Banksy Filmed Painting Live For Exclusive Sunday Times Magazine Cover
Banksy Filmed Painting Live For Exclusive Sunday Times Magazine Cover
So everyone has heard about the new Banksy film by now, ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’, well he did an interview for the English Newspaper Magazine ‘The Sunday Times’ at the end of February 2010. They filmed him paint an exclusive chimp stencil for their cover and featured a pretty interesting interview with the man (done remotely of course…). Have a look…

Banksy Sunday Times Magazine Exclusive Cover - February 2010
Train Graffiti North West London – Euston to Watford, Richmond to Victoria – MOREEEE
Train Graffiti North West London – Euston to Watford, Richmond to Victoria – MOREEEE
Not in the country at the moment so posts may be a little patchy this week… We’ll be back next week with some great stuff though, including an exclusive INKIE interview, nice.
But – Here are some shots from the camera phone on the train, a bunch of random bombs.


New ID-IOM Stencil Art Video – Wet Manx Cat
New ID-IOM Stencil Art Video – Wet Kitten
Here is a new vid from ID-IOM, a wet Manx cat. It’s a bit of a different style to some of their other stencils, looks great!

North London Graffiti and Urban Art – Old Street
North London Graffiti and Urban Art – Old Street
I put a lot of graffiti and urban art from around Old Street and Shoreditch, London, but that’s because there is always loads of new stuff going up. Go have a look around if you’re in the city… There are some Sweet Toof photos here, and a few good looking INVADER too.
Also check out the suit of armour! Awesome.


Upfest Urban Art Festival 2010 – Worldwide Artists Register Now!
Upfest Urban Art Festival 2010 – Worldwide Artists Register Now!
From today the Upfest website will go live for artist registrations for Upfest’10 – ‘The Urban Paint Festival’ 2010, they’re open to artists from anywhere in the world.
It’s an awesome urban art event that has been going for a few years now, come and paint live at the event or sell your work! Or just come and have a look, it’s the best urban art event in the UK so you shouldn’t miss it.
It’s on the 5th and 6th of June in Bristol, UK.

Sweet Toof and Burning Candy Huge Graffiti Wall
Sweet Toof and Burning Candy Huge Graffiti Wall
Another great piece from Sweet Toof and the Burning Candy crew, looks sick! Been up for a while but I’ve not had a chance to go see it till now…
You can watch an interview here with Sweet Toof talking us through the piece.


Wildstyle Graffiti In London, Near Old Street
Wildstyle Graffiti In London, Near Old Street
I saw this wildstyle in London, on Great Eastern Street (near Old Street), seems to be on the side of a building for a printer cartridge company Sustain.com. There are 5 pieces around the building, they’ve got the same taste in colours as us…


Some New Urban Art In Cargo Club, London
Some New Urban Art In Cargo Club, London
Ok so some of it’s not new but I’ve not been there for a while. There is a C215 piece and one that look very much like Blu but can’t be totally sure. There is also the big OBEY wall, looks great.
Cargo Club is near Old Street, well worth a look in.


Cargo Club, London Urban Art And Graffiti - OBEY
More From the World Graffiti Phones – London 100%
I didn’t get the chance to leave the country for a while but I’ve been running around London loads so here is what been seen on my travels. It’s another World Graffiti phone clear out.
Loads of these are taken from moving trains (one of the few places that bombing is still going strong is on the side of railway tracks here in the UK). It makes the boring journey great, here are some from 2010.


Jodie H Shows World Graffiti Art, UK, New York, France
Jodie H Shows World Graffiti Art, UK, New York, France
Jodie has been busting around the world for what seems like forever, and she’s taken some great photos of graffiti and street art along the way. She said we could post some of them for the rest of you to see, which is nice of her.
We’re especially feeling the paste ups from New York, great stuff, and there are some shots from Birmingham (UK), and Paris too.
Static Interview – Stencil, Print, Graffiti and Sticker Art
Interview with Tom & Craig aka Static – Stencil, Print, Graffiti and Sticker Art
World Graffiti got the chance to speak to the Static lads at the recent Art Republic street art competition, so I asked them a few questions…
Street and Urban Art at Art Republic Gallery, London
Street and Urban Art at Art Republic Gallery, London
Art Republic had an event to announce the winner of their latest competition (interview with the winner to come soon!), I took a look into the gallery before going to the event. Here are some of their current pieces for sale, it’s a cool place to look around…

