What a rise in fame and status for graffiti! It used to be called defacing public property. Then the elusive Banksy began getting thousands for his pieces. And now the President of the USA has it hanging in the White House.

Ben Eine is a newer and quirkier gaffiti artist than Banksy, who has become almost old hat; making world tours and popping up in Canada and the USA. Eine has been in the graffiti business for almost twenty years, starting when he was 14 years old. His pseudonym comes from the word one, which morphed into uno and then the german eine.

Much is known about him; he has been photographed, he lives in the east end and he has three children, works as a full-time artist and shows his work in galleries.

His latest project, which is hardly graffiti, and more art, is located on the shuttered doors of shops in the east end of London. Called “Alphabet Street”, he spray painted a letter on the door of a series of shops, all with the permission of the shop owners. They collaborated about the colour of the letter that they got. And some fit the shop, for example Flying Burrito got an F.

The street looks magical now and the locals love it: “The nicest reaction is seeing kids skipping down the street calling out the alphabet – or,” he adds, “parents saying my work has helped their kids learn their A to Z.”

(Source: TreeHugger)

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The project represents a great pairing of individuals and groups interested in making their communities and the world a more engaged and creative place. Members of the Welling Court neighborhood in Queens wanted to beautify their neighborhood walls and enliven their surroundings and Brooklyns Ad Hoc Art, known for supporting and expanding the accessibility of street art to the masses in NYC and throughout the world, was an perfect fit.

Welling Court Artists include: Alice Mizrachi, Chris Mendoza, Chris Stain, Celso, Cern, Cey Adams, CR, Cycle, Dan Witz, Darkclouds, Daryll Peirce, Don Leicht, Ellis G, Free5, Gaia, Garrison & Alison Buxton, Greg Lamarche, JMR, John Fekner, Lady Pink, Leon Reid, Ludo, Matt Siren, M-City, Michael De Feo, Mr. Kiji, Pablo Power, Peripheral Media Projects, R. Nicholas Kuszyk, Remi/Rough, Ron English, Royce Bannon, Sofia Maldonado, Stormie Mills, Sweet Toof, Swoon, TooFly, Tristan Eaton, and Veng RW.

Sket One is a visual artist with an old school urban background. A Connecticut based graffiti artist and founder of the Bode Jam. Sket One, has designed toys for such toymaker heavyweights as Kaching Brands, MINDstyle, Kidrobot, Wheaty Wheat, Red Magic, Circus Punks, and more. We met at Miami Art Basel this past year and kept in touch ever since. Sket One has built a successful career as a visual artist whose work is both acclaimed and in high demand. Sket One’s artistic and business ambitions came together for the first time when, in 1992, he created and ran Unitee, a clothing design company.

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One Wall – One Concept – One Writer

MadC is known for massive and detailed concept walls. This year she is going to break her own record and paint her biggest and most elaborate concept wall ever. Just herself, without help.

The object: a gigantic 639 m² wall involving her characters and styles. She has started planning and sketching in January 2010.

The concept of the wall called “Stylemachine”. As the name implies it will basically be a machine producing styles, including an laboratory scenario, rats, crazy professors and so on.

MadC is in order to finish this huge wall until the december 2010. Get your update here almost every month in 2010 and see how that monster wall get done.

You can see her progress by visiting Molotow’s 700wall page.

Influential graffiti artist such as SEEN, TWIST, AMAZE, KETONE, JONONE, and KATSU have had their tags motion captured using the Graffiti Analysis software.

All tags created in Graffiti Analysis are saved as Graffiti Markup Language (GML) files, a new digital standard used by other popular graffiti applications such as Laser Tag and EyeWriter.

Graffiti Analysis 2.0 is an open source project that is available online for free in OSX, Windows and Linux. You can download the 2 applications from ===> HERE < ===. Graffiti writers are invited to capture and share their own tags, and computer programmers are invited to create new applications and visualizations of the resulting data.

What Martha Cooper did for archiving graffiti on film, and Chalfant/Silver did for archiving graffiti in video, Graffiti Analysis intends to do for archiving graffiti in code.

The project aims to build the worlds largest archive of graffiti motion, and bring together two seemingly disparate communities that share an interest hacking systems, whether found in code or in the city.