GraffotoDog days of Summer suck and taking a family holiday at the end of August can involve compromise. For me the compromise became apparent a couple of weeks ago when an calling-all-art-knobs email arrived announcing a Poster Boy multi-location book launch, one leg of which would be at the Pure Evil Gallery, London. Within minutes, […]
London Aug 2010 Graffoto had the pleasure of a morning with Cept as he freestyled a London shutter writing CEPT with an awesome intergalactic perspective buggering fill. Look too closely at the end result and you’ll feel like you are about to fall into deep space. Check the movie, in particular see some impressive backwards […]
Pure Evil Gallery108 Leonard StLondon EC2A 4RH VNA Issue 12 launches this coming Thursday (12 Aug 2010) with a party at Pure Evil Gallery, London, K.O. 6pm. 98 pages (100 counting the covers?) are packed with features and photos. The cover artist ROA has screenprinted a unique image on 100 copies, his first ever screenprint […]
Hackney Wick30 July – 1 Aug 2010 Hackney Wick is bohemian, decaying, swampy and trendy though a lot of its post industrial bleakness is being surrendered to the concrete sports temples rising out of the mud and mire. Some of the resilient local artist community, 670 or so the promotional bumpf proclaims like some kind […]
HIGH ROLLER SOCIETY10 PALMERS ROADLONDON E2 0SY 24 July 2010 photos: NoLionsInEngland except High Roller Society where noted. After last week’s hugely fascinating screenprinting workshop, Graffoto completed its 6 hour crafts major at High Roller Society’s linoprinting workshop. Guest demo man this week was printer, book illustrator and lecturer (among many other illustrative activities) Nick […]
Signal Gallery, London23 July – 7 August Globetrotter C215 hails from France and burst into the upper echelon of acclaimed street artists with an appearance as one of Banksy’s invited anointees at the 2008 Cans Festival in London. He followed this with a worldwide campaign of gritty single layer portraits of anonymous grizzled street people. […]
Eine Goes L……Errrm, Small. Then GLOBAL HowAboutNo & Nolionsinengland interview Ben Eine and take snaps, except knocked-off flicks where stated. Some may have thought that Eine’s fairly recent departure from the big smoke to the sleepier climes of East Sussex would have meant a quieter existence for the man with probably the most raw pigment […]
HIGH ROLLER SOCIETY10 PALMERS ROADLONDON E2 0SY 10, 17 and 24 July 2010 (at time of writing, 24 July is next Sat)photos: NoLionsInEngland When Graffoto professes ignorance of something, deep rooted fundamental mental blankness is only the start. Screenprinting is a term whose meaning hadn’t troubled us too much. Whatever it was, the result could […]
On My Travels I travel on overland rail in the UK maybe a dozen times a year. Filter that for sober trips with a charged camera and I have more chance of winning the lottery than I do spotting graff on rolling steel. So it was with delight on my way to Gatwick that I […]
Photos from Crack and Shine, used with kind permission. Care about the copyright? Buy the book and check the copyright stated there. Graffoto rarely reviews books, usually because we just drool over the pictures and don’t understand the words. One book that has “4Real” written right through it is Crack and Shine and having completed […]