Weekend link-o-rama

Jaz and Laguna in Madrid (click to view large)

This week just keeps getting better. Looks like we’ve got a bit of NYC coming to Philadelphia with a show curated by Matt Siren. Here’s what I meant to blog about this week:

Photo by Jaz

Mural collaborations in Dresden

Bauhaus by contemporary vandal duo Graphic Surgery. Photo by Graphic Surgery

Two shapely walls from the CityBilder mural project in Dresden by Graphic Surgery and Kenor & H101. Other artist collaborations were Frm & Otecki, Other & SaddoRyan Spring Dooley & Moneyless, and Stefan Schwarzer & Jens Besser. CityBilder was organized by Riesa Efau, Kultur Forum Dresden, Frank Eckhardt and Jens Besser.

Kenor and H101. Photo by Lucky Cat

Photos by Graphic Surgery and -Lucky Cat-

Tehran Hosts SPRAY 2011 — a Huge Outdoor Street Art/Graffiti Event

Alone (aka Tanha) reports from Tehran that his city recently hosted its third public street art/graffiti event. While the first two were held  in gallery spaces,  SPRAY 2011 — presented by KolahStudio and hosted by Adrenaline Extreme Sports — took place outdoors on a 70-meter wall. Alone shared the following video and photos of the successful event:


Photos and video courtesy of A1one

Some rollers

Photo by Luna Park

I’ve recently been spending a lot of my recent free time with a paint roller getting the inside of a building to look very white, so to counterbalance that, I’ve been seeking out some more disruptive uses of paint rollers. Here are a few recent pieces that I came across.

Mighty Mo, Sweet Toof and Nemo. Photo by Alex Ellison
Roller and photo by mobstr
You Go Girl! Photo by Damonabnormal
Horror and Rowdy rollers. Rocks by Rowdy. Photo by Becki Fuller

Photos by Luna Park, Alex Ellison, mobstr, Damonabnormal and Becki Fuller

How&Nosm Grace the Walls of the South Bronx

Whenever we visit  the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, we either come across How&Nosm walls that we’ve never seen or we rediscover details on some of their murals we’ve come to love.  Today was no exception.  Here’s a sampling of what we saw:

Photos by Lois Stavsky & Tara Murray