CA, San Francisco: June 15 - July 15, 2012: IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP

UK: London: June 15 - July 14, 2012: THE CHROME ANGELZ

The Chrome Angelz

MODE2, ZAKI, SCRIBLA, PRIDE, BANDO

The Outsiders gallery

Greek Street, Soho, London

from Friday June 15th until Saturday 14th of July

Do not miss this historic occasion! 

France, Bordeaux: May 19 - June 16, 2012: Kay One

L'Envers vous convie à la première exposition solo de 

KAY ONE "CASH BRIBES ONLY

//// EXPOSITION : du 19 mai 2012 au 16 juin 2012 ////

//// Début des festivités en présence de l'artiste : Samedi 19 mai à 18h ////

Kay One a commencé à peindre en 1984 après avoir découvert le Graffiti aux États-Unis.

C’est en 1985, pendant les années d’or de ce mouvement, avec le fameux terrain vague de Stalingrad à Paris que KAY ONE rencontre les artistes qui feront partie de sa “famille”, les TRP (The Renegade Painters) dont notamment BANGA et SAN. Il multiplie alors les collaborations avec de nombreux «Graffiti writers», entre autres MODE 2 et BANDO.

En 1986, il rencontre les TKC (The Kool Crackers) puis peint avec les NTM (Nique Ta Mère) qui lui présenteront les 93 MC (93 Mafia Crew) avant de fusionner avec ces derniers, faisant de 93 NTM le groupe le plus remarqué de sa décennie.

Afin d'illustrer au mieux cette modeste exploration de la culture Hip-HOP, l'exposition sera jalonnée, tous les samedis, d'interventions amicales de divers artistes.

du body-painting avec le SKINJACKING (Bordeaux) de l' aérographie avec BANGA (Paris), de la photographie avec ALAIN GARNIER (Paris)

et SABINE GRENET (Bordeaux), et, comme d' habitude à L' ENVERS, des fanzines et du tatouage...

CASH BRIBES ONLY

une exposition-vente de KAY ONE du 19 mai au 16 juin 2012

de la musique, des projections

ouverture:

samedi de 17h à 22h mercredi de 14h à 18h et sur rendez-vous

L' ENVERS

19 rue leyteire 

33000 

bordeaux 

lenvers@rocketmail.com 

http://www.artilinki.com/fr/space/show/l-envers

France, Paris: May 15, 2012: Bates and Niels Bjorndahl

Details on Bates's blog on 12oz

Book: Alex Trochut

http://mendo.nl/books/alex-trochut

The Demoscene: hackers making "digital graffiti" - Moleman 2 and Farbrausch

The computer hacker scene, particularly the demoscene, is one of the closest analogs to the graffiti community. In the demoscene, hackers crack games and write all over them with clever graphics and hand-drawn lettering, all done in machine language. (Machine language is code just talking to the chips without any of that fancy high-level computer language or 3D software application getting in the way.) The result is elegant, small, fantastic, and battle-ready. And demo crews do battle. Regularly, for decades now.

There's a new documentary about it, called Moleman 2 (free, complete, on YouTube, see below).

But first, to whet your appetite, below is a 2007 winner by Farbrausch, who just released some juicy sourcecode on Github.


Here's the elegant part: This video's original is a 180k snippet of code. One digital photo on your phone is likely 25 times that size! This blog post is probably bigger than 180k. And there's lots more where that came from. Check the relateds and do some searching.

If you only have 10 minutes: (Click "CC" to get English subtitles.) Here's the best overview Moleman has about the lettering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRkZcTg1JWU&feature=youtu.be&t=50m It's not the best ever done, but you get the idea.


The entire Moleman 2 documentary

OR, Portland: April 7, 2012: Sticker Phiends 5

Printed Matters

The Slate/Scion Gallery
2001 NW 19th Ave, 104
Portland, OR
Presented by: Mike "Mad One" Neely II

April 7th 2012
7-11pm

Printed Matters is a group print show hosted by the infamous Sticker Phiends.

Anthony Lister
Aroe/MSK
BigFoot1
Codak
Cope 2
Chris/RWK
CopyRight
Dain
DumperFoo
Evoker 1
Griffin 1
Hmph/Kento
London Police
Mad One
Mr. Brainwash
Nate Luna
Pez
Phresha
Seizer
Sike'
Slick/Dissizit
Shepard Fairey/Obey
Two Rabbits
Voxx Romana

Ultra
& MANY OTHERS!!

All Ages!
FREE Handouts provided by our sponsors & artists
21+ID= Drinks
& Much More!!

Boa Mistura in Brazil and their optical illusions

The illusions of Boa Mistura seem to build on some of the many-wall pieces seen in gallery installations in recent years that combine to form a word when viewed from a vantage point. It's likely to stop people in their tracks. (Thanks to Brinda for the heads up on this.)

As far as I know, this technique was pioneered in wall graffiti by the very talented Portuguese writer, Odeith many years ago. Odeith does many complex 3D wildstyle pieces that float off the wall visually when viewed at the right angles. He calls his technique "anamorphosis". He has a HoF in Lisbon covered in his work.

In traditional fine art, this sort of effect is called "trompe l'oeil", which means "deceive the eye", in French. (It is pronounced much like the spelling, tromp-low-eey, with the emphasis on the last syllable). Generally it "breaks the picture plane" by appearing to emerge from the flat frame and it dates back to at least the Greeks, Romans, and Pompeii.

Yahoo images turns up some amazing murals and street art in trompe l'oeil.

In some situations, those with dyslexia are actually the superior learners

Crucial advice for creative people - I wish someone had told me

http://nefffy.tumblr.com/post/4925301035/nobody-tells-this-to-people-who-are-beginners-i

"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. 

For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. 

A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. 

We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. 

Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."

Ira Glass

Boy Scout varsity team in Colorado needs lettering from volunteer

They need "BSA" to use on a dozen or fewer shirts. It's a nonprofit group, so they have no money. If you'd like to help out, please contact Jodi to see what they need exactly.

Nike laces

Letterhead Fonts - lettering of yesteryear

New book: Arabic Graffiti

TX, Houston: Ben Eine - through Sept. 23, 2011

Alphabets and lettering books

Retna: Hallelujah World Tour