Here’s the graffiti effect!

Funny contextual street art

Mr Chat is one of these street artists that became famous thanks to one character. In this case it’s a yellow cat smiling and runing on the cities walls. This cat is world famous! It’s a star!

After having troubles with justice (there was a public display in his town against his trial) Mr Chat is now doing shows and exhibitions. The big Cat in the second picture was created in front of the Pompidou Center in Paris during his exhibition in this famous contemporary art center. Mr Chat is always doing street art all over the world.

Official Mr chat site

A French site helps you to find Mr chat’s creations

Today you’ll meet a young Female graffiti artist : Toofly From NYC. Enjoy her artwork!

Toofly is a major actor in the graffiti and Hip Hop community in New York City. This young woman, from Queens, started to draw and paint in the streets in the beginning of the 90’s, when she was about 15 years old. At the time, this movement was still rebellious and marginalized and not many women were involved in it.
Her artwork is influenced by the calligraphy and illustrations of some artists she admires (Clark, Ench, Bis, Skuf and many others), but she also developed her own style and characters and is now acknowledged as an equal by these same artists.
In the Spring 2007, Toofly launched a fashion and accessories collection, under the signature of TOOFLY NYC, that can be found in a variety of stores all over the US and in countries such as UK and Japan, in limited quantities, though.
She also organizes, through Younity, a female urban arts collective that she created with her partner Alice Mizrachi, many exhibitions, art programs, book publishing, for young women artists, to promote street arts among the public. She also tries to encourage women’s participation to these events and helps them position themselves in the mainly masculine world of Graffiti.
Her art and designs can be admired in numerous books, videos, magazines like Graffiti Women, MTV Tr3, Trace, Juxtapoz, and on her website. She is currently working on many projects, including a billboard for an American brand in association with other artists and canvases for the Sweet City Woman exhibition at Fuse Gallery in May.

Text by Yafa for the Fatcap Team

Toofly official site

Photo by Genxcel

-Do you want more brand new french subway graffiti?

-HELL YEAH!

- Ok, ok, let’s go with French subway graffiti part 2. Live from Paris! All these graffiti were done 6 month ago. It’s fresh flavor…

Artists : Azar, Stereo, Efas, Stik and Ayaz?, Lekso, Maes.

Stereo

Efas and Lisk on the subway number 3 in Paris

Graffiti upon subway byLekso

Graffiti by Maes in the subway station :

Canvas ’s not , and will never be the original graffiti support… The real graffiti is vandalism, is on train, walls and its purest form is the tag an nothing else.

It’s a scream, a dirty finger in your ass, we don’t need autorisation to tell you that we’re living, the street belong to us. We’re the king.

But.. but… graffiti became a new form of art, a beautiful an amazing art. If people can’t recognize it now, in 2050 they will suck our dead dicks and put our illegal walls in museum. So let’s appreciate graffiti on canvas, the official support of the “classic” art that took place in the heart of humans before the birth of graffiti.

Pictures were taken in a French exposure in Chatillon. Artists : Dan23, Mask, Simer, Sly2 and Violon. Photographer : Slace for Fatcap.

Beautiful Pete Rock’s portrait by Dan23

A stencil is a template used to draw or paint identical letters, symbols, shapes, or characters every time it is used. Stencil technique in visual art is also referred to as pochoir. Stencils are formed by removing sections from template material in the form of text or an image. This creates what is essentially a physical negative. Stencils have also become popular for graffiti, since stencil art using spray-paint can be produced quickly and easily.

Some famous masters of stencils : Blek le Rat, Banksy…

Photographer : FLO

Peeblitz

A street art project by Alexandre Orion named “Art less poluttion“. The artist don’t use paint or anything, he’s just cleaning the polution dirt on the walls.

Thanks to his art and its strong visual effect, the artist helps people to become aware of the huge pollution that we breath in big cities.

Today is a special day : The Jace Day!

Jace is a famous street artist. You can find is work all over the world. He’s the creator the Gouzou characters. For the Fatcap Graffiti Blog readers, here’s a biography of him and some pictures of his faboulous artwork.

