Graf artist RIME of the legendary graffiti crew TheSeventhLetter teams up with Zoo York to produce a new series of skate decks. RIME utilizes his unique bold lettering style to illustrate seven decks for Zoo York pros Zered Bassett, Brandon Westgate, Aaron Suski, Chaz Ortiz, Eli Reed, Forrest Kirby and Ron Deily. Promotional video below, plus […]
High end graffiti paint manufacturer Clash have teamed up with Italian brand IUTER to create the ultimate bomber hoodie, especially made for the graf writer who wants to stay real undercover (and which ones don’t?). The hoodie features several hidden pockets custom-built to stash all the nefarious tools of a graf bomber’s trade. There are […]
Barcelona-based graffiti supply/paint company MTN teams up with Ron English for a very limited edition set of collectible spray cans. Featuring a well-uddered minotaur cowgirl on the cans brandishing double pistols, the airbrush canisters come packaged in wooden box and will be limited to only 500 pieces. Known for his adbusting pieces — where he […]
At the recent TED x Talks this past June in Bloomington, Indiana, the duo behind the highly influential Wooster Collective — Marc and Sara Schiller — discuss the positive effect that street art has on urban centers, whether blighted or not. A hotly contested issue pitting those who find street art offensive graffiti versus those […]
Art In the Streets is kind of a funny name for an exhibit that all happens inside the pricey, heavily guarded, air-conditioned walls of a museum. Obviously this art isn’t in the streets at all. Doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. It’s in the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, in downtown Los Angeles, with […]
French street artist and photographer Ozkar Gorgias celebrated his 12 years of graffiti artistry by photographing all the sneakers he wore while creating his art. Each sneaker represents one of those dozen years spent jumping fences, scaling walls and climbing bridges, and the work can be found above (a larger shot in the gallery below). […]
A peek into the art of train writing in Berlin, Unlike U: Trainwriting In Berlin tells the true behind-the-scenes story of underground graf writing in Berlin — specifically, their obsession with focusing on trains. Sure we’ve shown videos where kids bombed an entire train in 3 minutes (damn!), but this documentary by Henrik Regel & […]
Adding another graffiti-focused book to his resume, Roger Gastman’s latest, Tools of Criminal Mischief, might just be his best published anthology yet. The book is a project he tackled to follow the history of graffiti and its writers throughout the century, starting as far back as the 1940’s with hobo train art, carrying through 1970’s […]