No comment, just big smiles and lots of color.

Martha Cooper featured in a series of interviews titled Pretty Cool People, talking about how she started photographing and learning about graffiti.

New limited book printed on heavy cardboard, featuring a lineup of well known worldwide artists, including Banos, Honet, Delta, Sent and Nema, talking about what graffiti is to them and showing of photos from their personal archives. Check the publishers homepage for full info here.

Check out the new project from Molotow, called Molotow and Friends, featuring 24 artist from around the globe, showcasing their amazing graffiti. The lineup is revealed one artist at a time, every day from the 1st to the 24th of December and the whole project kicks of for real from January 1st 2009.
December 1st revealed Hocus OF from Berlin. Todays artist is Ewok 5MH from NYC. Can’t wait for the last 22 on the lineup… Check out the Xmas calendar here

Little newsflash from California where billboards are a popular target for graffiti artists. So much that poor, misguided normal citizens get mad when the advertisings are replaced with art. Check the story and video here.

Old posters made in Holland 20 years ago are up for sale again, featuring artwork by Crash, Noc167, Bill Blast and Quik. You can get them here, at the official homepage, read the whole story and see a short video. Also article on the release here

Found this one on ebay, starting bid is 2500 US $, you can place your bid here and read whole story. Below is the most important part of the sales text with some photos of the two books…

******The Jack Stewart Dissertation******
“An Aesthetic Study of Graffiti on the Subway System of New York City, 1970-1978″

This auction is for the ORIGINAL, one-of-a-kind, one and only, legendary dissertation by Jack Stewart.

You may be thinking “wait a minute that’s impossible”. You’d be thinking wrong because this is the real deal, the actual dissertation by Jack Stewart, photographer of graffiti from 1970-78.

This ultra rare item is considered to be the holy grail of early graffiti documentation. Hundreds of photographs, most of them have never been seen before except by a select few lucky people. Jack Stewart documented graffiti in NYC using 35mm cameras, talking with the early artists, and having the writers visit him at his studio. Many of the most famous graff writers visited his studio and Jack would show off the pics with a slide projector. Stewart worked on his dissertation for years, painstakingly pasting the actual photos into the pages of the book. He finally defended his dissertation in 1988 (NYU).

For those who don’t know about this work, it is considered the best ever documentation of early NYC graff, stuff that was BEFORE Chalfant’s Subway Art. In the beginning there was the first generation of NYC graff writers and Jack Stewart was there photographing their work. A rough count of the photos is approximately 400 different photos of trains with classic graff. This dissertation alone will make any graffiti collection one of the best. Photos in the dissertation span the range of the earliest graff to 1978.

Writers whose work appears:
SuperKool223, Flint, Flint707, Barbara62, Eva62, Mico, PHASE2 (!!), Stitch1, FDT56, Eddie181, Taki183, Spin, Clyde, Stayhigh149, Piper, Jester, Tambu, Jace2, Wasp1, Hondo, Tracy168, Lee, Blade, Comet, Vinny, Roger, IN, AJ161, Pooni, RIFF, Ajax, Vamm, Ton5, Moses147, IZ, Caz…the list goes on and on.
Burners! Throwups! Tags! Signature pieces! Insides! Whole cars! Photo of STAYHIGH benching! (and wearing a pimp hat no less) Photo of PHASE2 and SKEME piecing in the yard! Photo series of WASP1 climbing to elevated layup and doing a piece! Photo of RIFF sitting next on third rail next to his piece!
Incredible unmatched piece of graffiti history!

Good old Artcrimes has the usual mix of new graffiti from around the world up for December, including trains from such exotic locations as Germany, USA, Turkey, Puerto Rico, South Africa and Peru.

Graffiti is now used to sell hearing aids, so get yours here before you go def…

The preview of the tenth issue of Graffiti Magazine is online now. Check out below here or at the Issuu turnpage preview And in the Graffiti Magazine homepage issue archive you check all the previous issues for free… Can’t beat that with a stick!