*Sniff*.. Aaaahhh I love the smell of a fresh book, and the book that I have before me might be even fresher than those little pine-trees you hang from your rear-view mirror: Monokrome Volume two – ‘The world’s best graffiti in full kolour’. Created by Robert Whitelock and Aaron Munday, the second edition of Monokrome contains work from artists worldwide: ALERT, AMATIC, ASKE, ASKER, AWOL CREW, AZEK, BATES, CODAK, CAZYAPES CREW, DOES, EAZ1, ELSE, ESTRAI, HUSH, INKFETISH, JABA, JEROO, KOFIE, LIK, LOOMIT, MR.WANY, NICK…Read More »
This weekend I was invited to NuArt Festival in Stavanger, Norway. For a small city with only 130,000 residents the amount of street art is awesome. The city discovered large amounts of oil that led to rapid growth from the 1970s onwards. Consequently, the city is very wealthy and, despite a conservative attitude towards graffiti, thanks to the ongoing efforts of NuArt’s organisers (including the magnanimous Martyn Reed), the city opens its arms to artists each year to paint the otherwise bland walls.
This year…Read More »
Since five years this small Italian town called Grottaglie has become a paradise for street art. There are artworks to be found on big walls and small walls. From artists such as Blu, Conor Harrington, Ericailcane, Os Gemeos, Escif and Vhils. It is Angelo Milano who started to invite artists to paint and to organize a group art show. He calls it Fame Festival. You can refer Fame to the fifteen minutes of fame, but also is it the Italian word for ‘hunger’.
For the…Read More »
Our good friends from Globalstreetart.com delivered us another amazing interview, this time with Inkfetish from the UK. Not totally coincedental, Inkfetish also has a show coming up organized by Global Street art. Check out more info here or here.
Tom ‘Inkfetish’ Blackford has been painting on the streets for over a decade. Evidently inspired by Japanese comics, he has a dark sense of humour that permeates many of his characters. We catch up with him as…Read More »
UK based artist Tom French has been responsible for some of the most jaw-dropping art works I’ve seen in a while! His skulls, at first look, are beautiful oil paintings. Give them a second look and you’ll disocover that there’s a whole new level to these skulls which are actually made up out of people. I think it’s this combination of skill, cleverness and emotions that defines the artist Tom French. A combination you’ll also find in his other series of artworks; It’s all…Read More »
For the last two years I’ve had the pleasure to do a few collaborations with Denmark based artist Don John.
The style of Don John is very strong and has what I call ‘that special trademark’ that makes his whole work so attractive to the eye and creates a deep impact to the soul.
They are like pieces straight out from a dream; some kind of surreal and oniric tales where their subjects are full of magnetism and strength, yet they ooze a beautiful blend of…Read More »
I am a 25 year old film-maker and photographer, from London, I shoot on a Canon 5 and 7D with Canon /Zeiss and Leica glass. I studied Film at the London College of Printing.
call and response.
My approach is to talk, I noticed a few years ago that the more I interacted with the people I was shooting, the more they let go. They stop posing because I wanted to know about them even it isn’t always a comfortable experience. It can be exhausting both shooting and…Read More »
Last year we posted the 2010 documentary about the Street Art Communications festival taking place in KOŠICE, Slovakia. This year we received some amazing footage (both pics and video) of the Street Art Communication festival 2011. The documentary they’ve made of the 2011 edition of the festival in Eastern Europe is of great quality and contains some interesting words from the writers themselves.
From the makers: “Two years prior to Košice becoming…Read More »
Our good friends from Globalstreetart.com delivered us another amazing interview, this time with one of the most amazing writers from Portugal, Mr.Dheo. We’ll publish some more interviews from globalstreetart.com every once in a while, as they’ve got quality stuff that you guys should be checking out as well! Don’t dorget to check out their facebook and twitter as well!
Mr. Dheo is one of Portugal’s best know graffiti writers, hailing from Portugal’s…Read More »
We’ve been doing this CFYE for quite a while now and sometimes I realize that we haven’t featured loads of artists that we’ve been following from the get go. Luckily they haven’t forgotten about us and every once in a while we get a message from people that we’ve been admiring since our creative rebirth. One of these impressive artists we’ve been watching since years is UK based graffiti artist ESKA. He has a curved yet sharp 3d style which he applies with much…Read More »