Here’s a new video of Roa painting his giant bird off of Brick Lane back in April. The video is a teaser for an upcoming documentary about Brick Lane and art.
Roa’s Big Bird on Hanbury Street, Brick Lane, London from Shafiur Rahman on Vimeo.
EL MAC x RETNA x Estevan Oriol – LA Skid Row mural
EL MAC / RETNA / Estevan Oriol – LA Skid Row mural (2010) from ELMAC on Vimeo.
Check out this video of a new mural painted by super duo El Mac and RETNA in LA’s Skid Row.
Kaws – Pay the Debt to Nature (video tour)
Guillotine made this video tour of Kaws’ new solo show in Paris at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin:
Kaws – Pay The Debt To Nature – Paris – Opening from Guillotine on Vimeo.
Olivier Kosta-Théfaine’s Pyromania
Olivier Kosta-Théfaine: Monde Sauvage from Raphael on Vimeo.
I’ve always considered myself to be a bit of Pyromaniac. Fire is element that has always managed to catch my attention. Whether it be in photography or film, I’ve always been fascinated with it. But don’t worry, I can assure you that I don’t have a long history of burning down houses or setting myself alight behind me. French artist and fellow Pyromaniac Olivier Kosta-Théfaine on the other hand has been throwing caution to the wind lately; attacking walls and ceilings with lighters in order to create a number of burning phrases and patterns into ceilings (see the video above). But what on earth is it all for?
On his website it explains
“In each of his interventions, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine plays with the codes and clichés of popular culture. He uses the languages and codes of the city and its suburbs, changing or modifying their original meaning so it can be understood by a broader public. His reflection is essentially based in rehabilitating the, often deconsidered, elements that belong to the city. His fascination for the suburbs has switched to a passion that is essential to his everyday work. The city is his muse, the drive for his artistic inspiration.”
Yeah, I didn’t really get much out that either! But what the hell, it looks pretty cool!
DAN WITZ – WTF 2010
Spiffy Films presents this short trailer for Dan Witz’s Street Art Project for 2010: WHAT THE %$#@? (WTF)
If you’re not familiar with Dan’s work or have a taste for street art that’s a little more provocative definitely check this video out! Dan latest work focuses around a number of very surreal and realistic panels, placed in and around urban locations; depicting various characters looking out from behind iron bars, cages and window panes. Whether they are trapped, being held against their will or simply there for their own enjoyment remains to be seen, but this is certainly something that will have you thinking – “WTF?”.
Video interviews with Steve Powers and Eine at Moniker
While Ben Eine and Steve Powers were painting at Moniker Art Fair last week in London, Babelgum spoke with them about their work and what they were doing for the fair.
Here’s Steve:
And Here’s Eine:
Beautiful Losers film now streaming online
Beautiful Losers, the film about some of low-brow and street art’s 1990’s pioneers, is now streaming online on Babelgum. If you haven’t seen this movie yet, now you’ve really run out of excuses. If you enjoy reading Vandalog, this is a key film for you to see. Artists interviewed include Barry McGee, Steve Powers and Shepard Fairey. I think it even includes one of my all-time favorite quotes about art:
“From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that’s where the beauty is.” – Margaret Kilgallen
So yeah, get over to Babelgum.com/beautifullosers to watch the entire film. Now I kind of feel like an idiot for buying the dvd…
Printball at BLK River
Benjamin Gaulon‘s Printball machine was in Vienna recently for BLK River. The machine is an interesting use of Graffiti Markup Language that uses paintballs to print a pre-programmed message onto a wall. For this piece, they wrote TEMPT, which is an entire story itself. Here’s a video of Printball in action:
Photos courtesy of Benjamin Gaulon
Chris Stain’s 82-foot long mural
No Longer Empty organized this recent mural by Chris Stain which is a pretty substantial size at 82 feet long. Here’s a video of Chris painting the wall and speaking about his work:
Chris Stain from NYC No Longer Empty on Vimeo.
Video by Julie Congo
Photo by Superk8nyc
21st century graffiti (and no, it’s not laser tagging)
Okay, so yeah, GRL’s Laser Tag thing is cool, but it’s more of a fun trick than it is graffiti. This new thing is pretty awesome too though, and I think it might be a big development in the world of graffiti: Letterbombing. Improve Everywhere’s Charlie Todd first posted about this form of internet graffiti. Check out the video:
In recent months, I’ve been suggesting that the best piece of street art or graffiti ever would be to hack the Google homepage if even for a few seconds. Then, just a few days ago, I went on a rant to a friend about how computer hackers who do things like this are a new generation of taggers. Letterbombing seems to fit perfectly within the sort of things I’ve been imagining, and if I’m on to anything, letterbombing seems to be the next development in online graffiti. Like moving from tagging to wholecars, letterbombs might not last as long as a hacked website, but they are more refined, can hit bigger targets and will probably be seen by more people. Of course, letterbombing isn’t illegal like graffiti or hacking, but it’s still damn clever.
Are there any other examples of online graffiti out there that I’m forgetting about?