Legendary Graffiti Bomber MQ…
Legendary Graffiti Bomber MQ…
Graff bomber MQ is notorious for his brash style and the sheer volume of his work on the streets. For over a decade, the New York City-born artist has made his name in the graffiti world by being fearless and staying true to street culture.
Now, for the first time, MQs style is being applied to new canvases and some tshirts and other stuff. A sick MTN can too! Buy them here…
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.
New York, USA Paste-up art - Keith Haring NY Tribute
New York, USA Paste-up art - McCain
COPE2 Graffiti Art – Fresh Gallery Photos
COPE2 Graffiti Art – Fresh Gallery Photos
Back to work, ugh. But some art always helps!
COPE2 has been around for while, people seem to love him or hate him and that can’t be a bad thing for a notorious writer.
Big bubble letters are our favourite so this is a great set of pics for us to see and a decent video of COPE2 stuff. You can buy them too, if you want a bit of graffiti history and have a whole bunch of spare cash.
Here are a few from the curbandstoops.com Interactive Gallery, nice.
Jamel Shabazz Urban Photographer – New Video Interview
Jamel Shabazz Urban Photographer Video Interview
Got something a bit different from the usual today, it’s not urban art with paint but urban photography by New York legend Jamel Shabazz…
Jamal Shabazz New York Photography New York
Brooklyn native Jamel Shabazz’s images of 1980’s New York’s culture have made him an iconic contemporary photographer. He has been included in numerous publications, authored three monographs including the classic Back in the Days, and his photographs have been displayed in major cities throughout Europe and North America.
Jamal Shabazz New York Photography New York
In this video, Ricky Powell films the opening reception of a Shabazz exhibition in New York. Watch the interview from “Dithers,” available for the first time to the public for free, on Walrus TV.
Jamel Shabazz has been documenting the ‘Urban Life’ for over 30 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY he picked up his first camera at the age of 15 and proceeded to record the world around him.
Shabazz has drawn inspiration from the great James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks, Robert Capa, Chester Higgins and Eli Reed. He’s the author of 3 Monographs Back in the Days, The Last Sunday in June and A Time Before Crack, Jamel is presently working on his fourth book, entitled The 90’s.
Here is another Walrus TV interview with Rock Steady Crew legendary urban artist Doze Green.
DOZE GREEN Interview on Walrus TV – New York Graffiti Artist
DOZE GREEN Interview on Walrus TV – New York Graffiti Artist
The peeps at Upper Playground and Walrus TV have got a great new interview with New York graffiti legend Doze Green (an original member of the Rock Steady Crew), it’s well worth a watch to hear the thoughts of a pioneering old skool graff writer…
They sent over a bunch of info too, here they go!
Doze Green merges influences from his East Coast graffiti and b-boy background with a painting style he refined on the West Coast. The resulting artwork is complex and intensely symbolic, serving as a means of both social commentary and self-awareness.
Doze Green Urban Art - San Francisco - Click for more sick San Fran graff...
His interest in the duality of the human condition is reflected throughout his pieces. Doze Green’s work has been displayed in cities across Europe, Japan, Australia, and the United States. Watch the interview, on Walrus TV (actually, got the YouTube vid below).
Doze Green was born and raised in New York City. He is an original member of the infamous Rock Steady Crew. He is a pioneer of Hip Hop Culture and a Graff Legend – the King of Character’s. Over the years, Doze Green’s paintings have progressed from the streets and into galleries. In the same spirit of graffiti they tell the stories of the oppressed which continue to be largely untold.
Doze Green - Panguerra (2004)
His art career began on the walls and eventually the trains of NYC in 1974. By the mid 1980’s he was exhibiting his work in art spaces such as the OK Harris Gallery, Tony Shafrazi Gallery and the Fun Gallery. Doze Green’s work is in many public and private collections throughout the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia.
Doze Green Graffiti Artist - Rock Steady Crew
Here is the DOZE GREEN interview presented by Walrus TV. They have lots of other artist interviews too, check out the page.
Who are Upper Playground?
Based in San Francisco, CA, Upper Playground is the leader in today’s progressive art movement with its innovative apparel and accessories line and art galleries. Since 1999, Upper Playground has been recognized as a catalyst for the fusion of fashion with fine art.
UP apparel and accessories are designed by local and international artists including Sam Flores, Jeremy Fish, Estevan Oriol, David Choe, and Alex Pardee. The Upper Playground collection is sold in over 300 boutiques worldwide and online. In addition, Upper Playground has stores and galleries in San Francisco, Berkeley, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, New York, and London.
You should check out Doze Green’s website too, it’s great and it’s full of loads of Doze Green art from years back…
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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!
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Sao Paulo, Brazil Pixacao Tags
‘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.
Pixador graff artist climbs billboard - Sau Paulo, Brazil
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.
MICKEY - Holland (Amsterdam) Graffiti Art
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.
ICE - South Africa Graffiti
Blek le Rat interview - France Stencil and Paste-Up Art
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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NycArtsCypher Graffiti Classes Event – Staten Island, New York – USA
NycArtsCypher Graffiti Classes Event – Staten Island, New York – USA
NycArtsCypher is a non-profit organization that caters to the arts & entertainment world. They provide artists with an environment that positively promotes their work and this Saturday they are hosting a blackbook party to launch their graffiti classes.
Go support them if you’re in the area (Staten Island, New York), looks like a wicked event, do a class or just check out all the art going on. Here is the site too, got some vids of past events, nice.
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MERES graffiti interview – New York Graff at 5 Pointz
MERES Interview – New York Graffiti, USA
It’s Friday, o yes. So here is a vid.
It’s an interesting short graff video, an interview with NY graff hero MERES, talking about the legendary painting spot 5 Pointz Queens in New York. Shows some spectacular graffiti art from International artists who travel to 5 Pointz to paint.
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Next week will be an interesting one, I’m putting together a World Graffiti Top 100 images sort of thing… There are so many great photos scattered over the site now so I thought I’d pick my favourites and put them into one place!
It won’t be definitive and I’m sure I’ll miss some cool graff but hopefully it’ll have some pics you may not have seen before, even if you’re a regular reader.
We’ll also have a feature on JONS from Sao Paulo, Brazil. He does some pretty exciting and really unique urban painting, looking forward to it!
Come follow me on Twitter (@worldgraffiti and @streetartists), I put all types of graff and street art related stuff on there, loads of other things too. I’m considering a Facebook Fan page too but I’m not sure if it’s worth the effort really.
Does anyone really look at Facebook Fan pages?
Have a great weekend people!
Pi Stencil Artist – Putin Stencils in New York 2009
Pi Stencil Artist – Putin Stencils popping up all over NY 2009
These Putin stencils by artist Pi have been popping up around New York, in Brooklyn and the City.
Great looking stencils I reckon, thanks very much to Heather C for sending the photos and locations over.
They’re from Bushwick and Pearl Paint… Heather also noticed one near the Sculpture Park in Queens.
Pi Stencil Art - Putin art New York, USA
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Pi Stencil Art - Putin art New York, USA - Pearl Paint
Thanks again to Heather C for the photos!
Take a look this past selection of New York urban art.
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