D*Face - 'It Feels So Good'
Grant DeJonge Wins the 2010 Art Republic StreetSmart Street Art Competition
Grant DeJonge Wins the 2010 Art Republic StreetSmart Street Art Competition
The Art Republic announced the winner of their 2010 street art competition at an event in London in January, and World Graffiti was there to see Brighton based artist Grant DeJonge take the crown with his piece ‘Lost’.
He gets to have a limited edition print sold by Art Republic, with a proportion from each sale going to homeless charities like StreetSmart.
Preparations have begun to transform a 2 storey-wall into an original work of art. The wall kindly donated by myhotels has been prepped, and the winning image will serve as a reminder of the UK homeless situation when it is unveiled on Brighton’s Jubilee Street on Friday 5th February.
The next location is in Covent Garden, London where the image will be painstakingly reproduced onto a 4-storey building.
Check out the winning image…
ID-IOM New Stencil Video from Show at Metro, Clapham (London)
ID-IOM New Stencil Video from Show at Metro, Clapham (London)
The ID-IOM lads have put together this video of them doing their latest stencil art at Metro, in Clapham (London). It’s a Manx cat in a tank! No Tail No Fail.
Looks great, they have a pretty unique style I reckon. Check out this previous interview World Graffiti did with them, and this other large London stencil piece from the Isle of Man artists.
AZID Interview & NSA CREW Graffiti Art from Liverpool, UK -Awesome Style
AZID Interview & NSA CREW Graffiti Art from Liverpool, UK -Awesome Style
I’m pretty excited about the post today, got a great bunch of graffiti photos from AZID and the NSA Crew, and an interview with AZID too. I’m loving the wildstyle and the colours, We’ll bring you more NSA Crew when we can. I reckon their photos are really well taken too, moody skies and great locations.
Exclusive Banksy Exhibition, UK – Original Stencil Art Sold- Sneak Look October 2009…
Exclusive Banksy Exhibition, UK – Original Stencil Art Sold- Sneak Look October 2009…
I was a lucky lad on Monday (big shout to James W for sorting it!) and got the chance to go to a private Banksy exhibition and sale in London at a members-only club deeeeeeeep in the ground.
We weren’t allowed to take photos so apologies for the poor quality of the pics, but it ain’t easy to be subtle with a bloody huge camera phone so I did my best to shoot what I could!
It was great to see the art in the flesh instead of just prints, and there were a couple there I’ve never seen pics of before so that was pretty cool. I’d say it was about as far away from the ethos of graffiti art as it could possibly be, big money and plush surroundings…
As an added bonus there was art from Nick Walker, a friend of Banksy’s I believe. He is known for the men in suits and bowler hats, here is a Nick Walker ‘Vandal’ piece from New York. I actually prefer him to Banksy, bit more colour and less in your face political commenting.
But anyway, here are the pics, I took a note of some of the prices of the originals too in case you’ve ever wondered how much an original Banksy can cost….

