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

The NYSAT Project

http://www.publicadcampaign.com/

The New York Steet Advertising Takeover has very strong views on the illegal advertising that is plastered up in the middle of city centers. They take it upon themselves to cover up and replace such adverts with original pieces of artwork. I like this project for two reasons, one, this has a very strong spirit about it that stands tall with it morals held high. Also the project is well executed with decent artists helping out to replace the advertising.

I will be keeping a close eye on this campaign.

Mike Perry

Jim Stoten and Mike Perry For Dwell Magazine from Michael Perry on Vimeo.

http://www.mikeperrystudio.com

Mike Perry is personally one of my favourite illustrators, his style has elements of naivety to it and can feel very raw, yet there is a very clean feel to it by means of colour and finish. This is portrayed by how he uses his hand drawn wobbly lines and spruces them up digitally. Every piece he produces holds his fingerprint.


I purchased one of his books named "Hand Job", this contains a collection of hand drawn typography from many artists such as: Kindra Murphy, Holly Hopkinson, Luke Ramsey, Stefan Marx and many more. What makes this book appealing is that all of the artists have very different styles, giving you different perceptions on typography. I have constantly used this book for inspiration with hand drawing my fonts, it contains everything in it you could ask for. It is quite a large book at 256 pages and amazingly cheap for it's size (currenlty £14.39 on amazon, time of post).

Mike Perry is another top artist I would highly recommend to anyone delving into illustration and his book is brilliant for hand drawn typography.

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.