Skewville has just relaunched their website. The new site shows ten years of work from examples of the classic Skewville sneaker to art painted just this summer. Mixed in with all the images is a bit of Skewville history. Check out the site at www.skewville.org
Elate is one of my favorite writers in London. In fact, he’s probably my favorite London writer who doesn’t paint characters or have some sort of logo. He showed up with the Chrome and Black shop/crew, and new there something new from him on Sclater Street or Brick Lane every other week.
This is a new collaboration between Elate and Tizer (also very talented).
And this is my all time favorite piece of graffiti or street art on Brick Lane:
Looks like the long running Booker piece at the Bat Cave has finally been painted over.
“The old power station near the corner of 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue has lost its message. As per the bottom photo above, last year the top of the building had been tagged “No More Corporate Bullshit! Fuk Wall St.” The building was one of the parcels in the area bought by developers for a would-be project called “Gowanus Village.” GMAP
Bottom pic by letsgetridofny”
Via Brownstoner
Graffiti is more than just pointless vandalism, and if you ever needed proof of that, it has arrived. The EyeWriter, a project put together with help from Graffiti Research Lab and a variety of other awesome sources, is helping people with ALS create visual art. Using a combination of GRL’s Mobile Broadcast Unit (the thing that lets them project live graffiti on large buildings) and a specially modified pair of eyeglasses, the EyeWriter allows people to draw with their eyes. Their first tester, TEMPT, is a graffiti writer who is completely paralyzed except for his eyes.
The result of all their labor can finally be seen, as Tempt writes his first tag in years:
TEMPT + EYEWRITER August 12, 2009 from james powderly on Vimeo.
Check out more on F.A.T.’s website
Got this kind of confusing press release in my inbox today. For what I’ve been able to gather, there is a new London art gallery opening next month in Kings Cross. The Writers Bench is a gallery for graffiti. Their first show will be a solo show with Cept called “A Frozen Explosion.” That show opens on September 3rd and runs for most of the month. For me, Cept’s gallery work can be hit or miss (my preference being his superhero work, not so much the purely text-based paintings or the Zodiac series), but I do like it when I think it works, so I’m curious to see what he’s got in store. And with a show title like “A Frozen Explosion,” I think it’s safe to say we can see cool pieces like this:
Imminent Diaster just put up this new piece out in Williamsburg. This spot has had quite a history with this wonderful and consistent artist. Throughout the months, Imminent Disaster’s piece, which was recently featured in the Street/Studio exhibition, has ben dissed, repainted, and redissed by the writer Omar. After this exhausting back and forth it seems as if Disaster has finally made an entirely new addition to the wall. I do love how the old narrative peaks through the new design. Here is a little overview of this spot.Photos by Jake Dobkin and Over Under
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How’s this blog post for voyuerism ?
Repainted but dissed again. A little challenge on the side that retorts, “Start Piecin and stop Hatin”
These are very cool. They are the ceramic sculptures Ericailcane has made specially for FAME Fest. (Check out his cool prints here.)
And this is very uncool. The people who control the wall above had given Ericailcane permission to paint a mural on it. Soon after he began, they changed their minds. As Angelo so eloquently puts it, “We were pissed as never before.” Me too.
The London Police have been making a comeback this year, and their next stop is Carmichael Gallery in Los Angeles. I don’t know if The London Police getting better or I’m just warming up to their style, but their work in Amsterdam and some of these works-in-progress for a show at Carmichael Gallery are looking pretty cool.
“Brothers In Arms,” The London Police’s solo exhibition at Carmichael Gallery opens September 10th, and Dan Baldwin has a solo show opening in Carmichael Gallery on the 10th as well.
Looks like this could be the latest Banksy piece, captured by Romanywg in Westbourne Park, London. It hasn’t been confirmed as a Banksy yet by his own website or anything, but street art authorities are calling a Banksy, the style fits and there is a similar sketch in his show at The Bristol Museum, so I think it’s a safe bet.
Zorro is an interesting subject for Banksy to paint, as NoLionsInEngland has noted on WallKandy: “Zorro defended peasants from the tyrannical authority of officials and aristocrats, as ‘does’ Banksy; Zorro was the alter-ego of a knight or some kind of aristocrat, and certain newspapers seem convinced that Banksy is/was a mild-mannered public school poshie.”
Photos by Romanywg
