New show opening at Nomuffin in Aarhus, Denmark Friday 6th of November 2009 called Music For The Deaf by Jess Lykkegaard Jensen. Jess is one of the best new artists coming from a graffiti background in Jutland and he will have a show of canvas done with spray, markers and acrylic and other mixed media. Check out the Facebook event here.

Reuters reports from Beijing where young graffiti artists use derelict buildings as their canvas to share their take on the world.

Read more books – Read – Reader… Easy readable graffiti seen all over Cleveland, so much that a TV station tried to investigate it, check the video below and read more here.

And have a nice weekend…

A nice Mode 2 timelapse from the Mutate Britain project.

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The danish rightwing goverment is in the news today, promising to clean the 50 busiest trainstations in the country for graffiti in 2010 for a budget of 9 million kroner (1.2 million eu). The article quotes the Minister of Transportation, Lars Barfoed of The Conservative party, with the follwoing: “All graffiti and streetart done illegally is a lack of respect for other peoples property and shows a lack of moral”. Here at ILG we can only smile when the goverment starts talking about lack of moral…
Read the whole thing in danish here.
And read the whole thing in english here.

New issue of the french magazine Innercity out now, Wild Boys from Naples on the cover infront of their Write4Gold wall in Roma 2009, check the preview after the bounce.
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The big norweigan newspaper Dagbladet went to Fornebu, Norway with the rappers Aslak and Don Martin from Gatas Parlament to check out the gigantic Foscrew piece. Check out the video here!

Great art by great artists

Fos Crew goes gigantic on a broken down airfield in Norway! Over 260 meters long! More than 250 liters of paint used, for the outline alone! It says: Can you see us… FOSCREW… from outer space?
Could this be the biggest piece on the Earth right now after Saber and MTA got buffed out of the LA River? If you know of any bigger piece somewhere, please send photos of it to ILG at welovegraffiti(a)gmail.com

More photos here and here and here and here.