Comments (0) The first time I went to Grafton Street I didn’t notice a wall graffed by the NSA crew in a parallel alleyway.
So I went there this weekend to make pictures, and bumped into Casm graffing. He told me there is a studio dedicated to graffiti in Liverpool, so my next move will be to go and have a look…
I spent a weekend in my hometown, and dropped by this spot in the outskirts. It is a 500m long wall which is entirely graffed. As usual, everything is not good.
I personally love the Les Lascars murals. For you who are not French, this is a cartoon about caricatured characters living in Paris suburb.
This spot is not the most famous one in La Rochelle though. There is one right in the city center which you can’t miss. It’s very nice to paint there as there are many passers-by, who are not necessarily interested in graffiti, but the pieces there often get their attention.
Promise, next time, I’ll write about it.
Grafton Street is located in the Waterfront Business Area, a warehouse area not far from the city centre.
This street is the playground of the very good crew NSA (Casm, Azid, Beta, Dead, Tea One, Pois, Care, Phog, Syph, Inoe, Hope, Ziek, Moak, Sta One, Kesk, Seez, Kore) who develop a very detailed wildstyle:
For more info an interview of Azid is available on World Graffiti.
I did not spend a long time in Bristol streets, because the queue for the Banksy exibition was very long. But the city seems to have a lot of street art pieces.
These are the photos I made in only one hour:
Tom’s Bar is a small pub in Prince Albert Street, near the Lanes in Brighton. A few weeks ago, during the TB&TC, it has been completely graffed by, among others, the VST crew (Snub23, Orticanoodles, Twat, Grafter, Limbo,etc…).
Here’s a peak at what it looks like.
I spent a long weekend in Brighton, the seaside city south of London, and used the opportunity to look for street art.
Well the city is full of it. I for instance liked the murals by team MSK, who I thought was Californian -including Revok and Saber- but who apparently expanded to England. There are also murals by team Heavy Artillery, often made with MSK.
I think Gary’s lettering (from MSK) is very impressive and beautiful.
There are also some classics in Brighton, for instance the kissing bobbies by Banksy, which is apparently a fake -the original one having suffered along the time.
If you’re going to this city, look behind the roadsigns, and you’ll find stickers by Snub, London Police or Toaster, sometimes the three of them on the same sign.
Anyway, Brighton is well-stocked in street art, and the quality and quantity is impressive for the size of the city.
The Mission is the latino district of San Francisco. It is famous for its ethnic murals, commissioned by a local association. They are very easy to find all around the district, since they are huge, and litterally everywhere.
Three alleyways caught my attention, because they contain graffiti of various styles, and not only ethnic works: Clarion Alley (off Mission St), Lilac Street and Balmy Street (both of them off 24th St).
The last one is very famous because only famous people are allowed to paint there. However I like Clarion Alley better because there is a great variety of styles, which is very refreshing when you’re used to see always the same kind of works.
Besides there is in this alley a work by Hera de Herakut, who I mentioned some time ago, and who gave an interview about this work:
Here are the pics I made, but I advise you to virtually visit the district via Google Streetview to realize the density of paintings.
Haight is a district of San Francisco, famous for being the home of the hippie movement. There still are smoke shops, vintage clothes and trendy bars.
The disctrict is nice, next to the Golden Gate park if you want to have a beer in the sun, but be careful, there is said to be tarentulas there.
Concerning graffitis, the only artists I knew were D*Face and Galo. But there is an alley covered by murals from local artists, opposite the oldest skateshop of the city (30 years) Skate on Haight.
nb: the pics of the Reverse Graffiti Project were not taken at Haight, but were on the way, so I put them here.
Boston ICA, big national modern art museum, is hosting a survey of Shepard Fairey’s work, aka Obey Giant. This survey runs from the 6th of February to the 16th of August, and shows works created over more than 20 years.
All media used by Obey are shown, from the simple sticker to the posters, skateboards, records sleeves, and paintings from private collections. The most impressive part of the exhibition is the huge wall inside the gallery, facing another wall covered with 90 screenprints.
(huge wall at the ICA)
This exhibition is fantastic for Obey fans, but apparently not for other people. Indeed when I was there there were a few groups of school children who seemed bored by the explanations of the guides. What would I have done to be taken there when I was in middle school!
(screenprints wall)
I unfortunately could not make pictures, it was forbidden in the museum. I could not even snak pics since the rooms were heavily guarded.
So, sorry about that, but you will only have the pics of the works Obey left accross the Boston. I could not find them all since, as you can see on the pics, it was the “Monday mega storm” on this day. I gave up when I froze.
Anyway, if you’re going to Boston, don’t miss it!
Williamsburg is a part of Brooklyn located on the bank of the East River. Half of this area is really hip, with a lot of small shops selling trendy clothes, music chops, bakeries, and also, as a decoration for these shops, murals. The other half is made of warehouses and small residential buildings.
There are a lot of works by famous and less famous street artists, the most famous ones being Space Invader, Swoon, Faile, FKDL, Mike Marcus, Os Gemeos, C215, Jef Aerosol, and Know Hope.
I unfortunately missed Nick Walker’s girafe, which is located in Roebling Street, as well as the huge mural of the East Village – 6th St, Cooper Square.
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Aakash Nihalani, Arepas, Brooklyn, Burn, C215, Ceos, Dain, Elvis, Faile, FKDL, Gaïa, Hefs, Host, Imminent Disaster, Jef Aerosol, Klone, Know Hope, Mike Marcus, MSK, NYC, Os Gemeos, Pheos, Pink Cloud, Pork, Rezor, Rime, Roa, Robots Will Kill, Royce Bannon, Rrobots, Rugos, Santo, Snow, Space Invader, Williamsburg
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