JACE lives on Reunion Island, a small French island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. He moved there in 1982 aged just 9 years old. Jace was initially inspired by the New York style graffiti from the Martha Cooper’s book “Subway Art”, and he began his street stuff in 1989. Developing his own style over the next few years, Jace created his famous character “Gouzou” in 1992. Although Jace continues to paint traditional murals, his real talent lies in interacting with his environment in a very humorous way using his small character. Indeed, Gouzou can be found on bill boards where Jace has taken advantage of the picture and used him to ridicule the original advert.

There are currently 4 books detailing Jace’s paintings and street installations, the first of which was printed in 1999. Since then Gouzou has become a real icon of Reunion Island where he is recognised by everyone. Jace also has hundreds of fans who often go “hunting” with their camera to catch each and every one of Jace’s practical jokes. However Jace’s talents are not limited to just Reunion Island as Gouzous can also be found in London, Rome, Prague, Paris, Le Havre (France), Mayotte Island, Bali (Indonesia), Madagascar Island, Mauritius Island, New York, Budapest, Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Barcelona, Macao, and many more places.

However, Gouzou can sometimes be rather mischievous and disobedient and his father Jace needs to be very strict, and at times he will enclose Gozou in a gallery for several weeks. But Gouzou will quickly finds his way back to freedom. But perhaps the irrepressible nature of Gouzou really just symbolises Jace’s own sense of adventure; “nothing can stop me; neither the fines, nor the jail, nor the mountain or the seas, nor the future of street art when the fashion ends…” So the spirit of Gouzou lives on.

Jace Official site

Street art and graffiti by Jace

Here’s brand new pictures that I took in Paris. The subway line number 3 is free!

The first selection of the week end : enjoy! Stay tuned for more graffiti on parisian subways…

Let’s roll with graffiti on trucks. Street art and graffiti are traveling all over the country just for your eye pleasure.

Painted trucks :

Two painted bus by Eon75, and two graffiti on trucks by Unknown (?), and Joose

Today you’ll meet Phlegm, a graffiti and street artist from UK. He wrote a text about him for The Fatcap Blog. We discovered his artwork with one of his graffiti paint …on on a plane! Here’s Phlegm!

I’m twenty eight and I’m based in Sheffield uk. I’m primarily a cartoonist and illustrator who has an addiction to self publishing and underground art. All of my comic work is with black Indian ink and a dip pen. I only use colour when I’m screen printing or painting walls (or planes.)

I have a strange relation to graffiti, having a style that’s grown entirely from my self published comics rather than letter styles. My comic comes out every four months or so and i work endlessly on them, and have done for the past four years. I started out as a cartoonist but the graffiti side of things has really taken over the past three years. I think it’s because my style has been so effected by what i draw for the comic it’s stopped almost all outside influences. I love to get run down urban spaces and factories and play with the space. It’s such an immediate way to get your picture on the wall. A painting in the street becomes part of the cities architecture, influenced by what’s around it rather than being some awkward canvass in an art gallery.
x phlegm x

Phlegm official art site

Out of all visual beauty and vandalism rage, graffiti is a message…

Hey people, here’s an autobiography by Peeta for the Fatcap Worldwide graffiti Blog : Peeta is one of the master of 3D style, a pure graffiti artist from Italy. Let’s go…

I use to write Peeta since 1993. I’ve started to paint in a little town between Venice and Padova (Italy) by my self, without any reference. As i grew up, I’ve started to move in Padova and Venice, I met many other graffiti writers, they gave me insight, and my style during the years evolves quikly from a kind of organic style to 3D style. Since 2000 i am a member of the EAD crew from Padova, this crew was born in 1991, it’s a crew with breakers, writers and music. Since 1999, I’ve started to travel around Europe, and I’ve been invited in many shows exibitions and mostly to graffiti jams and meetings, like the Meeting of Styles and many others. Since 2003 I am a member of the FX crew from New York City, this is a really oldschool crew since the 80’s.

