We recently came across a certain gentleman in our shuttercrack group, turns out he's a respected member of the Pistoleers. A mystic bond dating back from times when camera's where the sizes of small houses and flashes where mad out of fireballs. At least that is what we've been told, if it's true who will know. But we're eager to find out, so we wrote sir Petrucci a letter to enlighten us.

"You can't just rely on the idiosyncrasies of film as a cheap crutch to make good pictures, it doesn't work that way."

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• interview
• james kendall
• lomokev
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November 7th we had the honor to have an international crew of street artist collaborating to create the legendary CFYE wall. Among this crew was the amazing Indigo from Vancouver. It was a joy just to see her paint and she left quite an impression on us. Her calm and relaxed attitude (or maybe just compared to the rest of the crew, you know who you are!) which, in combination with her artwork, makes you realize that still waters run deep. Her stencilling has only just begun and she is already well on her way to become one of the great. But she's not limited to stencil art..or anything for that matters. She's a dancer, writer, photographer, poet and more. In other words, a full-time-multi-talent!

On Crack for your Ears we recently featured the new release of Riton & Seji, turns out Joe Lea is the one responsible for this superb video clip. Joe Lea is a traditional 2d animation and Illustrator who is based and works in London (UK). He's been in the animation industry for 2 years and have recently gone freelance. We had a quick chat with him and turns out he's not your average Joe (okay that was lame...)

At the beginning of 2009 I saw this young lady crawling, climbing, ducking and performing other cool gymnastics moves on stage that I wish my body could do. After figuring out she was not part of the horrible venue's back up dancers, but was operating a camera like there was no tomorrow, I knew this could be something special. Rosa Maria Koolhoven works under the name of Nikanika.com. She lives in Utrecht and is in her final year of Graphic Design at the HKU High School of Arts Utrecht. During weekends she likes to take pictures at parties, of which 80% are dubstep parties.

If there's one street artist that didn't stop amazing us in 2009, it's C215 aka Christian Guemy. The Parisian stencil artist with an undeniable unique cutting style has been a busy bee the past year! With many trips, shows, a forced pause by meningitis, collaborations and amazing work after work C215 has grown visibly. And if that wasn't enough Christian turned the neighborhood he resides in (Vitry-sur-seine) into a real street art gallery, inviting some of his favorite artists to paint the streets along side of him.

Overall 2009 showed amazing works of C215. His style evolved greatly, but he also had a few copycats along the way and even someone stealing one of his pieces right of the streets. Recently we started a series of articles dedicated on the year 2009 of C215. Enough reason to ask the man himself how he experienced 2009 and what he will be up to in 2010!

Last year, C215 told us about Adi Sened, aka Kufsened from Tel Aviv, Israel. Adi Sened creates Kufsonim: Small, (self) expressive geometrical figures which roam the streets of Tel Aviv. Next to these, he also practices sculpturing and uses all kinds of other media like bottle caps to make his art. His work speaks to us, so it was about time we'd speak to him. Here's the interview with Adi Sened

Like I often say, there is a big sea of street artists, and especially stencil artists out there at the moment. Some market themselves like crazy, others just hope their talents get them noticed, and some don't even care if they get noticed and just do what they love. Puddeneen just does what he loves. From Braunschweig, Germany and Just 20 years old, he's not planning to quit his day job and does his thing with no pressure at all. Making most of his stencils of his own sketches, the fun and originality can be seen in his work, and we think he has quite the potential! Such talent must be shared.

Not so long ago my friend Ivesone told me to keep an eye out for the young and talented Roy Schreuder. Roy is from the northern part of Holland, where they basically speak another language, rock wooden shoes and don't know what a Tram is (okay not totally true, but I'm trying to paint a picture here). There's a sick graff scene out there , but a non-existent street art scene except for Roy. Even though he's quite alone in his practice of street art up north he does well, really well! Actually, since I've been following his work I dare to say that you too should be keeping track of this guy because he has the talent and ambition to rise up from the overwhelming sea of street artists out there.

Born in 1979 Sander Meisner is an Amsterdam based photographer, specialized in medium format film photography using long exposures and found artificial light. He photographs the urban contemporary landscape. Sander Meisner is a night walker, venturing out into the city discovering colorful beauty in the desolate corners of the gray man made structures. He exposes the sleeping infrastructure of the urban environment. Gifted with a feeling for composition and detail, Sander is turning these usually overlooked corners into objects of desire. The lack of light and extremely long exposure of the photographic film add a secondary effect; any interaction of human movement becomes totally invisible. Therefore, his pictures make us wonder what of this beauty will remain if human life would suddenly disappear. How long will infrastructure last when not regularly maintained and when will nature take over?

I first met [X] and 999" this past spring during a backstage stenciling session at the closing party for the Vinyl Factory exhibit in Rome, where you'll see below they sprayed everything from records to serving trays. I figured it only fitting that for my first contribution to CFYE I turn the spotlight on them, as they’re both participating in the Unholy Grail exhibit opening Friday. They're just two of a number of talented artists from Termoli, a small town on Italy's Adriatic coast, which strangely seems to churn out quite a bit of talent. Here's what I found out about them (translated from original Italian).