Draw The Line, the mural festival in Campobasso (Italy), finished up recently. Here are the final two murals for the festival. The above wall is by Sten and Lex, and Erica Il Cane’s is below.
Photos courtesy of Draw The Line
Featured in USA Today’s Pop Candy blog as one of three coffee table book recommendations, Graffiti 365 by Jay “J.SON” Edlin is much more. An ambitious global survey of the key graffiti writers and street artists of our time, it serves too as an ideal reference guide. Here is a small sampling of images that accompany the writing:
Jay will be at Art Basel Miami Beach in early December. Meanwhile, my favorite post-publication photo is the one captured of former NYC mayor Ed Koch, who waged an aggressive campaign against graffiti back in the 80’s, signing GRAFFITI 365. (Thanks, Jay, for sharing it!)
Photos courtesy of Jay Edlin
This year, Vandalog hasn’t been covering the Nuart festival in Norway nearly as closely as we should. Some great work has gone up by a bunch of artists over the last few weeks. Between Nuart’s flickr page and the coverage at Arrested Motion though, the festival has been covered extensively elsewhere. Check out Arrested Motion for Nuart contributions by Lucy McLauchlan, Dan Witz, Phlegm, Herakut, Vhils (including what may be my new favorite piece by him), Escif, David Choe and DVS-1 and Nuart’s flickr set for even more images.
Photo by CF Salicath
Had about 4 days away from a computer and it’s taken me nearly as long to catch up on emails. This post should help to finish that task. Here’s what I missed while I was away:
Photo by Other
Ron English has been busy with projects in LA recently. Here’s some of what he’s been up to:
Photo by Carlos Gonzalez for Arrested Motion
Keith Schweitzer and Joyce Manalo organized getting these shipping containers painted for MaNY and Fourth Arts Block. Forth Arts Block got permission for the site, the like-up was solidified over a weekend and painting began almost immediately. It’s amazing how easily things come together sometimes. They brought in Infinity, Royce Bannon, El Celso and Quel Beast from New York, plus Reka from Australia while he was in New York for a bit. Since Skullphone already had a poster on the container, Infinity kept it and blended it into his own piece a bit (with Skullphone’s okay). Here’s a video of the process (Quel Beast’s piece was later changed after this video was filmed):
REKA x Quel Beast x Infinity – NYC from MaNY Project on Vimeo.
And here’s photos of all the finished work:
Photos by Quel Beast and Mike Pearce
The Urban Space at Tudela de Navarra, Spain hosted the Avant-Garde Urbano mural festival on September 26th-30th. The project aimed to revive the architecture of the city with some fresh paint by Blu, Bs. As. Stencil, El Mac, Filippo Minelli, Run Don’t Walk, Sam3, Suso33 and more. The festival was produced by Castel Ruiz and curated by Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada. Here are some photos.
Haha, as I was writing this post, I notice this series of posts on Unurth that just went online.
Photos by Ana Alvarez-Errecalde
Marcos Zotes’ project CCTV/Creative Control took place on October 1st in Greenpoint, Brooklyn as part of a Nuit Blanche celebration. He projected a video of an eye onto the underside of a 10-storey tall water tower, turning it into a massive Big Brother-esque eyeball. There a video of the intervention here, if these photos aren’t enough.
Photos by Marcos Zotes
REVS maintains quite a presence in DUMBO, Brooklyn these days. Here are a few images:
Photos by Lois Stavsky & Dani Mozeson
These photos are long overdue. They are a portion of Roa‘s contribution to this year’s Wide Open Walls even in The Gambia (previously mentioned).
Photos by Jonx Pillemer
