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Aakash Nihalani: New Website and Album Design

Aakash Nihalani is always busy! He just relaunched his website (updated with images of many of his outdoor, indoor and digital projects from the past few years) and has designed an album cover for the band Das Racist. I’m not much of a fan of contemporary indie music so I don’t know what Das Racist’s songs are like, but I do appreciate good album layout when I see it. It’s also nice to know that there are bands out there who respect Aakash’s work without feeling the need to make an embarrassingly bad copycat version of it to promote one of their shitty new songs.

– Elisa

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New Work in New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia and DC

Just took advantage of spring break from school to travel between Baltimore, New York, Jersey City, DC and Philadelphia painting legal spots and pasting up street work. It all began with a wall behind The Woods in Williamsburg and then crossing the river to Jersey City with Dylan from the Jersey City Mural Program. Both went swimmingly besides a couple concerned police interrupting the painting session on the second night.

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The London Police in Miami

When TLP hit a wall, they do it in style and as big as they possibly can. Here’s their most recent outdoor piece, painted in Miami prior to their show at The BLDG in Louisville.

Chaz and Bob also made sure to document the process through video, so check them out in action below.

Via Unurth/Wooster Collective.

– Elisa

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New From Ethos In New York

Ethos asked me to extend the return date of his plane ticket to a week following our New York show, and I’m glad I did – here are two of the walls he finished during that time!

– Elisa

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Vertigem: Os Gêmeos in Brasilia

I have no idea why there’s been no noise anywhere about the Brasilia installment of the Vertigem show so far – everything Gustavo and Otávio do is amazing and should be promoted as widely as possible. I’ve been eagerly awaiting pictures to post since February and by the time the show opened on March 2nd, I was busy in New York prepping for our Re-Creation II show. But enough excuses: here are some pictures now, plus two short videos of the twins working on their installation.

The show is up through May 16th if you’re passing through. Let me know if you’ve been and what your thoughts are if so – I’m sure it looks great, but I’m not getting a sense from the images I’ve seen so far of how it compares to the Rio and Sao Paulo shows.

– Elisa

First image by Paulo Vergolino, others by Pablo França, who has a few more pics here.

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Vitché: One of Brazil’s (And The World’s) Best

During our prep for the show the other day, I noticed Nina and Thiago (her awesome assistant) watching a video interview with their friend, Vitché (Nina’s known him for seventeen years!) Vitché’s work epitomizes what I love about graffiti and street art, Brazilian or otherwise; it blends raw power, beauty and brilliance into urban and natural environments with total ease. Without any hint of egotism, his pieces simply feel like they were meant to be there. The video below is in Portuguese, but it shows the essential things you need to know about Vitché, including many of his great murals and sculptures. His magical personality really comes across, too.

– Elisa