SPRAYCITY – Wien S-Bahn Rolling Part 2 from spraycity on Vimeo.

Malmø biggest public housing group MBK is opening up for graffiti on selected parts of their property in order to make the areas a better place to live and reduce vandalism. Read more about this new project in these two swedish articles here and here.

Paragraffen got a big collection of Copenhagen graffiti canvas up on their website right here.
Check out a few samples below, from Ken20, Bates, Dae, Mesk and Clean.

ILoveGraffiti presents: Interview wih Keith Baugh, the author of the upcoming book: Early New York Subway Graffiti 1973 to 1975.

ILG: Please introduce yourself.

Hi, I’m Keith Baugh – a painter and photographer living in rural Gloucestershire, England. Thanks for the opportunity to talk to you about my soon to be published book ‘Early New York Subway Graffiti 1973-1975: Photographs from Harlem, South Bronx, Times Square & Coney Island’.

ILG: Where are the photos from?

I took this series of Subway Graffiti photographs in New York City during the summers of 1973 and 1975 whilst on vacation in America. Initially, I intended to photograph roadside ephemera including advertising signs, neon and billboards alongside classic American cars as source material for a series of paintings – some examples of these early paintings can still be seen on www.keithbaugh.com

Read the rest of the interview and see photos and video after the bounce
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Check out this fresh video with Lee where he talks about the different trainlines in NYC back in the days and also touches upon graffiti as an artform…

Check out the new website from Spar One right here.

Shame, Sak and Set rolling…

“The book, a massive volume of more than 400 pages, has been conceived as an imaginary newspaper. The chronicles it contains have not been penned by real journalists or narrators, but by people who define themselves as ‘writers’.”

We blogged about the All City Writers book here at ILG in July and now the preview from this upcoming book have been released. The book contains 410 pages with 1230 photos, 50 graphics and over 250 involed in the making. The book should be available later in 2009, check more fresh previews after the bounce.

“The first part of the research analyzes how graffiti in media such as movies, videos, magazines, and books from New York influenced Europe. When images of the New York subway arrived in London, Paris, Munich and Amsterdam, a huge milestone was set: a first generation of European graffiti writers started to follow the letters, the method, the techniques, and the general lifestyle of New York in the 70s.”

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8 packed minutes of maximum steel painting, this video is way above 99% of the pack, check out BeMad and Nakz in Copenhagen, Poland, Berlin and Ruhr with fresh 2009 actions…

The best boys from Chile, Inti and Hes, took a big tour of Europe this summer, visiting many countries, doing exhibitons, painting at jams and festivals and burning with their flavorfull graffiti everywhere. Check out their website here and check out their bloggin about the tour here. Below is a fresh video from their tour, enjoy!