Browsing June, 2012

Trina Merry – Body paint Graffiti camouflage

Posted on 30/06/2012 by MaZe

Trina Merry is a fine art and avante garde fashion bodypainter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the owner of the bodypaint installation and performance troupe the ART ALIVE GALLERY and has been a bodypainter since 2006 when introduced to it by Australian band the Red Paintings on a Dresden Dolls Tour.

Trina Merry - Graffiti Camo body paint

Some of these avant-garde body painting projects Trina has produced are camouflage themed with the blending in of people to the background, in many cases Street Graffiti.. We especially like the ”SpaceCreatures” project (see video) which was Filmed in San Jose, CA as a collaboration project between Trina (Body Paint Artist), Abraham Menor (Photographer) , and SpaceOne (Graffiti Artist).

Trina Merry - Graffiti body paint

Trina Merry - Graffiti body paint camouflage

And here are a few other photos from Trina’s collection of Graffiti camouflage body paint.

Trina Merry - Graffiti body paint camouflage

Trina Merry - Graffiti body paint camo

Trina Merry - Graffiti body paint camo 2

You can see more pictures and videos of Trina’s body painting over at ILoveBodyart.com or on Trina’s website

Surf’s Up – Graff’s up ! Asie.one (Bali)

Posted on 26/06/2012 by MaZe

ISTHISTHEFUTURE meets ASIE.ONE a German Graffiti writer now living in Bali . We asked him about how he’s managed to combine his 2 loves - graffiti and surfing.

asie.one graffiti canvas fish

asie.one graffiti canvas fish blue

I was born in Nuernberg, Germany in 1975 and started graffiti at the age of 12 influenced by ‘the classics’ like Beat street, wild style, NY, hip hop, break dance. Berlin and Munich were my fav graffiti destinations in the late 80s and 90s. The high quality pieces in Munich and at the same time the hardcore train and wall bombing in Berlin – it was such an exciting time to be growing up there!. I later spent a few years travelling and seeing the world, including Australia, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Malaysia, and then I arrived in Indonesia and got stuck. I love surfing, of which there is plenty in Bali, and I made a decision to set up home and I spent pretty much my first year here just surfing every day.

Then in my second year in Bali I started to work on canvas with brush and mostly oils but also using any media available including the local spray cans which are not really that great, still its possible to get some things done with them. I set up my own company (www.aerosoul-indonesia.com) and opened the FIRST graffitt gallery in Indonesia here in Bali (Seminyak). My company also provides graffiti in an advertizing way although the local spray paint quality is not that great and for commissioned walls i mostly use imported cans.

techno-prole-canvas-asieone-graffiti

How big is Graffiti in Bali ?

Yogya is the capital of street art and graffiti.a lot of talented fresh artist over there and the streets are bombed like in no other city in Indonesia. We did a street art event last year in Yogya which went really well and was a lot of fun. see link I suggest everyone to have a look at this small city in Java definitely worth it for a day trip. Bali attracts millions of tourists every year and lot of visiting Graffiti artists spray paint the walls especially around Kuta. Great international mix of well known artists like “Bates” and same time not as well known artists like “Spuk” from Berlin who definitely been the winner in ‘getting up’ last year regarding quantity and quality -some of his silver pieces are sick.

What are your plans for the future?

I’m looking for new galleries outside of Indonesia to display my art and therefore have to spend a bit more time in an urban environment ( in between the island life full of good surf, bikinis and beaches )

XL-canvas-asie.one-graffiti

equus-asie.one-graffiti-canvas

You can see more from ASIE.ONE at www.asieone.com and his facebook page / Also check out his exhibition in Bali earlier this year.

Noé Two – Thailand Graffiti Trip

Posted on 22/06/2012 by MaZe

Earlier this year French Graffiti Artist ‘NOE TWO’ took himself and his art over to the ‘Land of smiles’, Thailand. Looking at this video diary which was aided by POSCA and the photos below it seems that it was Noe Two’s art that was creating the smiles.

Noe Two Graffiti Land of Smiles

Noe Two Phuket Graffiti art

Noe Two Graffiti Phuket

Phuket, Thailand

Noe Two graffiti Thailand

How many graffiti artists can say they have painted in a budhist temple. Hats off literally to NOE TWO and what looks like a great adventure of paint and discovery.

Painting inside Temple Wat Ko

Noe Two Graffiti Thailand 2012

Noe Two Thailand Buddha Graffiti

Thanks for the pictures Noe Two noe2gallery.com. – All images © NoeTwo or credited photographers

If you are interested in Graffiti in Asia – why not check out the Book & DVD

Stereoscopic 3D Graffiti Mapping – Peeta & Apparati Effimeri

Posted on 20/06/2012 by MaZe

In this video Italian Graffiti writer Peeta and a study of visual design Apparati Effimeri collaborate to provide a stereoscopic mapping project that combines the individualized approaches to the language of 3D. ‘The Ecrit Animé’ is the result of this research but is also a work in progress, as the two creative teams want to continue the artistic collaboration. Their first experiments were presented at the 2012 Festival at the AR Toolkit EVE: AV space Forte Marghera, Venice in May 2012.

Peeta 3d graffiti Apparati Effimeri

The spectators, furnished with 3D glasses, were immersed in a multi-dimensional hyperspace. The picture Peeta painted was combined with the virtual one created by Apparati Effimeri, creating an illusion exciting and surprising.

Peeta 3d graffiti Apparati Effimeri

Peeta is a graffiti artist from Venice (Italy) since 1993. He is member of the EAD crew (Padova, Italy), FX and RWK crew (NYC).

Peeta 3d graffiti

Peeta graffiti Bologna

Check out more of Peeta’s 3D Graffiti at www.peeta.net or on facebook

Has LUSH gone completely NUTS ?

