If you happen to be around Georgia, check out the upcoming show called The Steel Wheels Show, featuring living legend Iz the Wiz and a ton of other artists, opening at the Relapse Theater in Atlanta this Saturday.

London is getting new trains and all the old models will be replaced within a few years. New ones includes walk-through cars, aircondition and cctv. Read all about it here.

Found these three books over at UP, titled New Yorkers, Im Sorry and Traffic Island . All three are handmade by Akay the godfather of swedish graffiti and streetart, full of goodies like posters, cds, dvds, maps, miniature models and much more. All are extremely limited…

Short clip and interview with two Denver artists finishing a mural before the Democratic convention.

One of the coolest things I saw while visiting Melbourne last year was the flourishing streetart and colourfull graffiti burners found in the little lanes next to the big mainstreets all over the city. These lanes are also appreciated by loads of tourists, and openminded people in general, but there is now a big controversy in Australia after the lanes with graffiti where reproduced in a mini-version of the city at Disneyland in Florida. Local politicians are outraged because the reproduction was supported by tourist organisations and in the little secluded world of politicians, it brings blight on the city. Read more here. Here at ILG we can only support more free spaces for art and appeal to politicians to open their eyes and get with the times…

In the babylonian case against Utah in NYC, antigraffiti witch Anne Swanson was quoted yesterday: “The terrorist taggers the city and private citizens mop up after are young people who think it’s a cool thing to do and just don’t think about the rest of us. They have no developed social conscience,” said Swanson, who has a degree in fine art. Read the rest here.

Back in 1984, Nikolaj Peyk walked into the Dybbølsbro yard behind Central Station and painted the first train piece in Copenhagen and Danish history. He did his own last name, a dedication to his mom and a shootout to Bruce.

After being a big part of early Copenhagen graffiti history with his crew Whap Gang, Nikolaj went on to write major danish rap history also. Nuff respect to Peyk!

From me at ILG, Eid Mubarak to all

From the Per Square Meter Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, a little video about the Tic Tac Ho girls show, featuring artwork by Poise, Sear, Isis, Myla, Bbob and Deb.

Streetartist Dface has put up a bunch of concrete cans around London, check out a little article here and get ready for his solo show later this week!