Often found hanging from power lines or melding with urban architecture, Above's site specific stencils, paintings, and installations push past the traditional expectations of graffiti. The evolution of his name from text to a symbol inspired him to explore less conventional media, leading to his trademark wooden mobiles. Whether subtle or massive, his pieces retain an innate sense of beauty through their dialogue with the surrounding environment. Refusing to show his work in galleries, Above has instead "toured" through Europe and North and South America to get his work up. Watch the interview from "The Run Up," available for the first time to the public for free, on Walrus TV.
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. In this feature, 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.
Street art and MINI have a lot in common. Both are an urban phenomenon, both are part of metropolitan streets.
MINI Germany has invited the New Yorker street artist Craig KR Costello to come to Hamburg and design a MINI.
KRINK is the name of his brand, that stands for highest Quality markers and ink (KR-INK) and has a great reputation among street artists as well as designers worldwide.
The typical style of KRINK, the so-called KRINK dripping ink aesthetics can now be seen on a black MINI Cooper S.
Os Gêmeos (The Twins) are a pair of identical twins graffiti of São Paulo, born in 1974, whose real names are Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo. Formed in communication design at the School of the State Technical Carlos Campos, began painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became one of the most important influences on the local scene, helping to define a ,Brazilian style of graffiti.
The work of the two are present in different cities of the United States, England, Germany, Greece, Cuba, among other countries. Topics range from family portraits to social and political criticism, the style was formed by both traditional and hip hop by graffiti.
On May 22, 2008, executed the painting of the façade of Tate Modern in London for the exhibition Street Art, along with Brazilian graffiti artist ever, the group Faile from New York, JR from Paris, Blu, Italy; and Sixeart, Barcelona
SpY, a Spanish street artist, has been creating urban art since the late 1980’s. He calls his pieces “interventions”, and is considered by many a kind of spanish Banksy. His intervention pictured above is called, “Street Wars”.
This was seen on Hannity's talk show on the Fox News channel on 10/28/09 in direct response to Saber's participation and success in Barack Obama's Health Care Reform Video Challenge. The original video can be seen in it's entirety on www.barackobama.com
This video was edited by Kevin Chapados at JetSet Graffiti Productions
Mr. Jago and Will Barras met while working as telemarketers. Their love of doodling and disdain for their job was fodder for a budding friendship that provided a foundation for their art careers. Soon after they began illustrating, their fluid drawings were featured in Scrawl, Dirty Graphics and Strange Characters, a book that featured UK artists. They started getting work from the exposure they received from Scrawl, and started Scrawl Collective, an agency that has worked with Swatch, Sony Music, Nike, Puma, Burton Snow Boards, Boxfresh, Levis, Addict, and Virgin Mobile. Watch the interview from The Run Up, available for the first time to the public for free, on Walrus TV.
