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2009 World Graffiti, Some of my Favourite Posts of the Year

So the site started in about March of 2009, I’ve not done many posts over Christmas because I’ve been drunk and lazy, and I don’t plan on starting now. Instead, here are some of my favourite posts from the year. Bring on 2010!

Bomb IT Graffiti Documentary - Watch the full hour long graff vid (free! No registering or any crap), looking at artists from all over the world. It’s pretty damn great.

GUI Graffiti from Sao Paulo, Brazil – Interesting mix of styles, looks great.

Best of World Graffiti Part 1 & 2 – A couple of sets of pics that I liked in the middle of 2009, loads of goodness here.

Banksy Art Sale Exhibition in London 2009 – A bunch of pics I took at a private Banksy art sale in some la-dee-da members club, see how much Banksy’s are sold for. It’s a lot…

DefHi Graffiti Photos, Sydney Australia – Natt needs as mention here as she takes some awesome photos of graff in Sydney and let’s us show them to you. Here are her 2009 posts.

Japan Graffiti from OIVAE – Some wild Japanese graff here, we don’t get to show enough Asian art so it’s good to have something, and it’s wicked.

AZID & NSA Crew Graffiti & Interview - A recent post, well worth a mention. Big colours and and wildstyles from Liverpool, UK.

The Signtologist – The dude has a huge following, large love to the hip hop painting legend!

Sweet Toof Art, London UK – Representing London, we have Sweet Toof. Great stuff.

Kim-Lan Art & Interview – And in the French corner we have Kim-Lan, portrait graffiti.

KA’a Stencil Art – Big fan of these 2, really interesting and detailed stencil art.

There is loads of other stuff in here somewhere, see if you can find it. Have a great New Year people!

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Weapon of choice 2nd birthday 12th January 2010 9-4amWe will be building an extra HUGE wall for this one, inviting 10 of some of Bristol’s finest artists to paint live! Artists include: FLX, Lokey, Sepr, Dylan Shipley, Molar and some unannounced very special guests!!!Hip Hop / Dubstep from:Central SpillzK*nersKomonazmukThinkingSuperiskTwizzy & Chris LucasDj BetamaxHosted by the legendaryBUGGSY!

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Pretty late on these but they’re still available so thought it might be worth spreding the word. Loving the names for the Choe and Invader prints.
David Choe ‘Not Counting The Vintage Jizz Crusted On The Thrift Store Sweater You Just Shoplifted You Have The DNA Of 6 Gross Guys On You I’d Be Screaming Too’ [...]

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Pretty late on these but they’re still available so thought it might be worth spreding the word. Loving the names for the Choe and Invader prints.
David Choe ‘Not Counting The Vintage Jizz Crusted On The Thrift Store Sweater You Just Shoplifted You Have The DNA Of 6 Gross Guys On You I’d Be Screaming Too’ [...]

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Pretty late on these but they’re still available so thought it might be worth spreding the word. Loving the names for the Choe and Invader prints.
David Choe ‘Not Counting The Vintage Jizz Crusted On The Thrift Store Sweater You Just Shoplifted You Have The DNA Of 6 Gross Guys On You I’d Be Screaming Too’ [...]

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slept on this stupid rare god bothering driz, and kick myself regularly for doing so.

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The Ghostvillage Project from Agents Of Change on Vimeo.

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Be quick, as The Arts Gallery (part of the University of Arts London) will be no more come February as the Crossrail development takes over and demolishes the place. A suitably fitting exhibition takes place until then, by former student, Mike Ballard.
“The All Of Everything” is an all-encompassing takeover of the floors, walls and ceilings [...]

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Getting Up & Getting Old – Eternal Graffiti in the Eternal City from Simone Bertuccioli on Vimeo.

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Sam Van Olffen is a multifariously talented individual. I first came across his work at Dark Roasted Blend, a blog that features all sorts of weird and wonderful things, one of them being the work of Van Olffen. Based in Montpelier in the South of France, Van Olffen describes himself as a 'Graphic Sampler', known for taking photos of everyday places and objects, and utilising them in new and futuristically surreal situations and surroundings that one feels transported to a parallel reality, or perhaps a dystopian perspective of our own at the very least!

I myself am a big fan of precise photo-montage, which is essentially a posh word for collage, however there is an important distinction. There are collage artists, usually painters who like to work with mixed-media. The printed page from a glossy magazine might provide an interesting texture for a mountainside, an eye from a close-up fashion photo of a model could provide an interesting Cubist slant to an otherwise pedestrian painting, a torn poster of a city skyline can save a lot of time when preparing a background, but collage will always play second fiddle to many painters out there. Photo Montage is the antithesis of collage in everything but the medium. When one splices a photographic image with another one is making a statement regardless of the subject at hand. The world has lived under the myth that seeing is believing for many many centuries past, the invention of photography most certainly solidified this perceptual belief system, however with the advancement of other sciences and most recently the digitisation of the image itself, we live in a time of a tolerance for a new reality, a surreality. A reality placed upon another, enacting the role of surface, yet that surface is false, it is a false signifier, a fake representation of our own, in truth a hyperreality.

This is, for the main part, where I believe Sam Van Olffen's mind wanders, this is his landscape, it is flavoured with his own personal perceptions, driven by hs own emotional and psychological needs, yet the medium, method and precision of each finished piece connects with his audience on a deeper level, a subconscious array of primal fears, distorted beyond recognition by the notions of time travel, invention without reason and life itself as little more than commodity.

The fear of an ecological collapse is ever present in his work, often his subjects sport gas masks, be it in war, as entertainers, or even in one example a wedding party. The vast paleo future visions of sci-fi writers, architectural visionaries, imaginative engineers and artists of the past all contribute to the setting for each work, be it literally through graphic reference, such as Modernist corporate architecture and manufactured objects and machines seen as futuristic in their time, or through simply their cultural influence and ideology of a time yet not apparent, obfuscated by the habits and diktats of their own age. This is most apparent in his characters' clothing, much of it appearing to range between the Edwardian era and WW2.

Van Olffen's work performs the same function as all good sci-fi literature does, it provides a mental space to consider the immediate without immediate consequence, an avenue of questioning and understanding that denies the distraction of the now in order to seek a greater relativity, a knowing beyond either the individual or their peers. This cocoon of time and space 'protects' the viewer from their own impulses and instinctual fears, they are free to roam through the post-apocalypse, and even grow to admire the survivors' tenacity and perseverance.

See more of Sam Van Olffen's 'graphic samplings' at his blog at www.vanolffen.blogspot.com.

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fellow graff associate Dr.Dog, friend and co-creator of the AAGH crew and the legendary Pantrat ™

anyway  i havent seen for a looong time and he is always rocking fresh work. check his stuff below then check his flickr

p.s if your reading this and have a good flick of jam master jay bumming a sellotaped up pigeon in liverpool send it over so it can get some airtime.x

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hieronymus bosch on some next level

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