For the first time ever, the street artist has spoken at length about his amazing rise from a spray-can-toting youth, to someone whose work sells for £1million a time to Hollywood’s A-listers.

Banksy: “Graffiti’s always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off. I mean, most of it is just designed to look good from a moving vehicle. Not necessarily in the history books. But maybe all art is about just trying to live on for a bit. I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”

The whole interview can be read here.

They put all the art into the side of a warehouse to make one giant wall of street art… Looking forward to 2011 already!

Check out the full set of photos on the Electric Windows 2010 @ Flickr and check out loads of photos from the Electric Windows 2010 show featuring some awesome artists including Ron English, GAIA, PAPERMONSTER and loads more.

Final results in Street Heroes 2010 for the Romanian competing crews:

• 1st: A-TEAM
• 2nd: GBS Crew
• 3rd: FRESHMAKERS Crew
• 4th: SUNSCREEN Crew
• 5th: SARACII Crew
• 6th: RSH Crew
• 7th: PBD Crew
• 8th: LN Crew
• 9th: LTS Crew
• 10th: 5FIVE’O Crew
• 11th: SCM Crew
• 12th: G.CRIMINALS Crew

Winning walls + guest pieces can be seen in our Street Heroes 2010 gallery. For more go here.

Street Heroes, the 1st urban culture international festival from Romania, will be held on 12th-14th of August, in Tineretului Park from Bucharest.

The graffiti contest will gather 12 teams consisting of maximum 5 writers (participation is by invitation only). There will be 3 evaluation criteria upon following points:

• originality: crews point of view upon the given theme
• style: crews power to stand out with artistic style (complexity, characters, colors, effects, shades, etc.)
• performance: the time given, each crew will be checked from time to time to check progress (time to do paper-sketch and put onto wall, etc.).

Prize: 5000 EUR – cash

Concept painting – Murals

Each crew will have to perform a piece together within 22 hours under the following conditions: same colours (50 types of colours Montana Black 400ml), same topic (provided by the judges few minutes before the competition starts, same time: 22 hours for everybody to perform). The 22 hours will be divided on 3 days, as it follows:

• 1st day: at 12:00 all crews must be present at the event for receiving the topic of the mural competition. this day will end at 06:00 pm as all crews will have to stop painting and continue the next day
• 2nd day: starts at 11:00am and ends at 6:00pm. as the day before, the painting will continue on the 3rd day.
• 3rd day: starts at 11:00am and ends at 6:00pm. after 6:00pm, within 1hr time, the winners will be announced.

Freestyle throw ups

During the 2nd day, at 2:00pm, one member of each crew performs a throw up under the following conditions: same colors (2 types of Montana Black 400ml or Montana Gold 400ml) which can be either black and chrome, or 2 colours that the jury will decide; same word (provided by the organizing crew a few seconds before the competition starts, same time: 90 seconds to perform for everybody).

Freestyle hand-styles – Tags

During the 2nd day, at 4:00pm, one member of each crew performs a tag under the following conditions: one Montana marker (Montana BOMBING Marker, 20 mm T-tip), same word (provided by the organizing crew a few seconds before the competition starts, same time: 300 seconds to perform for everybody), on canvas.

Freestyle sketching

During the 3rd day, one member of each crew performs a sketch under the following conditions: same markers (24 type of COPIC sketch and TOUCH markers, also spray-paint allowed to use), same word (provided by the judges few seconds before the competition starts, same time: 120 minutes for everybody), ON CANVAS ,canvas size: 20cm x 30 cm. the minimum covering of the sketch to taken into consideration is 70% of the total surface of the canvas.

Useful links

• Lineup
• Graffiti
• Schedule

Tickets

Tickets can be bought from Eventim & Ollie Gang Shop.

3day pass – before the event

• 80 RON (aprox. 20 EUR) (multiple entries)

Ticket sale promo

• first 500 tickets sold will receive free event t-shirt; the t-shirts can be picked up from Ollie Gang Shop; please bring your ticket to check your code
• there is a daily lottery and OGS will giveaway 1 Carhartt t-shirts per day
• buy 5 tickets get 1 free; buy 10 tickets get 3 free

At the event

• 50 RON (aprox 12 EUR) one day (multiple entries)
• 15 RON (aprox. 4 EUR) one day entry before 15:00 (one entry)
• 40 RON (aprox. 10 EUR) one day entry after 15:00 (one entry)

Child ticket

• For children up to six years the entry accompanied by an adult is free.

Family ticket

• The ticket for the whole family – entry for two adults and max. 4 children under 12. The whole family must appear together at the entrance, as only one ticket is issued – 50 RON one entry only

It’s a tradition: heads of state exchange gifts when visiting each other. So on his recent trip to the USA, UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron has given President Barack Obama a piece of graffiti art by British graffiti artist Ben Eine. In fact it was a swap: in return, Mr. Cameron was given a litho by the American Ed Ruscha.

