http://cfye.com Street art, graffiti, photography, music and independent film Sun, 20 May 2012 08:11:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://cfye.com/djalouz-extraordinary-6245 http://cfye.com/djalouz-extraordinary-6245#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:11:56 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=6245 French graffiti artists have been setting the bar for quite a while. While we in the Netherlands have a tradition of readable graffiti or abstract, France artists embraced the wild style and embraced it as their own. One of my personal favourite artists and a prime example of mind-blowing French graffiti is Parisian artist Dja’louz.  [...]]]> http://cfye.com/djalouz-extraordinary-6245/feed 0 http://cfye.com/base-elements-gallery-barcelona-6235 http://cfye.com/base-elements-gallery-barcelona-6235#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 17:06:26 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=6235 Barcelona is a magical city and one of the favourite CFYE destinations in Europe. From the amazingly relaxed squares in the Gracia barrio to the immensely crowded Ramblas area, it all has its charm. Of course, there’s another reason why we like Barcelona, and that’s the immense amount of graffiti and outside art you can [...]]]> http://cfye.com/base-elements-gallery-barcelona-6235/feed 2 http://cfye.com/global-street-art-6218 http://cfye.com/global-street-art-6218#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 10:13:49 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=6218 Not too long ago I got in touch with the Amazing Lee Bofkin, founder of Global Street Art. Lee has travelled half this globe and took pictures of every piece of graffiti and street art he could find out there. He has a database with 10.000′s of street art pictures from Rio de Janeiro to [...]]]> http://cfye.com/global-street-art-6218/feed 0 http://cfye.com/alice-pasquini-cinderella-pissed-me-off-6194 http://cfye.com/alice-pasquini-cinderella-pissed-me-off-6194#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 10:15:15 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=6194 The amazing Alice Pasquini has been awing us since we first laid eyes on her works. The Italian artist has a strong style with clear topics; everyday life with a focus on femininity. It only has been a year or so since we’ve heard from her but it seems like her work skyrocketed both on [...]]]> http://cfye.com/alice-pasquini-cinderella-pissed-me-off-6194/feed 0 http://cfye.com/anne-barlinckhoff-x-laser-3-14-6151 http://cfye.com/anne-barlinckhoff-x-laser-3-14-6151#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:54:30 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=6151 Conceptual / documentary photographer Anne Barlinckhoff is a young, raw and energetic talent based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For her latest series she worked together with one of my favourite and most elusive street artists in Amsterdam: Laser 3.14. The poetic writings of Laser are to be found all over the city and his solo-shows [...]]]> http://cfye.com/anne-barlinckhoff-x-laser-3-14-6151/feed 0 http://cfye.com/above-blood-diamond-6135 http://cfye.com/above-blood-diamond-6135#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:45:52 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=6135 World-citizen and international street-artist Above never fails to get our attention. Over the years we came to learn that Above is far more than the arrow pointing upwards; he also points his arrows at the crazy mishaps taking place on this globe, and on a global scale. During his current stay in South-Africa he has [...]]]> http://cfye.com/above-blood-diamond-6135/feed 0 http://cfye.com/mto-douce-france-6122 http://cfye.com/mto-douce-france-6122#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:30:12 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=6122 Berlin based, French bred graffiti artist MTO has published an old series in the lights of the French elections of 2012. These paintings that should’ve been part of a larger series never saw the light of day due to a collaboration halt. The topics are as relevant as ever though. Police brutality against Roma’s is [...]]]> http://cfye.com/mto-douce-france-6122/feed 0 http://cfye.com/florian-riviere-urban-hacktivist-6088 http://cfye.com/florian-riviere-urban-hacktivist-6088#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:12:03 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=6088 You have to love today’s generation. Growing up with daily site hacks and ddos attacks by anon and other groups, we all know we can take matters into our own hands with ease. So why not apply this to real-time situations and our urban environment? That’s what Florian Riviere must’ve thought when he first started [...]]]> http://cfye.com/florian-riviere-urban-hacktivist-6088/feed 0 http://cfye.com/c215-prophets-6013 http://cfye.com/c215-prophets-6013#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:38:20 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=6013 Christian Guemy aka C215 never fails to impress with his new leaps through art. His newest exhibition, ‘Prophets’ takes place in a sacred 17th century Parisian church: Saint-Louis de la Salpétrière. In his own words the show calls for ‘religious tolerance and oecumenism (a movement promoting union between religions)’. But it’s not the message that [...]]]> http://cfye.com/c215-prophets-6013/feed 0 http://cfye.com/10-years-of-lastplak-5996 http://cfye.com/10-years-of-lastplak-5996#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:22:44 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5996 The infamous Lastplak collective has been making the streets a better place for over ten years! To celebrate, the team of artists have released a book with ten years of Lastplak. The book perfectly illustrates how immensely productive this Rotterdam based team of artist has been: 320 pages covering from 2001 up to 2011! All [...]]]