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Berlin

Met at the Westside Gallery, Berlin wall 2006

I was in Berlin for the Rhythm of The Line Festival and later that year I went to London and visited the Pictures on Walls studio.

http://www.metataggers.net/

http://www.richardschwarz.com

http://www.schmuddelrot.de/

http://www.overkill.de/
http://www.overkillblog.com/

http://www.picturesonwalls.com/Home.asp

Colour Theory

Someone was asking me about colour.

Here's a page of colour theory links
http://www.altavista.com

When searching for information about COLOUR, you need to also search for the USA spelling COLOR

Digital Graffiti Tool

This is brilliant for trying out colour schemes.

The Graffiti Creator is a Flash application that allow you to make your own graffiti-styled logotypes and texts. Simply type in a word and hit Enter and out comes a designed font ready for you to convert into beautiful art. Use an array of various tools to enhance your logotype to make it really special and unique.

http://www.graffiticreator.net/

try using PRINT SCREEN instead of the print facility - then you can edit the image before you print it.

Join up and compete against other artists for the title of Battle Master. Each month we hold a new contest, your job is to create a graffiti piece of the word that we announce.

The word for July 2008: Boom
http://www.mindgem.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=370

Mikosa Mural Amsterdam

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sz2E-H45zmQ

Six great artists painted the 300m2 mural of the former Groeneveldgarage in the Baarsjesweg 200 and did an amazing job!!!

For more information, please contact us via mi@mikosa.net

All artists have own websites where more information about their work can be found: www.boghe.net, www.galman.net, www.waynehorse.com, www.zedz.org, www.thelondonpolice.com and www.lordh.net.



I'm going to miss these guys when I leave.

Namesfest - Prague graffiti festival

Welcome to the web pages of the first street art and graffiti festival in Prague, which will be held from 26th August to 6th September 2008 in the Trafačka Gallery and the nearby area.

The web pages are an on-line news service, reporting on artists, locations, accompanying programmes with a lot of other information available during the festival preparations and the action itself.

http://namesfest.net/news.php

artists
APA ASH BLU BRAD DOWNEY HONET LOOMIT POINT REBEL INK SONIK STYLE KONSTRUKTOR ZASD ZEDZ ZEZÃO



ZEDZ - Interview
http://namesfest.net/inc/content/content.php?content.48

Big G - Taiwan Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP0ZurcidOw

It sounds like he's singing "Taiwan on de Ij" but I suspect that's not correct.

TTM - Taiwan Rap

TAIWAN TAICHUNG TTM/COAST436 RAP UNDERGROUND GANSTER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXFzwyf2WA8





ＵＧＫ最後一場演出　ＴＴＭ．ＬａｚｙＬａｄｙ合作演出

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XcpG11y89w&feature=related

Dutch and the art of bicycle maintenence.

This is what a bicycle looks like after someone backs over it with a truck. I was there when the owner found it. Not a happy camper.

A found a webpage meant to introduce you to the dutch language and culture. I'm not making any comment about choice of material, but I did nearly fall off my chair laughing.

Dutch by Subject
Fietsen: Bicycling

http://homepage.mac.com/schuffelen/fiets.html

fietsen
ik fiets
jij fietst
hij fietst
wij fietsen
jullie fietsen
zij fietsen
U fietst
hear - 2

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also : check out the girls









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGzwZH03QLE

HOW TO READ GRAFFITI - Australia

"Criteria for the judging of quality in a 'Graffiti Art' piece, is very similar to a lot of criteria used in other forms of formal art criticism. Other types of critical readings can also be used and a combination of these methodologies is always preferable. For Graffiti Art is not just an art form, it is also a culture. To properly review the work one must consider each piece in its full context. If the residue of the painting process, the painting itself is to be critiqued, it can be done on formal qualities alone though. These qualities always include can control (the painter's hand), colour and other forms of stylistic innovation, flow, funk, the nature of the site and is the work of an illegal or legal nature. These qualities must be appropriate for the form that it is within 'Graffiti Art' and for the type of artist involved."

HOW TO READ GRAFFITI was the title of the Masters paper written by Jason Dax Woodward in 1997. The work was a starting point for understanding some of the unwritten rules of graffiti. The text can be found at
www.team183.com
It was eventually published as part of the Chromopolis book published in Greece. 1998.

Read Paper
http://www.team183.com/html/kasinomasterpaper/paper.htm

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See also

KASINO
http://www.kasino.com.au/

Team 183
http://www.team183.com/main.html

Editorial: Relocation to Asia

Its now official.

In the next couple of months The Aviary will be relocating to Asia. We have new premises in Taipei, Taiwan and we will be transferring our activities from Europe to Asia. What this means is that there will be a reduction in the amount of posts during the relocation, and once we are up and running again there will be a shift of emphasis to Taiwan material.