What a rise in fame and status for graffiti! It used to be called defacing public property. Then the elusive Banksy began getting thousands for his pieces. And now the President of the USA has it hanging in the White House.

Ben Eine is a newer and quirkier gaffiti artist than Banksy, who has become almost old hat; making world tours and popping up in Canada and the USA. Eine has been in the graffiti business for almost twenty years, starting when he was 14 years old. His pseudonym comes from the word one, which morphed into uno and then the german eine.

Much is known about him; he has been photographed, he lives in the east end and he has three children, works as a full-time artist and shows his work in galleries.

His latest project, which is hardly graffiti, and more art, is located on the shuttered doors of shops in the east end of London. Called “Alphabet Street”, he spray painted a letter on the door of a series of shops, all with the permission of the shop owners. They collaborated about the colour of the letter that they got. And some fit the shop, for example Flying Burrito got an F.

The street looks magical now and the locals love it: “The nicest reaction is seeing kids skipping down the street calling out the alphabet – or,” he adds, “parents saying my work has helped their kids learn their A to Z.”

(Source: TreeHugger)

La lansarea noului produs Burn Energy Shot, Burn prezinta 20 dintre cei mai talentati artisti romani, creand 20 de lucrari, in 20 de filme.

Iata cateva dintre ele, in care sunt prezenti artisti din domeniul graffiti.

Burn Energy Shot & Irlo

Burn Energy Shot & Noper

Burn Energy Shot & Ciubi (Pisica Patrata)

Burn Energy Shot & Sinboy

I noticed that many of our visitors are requesting or searching for free graffiti fonts.
Well this is your lucky day! We put together a 600 graffiti fonts pack and we’re giving it to you for free!

Enjoy!

Asociatia Culturala “Urban Vision” si Skunk Predatorz prezinta a sasea editie a festivalului de muzica electronica si arte vizuale si va invita sa descoperiti castelul Gyulay Ferenc din Mintia. Un decor hunedorean istoric care emana un aer mistic in mijlocul unui cadru natural feeric. Trei zile toride de reconectare cu natura, muzica si proiectii pe doua scene.

Locatie

Castelul Gyulay Ferenc este situat in satul Mintia, comuna Vetel, judetul Hunedoara la 8,5 km distanta de Deva. Un decor hunedorean istoric care emana un aer mistic in mijlocul unui cadru natural feeric. Parasesti E68, traversezi liniile de cale ferata si in cateva minute ajungi la locatie – un parc cu multi copaci, verdeata si umbra, intins pe 5 hectare marginite in partea nordica de raul Mures.

LINEUP

Joi – 8 iulie 2010 / Wonderground Stage
Blanoz Soundsystem LIVE (Bucuresti – RO)
Mesmer (Scarcity Records – Bucuresti – RO)
Dudawles (Influenza Minus – Cluj Napoca – RO)
Mofo (HD Music – Timisoara – RO)
3P (Skunk Predatorz – Deva – RO)
Whiteroly (Skunk Predatorz – Deva – RO)
Brk-Out (Sibiu – RO) / Eternal Sunshine (Deva – RO) / Pho (Deva – RO) / Kjk (Timisoara – RO)

Vineri – 9 iulie 2010 / Main Stage
CTRL Z (Never Say Die Records – UK)
NETSKY (Hospital Records – BE)
JINX IN DUB (Bassrock Records – UK)
Keywords (HD Music – BE)
K-Lu & Limun (Timisoara – RO)

Sambata – 10 iulie 2010 / Main Stage
NAPT (Funkatech Records – UK)
BREAK (Symmetry / Shogun Audio – UK)
VON D (Argon Records – FR)
Gojira (Bucuresti – RO)
Kojok (Kojokstan Troopers – Timisoara – RO)

VISUALS

Flowerstepper | Spacebunny | Kinderpokid | Mistik

LSD Crew va tin ocupati pe timpul zilei pe tot parcursul festivalului. Nu va lasati skate-urile acasa, aratati ce stiti si faceti-o cat mai bine! Elemente disponibile: minirampa din anii trecuti, un grind box si flat rail. Cireasa de pe tort este insa un mini bowl din ciment cu diametrul de 16m.

SABOTAZ in colaborare cu SUFLO si HOMEBOY vor reprezenta in culori SUMMER BREAK 2010!

Here are Kredy and Sker two newcomers that are blowing the net these days. Even though they’re not graffiti ‘stars’ they definitely are graffiti artists! I like their style and that’s why I will post their video right here.

One of the most artistic graffiti artists from New York City are the YMI Crew.
It’s hard to describe their style but they’ve definitely got the funk!