models of his outdoor work. These pieces were what everyone at the show was talking about, and they were as fun as ever. In fact, I think Mighty Mo is getting even better.

Photo by S.Butterfly

While Steph can go on about Morley all day long, Mighty Mo an artist who is actually finding an interesting way to transition from the street to the gallery. Like pieces by Invader, many of Mo’s sculptures depict actual street pieces, so the work acts as a sort of nostalgia trigger and documentation/preservation of outdoor pieces. At the same time, there’s a high level of craftsmanship.

Photo by S.Butterfly

And Mighty Mo can paint well on more traditional canvas as well. Check out this collaboration with Rowdy. It’s a knock-out… (yep, had to say it)

Mighty Mo and Rowdy. Photo by Alex Ellison

S.Butterfly has more photos from the show on her flickr, and if you’re curious about all the paint splatter on the walls of the gallery, watch this video.

Photos by S.Butterfly and Alex Ellison

Sweet Toof and Pins aka Paul Insect

Had a pretty interesting week. Last Friday was the opening of, Sex Drive, the latest show at The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, where I work part time. It’s a pretty great show, so if you’re in the Philadelphia area, I’d say it’s worth stopping by. But if you’re not, there’s also a lot of online content. But here’s what’s going on the more Vandalog-relevant world this week:

• Kid Acne and Dscreet painted a pretty cool collaboration.
• I just read Kid Acne’s latest zine, which is pretty cool for Kid Acne fans.
• MOMO’s also got a new zine out.
• An impressive Os Gêmeos is going to be for sale at Philips de Pury later this month.
• This looks like a great mural project in Madrid.
• You’ve got to have an appreciation for beautiful handpainted signs like these.
• There’s a trailer out for a film called How To Sell A Banksy. It seems to be about a person or group who are trying to sell a street piece by Banksy that they removed or somehow got their hands on. I’m not sure what to think of the whole thing. On the one hand, it certainly raises some questions about the value of art and what Banksy is (like the guy from Andipa, a dealer in secondhand Banksy artwork, saying that perhaps Banksy’s street pieces are absolutely worthless), but I can’t help but believe that those questions will be obscured in the film by the filmmakers themselves being sucked into the system. They are trying to sell something after all, how could they not become part of this system that the film seem to be critiquing?

Photo by nolionsinengland