For 3 years it has been the Inspiration Art Exhibition, but this year it is a festival! INSPIRATION ART FESTIVAL will be taking over a massive abandoned building in central Tel Aviv. Live music, painting, and workshop for 3 days just a few blocks from the Mediterranean Sea.

They’re calling out for artists to apply to paint at the event, apply if you can get there.

For more info, see the festival website here:

1) Visit www.inspirationartfestival.tk

2) Once you’ve read this year’s festival details, send them a contact email through the site’s “contact us” link or write to inspirecollective@gmail.com

3) Download The Inspiration Art Festival Entry Form, fill it out, and include it with your art.

Festival entry mailing address is provided on site as well.

ENTRIES ARE TO BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN: JULY 31st, 2010

We’ll keep you up to date with the entries as they come through!

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I first came across ID-IOM when they were selling their art, they’ve got some pretty sick stencils and graffiti-inspired pieces for sale on there (UK & Worldwide), I wanted to know more so here’s a bit of an interview with them!

WG – Where do you come from and where do/did you write?

ID-IOM – We are brothers (SHOLTO & HUGO) originally from the Isle of Man but now living in South London, UK. We use mainly stencils, paste-ups and artwork drops in our street work which we’ll put up pretty much wherever we like. It’s usually best to find somewhere so the piece has some kind of context or, failing that, somewhere high traffic or even perhaps somewhere you can take your time. It’s particularly fun if you are on your travels. Most of our work is up and around London but when we have the chance to leave we always take a few spraycans and paste ups with us.

Tel Aviv, Israel

Check out these awesome Nonoloa graffiti and urban art tshirts…

WG – So what first got you into graffiti?

ID-IOM – We originally started doing t-shirts for nights out when we were students, then moved on to canvas and eventually out on to the street. I think we used to look around at some of the low grade graf and think either ‘that’s crap’ or ‘i could do better’. Whether or not ours is any better is, of course, open to debate but we generally try and put at least a little thought into what we are doing.

WG – What names do you use when you write?

ID-IOM – ID-IOM or perhaps JIM. It depends on how naughty we are being!!

WG – What graff artists out there do you admire or take influence from?

ID-IOM – There are plenty of people doing solid work. I’m interested in all forms of street art whether it be sculpture, graf, stencils, wheatpaste, etc. Graffiti Research Labs do some interesting work and Conor Harrington is very talented too.

Amy Winehouse favourite quote

WG – How long have you been doing your stencil art?

ID-IOM – As i said before we started doing t-shirt designs about 5 years ago and have just progressed from there. It’s taken a bit of time but neither of us are trained in any form of art.

WG – What influences your artwork?

ID-IOM – Music, pop culture, things you hear on the bus, books. We get our influences from pretty much anywhere and everywhere, it just depends if we can think of something to do with what we’ve come across.

WG – From looking at your website, you’re both pretty ambitious – what’s the ultimate goal?

ID-IOM – It would be nice to take over the world, or die trying.

WG – What do you think of the urban art scene at the moment?

ID-IOM – I think its lost some of it’s sparkle but there is still a lot of good stuff out there, you just have to look a little harder to find the real gems. I’m definitely down with the more experimental stuff, the mixing of mediums and the like but if it’s a good idea it doesn’t matter how its produced I suppose.

WG – What are your favourite type of trainers?

SHOLTO – I’ve got a bad-ass pair of customised black Nike Air Force One‘s that are pretty sweet.

HUGO - I really like just plain white trainers, my favourite at the minute are a pair of Puma El Ray.

Cheers very much to the guys for taking the time to chat, you can see ID-IOM’s work for sale on Ebay, or check out their website, got some goodness on there. They also have a Flickr which is packed to the nuts with their paste-ups, stencil art and studio work too…

Have a look at this previous Old Street London urban art post.

Check out these awesome Nonoloa graffiti and urban art tshirts…

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Guest post by Jerry (find him on twitter).

This time round we’re taking a look at graffiti art inspired by video gaming, rather than graffiti actually in the game play (see part 1). We’ll pull out some more in-game shots for a 3rd post next time!

Mario, Sonic, Donkey Kong…

Montreal Mario graffiti – and Luigi Vuitton (in small white letters):

A menacing Mario. Location: Unknown.

Mario mushroom graffiti that popped up in Be’er-Sheva, Israel:

Bo-bombs spotted in Philadelphia, style!!! Could make a good wallpaper…

Crash Bandicoot and Sonic graffiti – this one comes from the Bronx, New York – I always preferred Mario though…

San Francisco’s SoMa area shows off Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Pacman ghosts, you name it!

Check out these awesome Nonoloa graffiti and urban art tshirts…

Another Donkey Kong one! Kinky Kong from Granada, Spain.

Video game graffiti – Space Invader from Lille, France

Consoles & Graffiti

Great stuff, personalised case/ face plate for the ol’ Xbox 360, we need more of these!

Wii graffiti – a student at Bauhas University (Weimar, Germany) made this prototype for the Wii:

Sony PSP graffiti - back in 2005, Sony started adding some graffiti to promote their PlayStation Portable. Apparently Sony paid owners of buildings a fee to ‘advertise’. Locations included NYC, LA, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

It became interesting when the people revolted, some good examples:

Huge thanks to:

http://www.woostercollective.com (legendary street art site)

http://geekadelphia.com/ (really cool site for Philly but got loads of generally interesting goodness, check it!)

Peter N for the Lille photo

http://www.kotaku.com

http://durhamregion.typepad.com/pressing_buttons/2007/09/index.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/genex/2396067983/

http://kin37ik.deviantart.com/art/Graffiti-on-Xbox-360-WIP-2-123320941 – Damn sick XBOX customised, I want one!!!

http://www.slipperybrick.com/2008/06/wiispray-wiimote-becomes-graffiti-spray-can/

http://teknology.bloggum.com/yazilar/tag/wii/

http://www.joystiq.com/

Check out the previous graffiti video game post! Also, I’ve added a new ARCHIVES section to the site, have a play and check out World Graffiti’s older posts, there is loads of good stuff in there. Somewhere.

Check out these awesome Nonoloa graffiti and urban art tshirts…

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