I was contacted recently by Alberto Boido, an Italian graffiti aficionado who recently launched the great online project ‘Old Walls’ documenting the life of walls in Milan the 90s, and comparing them to the current incarnations. As a young boy of 12 in his home town of Milan, he told me how he used to ride his … Continue reading »
We spent last weekend in, arguably, the best city for street art in Europe. If there’s ever a city that never fails to disappoint, it’s Berlin. We took so many photos it’s taken some time just to look through them. Over the next few days we’ll post up the most interesting here. Let us know … Continue reading »
Another batch of pictures from the recent trip east to Berlin. In this set there’s a mix of classic murals from Blu, and highly visible work from Kripoe (right in Alexanderplatz), mixed in with Karl Addison’s Llamas installation on Manteuffelstrasse, a sellection of the prolific Prost, and a bold female piece from Alice. Let us … Continue reading »
Blu has finished another wall in Buenos Aires with a social/political commentary on the money from huge developments worldwide, with houses and countryside being swallowed up by the oncoming river of money from the burst banks of capitalism. Perhaps there’s a focus on South America to coincide with the recent announcement that Brazil overtook the UK as the … Continue reading »
Buenos Aires was treated to yet another masterpiece from Blu recently, this time portraying a world apparently disintegrating with humans flying out into orbit. It’s been suggested by Buenos Aires Street Art that this may be a commentary from Blu on the world’s exponential population growth, which recently topped the 7 billion mark. Al Gore … Continue reading »
As this is the first full month that we’ve completed, it’s probably a good idea to keep track every so often of our favourite and most popular posts over the course of the month. So here’s September in 5 posts… Matthias Makarinus released his incredible time lapse video entitled ‘Berlin Dynamic’. Some pretty impressive content, … Continue reading »
This was a mural painted by Blu way back at the start of Cityleaks festival. Great timelapse video of his mural at Cologne’s Hansaring. Really love these time lapse videos of murals in progress, gives a great idea of the way the artist pieces together the whole picture. Enjoy! UKB Continue reading »
On the run up to FAME festival 2011 in Grottaglie, Italy (more on this later), Italian street art legend Blu has been busy ‘warming up’ in Valencia, as these photos from his blog show. According to Blu’s blog, and the photographic evidence, this wall was painted without the normal mural-painting aids. No scaffolding. No lifts. … Continue reading »
