November 7th we had the honor to have an international crew of street artist collaborating to create the legendary CFYE wall. Among this crew was the amazing Indigo from Vancouver. It was a joy just to see her paint and she left quite an impression on us. Her calm and relaxed attitude (or maybe just compared to the rest of the crew, you know who you are!) which, in combination with her artwork, makes you realize that still waters run deep. Her stencilling has only just begun and she is already well on her way to become one of the great. But she's not limited to stencil art..or anything for that matters. She's a dancer, writer, photographer, poet and more. In other words, a full-time-multi-talent!
Recently we discovered the works of young and talented Puddeneen. Only 20 years old his stencil works and drawings make it look sure that there is a lot of potential there. Check out the interview to discover more about this talent.
I've been enjoying fatcap.com a lot lately. Actually, I might even be a bit jealouse! They've got a great site going on, good categorisation, loads of pictures, nice design and most important of all, great content. They recently did an interview with an Israelian artist we've been keeping our eye on for a while now: Klone. It's a good interview so make yourself a cup of tea (or whatever your cup of tea is) and have a good read on this cold winter night. Brrrr. Read the interview @ fatcap..
Yes, a small interview with the big promise in street art of 2010: the young and talented Roy Schreuder. Some call him the profet of the north, others just speak of 'the artist'. All we know is that he's going places. Check out the interview with this promising talent right here. Enjoy.
Our new regular contributor is Jessica from Romephotoblog, and to start of she did a quality interview with Italian artists 999" and X (who also participates in the unholy grail expo).
"I first met [X] and 999" this past spring during a backstage stenciling session at the closing party for the Vinyl Factory exhibit in Rome, where you'll see below they sprayed everything from records to serving trays. I figured it only fitting that for my first contribution to CFYE I turn the spotlight on them, as they're both participating in the Unholy Grail exhibit opening Friday. They're just two of a number of talented artists from Termoli, a small town on Italy's Adriatic coast, which strangely seems to churn out quite a bit of talent. Here's what I found out about them (translated from original Italian)." Read the full interview.
A while ago we reported on the ARTotale Leuphana Urban Art Project - Lüneburg, Germany . At this festival, a team of 35 amazing artists from all around gathered and decorated the city. Here a little report with artist interviews on the festival.
If you talk about street art and graffiti in Paris, there is only one crew to talk to! The Photograff collectif has things on lock in Paris. They're busy on exciting things, and also keep the time to do quality interviews wich I've been reading more and more since I've discovered Google Translate. Today an interview with the Septik. Septik has a love for urbex locations and placing is just the half of his work. Read the interview @ PGC
Okay, last thing from StencilhistoryX this evening; An interesting interview with Snub23 by StencilhistoryX.
"I got in touch with you the first time because of your stencils but you do some graffiti in the mean time. This is quite rare, isn't it ? It's true I was mostly working on stencils a year or so ago. I've always worked on my freehand cans skill at the same time though. Recently I've been painting using both stencils and freehand and expect more of that in the future. I believe it isn't just enough to cut a stencil from a found image as so many stencil artists do. There is skill for sure but no creativity, nothing new, just a reproduction done with a stencil. "
"What do you see when you think about Tehran? Up untill recently my mind pretty much drew a blank on that one, except news images of a green revolution I had no idea what was going on in the daily lives of people in the Iranian capital. Now I see the works of A1one. This artist has been doing street art before he even knew street art existed anywhere else in the world. As one of the pioneers in Iranian graffiti, his goal is not to make political statements, but rather focus on the social aspect of life. The sollitude of this artists make for a unique style with a great deal of influences. At the other hand, this disconnection with the rest of the world takes its toll on an artist with a free mind."