New book set for release in May 2009, titled Graffiti Kings: New York City Mass Transit Art of the 1970s. A 224 page hardcover book featuring photos and text by Jack Stewart as previously covered here at ILG.

Amazons info text: Graffiti Kings is the definitive book on New York’s subway graffiti movement, an unprecedented creative explosion that occurred across the five boroughs during the 1970s. This rare, firsthand account of the birth of this movement is the first and only graffiti book to reveal what happened behind the scenes when writers put their lives on the line to grab a piece of fame from a faceless urban landscape. Through personal interviews and over 275 full-color, previously unpublished photographs, the colorful origins of subway graffiti are brought to life. Legends such as Taki 183, Blade 1, Phase 2, and Co-Co 144, as well as the city officials who saw the writers as public menaces and their art as vandalism, give accounts of everyday struggles, each full of new advancements, excitement, and risk. Although author and photographer Jack Stewart maintained a low profile at the time, his work is now a graffiti-world legend: rumored to exist, seldom seen, a near-equivalent to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Alongside archival photographs of everything from vibrant bubble-letter and 3-D pieces to the Holy Grail, the whole-train pieces, are maps, images, and ephemera that help fill out the complete story. A celebration in words and pictures of graffiti’s golden age, Graffiti Kings is a book sure to be coveted by those fascinated and inspired by this uniquely American urban art form. Full info here.

The 5 x fresh series rolls on with 5 photos of Regal. Enjoy!

Danish author Katrine Ring’s Street Art Calendar 2009 is released today. It’s a tear-off calendar containing 365 photos of street art from Copenhagen – taken over the last two years and published at Radius.

Photos coming out from Rime and Persue’s recent visit to China…

Two youtube videos with rolling Copenhagen trains
One from 1997 with the old, nice s-trains, but first 3 minutes from Stockholm

And one from 2007 with the new, horrible spaceships s-trains

You saw it first at ILG and soon itll be on all the other blogs, the new preview of Xplicit Grafx #11. This time its all about Berlin, interviews with Rocco and Jeroo plus the usual mix of steel and walls from around the world. XG always satifies, it comes highly recommended and will be available from the 22nd December, ready for Santa Claus’ big round for all boys and men that have been naughty enough in 2008. PDF preview here.

The Molotow and Friends project keeps adding big names to the lineup. Yesterday Italian king Trota THE was revealed and today is none other than the infamous Cope2 from NYC! What will tomorrow bring??

Second issue of the latest Graphotism project titled Mynameis is out. Featuring Jeff Soto, Kris Kuksi, Chaz Bojorquez, Patrick Martinez and Madeline von Foerster. Plus a mix of news, reviews and photos from around the world.

For the adrenalin junkies out there, 6 minute video with clips from different videos of writers doing insides. Drippy mops, juicy markers, fatcap tags, all of that good stuff.

Graphotism is back with another issue and brandnew relaunched website. Issue #51 features Dems on the cover, and also Skore, Gomer and Replete, plus the usual mix of photos from all over the place.