Banksy Grim Reaper Original Print - Stencil Art - This was one of the few prints at the exhibition £11,000 ($17,000)
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Original Banksy Stencil Art - Rat and Saw (2002) - Paint, on board - £150,000 ($225,000). Yup, that's a lot...
So there you go. Got a few other posts on Banksy, and here is a collection of my Top 50 graffiti and urban art photos from 2009…
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Awesome Old Street London Urban Art – NETTA & More
Awesome Old Street London Urban Art – NETTA & More
Got an absolute monster of a post for you today, loads of different urban art in London, around the Old Street area. I do a lot of posts with graffiti, stencil art and paste-ups from around Old Street, but it’s because there is always fresh stuff around…
There is a huge piece by NETTA, check out the Netta blog! There is also a nice SPACE INVADER mosaic too, not seen this one before that was a decent surprise.
There are also some cool bits of paste-up art, and the last building art looks amazing…
- Old Street Urban Art – Space Invader Mosaic
- London Old Street, Stencil Art – EYESORE
- London Old Street, Stencil Art
- London Old Street, Stencil Art
- London Old Street, Stencil Art
- London Old Street, Stencil Art – Stencil Art is Highly Addictive
- London Old Street, Stencil Art – Eyesore
- London Old Street, Stencil Art – STIX
- London Old Street, Urban Art – Skull Mask
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- Old Street, London Street Art
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Paste-Up and Crows Stencil Art
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art – NETTA
- London Old Street, Urban Art
- London Old Street, Paste-up
- London Old Street, Urban Art – This was just amazing…
- London Old Street, Urban Art
- London Old Street, Urban Art
- London Old Street, Urban Art
- London Old Street, Urban Art – Paste-up
Here is more great urban art from Old Street, London.
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Bomb IT Graffiti Documentary – Interview with Jon Reiss – Watch Full Doc Now!
Bomb IT Graffiti Documentary – Interview with Jon Reiss – Watch Full Doc Now!
‘Bomb IT’ is a new graffiti and urban art documentary from director Jon Reiss, it looks at a broad range of urban art from the likes of Brazil’s Os Gemeos, COPE2 from NY, stencil legend Blek le Rat and a load more legends from all over the world.
World Graffiti Urban Art has an interview with Jon Reiss, the trailers to the movie and the links to watch the ‘BOMB IT’ Graffiti Documentary totally free on Babelgum.com, see below. Really, it’s free and it’s AWESOME!
It’s one of the best graffiti and urban art documentary films we’ve seen, covering exciting graff scenes from as far as South Africa and Brazil. The Brazil coverage is particularly facinating, as they follow pixador artists around Sao Paulo and meet a sewer artist who reveals some pretty heart-breaking scenes.
The doc is also full of some of the sickest new and old urban art around and even the most hardcore writer will learn something new about the different graffiti scenes around the world.
The full-length documentary, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has screened at over 20 other festivals including Full Frame Doc Fest, is available to watch on Babelgum’s Metropolis Channel, which is dedicated to showcasing videos about art, urban culture and trends.
Named one of Daily Variety’s “Ten Digital Directors To Watch” John Reiss’s BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action following the movement as it paints the globe from Paris to Sao Paolo and Los Angeles to Cape Town. Featuring old school legends and current favorites such as Taki 183, Cornbread, Stay High 149, T-Kid, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revs, Os Gemeos, KET, Chino, Shepard Fairey, Revok, and Mear One. This cutting edge documentary tracks down today’s most innovative and pervasive street artists as they battle for control over the urban visual landscape.
Check out the trailers below, and an interview with the director Jon Reiss as he talks to World Graffiti about the making of the documentary.
Bomb It: Trailer – No. 1
Q : so how did you hook up with Cornbread? You agree that he’s the first graff writer?
A: We already had at the time a very good relationship with Pose 2 who in turn introduced us to Cornbread. He is one of the first modern graff writers – Cornbread even refers to a freeway writer who was working in the 50s. But for me graff goes back to the birth of human consciousness.
People have been wanting to write on walls since that had something to write with and on! It will continue until we kill ourselves off. Go to Italy – even though there are a lot of writers there – much of the graff in the streets is either political or amourous. People need to express themselves in public.
Q: How long did it take to make the documentary?
A: Started 5 years ago – Bomb IT took three years but its been 2 years in the distribution. The project is expanding not only with the episodes on Babelgum, but we will eventually cut 4-6 more films from our 400 hours of footage. Bomb IT: Sao Paulo is 1/2 way done. NY and LA are in progress.
Bomb It: Urban Trailer – No. 2
Q: Most interesting/weirdest featured artist?
A: Never going to pick favorites – you should know that – all the others will be hating on me.
Q: The gang world and graff world are intertwined in many people’s minds, can the 2 be separated? Do you think the gang connection made by the general public hurts the urban art scene?
A: The link between gangs and graff is mostly established by the media. Even the NYC Vandal Squad laughs at the concept that writers are in gangs. However there are stronger links between gangs and graff in a couple of cities – like LA where some writers have done some things that help the media in their cause to link the two – unfortunately. Education is the best bet – part of the reason I made Bomb It, so that people could understand and appreciate the many many faces of graff.
Q: What’s your favourite graffiti decade? 70s 80s etc?
A: NOW!
Q: Tell me a bit about you, you always been into graff?
A: Nope. Fell into it – a DJ from my film Better Living Through Circuitry introduced me to Sharp and 2ESAE on a trip to NY. Two things hooked me in those meeting – the intelligence and depth of the culture, and the nocturnal run that 2EASE took me out on.
Q: Whats your opinion of the ‘broken window’ theory, that graff leads ultimately to more crime & urban decay?