> http://cfye.com/10-years-of-lastplak-5996/feed 3 http://cfye.com/a-catch-up-with-bustart-5920 http://cfye.com/a-catch-up-with-bustart-5920#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:57:05 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5920 Swiss born street artist Bustart is inseparably connected to the starting of CFYE. In 2006 – 2008 Kaymir and I roamed the streets of our hometown Amsterdam taking pictures of the tons of stickers, stencils, paste-ups and installations that were out here. Through Flickr we discovered that half of these were the works of Bustart [...]]]> http://cfye.com/a-catch-up-with-bustart-5920/feed 0 http://cfye.com/gantz5-not-only-but-also-5873 http://cfye.com/gantz5-not-only-but-also-5873#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:02:44 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5873 We haven’t featured too much Asian graffiti yet, but I’m hoping that is changing as we’re getting more and more contacts in the far-east countries. Just recently we received an e-mail from the Gantz5 graffiti crew from Macau. Macua, located in South-East China was, the oldest European colony in China untill handed over in 1999. [...]]]> http://cfye.com/gantz5-not-only-but-also-5873/feed 0 http://cfye.com/a-small-catch-up-with-a1one-5850 http://cfye.com/a-small-catch-up-with-a1one-5850#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:29:54 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5850 Mad love for our friend A1one! The artist from Tehran, Iran is a pioneer in Persian graffiti and street art. He’s a true mixed media artist and creates work from ‘traditional’ graffiti, calligraphy / caligraffiti to stickers and stencils. His style seems to be a unique combination of heritage, isolation and skills. Since the last [...]]]> http://cfye.com/a-small-catch-up-with-a1one-5850/feed 0 http://cfye.com/as-the-crow-flies-exhibiton-5806 http://cfye.com/as-the-crow-flies-exhibiton-5806#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:20:27 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5806 http://cfye.com/as-the-crow-flies-exhibiton-5806/feed 0 http://cfye.com/catching-up-with-priest-5789 http://cfye.com/catching-up-with-priest-5789#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:56:35 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5789 It’s been a while since we had a talk with our friend Priest!  The southern US based street artist has kept himself quite busy since we’ve last interviewed him and never fails to stir some controversy with one thing or the other. Priest is one of the most genuine artists we’ve got to know, so [...]]]> http://cfye.com/catching-up-with-priest-5789/feed 0 http://cfye.com/bikini-lines-painting-the-cactus-dome-5773 http://cfye.com/bikini-lines-painting-the-cactus-dome-5773#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:33:22 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5773 Creating the worlds largest painting on a 100,000-square-foot concrete dome covering up radioactive debri on an island in the great pacific, funded and executed by crowdsourcing. That’s the Bikini lines project which sprung from the dome of Christian Forrestell, living in Tokyo. In his search for obscure places Christian stubmled upon the Cactus Dome on [...]]]> http://cfye.com/bikini-lines-painting-the-cactus-dome-5773/feed 7 http://cfye.com/there-is-something-fishy-about-gijs-vanhee-5150 http://cfye.com/there-is-something-fishy-about-gijs-vanhee-5150#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:03:42 +0000 Bjørn http://cfye.com/?p=5150 Since Gijs Vanhee is really kicking some nautical ass over in Belgium (click these or those underlined bits of text for some top notch examples), we felt the urge to have a little chat with the captain himself. Sketches, murals and canvases; apparently you have quite some creative energy to be released. When did Gijs [...]]]> http://cfye.com/there-is-something-fishy-about-gijs-vanhee-5150/feed 0 http://cfye.com/lee-bofkin-smoking-monkeys-5720 http://cfye.com/lee-bofkin-smoking-monkeys-5720#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:26:56 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5720 London-based photographer Lee Bofkin has captured and classified over 50,000 pieces of street art and graffiti from 20 countries around the World, which are being released online as the Global Street Art archive at www.globalstreetart.com in the coming months. In the meantime Global Street Art is posting selected unpublished images from the archive every day. [...]]]> http://cfye.com/lee-bofkin-smoking-monkeys-5720/feed 0 http://cfye.com/cfye-x-id-iom-5579 http://cfye.com/cfye-x-id-iom-5579#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:17:45 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5579 I’ve been a long-time fan of UK street art duo Id-iom, consisting out of brothers Hugo and Sholto. My girlfriend Monika was actually the one that ‘discovered’ them, being crazy about their  ‘Tammy in a Tank print‘ in 2009. We’ve kept an eye on them ever since and I think it’s safe to say that [...]]]> http://cfye.com/cfye-x-id-iom-5579/feed 0 http://cfye.com/ella-and-pitr-the-paper-painters-5417 http://cfye.com/ella-and-pitr-the-paper-painters-5417#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:00:13 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5417 French street artists Ella & Pitr have the most romantic story! She used to be a comedian, he a graffiti writer. They met each other in the streets of St. Etienne (France) while doing paste-ups. Now isn’t that just lovely coincidence? Their street art works consistst out of paste-ups that are subtile, yet hold a [...]]]> http://cfye.com/ella-and-pitr-the-paper-painters-5417/feed 0