During the last years I’ve been travelling to all aorund Europe, US, Mexico, Colombia, and from 2006 i am a member of the RWK crew from New York. In the last eight years I’ve been painting on canvas selling them in my websites to people from all over the world, in the same time I developed some sculptures. Sculpting and painting, but also the photography are, in my opinion, disciplines who helps each other. Everytime I make a sculpture i recieve a lot of knowledge about 3D space and shapes, that’s help me to paint in a better way. And while I’m painting I develop new ideas for new sculptures. It’s a kind of circle.

Recently I’m doing industrial design too, wich is stimulating me new fresh ideas. I’m also doing new sculptures made by several materials and industrial technologies. It’s my way to combine Graffiti and design, to keep evolving Graffiti.

Peeta site

Another selection of beautiful graffiti on ugly subways and trains… Graffiti make subways feel better! Strictly whole-cars. Enjoy.

A retired NYPD vandal squad cop is about to publish a book about graffiti. The book will also be about being a vandal squad cop, so this should be an interesting read.

The most exiting thing is not only this publication but the fact that a NY vandal squad cop must possess one of the best photo collections of the graffiti history. Many cops appreciate graffiti and take pictures for their job but also for their pleasure. Rumors says that a graffiti legend is working on this project with the retired cop. PowerHouse Books is the publisher of the vandal squad graffiti book.

More Info on graffnews.com

I told you that my grand mother is graffiti artist… No joke

The Belgian graffiti

For your pretty eyes, here’s a selection of the belgian graffiti.

In France and Europe, it’s usually known that the belgium hip hop movement is “pure”. It means that they stay real with the whole hip hop culture and its 4 elements. The belgium graffiti is an example. An other example is the complete synergy between their Mc-Dj and B-boys. Every US hip hop band which played in Belgium felt the same vibe : “the belgian public is hip hop to the fullest”!

A youtuber named Ryan Erickson, whose handle is AlwaysThrowROCK, has posted an interesting video of San Francisco graffiti and street art. The video is “dedicated to those who make San Francisco a city of unbridled love compassion and beauty.” A great collection assembled with passion. Enjoy.

Daim is the Master of 3D graffiti.

Here’s a text that he wrote. He explains his relation to graffiti. You can find the complete text version in Daim Official Site as well as his biography.

DAIM - creativ from time to time

I‘m someone who can really concentrate on something, who can work on something and drown himself in it. And I don´t mean for a few hours or a few days. Once I began writing, I couldn´t let go of it anymore. There were times when I didn‘t do anything else but writing every day. When I lived in Switzerland I sat on my couch for six months and did nothing else but drawing. Once a week I went shopping and that was it. Graffiti gives incredibly much to me, otherwise phases like these would not be possible.
By concentrating on certain ideas, technique or style, by working on a certain thing over a long period of time, by engaging in this process, in the end, you´ll find out a lot about yourself and your personality. In the end this reflects in the styles that you will develop.

But you´ll reach boundaries automatically. Limits set by the graff scene you´ll learn to accept, sometimes you try to cross or even push them. But also in the field of graffiti which surely made me try other techniques or exhaust this field. In the end you´ll reach your own limitations which you choose to accept or fight. Graffiti gives a self-determined life to me, which let´s me decide what I will do when, or even if I will do it or not. Thank god I‘m a restless man, driven by an inner urge to do something. In other cases the self-determination includes the danger not to do anything at all. Except from being on travels, there are no days when I´m not in my studio. That‘s something else graffiti gives to me. To have the possibility to write in different places, to meet new people and their cultures and to see foreign countries. And with that, to collect new impressions, evolve new ideas and implement those. To paint huge walls with others and always create new pieces.

Graffiti in this place includes the momentary ness itself. Pieces, which are done that way, will only last for a certain period of time. Surely you have your archivated photographs, but that‘s not the same. Graffiti teaches you to accept the momentary ness. Of course, to fight that fact, I paint canvases and big commissions which leave my traces for a long time. To me graffiti is something that I still want to do in twenty years. But I will not put up any boundaries to me with a term that someone will call “classical graffiti”, something that does not exist to me. Writing your name and present it to someone, can also be done on the computer in the internet or on canvases in exhibitions.

