I ♥ GRAFFITI - English version

MIGRATED

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:47:00 +0000

Like the german ilovegraffiti blog did last week, my blog follow and move to the a new home. From now on my blog is available on http://www.ilovegraffiti.de/en

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Paint the White House black

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:29:00 +0000

Hiphop and funk is the universal truth.
George Clinton, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Yo-Yo, Flava Flav, Buju Banton, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many more predicts history more than a decade ago.

George Clinton Ice Cube - Paint The White House Black
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Obonus:
Free download of an extended 7:50 minute version of this historic track available here.

	George Clinton - Paint the White House Black

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Fundamentals exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:19:00 +0000

Little video from an interesting exhibition earlier this year at the Mu Gallery in Eindhoven, Holland. Fundamentals - legal and less legal ways of using the public playgrounds. Twelve artists, with origins in the graffiti scene, show public space work created for this exhibition. With works by Matthias Wermke/ Mischa Leinkauf, Erosie, Boris Tellegen, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine, Influenza, François Morel, Honet, Navid Nuur, BLU, Jeroen Jongeleen.

Free art on Mexico City subway

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:39:00 +0000

In Mexico City they are not afraid of a little culture on the busy subway that transports more than 5 million passengers daily. For a price of 20 pesos you can ride the train, listen to a concert, check out an exhibition, grab a free book or see a theater group perform. Check the video here.

More Henry

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:17:00 +0000

Second part of the Henry Chalfant interview is up at Philyflava, you can read it here.

We Can All

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:02:00 +0000

And now back to the real deal steel stuff. This next trailer looks pretty tasty, a good dose of colorful Italian trains from the depth of the Milano subway tunnels. Hope to see the whole thing soon, its called We Can All - Vandal Graffiti DVD

Cop gets up

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:35:00 +0000

Here at ILG we love to see graffiti go new ways. So the following video was received with great joy at our HQ, it turns out that even police officers in the UK are doing murals these days.

Now we are waiting for the first police wholecar to roll out of a yard...

Lee flex his skills

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:25:00 +0000

One of the greatest from the NYC subway era, Lee Quinones, flex his skills in 2008 on another moving object, a Ford Flex.

Subway B-boys

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:14:00 +0000

What goes on on the NYC subway? B-boying...

Hope & Cope

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:52:00 +0000

Hope & Cope, the people of the United States of America are voting for a new president. Here at ILG we already blogged plenty about our realistic favorite Barack Obama and Shepard Fairey aka Obey who did the infamous poster of him.
Here is another infamous american, Cope 2, Kings Destroy

South African trainsurfing

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:26:00 +0000

Get down with the Soweto youth and surf a train in style...

5 x Fresh

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:16:00 +0000

Cakes DSK from Prague, Czech Republic

Protect ya' Neckface

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:32:00 +0000

Controversial graffiti and art persona Neckface from NYC tells and shows the world what run through his head, or may thorugh his neck.. No wait, through his face... Like whatever.

Seen still rocking it

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:36:00 +0000

A bunch of recent sketches from Seen UA, still rocking it after all these years...

And you can even buy most of these sketches right here...

On the streets of Hamburg

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:18:00 +0000

Check out some fresh Hamburg murals and comments from the artists in this nice videoclip.

On the streets of Hamburg from sara tajariol on Vimeo.

Banksy rat raises house price

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:35:00 +0000

Steadily fucking up the way society works and paving new ways, Banksy is at it again.
This time its a old pub in Liverpool that has reportly doubled in value because Banksy painted a commision on it in 2004. The whole story here.

The Un-Graffiti man

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:33:00 +0000

No, its not a graffiti buffer, its one of the reserve-graffiti artist doing a big mural in dirt in SF.

Next: A primer on urban painting

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:06:00 +0000

Trailer for the documentary called Next: A primer on urban painting, filmed in a dozen countries worldwide with an allstar lineup of whos who in graffiti and streetart. DVD available here.

Next: A Primer on Urban Painting
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New Concrete #5

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:25:00 +0000

One of the most interesting mags these days has got to be Concrete, updating the world on the trainscene in the former Eastblock. Always jampacked with photo of steel from systems you never even heard of, Concrete is always worth your money. And the new issue #5 is about to drop... Can't wait to see it...

Banksy speaks

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:53:00 +0000

As recently reported here at ILG, the Banksy mural in central London is possibly up for removal. Now Banksy speaks about the mural here, and Times Magazine has a long article here about the whole case. Here at ILG we think its great that one single wall start stirr so much controversy, go Banksy!
P.S: To give a hint of how popular this mural is, just see how many pages of photos of the mural comes up on a Google Image search here...

Free 2009 graffiti calendar

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:52:00 +0000

The good people at Graffiti galleriet in Copenhagen have made this graffiti calendar for 2009, its free and all you need to do is download it and print it. It features the best walls from this year great graffiti project at Roskilde Festival 2008, sponsored by Molotow.
Version 1 download here
Version 2 download here
Blog illustration photos from the Rapspot coverage of Roskilde Festival.

Henry Chalfant interview

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:46:00 +0000

Nice Henry Chalfant interview part 1, here at The Phila Flava T.R.O.Y. blog.

Love rolling in Paris

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:12:00 +0000

We always got love for Love graffiti here at ILG

Man Ooman

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:06:00 +0000

It doesn't get any better than this, a documentary from two of Copenhagens finest Rosforth & RasMoney, a film about Jamaican butt-shaking. A dancing style and flourishing subculture that exists in Jamaica and gets exported to the rest of the world through dvds, music videos and the internet. This documentary shows the environment from which the dance evolves and the gender roles that play out in the society around it. It premieres soon at the Copenhagen Documentray Film Festival CPH DOX
Man Ooman (Man Woman) documentary film trailer

Free your mind

noreply@blogger.com (Lars Copenhagen) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:25:00 +0000

Free your mind from Babylon business, check this video about how subvertisments and graffiti in public space help reclaim our minds from advertisers.