Alex Pardee

http://eyesuckink.com/

This is an artist im always very fond of,  a major influence for me.  Alex Pardee is an alternative illustrator, producing work for magazines, bands and also producing work for a group called zerofriends.

Alex's work can easily be separated into two sections. His personal work and his commercial work are although similar, at the same time different from each other. his personal work tends to hold a lot more expression in colour and movement whereas his commercial work tends to have much more restrictions placed upon it. That is not to say that his commercial work is not as good as his work but is merley different in colour styling.

 Pardee's work is very organic in nature and extremely imaginative, some would say his work can be a little disturbing at times but i find it to be more interesting.  Rather than looking at his work and instantly understanding it, the unusual images force you to stop and look at what is going on.

Glug vs Paintshop Video

Director Charlie Inman has made this brilliant time lapse video. This newest clip from the director features graffiti artists Dep, Tizer, Bonzai and Lovepusher painting in the Russian Club in East London for Glug. Music by Funky DL.

David Choe

http://www.davidchoe.com/

Another video of David Choe, (as seen here) this one is less about his story and more  about his early work. nice video, sort and too the point.

Epitaph

epitaph from rowan pybus & faith47 on Vimeo.

This is a very tastefully done graffiti video, it is not like the others that tend to be fast and loud. Its obvious from the beginning this is planned well and uses some nice filters to give a good look to the video.

"epitaph is an exploration of lost spaces entered through sounds and images
to reveal the echoes of empty rooms, flakes of paint, swollen curves, fragile lines, stories hidden in the flat colors broken apart by wood and steel...

rowan pybus, faith47 and inge beckmann worked closely together to produce this short video piece...
this is the third in a series of videos that faith47 and rowan pybus have been working on."

Duncan Jago and Will Barras

http://willbarras.com/

http://www.mrjago.com/

http://www.scrawlcollective.co.uk/

Will Barras and Duncan Jago are both friends and artists, they both discovered they had talent around the same time as shown in this video. Although they have worked closly together, especially though the Scrawl collective for some time, they both have very different styles.

Will Barras Grew up in Halesowen, near Birmingham. he is highly influenced by comics and spent most of his life drawing cars. this was mostly due to his dads influence. Will now draws figures and vehicles. Generally his scenes are very fluid and full of movement. He tends to use a whole range of different media to complete his briefs. He has some interesting animations as well.

Duncan Jago is a much different artist altogether. He mostly draws disgruntled looking bio mechanoids. these are highly influenced by artists such as Futura 2000 and Japanese manga art. he was also influenced by the hip hop movement when he was young. He is not an illegal painter but often gets jobs to paint various walls. His work can can take many forms and sometimes becomes very abstract. His lines are extremely impressive and rates him as a very influential artist in my eyes.

Both artists deserve a place in anyone's archives.

RVCA's HQ

RETNA / The Mac from RVCA on Vimeo.

http://www.rvca.com/

Was browsing the internet the yesterday and found this video. I think this is one of the most impressive wall pieces I've ever seen, its a collaborative piece between RETNA and THE MAC. Its been painted onto the side of the RVCA HQ. RVCA claim to be: "Transcending the boundaries of traditional action sports apparel, RVCA is a design-driven lifestyle brand free from passing trends." not too sure what to make of them myself but I think this piece is great. Nice iconography, good photo realism, good choice of colour and i love the patterns used. All round this is a decent piece.

David Choe - An Introduction by KQED (From 2004)

http://www.davidchoe.com/

Wow quite a touching video to be honest. slightly clique d:   brilliant street artist goes to jail in a foreign prison and finds god. This shows some of David Choes work, a brilliant artist who works in a very fast and erratic manner. impressive spray work, Choes is now working in many different medias. recent work doesn't appear to be as conflicted as he was back in 2004. Great to see he has sorted himself out.

MuTATE britain

 http://mutatebritain.wordpress.com/

Mutate Britain has been going on all this month and ends soon, here is a clip from the show. all the information about it can be found on the above link. I really like the idea of this, this is the type of event that shows how graffiti/street art is changing. It is evolving into something better than it once was. Its no longer about the spray can and just covering everything you can find. instead it is an art style in its own right and uses multiple technics to present what it is showing.

Evan Roth: Digital Blackbook (Graffiti Analysis 2.0) Sessions

Graffiti Analysis 2.0 (Digital Blackbook) - BLK River (Vienna) from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

http://evan-roth.com/

This software looks pretty impressive to me, motion tracks what you are doing and then you can add effects etc on too what you are writing. think this video pretty much speaks for itself.

"Thought you might enjoy some of the pre-release footage of the Digital Blackbook (Graffiti Analysis 2.0) sessions from the BLK River Festival last week in Vienna. I'm working on developing an open data base of motion capture graffiti data from writers all over the world, should be released publicly within the next 4 weeks." Evan Roth

Amose

http://amose.free.fr/

Amose is a french graphic artist who works in his home town of Lille. He is a member of the Mercourocrom Collective along with Spher, Erone, Nada and Spear. Together they work on graffiti, illustration, screen prints and graphic design.

Amose's work takes on many forms from walls to canvas and even digital work and can be easily recognised due to his unusual human forms. small heads with tiny beady eyes and unusual perspectives. his faces seem confused and remorseful, with a feeling of loneliness. His bodies are imposing and strong and almost robotic in design yet have a very human feel to them.

 

This is an artist I find to be very inspiring, his work unique in style and has something for everyone to appreciate, with much more than what is here.

I always advise Amose to any alternative illustrator.

Bomb it: The Movie

http://www.babelgum.com

This is a documentary film on the life of graffiti, right up to modern day. standing at 1 hour 33 minutes I found this film was hard to follow at first, i wasn't too fond of the gangster taggers that dominated the first quarter. I mostly don't agree with what they say but they are also too aggressive as far as i'm concerned.

The rest of the film though presents great views and amazing pieces from every corner of the world. this includes famous artists such as Os Gemeos, Pez and Blek le Rat.

This doesn't just talk about the good points of graffiti, it also tells us the dark side of graffiti , the gang culture, the crime and even the deaths caused by graffiti.

I found this film to be a high quality, informative and certainly worth a watch to anyone interested in finding out more about graffiti.

Sweatshoppe

SWEATSHOPPE, 4spots, the landing extras from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

"Multimedia performers Sweatshoppe have been wheat pasting buildings with moving images all over New York. Mapping video projections to LED-lit paint rollers, Sweatshoppe lay their projections on a surface, paint-stroke by paint stroke. They call new digital performance style "Video Painting".

How it works: The software controlling the video was written in Max. The paint roller does not use any sort of paint, it simply contains green LEDs. The software tracks the color green and outputs the x y position which are sent to drawing commands and the strokes are textured with video.

Sweatshoppe is video artists Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw. They plan on eventually releasing the software, but only after it is much more refined, buffed up with features and is user-friendly."

Lost

I personally love my stickers and this is a brilliant example of how a simple idea can spiral into something wonderful