0331c – bird houses


0331c
: “In 2008 I wanted to make bird houses in the shape of symbols, but I hadn’t had money then to embody my idea. And finally in 2011 thanks to one festival financial support (organized in favor of Moscow parks cleanness) I managed to carry out my project.
The target of the project is to combine an interesting outlook of the birds’ houses with their practical application. In other words I wanted the birds to like it and to settle there.
All the birds’ houses are made according to the rules. I also painted it in the colours which would suit the birds. I used water basic paint.
I want to Thank: Igor Ponosov, Anya, 4 ROADS STEREO, Stas Dobry and Gred”

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0331c:” В 2008-ом году я задумывал делать скворечники в виде символов, но тогда у меня не было денег на реализацию идеи. И вот в 2011 благодаря финансовой поддержке местного фестиваля (за чистоту и экологию московских парков), мой проект реализовался.
Основной идеей проекта является не только эстетическая часть, но и практическое применение скворечников. Все скворечники сделаны по правилам, окрашены цветами способствующими к привлечению внимания птиц, краской на водной основе.
Отдельное спасибо за поддержку и помощь: Игорю Поносову, Анне, 4 ROADS STEREO, Стас Добрый, Gred.”

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TAPS & MOSES book

The book pitch:
Between 2008 & 2010 Taps & Moses painted about 1000 rolling trains within 1000 days!


A question that is always asked in graffiti-writer interviews is : which is better quality or quantity ?
Taps and Moses have clearly chosen both.

The book is very heavy : 1800g and it features on 288 pages (30x22cm) more than 800 photos.
When I check book about street-art & graffiti I must admit that I usually already know most of the photos & artists.
It was a completely different experience with this book where 99% of the photos were new to me.

The 2 german guys paint classic graffiti pieces, but also some very original and smart pieces.
You certainly saw on the net their brilliant red subway car that has one of its doors painted to another spot.

They also excel in the art of painting wholecars.

Who are Taps & Moses ?
It is said that they are two already well-known names in the train scene. It’s easy to believe, two unexperienced writers couldn’t achieve such a colossal mission.
But at the same time, to paint such a number of pieces seems so insane, that we can also think that they have been helped by friends sometimes.


It is clear that this book will be an instant classic to all train graffiti lovers. I knew many train-writers in the early nineties and for many of them, the goal to achieve was to paint 100 panels and a one-man wholecar. Taps & Moses obviously play in a different league, a category they created the International Topsprayer.

INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER
Taps & Moses
ISBN: 978-3-939566-35-9
English/German
Hardcover, 30 × 22 cm, 288 Pages.
29.9€
publikat.de

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Rhino des villes

Cherchant des livres pour mon fils dans le rayon “1ers albums” d’une Médiathèque, je suis tombé par hasard sur “Rhino des villes“. L’album date d’avril 2010.

Les rhinocéros ont été chassé des villes, un seul spécimen y vit encore, Gaëtan Dorémus illustre la présence du dernier Rhinoceros par des photos du Rhino dans la ville avec différentes techniques ( collages, craie, Légo…)

A part l’abécedaire de Michaël De Feo ( Alphabet City: Out In The Streets ) les livres “Street-art” sont tous documentaires, l’originalité de celui ci est qu’il s’adresse à un public différent.



Au début des années 2000 un Lyonnais dessinait des Rhino, j’ai d’abord cru qu’il s’agissait de la même personne, mais finalement le graphisme semble différent.



Rhino des villes
Auteur : Gaëtan Dorémus
Editeur : Autrement Jeunesse
Collection : L’imagier d’Emma
Album à partir de 3 ans
18 €uros
ISBN: 978-2-7467-1389-5
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Influenza & Son / Little Happy Men

As we all know the world is a pretty violent place for kids.

Fatherly responsible proud dad Influenza guides his son in his first steps through the world of visual language..

 

Finding his own traces back in the street as one of the few visual that aren’t commercially motivated, but just simply fun to look at:

“you know, for kids!”


miauw

 

Photo report : Influenza

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10 true Madrid shutters

A post & some photos by Miss Kaliansky:

Tomorrow, Sunday, Feb. 6, there will be a big call to paint 100 shutters downtown Madrid.

