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How to get up in the winter by Bates

Photo from 12oz/Bates blog

Read Bates guide to painting in -10*C here.
It has been deleted.
It has been posted again on the ironlak blog.

Cuckoo clock maker’s home

Photo by Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times
Have you ever wondered how life after your graffiti career would look like, if you decide to start designing cuckoo clocks? If so, then New York Times has the answer.

Mr. Strumbel, 30, decided to stop painting graffiti five years ago so he could focus on cuckoo clocks.

Photo by Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times

From New York Times

Art for life


Danish Kidney Association(Nyreforeningen) invites to an art market on next Saturday in Copenhagen.
40 – 50 artists will exhibit their art. Look out for Bates, Bomr, Crima, Damn, Gebes, Great, Storm, Theis one and more.
Cheap beer and soda will be available and all profit goes directly to the Danish Kidney Association.

From Nyreforeningen via 12oz/bates

The graffiti judge


Breaking news in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Good thing they sent out a news team for that story.

Here you see some graffiti, but there is also some way back in the corner there… a purple! There is several different graffiti’s on this building here, what we are trying to figure out is, which is his.

Allentown= nice cheap hotel and awful expensive pizza.

Fotograff.tk huge Denmark update

Photo from fotograff.tk
Fotograff.tk has uploaded a huge amount of photos from Copenhagen a month ago. The photos are from legal walls around the city, street bombings, and a few trains. They also have photos from all over Sweden.
Photo from fotograff.tk
Photo from fotograff.tk
All photos from Fotograff.tk. Check it out!

Free s-trains first sunday of the month

Trackside graffiti in Copenhagen
DSB(Danish State Railways) announced today that starting next Sunday until the end of 2010, the first Sunday of each month will be perfect for spotting trackside graffiti all over Copenhagen and suburbs. As you can ride the train for free, and bring your bike with no cost.

»Der sker rigtig meget andet i København og forstæderne om søndagen. Nu kan man f.eks. tage hele familien gratis med i toget, hvis man skal i skoven, og man kan oven i købet kombinere turen med at tage cyklen gratis med, da det siden 15. januar har været gratis at tage cyklen med S-toget«, fortæller Niklas Marschall.

From politiken.dk and DSB

Update:
This is no longer valid. Now they have a ticket that will cost you 14 DKR. With that you can travel on all busses, trains and metro in all zones in the capital area from 4.30 sunday morning till 4.30 monday morning.

Søndage, hvor du kan købe Søndagsbilletten:
- den 7. august 2011
- den 4. september 2011
- den 2. oktober 2011
- den 6. november 2011
- den 4. december 2011
- den 1. januar 2012

From dsb.dk.

About Kegr in Like Lipstick Traces

Safecoolok posted kidpele’s intro to the Kegr section of the new book Like Lipstick Traces.

Buy Like Lipstick Traces from dokument.org 339 SEK

A spectacular photographic journey through the lenses of 13 graffiti artists. 13 graffiti writers, 2 years, 600 unpublished Polaroids. Like Lipstick Traces shows the everyday life of 13 graffiti writers.

Photo from dokument.org

Artists featured: Aroe (UK), C.B.S (DE), Dumbo (IT), Honet (FR), Kegr (DK), O’Clock (FR), Os Cururus (BR), Rate (USA), Remio (NOR), Rocky (ES), Scan (CA), Smash (CH), The E.R.S (BE).