Russell King Street Art New York

Russell King is a New York based street artist.

More street art from NYC can be seen here.

Stockholm Street Art

Street Art Stockholm

Local Wall

NEXT, a Primer on Urban Painting

From my Home town, Toowoomba, Qld Australia. July 2009.

I just watched the film Next: A Primer on Urban Painting.



A global culture movement. Living not consuming.



“NEXT, a Primer on Urban Painting” is a documentary exploration of a phenomenon that was born on the streets of American cities and has come to influence youth culture all over the world. Combining verite visual moments and interviews with painters, journalists, collectors, sociologists, DJ’s, art critics and other participants within the subculture, the film will convey the dynamism and creative brilliance of this important emerging artistic movement.



and meanwhile in Sao Paulo:



and, the unseen beauty of tagging

Graffiti Analysis 2.0: Digital Blackbook from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

Remediating Banksy

Now..this is cool. (Quicktime 2.9MB)
More Info From DigitalUrban

Graffiti Art Goes Digital

Is it still considered graffiti if it doesn't stick to a wall? Scottish scientists have created a program for mobile phones that allows users to uncover virtual artworks posted around their city. Unveiled at the Siggraph computer-graphics show in San Diego, the technology, called Spellbinder, operates using image-matching algorithms. As the title suggests, the graffiti is invisible to the naked eye. When a digital image of a building is sent via MMS to a special server, “powerful image-matching algorithms” determine which building it is and send back an image with a bunch of added digital content - the “graffiti.” NYC street-art group Graffiti Research Lab has been running its own experiments with digital graffiti.

Blu

This image is taken from the blog BLU, which is part of blublu. I found this site after seeing some grafitti that said "Paint your own town" and then had URL at the bottom of the page. It seems to be the site of a nomadic street artist who also makes animation and books. Really some amazing stuff!!

Council Apolagises for Destroying Grafitti

What a difference a Los Angeles show and £100 000 makes in the life of a graffiti artist:

When council cleaners spotted graffiti 24 hours before the official opening of a new London square, they enthusiastically removed every trace of the offending drawings.
Unfortunately, the two stencils they wiped out were drawn by Banksy, the subversive artist. One of his works fetched more than £100,000 in auction at Sotheby’s this week.
To make matters worse, the street cleaners did not deem the graffiti worthy of being photographed before destruction, as is their usual policy. Nor did they seek permission from the building’s owners. The council has now admitted its blunder and apologised.

The Times

From the can of Banksy:

Graffiti Research Lab

The Graffiti Research Lab is dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artists and protestors with open source tools for urban communication. The goal of the G.R.L. is to technologically empower individuals to creatively alter and reclaim their surroundings from commercial and corporate culture. G.R.L. agents are currently working in the lab and in the field to develop and test a range of experimental technologies for the state-of-the-art graffiti writer.This site documents those efforts with video documentation and DIY instructions for each project.