Posts tagged graffiti
ART: ECB in London – Sept. 2011 (VIDEO)
Oct 29th
German graffiti and street artist Hendrik “ECB” Beikirch at work in London. Nice.
ART: ‘See No Evil’ – Bristol 2011 (VIDEO)
Oct 19th
A documentary short looking at ‘See No Evil and the rise of the global street art movement.
Europe’s largest street art installation transformed Nelson Street in Central Bristol into a massive outdoor art gallery.
The documentary features interviews with some of the 72 artists involved including Inkie, Tats Cru, El Mac, Nick Walker, Shoe, Xenz, China Mike and Paris. Over the course of a week the artists used over 13,400 cans of spray paint to create huge murals, up to 10 stories high. More >
ART: Beijing Street Art (798 Art Zone)
Aug 15th
While in Beijing I had the opportunity to visit District 798 and capture some shots of local street art and graffiti. 798 Art Zone, or Dashanzi Art District, is a part of Dashanzi in the Chaoyang District of Beijing that houses a thriving artistic community, among 50-year old decommissioned military factory buildings.
The Dashanzi factory complex began as an extension of the “Socialist Unification Plan” of military-industrial cooperation between the Soviet Union and the newly formed People’s Republic of China. The complex was vacated at around the time when most of Beijing’s contemporary artist community was looking for a new home. Avant-garde art being frowned upon by the government, the community had traditionally existed on the fringes of the city.
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ART: What Weekly – The Story of CEDA&DUME (VIDEO)
Jul 4th
What Weekly presents the story of CEDA and DUME. An exclusive interview with two of Baltimore’s most prolific graffiti writers, directed and produced by Justin Nethercut.
