Tag: walls

The 5 most iconic legal graffiti walls

We have been curating a directory of legal graffiti spots for over 10 years now. Reminiscing about our journeys around the world, there are some places that clearly stood out. This is a tribute to the most iconic walls we know. Some have great importance to the graffiti culture and helped ...

The War of the Walls

If Bushwick had a body and you sliced that body wide open, you would find paint coursing through its veins. Bushwick is engulfed in paint. It covers Bushwick bricks, Bushwick plaster, and Bushwick concrete. The paint is chaotic, brash, unapologetic. It seeps into the cracks of walls and looks u...

Where Walls Talk: Street Art in Berlin

BERLIN — Broken shards of beer glass bottles crunch beneath Dexter’s feet as the early morning sounds of techno music linger in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin. After passing a few buildings covered with both commissioned street art and graffiti, he stops at a large mural w...

Walls of Hanoi: the street art of the Vietnamese capital city and what makes it special

Inthe North of Vietnam, its capital Hanoi overwhelms the visitor with its thousands and incessant noises, its smells, and the feeling of constant movement wherever you are. Millions of lives are intertwined every day in this Asian metropolis that, more than others, embraces an orderly chaos that con...

Painting the walls to create and not to express hate

On the one hand, graffiti is usually made by anonymous artists, who do not receive money in exchange for doing it, and who do it illegally, without agreeing with anyone. On the other hand, murals are made by artists, generally commissioned by the owners of the buildings in which they paint. Takin...

From 2D to 3D Ancient Glyph Walls sculpted from Rock

I want to create the most epic Temples for Apes Ascendance video game I’m working on. Temples are a symbolism of inner nature, of the spirit those architecture that trends to infinite those sacred rocks and ancient sculptures and Glyphs to Science and Nature. I want to document ho...

The Walls We Cannot See

Last week, I was blessed to be a part of the spirit and joy of the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin, Germany. Some 7000 athletes with intellectual and developmental challenges from 185 countries and territories were the stars. Like any Special Olympics event near you, volunteers served, law en...