HuskMitNavn in the promised land
HuskMitNavn is right travelling and painting in Israel, check his cool daily updates on his blog!
Stylefile #38
Steam’s Copenhagen visit
Steam visited Copenhagen and got 33 pages of photos from the trip up on his Flickr here!
CPH Burners
New website with strictly burners from the Copenhagen area, no fast chromes, no sloppy throwups, no tumblr recycling of trendyness, just straight burning graffiti… And already got an impressive archive from 2005 to 2012!
Get your bookmark on here!
New York 70’s
Yet another book coming about oldschool, this time with reeeeeally early material shot by a young Italian in New York.
Via Freshngood
Andrea Nelli was twenty years old when he first went to New York, and he saw BIG-O 116, EVIL ERF 14, RAT FINK 131, SUPER KOOL 223 on the walls. They looked like undecipherable codes, written everywhere with black spray. Afterword he understood that they were always the same names, repeated throughout the city. It was in the early 70’s and all the trains run completely covered by colored and giant graffiti. The subway and Manhattan walls were covered, too.
Andrea started shooting photos, because captured by these compositions and he succeeded in getting in touch with different cliques of writers who introduced him in the New York scene. Big names as COCO 144 guided him. Still student, Andrea Nelli decided to focus his thesis on this just born movement, but already spreading out constantly. More than a 100 photos of names and historical pieces were captured by Andrea, that form a test which presents the phenomenon at its beginning Through his work, we get to know a guy with a sour look, who is trying to find his way among names, gangs, walls and subway, tag and through up, to get to the same conclusion that is still valid nowadays 40 years after: “to get your Name around”. The rule of graffiti.
More preview shots and source of bloggin here.
New York City Kings
Good times at Rtist Gallery in Melbourne, great video and great to see the show coming together after seeing the preps for it.
Next level
Wall Writers
Can’t get your graffiti oldschool enough? Then this is for you, the birth of the modern movement is told in Wall Writers!
From director Roger Gastman—a producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop—comes Wall Writers, a documentary on graffiti in its innocence.
Through unprecedented access to TAKI 183, CORNBREAD, and a host of other legendary writers, Wall Writers tells the story of a time when underprivileged city kids refused to keep lurking in the shadows, when the streets were so wild that fame and infamy became indistinct, when art became a democracy and self-promotion became an art.
And the narration is done by John Waters!
Facebook page here.
Askew portrait
Dont miss this well done 13 minute news portrait of New Zealand’s ambassador of great graffiti, Askew on OneNews
