Two articles about the current situation of graffiti on the freeways of Los Angeles.
According to new numbers, 7.622.234 square feet of graffiti were removed from along freeways in the district last year, costing 2.7 million dollars. Read about it here.

A longer article tells about the story and state of the official murals done in Los Angeles before the Olympics in 1984. How lots of money are being spent to preserve them, while unofficial murals and graffiti are being buffed at a big cost, read all about it here.

Copenhagens premiere oldschool crew, the Toys Crew, are already busy in 2009 with a few walls and short video!

You can see Toys Crew live in action at the Danish Qualification of Write4Gold on May 16th in Nykøbing Falster!

None other than the UKs top media, the BBC, are getting down with the young people and publishing a Graffiti Do’s and Dont’s! My favorite was this one:
“Do – speak to local graffiti clubs to find out where they have permission to do graffiti.”
Anyone heard of a local graffiti club? Please send us info if you have…
Read the whole thing here.
And check out another positive graffiti video coming from the BBC, about a legal project in Birmingham we previously covered on ILG here.

Interview with Alex Fakso, italian photographer of train graffiti and author of the Heavy Metal book.

The book about train graffiti, full of action shots and atmosphere photography, is called Heavy Metal, see two fresh trailers for the book below here and buy the Heavy Metal book right here.

The highly anticipated debut album from Balstyrko is dropping tonight and there is a big release party at Vega in Copenhagen, Denmark. Balstyrko is the allstar lineup of Ane Trolle (Trolle//Siebenhaar & Trentemøller), Blæs Bukki (Malk De Koijn & Bikstok Røgsystem) and Ormen on a musical adventure, dont miss this one…

Here is a Can2 visual overdose, a video trilogy featuring his works around the world. all videos after the jump

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Lots of new steel from Belgium, Holland and France on this nice blog.

Very nice video from MTV featuring the whole Tats crew doing their thing, interviews, live painting and mirrored throwups.

The free hiphop magazine Dubcnn has their secound issue out in Denmark. Graffiti related content includes 4 pages of full color burners selected by Jezpar from Byens Puls, an interview with Henry Chalfant and a warmup article about the upcoming Danish edition of Write4Gold 2009 in Nykøbing Falster on May 16th. Get the magazine for free at your local shop.

Once again, British pensioners are picking up the cans and taking it to the walls, nice to see graffiti is for people of all ages. Just hear what Kath, aged 85, from Shenley, said: “I’d never done any spray painting before and really enjoyed it.” 2-page article here and video below.