Berling: Clean Graffiti

Clean graffiti and reverse graffiti are two forms of expression that are innovative and slyly efficient for the streets. Most urban art that I have been researching and discovering within the urbanscapes follow the trend of an additional application of various media onto buildings, streets, billboards, automobiles etc. But this version of 'clean graffiti' in Berlin, a city that is notorious for it's abundance of street art, is a form of graffiti that utilizes only water and stencils to produce the work. High pressure power washing techniques sprayed through stencils scrape and clean the filthy surfaces around Berlin that are clean-tagged. The outcome is super cool!! Watch this video to see how these artists produce their work.

Art&Culture Magazine

Monday was dreary and rainy but relaxing for me. My good pal Sandy and I lazyed up the perfect rainy monday morning and bummed ourselves over to barnes and noble to kill some time. i made my way over to the magazines and took my chances at a russian roullette random grab from the shelves. well i was interested in my grabs so i was pretty pumped--especially because the magazine i picked up was an Art & Culture Magazine that had some way cool looking images of graffiti murals plus page after page of original illustations, plenty of cool articles, and all sorts of neat graphic design and classic media. So to all who are down, check out Juxtapoz online and peep some of their blogs. i hope im not the only nerd who thinks this is cool.

Or if you dare go overseas, search around for any graffiti from the UK. Dopeee

Urban Art- graffiti art? OR spray can vandalism?

Twelve weeks, a dozen drives through the Lincoln and Holland Tunnel, hundreds of images, and a hand full of contact sheets later:

This body of work is coming together quite nicely as I am pleased to broadcast. The graffiti art-photography that I have been working with within urban landscapes has been broadly sensuous, unexpectedly informative, and most importantly, really really fun. Throughout all of the shooting, I have been asking myself questions about this street expressionism, its status within the visual arts, the skills and dexterity of its artists, and whether or not this medium may be considered art, OR spray can vandalism? On what degree can we deem this procedure a genre of art? Or is it solely illegitimate and illegal?

Well my friends, I now consider myself a spray can advocate thanks to all of the time I have spent exploring the streets and investigating the graffiti culture. What I have learned during the creation of this body of work is more than impressive. From taggers, to bombers, to muralists, to abstract expressionists, and every inconceivably precise label of spray-paint practitioner in between, there is a level of respect and admiration undoubtedly due across the board.
Certain spray-canned works that I visited were so scrupulously painted that I was seriously speechless. The time and precision that was so clearly applied to create certain walls is awesomely stunning and totally respected in my eyes. In zee near future (like later today) I am going to be scanning some images to publish on this bloggy. Take a close peep at what I publish and maybe you will understand why I am so ardently in support for this genre of street art. Stay tuned!



--withopenEyes.walktheStreets--