Posted on 14/06/2012 by MaZe

Since our last feature on Australian self titled ‘Graffiti Asshole‘ LUSH back in March- Graffiti, Porn and No Rules he’s has been up to more mischief and graffiti shenanigans. Last month he released on the world his moving ‘Toyvision Graffiti Sponsorship Appeal’ where he asked people to dig deep for donations to help keep toys in paint and save them having to steal and rumage for dregs in known spray spots. LUSH hasn’t told us how much this appeal has raised so far but you can read more on Toyvision here.

LUSH graffiti Toy Vision appeal Now since arriving in the UK Lush has decided to show a homage of kind to some of the orginal name of NYC Graffiti in his own LUSH way. He’s reproduced classic pieces by ‘SEEN’ & ‘BLADE’ and also the world famous throws of ‘CAP’ and ‘COPE2′, but you will see from the photos he sent us that although these are great reproductions of these iconic writers styles, not all reads as it first seems.

LUSH graffiti BALD blade

BALD (Blade)

LUSH graffiti seen Seenile

SEENILE (Seen)

LUSH COPE3 Graffiti

COPE3 Internet King (Cope2)

LUSH BALD graffiti BLADE

CRAP (Cap)

Meanwhile, as it happens LUSH has also decided to ‘Sell out’ and has made it known that he will be having a warehouse show in London in the very neature future. Details will be released on LUSH’s website or his facebook page for more details.

Lush Graffiti exhibition show

Question ? Has lush gone too far this time or is this just a bit of playful fun?

Please leave comment below and let us know what you think. (LUSH will see your comments)

WISER – BodyGraffiti (Denver, Colorado)

Posted on 07/06/2012 by MaZe

Wise Rebelle Graffiti

WISER “I fell in love with graffiti after seeing the movie “Beat Street” at age 10 followed by a trip to New York at age 12 where I saw walls by TATS crew and FX crew. From then on I knew I wanted to paint Graffiti. After many years of heavy practice I Became a professional graffiti artist in 2006 with the launch of www.YourNameInGraffiti.com a custom graffiti and mural company , We continue to receive orders from all over the world including some big name celebrities. The art kept flowing and this provided designs for our functional art line “ILL Style Heroes”

monster popsicle wiser graffiti

wiser graffiti

“in 2009 I started bodypainting after a twist of fate and a chance meeting with one of body painting’s greats. I have since rocked an insane amount of masterpieces while traveling the world as an international instructor of body painting specializing in graffiti style. I’m also one of the founding members of GalleryML in Philadelphia, PA the worlds first collective body art gallery and ive been featured in several international Bodypainting publications. I still paint walls regularly and have the same great passion for spray paint as I always have but find myself getting more and more lost in Body painting, pioneering new techniques and pushing the limits of what the eye can be fooled into seeing by using body positioning and optical illusion to break boundaries of vision while maintaining a graffiti flava”

Wiser body paint Head

You can see more from WISERS Amazing Bodypainting portfolio at www.wiserbodygraffiti.com and also over on ILoveBodyArt.com .

UPFEST – 2012

Posted on 05/06/2012 by MaZe

Mr Shiz -Upfest Mr SHIZ – UPFEST 2012

June 2nd-4th 2012 saw rise to the 5th Upfest Urban Arts Festival in Bristol, the UK’s cultural home of graffiti. The event brought together over 250 graffiti / urban artists from around the world consuming over two miles of the city to paint live and create over 20,000 square foot of artwork. A highlight of this years UPFEST was the contsruction of a replica New York Subway Train which was painted by SOKER & Mr JAGO (see timelapse video above created by Jon Davey). Other artists Artists included HERAKUT, GUY DENNING, INKIE, CHEO, FLX, LOKEY, SMUG, EPOK, POET2 and Mr SHIZ Along side the artists there were DJ’s, Bands and Beatboxers including REAPS one.

UPFEST banner 2012

Poet 2 graffiti upfest

POET2 (France)

Tricky -guy denning upfest ‘‘TRICKY’ by Guy Denning

Paris -Upfest

PARIS

Frank Styles upfest art

FRANK STYLES

The Art was increidble and this is just a tiny selection of art from the event , for more photos check out our UPFEST 2012 Album on facebook or the UPFEST 2012 Photo group on Flickr

SHRiiiMP comes to Bristol, UK

Posted on 05/06/2012 by MaZe

Last weekend (2-4th June) ISTHISTHEFUTURE was delighted to welcome our ‘partner in body paint’ SHRIIIMP over to Bristol where they came to join the UPFEST Urban Art festival. It was SHRIIIMP’s first time in the UK. After 2 days of painting walls, Mr Shiz (London, UK) & 2Rise (Syndey, Aus) got in the hot seat for a night of bodypainting. We were lucky enough to have some of the Bristol based BASS HONEYS there as willing models.

Shriiimp Bristol 2rise Bodypaint

writer : 2RISE, model: Kaylee

Mr Shiz Trix Bass Honesy bodypaint

writer : Mr. SHIZ, model: Trix (Basshoneys)

Trix basshoneys mr shiz bodypaint

writer : Mr. SHIZ, model: Trix (Basshoneys)

Bass honeys bodypaint

Da gorgeous ‘Basshoneys’

shriiimp bass honeys body paint

Ali love Basshoney bodypaint Mr shiz

writer : Mr. SHIZ, model: Ali-Love (Basshoneys)

Shriiimp bodypaint bristol 2rise

As the night went on various party goers and bar staff lined up to be painted. You can check out more pictures from the night on facebook and over on Shriiimp.com. Thank you to all who got involved and especially to Upfest organisers for letting us set up at their afterparty. SHRIIMP should be back to the Uk later this year for a headline event with International and local writers, more information will be posted in due course.