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Looking forward to this years Step In The Arena

• ZA/09/07/2011
• Step In The Arena 2011

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Step In The Arena 2011’. The largest graffiti festival in the Netherlands. It will take place on the 9th and 10th of July in Eindhoven. This year with a special side event: Hidden Beauty, an international street-art event.

Step In The Arena took place in 2010 for the first time and several thousands of people came to visit. This year more than 200 local and international graffiti gladiators will show their skills in the weekend of 9 and 10 juli in thé street-art arena of Europe: ‘de Berenkuil’. Some names of artists are:
CFH (NL), OD crew (NL), Staynice (NL), Nasty Sons (NL), Cosh (NL), Dephaezer (NL), Jake (NL), Mickey (NL)

Heavy Artillery (UK-DK): Aroe-Roid-Storm-Gebes
Wild Boys (IT): Zeus-Opium-Rota-Pencil
Greetings crew (FR): Ogre-Gris-Gomer
LoveLetters (NL-D-F): Nash-Rusl-Dater-Chas-Ozer-Tumki-Biser
Swet (DK), Nychos (A), Dome (D), Belin (ES), Zedz (IT), New2 (AU)

The festival is being organized by Dynamo in collaboration with the graffiti scene of Eindhoven. It’s goal is to challenge young people and professionals to meet and challenge each other creatively.

Graffiti and street art are important aspects of hiphop culture in Eindhoven. With this graffiti weekend, Dynamo wants the inhabitants of Eindhoven and beyond to meet street art and show them what Eindhoven is famous for in the whole world.

Young graffiti artist are given the opportunity to work with pro’s from the graffiti scene, national and international artists. If you want to join in, please contact: stepinthearena@dynamo-eindhoven.nl

Adres: Insulindeplein, also known as the Berenkuil, in Eindhoven. Free entrance.

Hidden Beauty.
This year Step In The Arena has a special side event: Hidden Beauty. The first edition of this international street art event takes place on July 8, 9 and 10 in the old Schellens textile factory. The outside walls and the sluice room of this characteristic factory are the decor. Hidden Beauty is an initiative of Niels Wildenberg (Wildenberg mode) and Emil van der Wijst (Decofiti), in collaboriaton with Dynamo.

Besides some local heroes the line up of Hidden Beauty exists of the international street art elite, coming to Eindhoven especially for this event. The work made by these artists are specifically designed for this location and go beyond traditional graffiti. They work both two and three-dimensional and there is the possibility to buy artwork and merchandise. 

Some names of artists are:
ECB (D), Dome (D), Nychos (AU), Zedz (IT), Belin (ES), Super A (NL), Zenk One (NL), Sol Crew (NL), Klub 7 (D).

Adres: Bleekstraat / Vestdijk on the corner. You will see Hidden Beauty Logo. Free entrance.

Step in the Arena 2011 is sponsored by Montana, Citydynamiek, Grolsch, Decofiti, Vincent Huibers graffiti art, Wildenberg mode, Q-promotions, Boels, de Verfkampioen en 3BE (bed en breakfast).

Who'll stop the rain?

Climbed around on some scaffolding at a jam today at a place starting with L (I think?) in the north of Holland. Sorry , it was a bit of a tired rush. Not the best weather driving up there, but it improved a tad and provided Mister an idea for the direction for our pieces.

Fun day, friendly peeps.

Cure DMA PBP

My old buddy Cure from Australia was one of the first train writers I met around 25 years ago. He was both a skater and writer. You wouldn't see him for a while when off skating and then he would come back and not just pick up from where he left off but casually bring something new and interesting. Same applies these days. He's physically quite detached from the daily going ons of writing, he can take a 15- 20 year break, then make it look effortless and bring it like he never stopped! 

The revolution will not be televised.

A fast one in the sun,

RIP Gil Scott-Heron

Art Trek - 8

I'm looking forward to participating in this years' Art Trek. 

Plenty of info on the artists and event at the website, including previous years' shows. 

The site links you to a bunch of great artists' work from all over.

Have a gander at: http://www.art-trek.be/

New

New 2

"Keef, that was a good run through, but can we do the solo again to sound a little... um... Lady Gaga or something, and maybe the vocals should be done with Auto-Tune."  Keef: "Faaark Orrrf!"

Sorry, had to digress. I did a full outline on paper for once. One of my fonts x the current thread I'm steadily exploring. Just got a bit of paint again, looking forward to a few days in a row free to use some...

Double Dutch

A buddy spotted this in a paper...

Ephameron in Coney Island

Belgian illustrative artist Ephameron features in this vid. Nice to see some spray paint used minus the bombast. Quiet and direct.

New x Two

Two days in a row not knowing what to paint. The first afternoon I did a simple fun thing. My initial photo was taken in poor light, so I went back the next morning, and winged another piece while I was there.
Having 'nothing', so to speak, made me rely on my past (which is a way too common practice for me). I remembered something I wrote next to a piece as a teen, "go about your own thing, fuck competition and being a king". Ok, it's teenish, but 20+ years on it has become a more important notion than ever, as keeping up with the Jones's, fa fa fa fashion in writing and self promotion plays too vital a role. Give me writers with a personal set of images / symbols and their empirical studies that I can follow. Then I have the means to critique without the haze. Anyway...

NYC

Thanks Dmote!!!!




New, Daze, Kaves, Shank, Boi, BG, Nicer, Samp, Rae, Yes2

Knows, SP-ONE, Enue, New, Shank, Rae

NYC

NYC

NYC

The Benelux Writers Convention

About 100 writers from the Benelux region got together for a jam on Saturday. Perfect weather and a really good grassroots event. I finished as the sun went down and managed to grab a beer at the bar and a few quick shots of a small portion of the walls done.

For my part, I freestyled this with whatever paint I could scrape up, and luckily had enough of a color range in my bag to get away with it. A friend and I where discussing approach to style, technique, what to put into a piece or more importantly, what to leave out. He broke out a musical analogy, (which I'm always down for). If his painting technique was akin to Pavement's musicianship, mine was similar to Akron/Family. It's for one, a nice compliment, and secondly it's nice to know someone else sees in a similar way to yourself what you're attempting to do.

The Benelux Writers Convention

Eindhoven Trip Joiner - BYZ NEW CHESS

Some proper shots of our part of the wall, (thanks).
Unfortunately I haven't got flix of the rest of the wall, including Mister and Chas burners.
We painted fast and digressed a little from the 70's / psychedelic theme. My E was a nod to old psychedelic poster art, and the pink fill in it is the chemical diagram for acid.
RIP Stanley Owsley III