London-based artist INSA, just finished his largest gif-itti piece to date in Newcastle, England for Unit 44′s White Walls Project. The piece took over three days to complete, and re-painting the wall four times yielded eye-popping results. Tongue-in-cheek in nature, INSA’s work makes a statement about how a majority of street art is currently looked at online.

INSA said:

The beauty of INSA’s GIF-itti is that it only truly lives when viewed online, where these days most street art ends up being viewed, and it exaggerates the ephemeral nature of graffiti as each layer is painted instantly over the last. Mixing retro internet technology and labour intensive painting, INSA creates slices of infinite un-reality, cutting edge art for the Tumblr generation.

It’s a first for us here – 3 days in the sun re-painting this monster wall 4 times to give us this completely original result.

Watch the time-lapse video to get an idea of the scale and labor that goes into 600 pixels.

(via PSFK)

From Martin’s blog:

A Graffiti Art Festival has been organized for Kings Heath Park on Saturday, Sunday 15th, 16th March – 12noon to 6pm.

The Festival is being jointly organized by Bishop Challoner School and In A City Arts, 21 York Road. The Festival is being funded from Community Chest Funds awarded by the Moseley and Kings Heath Ward Committee.

The Festival is part of a series of measures to move local teenagers from graffiti tagging, which upsets residents, to the legal form of graffiti art.

The tennis courts in Kings Heath Park will be filled with 75 meters of 8foot high boards. The next door basketball court will have ramps for skateboarders and BMX-ers. There will also be food and music.

Professional graffiti artists will be on hand to show off their skills and advise younger teenage artists – young people who wish to participate will be able to come along through booking a place through the new ‘INACITY Arts’ Graffiti shop on York Road who will give them a time slot and will manage the Graffiti element of the day itself. Teenagers who are known to be taggers will not be allowed to use the paint facilities.

There will also be a marque in case of poor weather

If the event is a success, then funds will be made available for more during the Spring and Summer.

Martin also announces that there will be a full time managed legal graffiti zone behind Kings Heath Baptist Church on the High Street opening in mid-March.