OUTLINES WINS at LICC & FEATURES AT NEW MEDIA FILM FESTIVAL

"Outlines" wins environmental design award at this years London International Creative Competitions, LICC, and has been chosen to hang in the foyer gallery of the New Media Film Festival in San Francisco. It is a great honor to be part of the 2nd annual festival running on the 5th November at Landmark Lumiere Theatre 1572 California St. SF, CA. If you are in the area check out some of the events they have on. Here are the winning works on show.


LICC WINNERS
New Media Festival

Graffiti Japan Spotted

The second release of Graffiti Japan, Paper Back version In London book shop :)

RECENT PAINTING

Recent painting work of Alice from my movie/comic Scar, created for a fan down under.

Sink or Swim

Join us at the M event space in Daikanyama Tokyo this Saturday the 16th for an exhibition to save the Sharks. I will be exhibiting the above images, along with friends from around the globe, to help raise funds for  Shark helping organization, PangeaSeed. With many other great artists and a video by myself and Wayne J it is Presented by PangeaSeed. Hope to see you there!!

UPFEST BRISTOL UK 2010

 This is my graffiti work I did for Upfest in Bristol - 5th/6th June 2010.It took 5 days to create the stencil and 2 full days to paint Alice. Alice is from my graphic novel SCAR and you can download vol 1 from the APP STORE now -

I have been invited to paint her on the Wall of Fame in Bristol ! What an honor!!

                                                     

        SCAR ON THE APP STORE

GRAFFITI JAPAN on Tokyo Japan Times

Before Drainspotting, I photographed Graffiti Japan, which was my first book published by Mark Batty Publisher New York. It is a study of Graffiti art and Artists from around Japan. Japan has long been a breeding ground for innovative approaches to Western traditions. But, the fanatical embrace with which Japanese artists have welcomed graffiti has made for a form of graffiti wholly apart from its Western origins. Graffiti Japan captures the culturally unique aspects of Japanese street art, providing a most complete look at Japan’s contemporary graffiti scene up until 2009.

I could never have guessed that this first, on-a-whim trip to Japan would result to me moving to Tokyo and befriending the scene’s most prolific and talented artists. The more time I spent with them traveling from city to city, meeting local luminaries, the more photographs I took, the more excited the artists became about helping me delve deeper.

Interviews with KRESS, BELX2, FATE, TENGA, EMAR, SUIKO, QP,SHIZENTOMOTEL, PHIL and many more reveal how these artists define their work as specifically Japanese, musing on everything from replicating the calligraphic intricacies of the Japanese language with spray paint, to foreign influences and national pride. Every single photograph in Graffiti Japan was shot in Japan, featuring anime and manga characters, kanji, sprawling legal murals and illegal hidden spots, all of which comprise this spectacular scene that could not exist in any other country.

You can find the book on Amazon and check out the websites and blogs here.

Graffiti Japan will be coming to IPAD soon.

see full article here:

http://tokyo.japantimes.co.jp/post/en/195/GRAFFITI+JAPAN.html

WELCOME TO GRAFFITI JAPAN BLOG

Hello and welcome to the Graffiti Japan Bog. Here I will be reporting on all things graffiti in Japan and on my worldly tours around the globe painting in various spots.

Whats coming up.
May 2010

Graffiti Japan Extras: An Ipad app featuring new and unused photos from my book Graffiti Japan, published by Mark Batty Publisher, MBP.
June 2010

Tour to the UK and Bristol to participate in UPFEST 2010.