A: I think my opinion is reflected in the film. As Tkid says “whose quality of life?”.
Q: What was your favourite part of making a documentary like this?
A: Getting people to appreciate a culture that they used to hate.
Bomb It: Worldwide Trailer – No. 3
Q: it was cool you went to Cape Town, great to see some African writers, not usually featured in docs. Totally different style of writing too, you liked it there?
A: Cape Town is amazing! Love it – really generous people.
Q: Do you find yourself looking around for art when you walk around?
A: All the time. Once you start – you can’t stop.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FULL GRAFFITI DOCUMENTARY ‘BOMB IT!’ FREE ON BABELGUM.COM!
You can also watch clips from the film, find your favourite artists…
Thanks very much to Jon for answering my questions, go check out the film, I can’t recommend it enough.
In addition to premiering the full-length documentary film online, Babelgum is debuting exclusive shorts produced for Babelgum by director John Reiss. The pieces spotlight renowned graffiti artists both new and as seen in the film available to view now.
Here are more graffiti videos on World-Graffiti.com.
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Old Street London Graffiti & Stencil Art 2009
Old Street London Graffiti & Stencil Art 2009
Here is a selection of London graffiti from around Old Street (North-ish London), one from Kew Bridge (South London) and a couple of shop shutters in Angel (North London).
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009 – OBAE
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009 – OBAE
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009 – OBAE
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009 – STET
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009 TDO
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009 – DREAR
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009 – STET
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009 – FS
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009
- London Old Street Graffiti, 2009 – OBAE
- London Moorgate Graffiti, 2009
- South London. Kew Bridge Station Graffiti, 2009
- North London, Angel Islington Graffiti, 2009
- North London, Angel Islington Graffiti, 2009
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Got about a million posts of North London graff, here is some Old Street graffiti, got a bit more London graff over there too.
50 Awesome World Graffiti Urban Art Photos – Part 2
50 Awesome World Graffiti Urban Art Photos – Part 2
A little time ago I posted my top 50 awesome graffiti pics from the site, here is part 2 as promised! It’s a collection of graffiti, stencil and poster art taken from the various posts in 2009 so far from places like San Francisco, London, Sao Paulo and more.
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- Xcolor Exhibition, Mito, Japan – sent in by OIVAE
- Old Street, London, UK
- Old Street, London, UK
- Old Street, London, UK – DOME
- Old Street, London, UK
- Old Street, London, UK
- Old Street, London, UK – URBAN NERDS
- New York, USA – Pi (Putin Stencil)
- Reading, UK
- Reading, UK
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – sent in by Renato A
- San Francisco, USA – ORFN
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- Mission District, San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- San Francisco, USA
- Granada, Spain
- Granada, Spain
- Granada, Spain
- Granada, Spain
- Granada, Spain
- Granada, Spain
- Granada, Spain
- Berne to Zurich, Switzerland
- Berne to Zurich, Switzerland
- Grindalwald, Switzerland
- Sydney, Australia – sent in by @DefHi
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) – UBIK & CHROMA
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) – UBIK collab
- San Francisco, USA
- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland)
- Watford (nr. London), UK – The Boom Bus
- Watford (nr. London), UK – The Boom Bus
- Old Street, London, UK – SWEET TOOF
- London, UK
- Berne to Zurich, Switzerland
- Xcolor Exhibition, Mito, Japan – sent in by OIVAE
- Xcolor Exhibition, Mito, Japan – sent in by OIVAE
- Xcolor Exhibition, Mito, Japan – sent in by OIVAE
- Xcolor Exhibition, Mito, Japan – sent in by OIVAE
Thanks to @DefHi, Heather C, OIVAE, GUI, Bret McNee (Riot For Quiet), Pete N, Sara SN.
ID-IOM Fresh London Street Art – Stencil – Chance Street
ID-IOM Fresh London Street Art – Stencil – Chance Street
The ID-IOM lads sent this new stencil/street art they did, looks great! It’s on Chance Street, in the East End of London, UK.
Find the location in Google Street Maps, enter – Chance St, Tower Hamlets, London E2, United Kingdom. Check out the Street View and look at the User Photos (top right corner), there are some other gems there too.
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You can see more of ID-IOM’s art and an interview with the guys in this previous post, and check out their site www.id-iom.com and there’s more of their art on their flickr too…
Graffiti in Marbella, Spain and UK – Art by OBEY and More…
Graffiti in Marbella, Spain and London, UK – Art by OBEY and More…
Got a random mix today, a few bits of graffiti from Spain and London/Watford …
Thanks to Karen for sending this great pic from Marbella, Spain.

Graffiti from Marbella, Spain
A couple of photos from Watford, UK – Bomb from CLAME and a weird headless piece on an old chimney stack next to the A41, kind of hidden.
Here are some nice looking photos I took in London, outside and inside Cargo club, some odd ones next to the club and an EINE piece, ‘Scary’.
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Here is a great previous post of graffiti artwork by JONS from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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New Reading, UK Graffiti 2009
New Reading Graffiti, UK
Here are a few bits of Reading graffiti, they’re over the fence next to the Rising Sun Arts Centre/club near the Oracle roundabout and around there. Nothing particularly great but worth a look i think. The ‘Tree’ tag is the best.
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Here are some other graffiti photos from Reading, Brighton and more… Tomorrow we’ll be bringing you the first 50 of a World Graffiti Urban Art Top 100 Awesome Photos. Yup I know, great title, took a while to come up with it.







































































































































































































