“Europe has always looked across the Atlantic to find its inspiration when it comes to classic writing style, in pieces, handstyles, throwups. New Yorkers like Lee, Seen and TATS cru pioneered big mural productions, but Europeans used what was already there and took it to a total different level. Their involvement in paint development and distribution, with actual artist knowledge, made it so that new technics developed at a faster pace. Europe’s advancements have influenced writers in the States especially in cities like New York and Los Angeles.”

Read the exclusive ilovegraffiti.de Interview with How and Nosm here

Oldschool writer Part1 from NYC is coming to Sweden later this month to do a blackbook lecture for graphic design students and to open his own show at Galleri Bastard in Stockholm on the 27th. More info in swedish here.

Two of the big names in the Molotow and Friends project, Cope 2 and Loomit, have updated their profiles with new photos, see two below and the rest here.

The german part of ILoveGraffiti is celebrating its 1 year birthday with a photo contest. Send in your single best photo related to graffiti before March 13th. You must own the copyright of the photo and only submit one. Then we will choose the best photos and put them up for a vote, so all the readers of ILG can help us choose the best photo. The winner gets a very special ILoveGraffiti t-shirt, a Flickr Pro-account and a big package of graffiti goods from Stylefile.
Submit your photo via email to notme[at]ilovegraffiti.de or use this contact form.
Full info here and first photo entries here.

There is a new book dropping soon about Hawaii’s finest graffiti writer, Katch 1. Here is a few preview shots, more info through Katch on his Myspace.

The warm up video for the upcoming debate: Cope and Ket vs The Vandalsquad. It all goes down on March 19th in NYC, you can read more info here.

Go Cope! Go Ket!

Article for tourists that wants to travel the world, see and paint graffiti. Locations listed include Melbourne, Paris, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, New York and Taipei. Read the top 10 here.

Here at ILG we are not sure about all the info in this article and you should investigate further is you want to know about the legal aspects of legally painting in the locations listed.

Good news from Sydney, Australia where a judge has overturned the previous 3 months jail conviction of 18 year old Cheyene Back for a single tag, as previously reported here at ILG. Read the new article here and be thankful for there are still some justice in this world.

Nice little article with photos and info on 4 graffiti masters, including Os Gemeos, Binho, Craola and Asylm over at this nice blog.

Fresh documentary from the 80s in London, featuring live buffing, interview with the NSA crew, anti graffiti people and the usual other parts you will find in documentaries. I learned from this one that trains are painted by people from 8 to 20 years of age.