This week saw the launch of the latest section of the London Overground to go live. Running from Dalston Junction down through to New Cross it runs straight through areas like Hoxton and Shoreditch at roof top level. Which is pretty damn handy if you w…
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April, 2010
The Mighty Mo Line (aka The London Overground extension)
Shok-1′s Urban Assault
It’s a work in progress but this ‘Urban Assault Vehicle’ can currently be seen turning heads on the streets of London. Shok-1′s given one of the city’s most infamous and battered vans a completely new paint job in his own organic graffiti style. T…
Banksy San Francisco street blitz
Banksy has at least six pieces in San Francisco now – thanks again to Warholian.com for the use of their pictures. These photos show both the pieces and their context which as always shows up some really relevant placement. Warholian’s Flickr stre…
VNA 11 out now
The latest copy of VNA (verynearlyalmost) landed on the doormat this morning with a reassuring thud. Sure enough its another 100 pages of quality content with the usual great pictorial roundups of graffiti, tags, stickers, stencils and paste ups….
Banksy on tour in America
Hot on the heels of his work in L.A. (coinciding with the Stateside release of Exit Through The Gift Shop film) further new Banksy work has now appeared in San Francisco. Warholian were pretty much first up with the news and kindly sent these pict…
Roa going large in London
As both hoped for and expected Roa has been hitting the streets of London with massive new works to coincide with his show at the Pure Evil Gallery. I tracked down a couple of the most recent ones today which were lit up by the fantastic sunshine we’ve…
Yanina Manolova
Destiny, 4, poses in her stepfather’s car in Mansfield, Ohio. Destiny’s biological father was a drug dealer and was recently released from prison. She has never seen him. Her mother, Patricia, went through substance abuse treatment and graduated in the Spring of 2009. She relapsed again in June of 2009. Destiny lives with her grandparents [...]
Escif at Pictures on Walls – Street work pictures – opens Friday evening
Escif’s show opens at Pictures On Walls on Friday (16th April) evening between 6 – 9pm . Prior to the opening work from the Spanish artist has gone up on the shutters outside the pictureonwalls ground floor premises at 46-48 Commercial S…
Escif show at Pictures On Walls
If you’ve seen Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop or even just the new extended trailer for the film you’ll have seen one of the funniest moments – graffiti artist Escif getting arrested in quite ridulculous head gear while painting a wall. Other (sli…
A look around Roa’s show at the Pure Evil gallery
Roa’s work translates easily from the streets to a gallery setting and this show in the small but perfectly formed Pure Evil Gallery in Shoreditch is one of the finest I’ve seen in a long time. Featuring a pretty unique interactive element many of the …
Roa show opens at Pure Evil Gallery tonight
Over the past year Roa has been, in my humble opinion, smashing it worldwide. So its great to see that he has his first solo show in London opening on Thursday night (April 8th) at the Pure Evil Gallery.
Roa in London:
Election Announced – Let Battle Commence
So the elections been called and we get to choose between two brands of basically the same washing powder.
Of course other parties are available but short of a hung Parliament there’s no chance they will wield any real power.
Here’s Dr D taking on the…
More on the Robbo / Banksy saga
Robbo’s well documented take back of his original eighties piece location and the taunting slogans painted on a further three Banksy works on the Regents Canal all received a new twist late last week. Where he had painted ‘King Robbo’ three l…