You might want to learn Mandarin as this will be necessary for reading many of the websites.

If you have first hand experience or contacts with Taiwan, we would love to hear about it.

If you live in Taiwan and can show us the hall of fame, we'd like to meet you.

Here's looking forward to networking and collaborations between Australia, Amsterdam and Taiwan.

Artfully yours
Blakkbyrd

黑 鳥

Route 66 - Australian Graffiti Documentary

http://video.google.com/videoplay

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Geelblauw

This is a very nice website out of the netherlands, with pages and pages of graffiti films and news about events.


http://www.geelblauw.nl/

check out the link list
http://www.geelblauw.nl/links2.php

Fire Extinquisher tagging

Jackson Pollack drank up his courage and stayed at home to dribble with his wife's turkey baster.

These guys have a fire extinquisher full of paint.



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6P08fXRBA

Learn Chinese

Jin - Learn Chinese

Yeah I'm chinese, and what?
(Another preview of Jin album)
Yeah you know who this is, Jin, and let me just tell you this
The days of the pork fried rice and the chicken wings comin to ur house by me is over
(This is it, it's crazy)
(OVA!!!)

[Chorus]
Ya'll gon learn chinese, ya'll gon learn chinese
Ya'll gon learn chinese, when the pumps come out, your gon speak chinese
Ya'll gon learn chinese, (chinese)
Ya'll gon be chinese (chinese)
Ya'll gon learn chinese, when the pumps go off, ya'll gon speak chinese

This is it, cause f**k you head man
I know a bunch of crips that love redman
And walk in New york, man things dun change
STOP, the chinks do it again
This aint Bruce Lee, ya'll watch too much T.V
This is the game of death, when i aim for you chest
And too much sex got me seeing slow motion, eyes barely open, with a roach roastin'
And ur girl, she love the Jin motion, rub it on her body like body shop lotion
What's the comotion? You never seen me?
Original chinky eyed MC?
Ya'll don't want to stop to the army
Double armed, rank refugee
And the barrel of the gun gon make you speak another language
And amigo i ain't talking bout spanish
http://www.rare-lyrics.com

[Chorus]
Ya'll gon learn chinese, ya'll gon learn chinese
Ya'll gon learn chinese, when the pumps come out, your gon speak chinese
Ya'll gon learn chinese, (chinese)
Ya'll gon be chinese (chinese)
Ya'll gon learn chinese, when the pumps go off, ya'll gon speak chinese

This one goes out to those who ordered four chicken wings, pork fried rice and rolled dice in the hood
You think this sh*t it's all good?
To the cowboys that roll out like Clint Eastwood
I wish you would, come to CHINA TOWN
Get lost in town, end up in the lost and found
Eye witnesses?
You must be crazy, we don't speak english, we speak chinese
And the only popo we know,
Is the pigs on the hook by the window
Each time they harass me I wanna explode
We should ride the train for free, we built the railroads
I ain't your 50 cent, I ain't your Eminem, I ain't your Jigga Man, I'm a CHINA man
Ginseng in the palm of my hands, she looked suprised when she saw it in the palm of her hands
And you know what's next?
Safe sex, i'll be damned if I sleep with the flesh in the insest

(CHINESE)

http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/J/Jin/Learn-Chinese.html

1984 - by George Orwell

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere. The blackmoustachio'd face gazed down from every commanding corner. There was one on the house-front immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston's own. Down at streetlevel another poster, torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternately covering and uncovering the single word INGSOC. In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered.

Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

1984 - by George Orwell
http://www.readprint.com/work-1249/George-Orwell

Taiwan Digital Art and Information Center

Taiwan Digital Art and Information Center

http://www.digiarts.org.tw/index.aspx?lang=en

Interviews

Gallery



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Digital Arts Creativity and Resource Centre (Not in english)

http://digiark.ntmofa.gov.tw/index.asp

Art Crimes - Graffiti Taiwan

Taiwan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 § § § § 9 10 11 12 13 § 14 15 16 17 § §

Taiwan Walls from ArtCrimes
http://www.graffiti.org/index/world.html

Virus No 6 Crew - Taiwan

More videos by SEAZK

Photos

Byrdsong - Language Blog

This is to announce the new addition to the Aviary. Its about learning languages online.

There are links to language websites, but the main purpose of the site is to act as a repository of language videos for practicing pronunciation.

There are Dutch lessons and Mandarin Chinese to start with. We anticipate that we will be travelling in Asia, so the Mandarin will be necessary. With the Olympics coming, the Chinese entries should be useful to those planning on attending.

The site is called Byrdsong.
http://byrdsong.blogspot.com/

byrd