Last monday , London graff bomber OKER GSD was convicted for Graffiti offences and is currently serving a 2 year sentence...
Pure Evil gallery is trying to help out by raising some money for his family, and they have 2 new OKER prints available...Check them out HERE.
The new Robocop remake is well under way and here are some leaked concept art images. The movie stars Gary Oldman & Samuel L Jackson and due to me being a huge fan of Robocop, I have high expectations for this film....
The London Vandal recently did a nice post of ThrowUps/Dubs from around the globe...and before any of you start saying 'whatevs', have a think about it. If bubble letters are so 'easy' to do then how can you make it look better than others? It's definitely harder to come up with beautiful and orginal simple letterforms than coming up with a super over-styled colourful mash of colours and wild style....
Lars from ilovegraffiti.de has come up with a brilliant list of his top 100 graffiti-based Instagram accounts.. check out the list on his post!
Buddy was born and raised in Collingswood, New Jersey. He was a Latch-Key Kid during the birth of cable TV. This led to endless hours in front of the television, watching movies and drawing. He gravitated toward strange cult and horror films. As a skateboarder in the late 80’s and early 90’s, he was exposed to Punk, Indie, and Heavy Metal music. In 1997, after the birth of his son, Buddy decided to teach himself to paint. In 1999, he traveled around the world on an aircraft carrier and painted every day....
I have learned today that the OG Funk and style master Tvrbo has sadly passed on to higher plains. This guy was not only one of the finest and most colorful of painters, character and style king but also a really lovely humble guy. His pieces and approach to walls were second to none putting him at the top of my list for influential writers. His absence will leave a hole and without a doubt he will be sorely missed. Big up Tvrbo may you continue to rip in paradise, our thoughts go out to his family and friends in this sad time. To celebrate ...Read more
I am really feeling the work of German streetartists, LOWBROS right now. Their geometric-looking wolves and foxes stick out so much from the huge pool of character artists out there....
Aidin Salsabili is a 3d artist based in Iran. These are images from his 2 year project of the book cover design for The Shahnameh/The Book of Kings.
The Shahnameh or Shah-nama "The Book of Kings" is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c.977 and 1010 AD and is the national epic of Iran and related societies. Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of (Greater) Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conq...Read more
"21st Century Contemporary Art"