Archive for June, 2009

30.06.2009

Roskilde Festival Graffiti Workshop

Roskilde Festival and Molotow collaborate together each year to provide a Graffiti Workshop for those attending the festival. Despite the overcast clouds on Day #2, there was an impressive amount of Roskilde go-ers eager to try their hand at spraying. Armed with a mask, 6 cans of Molotow spray paint and creativity, people of all ages came out to the first day of the workshop,  Amy Baker, hailing all the way from Canada, was thrilled with the idea of the creative freespace. When asked what her favourite aspect was, she said "The choice of colours. Molotow provided a fun array of shades that made it really fun to work with. What a great experience this way – to try painting in a legal, welcoming and fun enviroment – I couldnt have asked for a better first time." From 11 am to 6pm, people painted layers upon layers of neverending artwork in various styles. From amateur to professional, the next 4 days at the workshop will be tons of fun for all. See the photo update here

28.06.2009

Roskilde Update #1

We got some updates for you from Roskilde Festival 2009. Saturday 27th. The day before the opening the graffiti team arrived at the festival, spending the day setting up everything for the big upcoming operation. The night was planned for commision painting at the festival, but was brutally interrupted when the party-eager crowd destroyed the wire-fence barricades and invaded the camping area at 9pm, 11 hours before the official opening planned for Sunday morning. The invasion was not enough to stop the graffiti team, they still managed to pull of their commision walls late in the evening before joining the party crowd for some fun before the serious walls with Kacao77 and many more at the inside area kicks off the next morning. Here is a few impressions of the graffiti teams first and second day at Roskilde Festival 2009.

28.06.2009

Urban Affairs 2 Berlin Set-up

First Pictures from Bocho´s Tape Art Piece and 1010, Above, ROA, Kain Logos plus a few more at work at the Urban Affairs 2 Berlin Setup, the Streetart Festival start on the 1st July 2009. (via)

28.06.2009

Write4Gold Germany 2009 Review

The Results and Photos of the this year Write4Gold Germany 2009 are online over at Write4Gold.com

26.06.2009

Graffiti celebrates 10 years at Roskilde Festival

When Bob Marley played at Roskilde Festival in 1978, Talking Heads in 1979, U2 in 1982, Metallica in 1986,Radiohead in 1997 and Snoop Dogg in 2008 (just to mention few among countless artists), Roskilde has again and again demonstrated that this is the place to experience new, sprouting names, contemporary stars and timeless legends. Roskilde Festival has surprised its audience throughout history, and you can prepare yourself to be surprised again. It is not only musical experiences that await the audience when the festival site and its seven music stages open on Thursday 2 July.

This year, graffiti art celebrates its 10-year jubilee at Roskilde Festival. The celebration is carried out with an international lineup of world-class artists such as Swet (DK), Take2 (AUS), Sirum (AUS), Rens (DK), Sek (DK), Slide (GER), Poet (GER), Kacao77 (GER), the TOYS Crew (DK), Inti and Hes (CHILE), Soten (DK), Zombie (DK), MadC (GER) and many many more  who will decorate more than 1000 metres of fence with all kinds of colours, subjects and messages. And Graffiti at Roskilde is not only for the few. If you have a hankering for expressing yourself and are game for taking on spray cans, hand ‘tags’ and painting masks, just show up at Roskilde Festival’s graffiti workshop at Agora B around the skate ramp. From Sunday 28 June to Wednesday 1 July from noon till night, you can be guided and misguided by Roskilde Festival’s graffiti girls.

Plenty of paint has arrived, we will go for regular updates on this here at the Molotow Blog! (Link Roskilde Festival)

26.06.2009

Legendary Belmont Tunnel Artworks

On June 6, 2009 Graff Head attended the opening night of the Legendary Belmont Tunnel graffiti exhibit at Crewest Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. The show was labeled as "A Tribute to the Birthplace of Los Angeles Graffiti Art" The show featured many well known Los Angeles graffiti artists that painted at Belmont Tunnel: Acme, Aloy, Antonio Pelayo, Axis, BaBa, Besk, Bumper, Cab, Cale, Charlie, Cre8, Dash, Danny D, Defer, Duster, Earnone, Elser, Eriberto Oriol, Fearo, Fever, Frame, Frank Martinez, Gabe, Genius, Ghostone, Gilone, Graf One, Grande, Hex, Hyde, Jero, Jiro, Kopy, Make, Mandoe, Man One, Mosh, Nuke, OG Abel, Omega, Pale, Panic, Relax, Relic, Retna, Rickone, Risky, Ruets, Saber, Sacred194, Shandu, Siner, Size, Skept, Skyone, Sleez, Swan, Teler, Volt, Vox, Vyal, Wisk, Zender. See the photos of the artworks here

26.06.2009

Rest In Peace

…to all that we lost, lets make it a better day tomorrow everyone. Rest in Peace Michael Jackson, your music has been with us for decades