Mother Bear Graffiti

Nychos and Flying Fortress, both well-known for their clean, detailed characters created an impressing piece, showing the anatomy of a pregnant mother bear – what a great idea! Hopefully they are keen for some more collaboration productions this year – I will keep you posted. But now, watch the documentary and like their styles!

For more info about the both graffiti artists, visit rabbiteyemovement.tumblr.com or flying-fortress.blogspot.com.

Via Nychos TheWeird

This post was written by Brenna Urban on Urban Art Core.

Plane Graffiti on Abandoned Aircrafts

What started with a somehow disturbing promo-video almost a year ago, recently resulted in amazing plane graffiti: More than 30 artists have participated in the Boneyard Project’s Round Trip including DC Super 3 planes painted by graffiti artists How & Nosm, Nunca and Retna, a C97 cockpit by Saner, a C45 plane by Faile, and a Lockheed VC 140 Jetstar by Andrew Schoultz (via aviationpros.com)!

The Boneyard Project is not simply a unique opportunity to give major contemporary artists an amazing canvas of being able to make art out of a plane, it is a chance for us all to examine our own cultural relationship to airplanes and to the archetypal ideal of traveling through the skies. (Boneyard Project)

It’s just amazing to see those old, abandoned (military) jetplanes being reused as canvases for some of the most talented graffiti artists! For more photos visit theflopbox.com or ericfirestonegallery.com.

Via vandalog.com and crackajack.de.

This post was written by Brenna Urban on Urban Art Core.

With their wonderful diversity of color, form, elements and expression, in the last years stickers got featured in several exhibition around the world, like the Oversized & Underpriced shows in Berlin. This time, it’s the Idrawalot Gallery by Karl Addison which s hosting and supporting the second part of Stick Core Berlin…

So if you are a sticker artist, collector or somehow involved in sticking sticky things in the streets, make sure to join this thing by sending in your stuff before March, 23rd 2012. For more info, check out Stick Core on Facebook!

This post was written by Brenna Urban on Urban Art Core.

It documents in a minimal and quite manner the wintry atmosphere of a local tram yard and shows us graffiti artists taking advantage of the favourable, frosty situation to paint some iron…

Environment influences any person, alters his mood and actions. Each place has its own spirit. The choice of a place highly depends on the experience and result you are aiming at. There is no other place we know with such an atmoshpere that can compete with the tram yard at night. It is like a maze of iron, dark forest, broad field and peaceful slough at the same time. (Vova Chernyshev)

Conclusion: Really nice, successful and worth to watch!
More photos on Flickr!

Via berlingraffiti.de.

This post was written by Brenna Urban on Urban Art Core.

Punk, skate and graffiti influences versus cute ninja rabbits, foxes and other illustrative characters – that’s the wild mix content of the Danny Doom vs. Flamat exhibition which opened its doors last Friday at Neonchocolate Gallery in Berlin, presenting culture clashing artworks by urban artist Danny Doom from Berlin and by Leipzig-based illustrator Flamat!

As some voices revealed, this art-show is the first part of a more complex art tour by Danny Doom (e.g. including the so-called living-room art tour) who is going to celebrate this last doomed year 2012 (just remember the Maya calendar!) with several different art events taking place probably around the world.

So make sure to check out this nice pair-exhibition to get a first clue of what you can expect by both artists in the near future! Of-course I visited the opening ceremony and took some photos for those of you who can’t make it or don’t want to travel through a frosty Berlin city…

For more info about the artists, visit itisalwaysdoomsday.com or flamat.de.

This post was written by Brenna Urban on Urban Art Core.

Redbirds – Anti-Graffiti Subway

The Redbirds, which are named after their cinnabar red anti-graffiti coat of paint and got famous during the early 1980th, when New York Cities graffiti scene reached the peak, are now helping to create an artificial reef off the coast of Delaware (named Redbirds Reef), what sounds really weird in my ears…

But the story is not new! Already back in 2001 the Maryland Reef Initiative established the Redbird Reef, which back then was composed of 714 Redbird NYC subway cars, 86 retired tanks and armored personnel carriers, eight tugboats and barges, and 3,000 tons of ballasted truck tires, as Wikipedia knows.

Anyway, here are some new photos documenting Redbirds being thrown into the sea – great impressions!

This post was written by Brenna Urban on Urban Art Core.