Because of that you can‘t be too old for graffiti, in my eyes. You can take the positive aspects for yourself in any age. The challenge, which means graffiti to me, can not end. You are always in search of perfection: your own technique, writing with the can, evolving your own style, realisation of commissionary work, while working on canvases or sculptures and in organizing exhibitions, the work with the computer, animating styles…
Every new influence that reaches you from the outside and every new technique you get to know brings new challenges and new ideas. The organisation of a huge project like Dock10 in the harbour of Hamburg or an exhibition like “Urban Discipline” can give you the kick that you had when you went outside for illegal writing in the past.

Graffiti also means challenge to me, because I don’t want to set the style that I formed as a limit. Experiments and evolvement can‘t be pushed aside only because there is a certain expectation connected to me. I find it quite interesting to see how others perceive me and my art. The only important thing is not to get influenced too much by that in an unconscious way. Once you created a style, it gives you the possibility to work on it further on and not to have to “start all over again” every time. To break out and experimentate can also mean that you change techniques or the place of the presentation. A 3D-style on a wall is not the same as one that is done on a canvas in a museum or as a graphic on a sticker.

In the last few years some kind of work-in-phases developed, which means that I mostly work creatively whenever I’m travelling. Many walls and canvases are being done in that period. When I‘m home in Hamburg I deal with all the stuff that make these travels possible, which means the organisation and planning. Hamburg also means working for and with getting-up, the studio community which I founded together with TASEK, DADDY COOL and STOHEAD in 1999.
In this community we didn‘t commit ourselves to get something done, we didn’t put up any goals. We gave ourselves the time to evolve and define ourselves. Only in this way collective projects can be done, which made us stick together more, but also let us realize, that to every one of us a personal artistical work should be placed before all. We are not a company and that gives us the space to develop and implement our own artistical activities.
Because of the fact that the single relationships between the getting-up artists were pretty different in the beginning, it was especially important that no one would feel constricted. Things like that happen especially when you know someone pretty good or not very well. In the beginning we tried to evaluate on what we were getting involved with and we all were smart enough not to put our expectations on a too high level. In a group you have to lower your individual needs for the benefit of the community from time to time, without neglecting your personal artistical work or even yourself. We used to have phases when this seemed almost impossible. After we put up the third “Urban Discipline” exhibition, we had to realize that we either had to become an agency for organising exhibitions or to take a break.

The more or less we chosed the second, but through the work on the “Urban Discipline” movie, which we produced together with halbbild from Berlin and which will be released in early 2005 on a double DVD, the activities around this project will only be finished after that. We don‘t want to cut the possibility to organize an exhibition similar or same like this one.
The reactions to the “Urban Discipline” exhibits were pretty positive and they still are, which we can see on the loads of visitors on our website ( www.urbandiscipline.de). That was a good motivation to us. The time for an exhibition like this was just right. At that time it was still possible to organize something like this one, even though we invested and lost a lot of money.

I never dealed with the fact that some time I wouldn‘t be able to live of graffiti and that I couldn‘t be able to become self-employed. I didn’t even have to, because on one side I was earning my own money with commissions very early. On the other side my parents always gave me the feeling to be there for me and this way made it possible for me to go my own path. Meanwhile I have more time to focus on my own work. Especially on my travels where most of the latest stuff was done.

About a year ago I decided to publish some of my stuff in a book. The work on the book (DAIM – daring to push the boundaries) and on my web page, which I completely reconstruct right now, captured me with most of my time. I don’t mean to document my whole piece of work in it. It is more like a chosen insight, pretty much like my personal “best of”.

A different part of my work is the fashion label DAIMartwear that I recently founded with two partners. It gives me the opportunity to establish in other areas. I got the idea for that when I made some designs for brands like Carhartt, Levi’s and Tribal.
To me 2005 is going to be very exciting. For sure I will write, but also the other areas, which I am concentrating on right now will be elaborated. There is a lot going on – you can be very strained…