The end of a year always bring top lists out, and they are never easy to do or agree with. Here is one on graffiti and streetart books for 2008 from Format Magazine, done by Prestel Publishing.

New local exhibition at Vejle Kunstmuseum in Jutland, Denmark titled Street Art Inspiration opening January 24th 2009, featuring a lineup of the famous danish artists, including Armsrock, Clean, Frodo Mikkelsen, HuskMitNavn, Oeps and Papfar. More information in danish here.

Listen up everybody! Ovie KD is right now serving 2-4 years in jail in New York for painting clean trains as reported earlier here at ILG. Ovie got caught when the Vandalsquad executed a search warrant on his email that they had obtained from a judge and accessed emails containing digital photos of his clean train work. To anyone in graffiti, listen and learn from Ovie right here in this video!

Special shoutout to Ovie from everyone here at ILG, stay strong, fight the power, graffiti will never die…

On top in southern Italy is the DIAS UHT crews. Check out two videos featuring big things from them.
First shows a daytime blockbuster street action

And the second one shows what happened the night Italy won the World Cup

Three of Denmarks most active legal eagles have joined forces to offer the best in legal jobs and decorations. You can see the works of the three and get in contact with them at their new webite Murkunst.dk.

Stylefile issue 29 is dropping soon, filled with the usual mix of great walls and trains. This issue is called the Easterfile and features among other things Herakut, Cide and Elsam. Stylefile is always recommended by ILoveGraffiti for anyone that loves graffiti.

Stylefile #29 available here and full preview can be seen and downloaded here.

Its hard to write an introduction to this guy. Sento has been painting and innovating since the NYC subway era. Known for doing pieces in spots where others would do a quick throwup. Very active through the years, painting everything from trains, to walls, to freights and travelling the entire world, there is nothing he haven’t done and nothing he can’t do.

Lots more Sento on this fotolog and in this 12oz thread

This is how they get down in Brazil, pichadores bombing buildings and billboards…

Class is in session. If you really wanna know what Hip Hop is all about, KRS One will tell you right here. The 4 elements broken down and explained. If you dont know, now you know!

Tessa Dunlop tries to find out who Banksy really is… And get alot of funny answers…