For the first time ever, the Royal Albert Hall will allow artists to turn the walls of the historic venue¹s Loading Bay into a gallery of graffiti and street artwork. In conjuction with Daydream Network, ‘LOAD’ will take a graphical journey through some of the most memorable moments in the Hall¹s existence starting with its opening in 1871 through to one of the first showcases of electric lighting, the suffragettes movement, Winston Churchill¹s Read More ...
The third annual Flatpack Festival takes place on the 11th-15th March 2009 in Birmingham, England. This year’s festival has a series of street art films including ‘Style Wars’ and ‘Bombin’, an ’80′s film that features a young Goldie and 3D (from Massive Attack) on a tagging weekend at Birmingham’s Bull Ring. The Flatpack Festival started life in 2006, an outgrowth of the itinerant film events put together by 7 Inch Cinema. The general Read More ...
Obey Clothing has collaborated with documentary photographer Martha Cooper. In anticipation for the Spring line, photographs have been released of inner-city children playing in the streets. The images will be part of a exhibition entitled ‘Street Shots’ which opens tommorow. The opening of Street Shots also marks several debuts: Cooper’s new book, Going Postal, a collection of photos of postal labels bearing street art; her image collaboration with Shepard Fairey, Read More ...