The initiative has generated much opposition from the graffiti community, because, most likely, they´ll paint over true and illegal shutters already painted. This action may cause a big graffiti riot.

BCNstyle is calling to boycott and in the website of one of the organizers, there´s a big controversy (only in Spanish)
And also because the organization makes the artist pay for their own cans.

Meanwhile, here Miss Kaliansky shows you Madrid 10 originals shutters. Some very old, that still survive. And some new ones.
All made with sincerity and without strange and hidden interests such as gentrification ….

Peace & respect

BoaMistura
La Pluma Electrik
Nano4814
3ttman

Nano4814
Piwi
RBN
Ring Hartos
Suso33
Teki e Iwana

Photos by Miss Kaliansky

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DRAN – I love my world

I LOVE MY WORLD
By Dran

Ean : 9782917409053
prix  : 15 euros

I love my world est déjà le 6ème recueil de dessins de Dran sorti chez les editions populaires.  L’humour noir de Dran parle à tous. Pas besoin d’être porté sur le graffiti pour apprécier ses dessins.

http://www.editionpopulaire.com/

et un petit bonus avec une vidéo tournée il y a 15 jours à Londres pour l’expo de Dran “I have Chalks“.

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Zonenkinder in Ukraine

Here is a report received from ZonenKinder who was invited at the Muralissimo Festival in Kiev, where they painted  with Interesni Kazki.

Actually we expected to travel to a town solely consisting of grey concrete facades. But we were positively surprised to find a beautiful city centre – even in winter. Picturesque old buildings, parks, lots of chestnut trees (it has been reported that these trees are blooming amazingly in spring time), countless orthodox churches with golden shimmering cupolas and on the inside decorated with murals of saints, the Dynamo Kiev football stadium, luxury cars of all kinds, the Bridge of Lovers, the monument to the city founders, the Parliament, painted streetcars, stray dogs crossing the streets only at green lights, the famous Rainbow-Monument, a manifestation against the recent tax increase for small businesses and a lot more can be found on a one day trip through the Ukrainian capital.

Invited by Interesni Kazki, the German Embassy and the Lavra-Gallery we took a plane and arrived in Kiev on Wednesday 23rd of November in the early morning. We met Waone and AEC the same day inside the Embassy where we were sincerely welcomed. In the evening time we went together with the Ukrainian artists to the Lavra-Gallery where we discussed about forms and colours and created a first concept together. It was a nice experience to see our thoughts and ideas grow together very easy and quickly and we had some inspiring artistically conversations with Interesni Kazki. The ensuing day we had a fine Muralissimo-Baquet with nice music, tasty hors d’oeuvres and interesting chats at the cultural attaché’s home.

After some organisational problems concerning the preparation of our wall at a children’s hospital we wanted to start painting on Friday morning (it has to be mentioned here that sunset was already at about 4 p.m. and the average temperature was about -1 to -3 degrees Celcius, our flight back to Hamburg was scheduled for Monday morning and there was a press conference to be held on Sunday afternoon). But when we got to the spot that day we had to realize that one single painter with a (very) small brush on a shaky scaffold had just started to free the wall from dust and began to coat the pretty high wall wall in white. J

So we finally started painting on Saturday. Together with the Interesni-Kazki-guys we were lucky to finish at least the fill-in before it was getting dark. The temperatures sank constantly and only thanks to the fine ginger-tea of Waone and the sweet hot drinks in thermos jugs provided by Harald we were able to finish the Mural in time before sunset without catching a cold or falling off the scaffold like icicles. In the end we were satisfied with the results and the cameras at the press conference in the afternoon were able to catch some impressions of the colorful creative teamwork with our Ukrainian friends AEC and Waone. (more…)

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Trshr in Angola

TRSHR from Odessa/Ukraine sent us photos from Angola (south-central Africa).  As we could expect there is not an actual  graffiti scene in this country. But as you will discover walls & trains are not totally clean.

According to Wikipedia: “The country is the second-largest petroleum and diamond producer in sub-Saharan Africa; however, its life expectancy and infant mortality rates are both among the worst ranked in the world.”

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