Don’t worry, it’s not like it sounds.

The Krah is still out making brilliant art and has found a way to effectively dodge the buffers. The Krah’s pieces have been attached to fences by padlocks and have, so far, dodged the pressure washers of the government employed buffers.

Via Graffoto.co.uk

A fantastic project has come about to highlight the extraordinary pieces of art which line our streets, the Street Art Awards 08. This event is a great way to recognise artists and their artwork for the talent that artists have. Voting and submission has already started. The final deadline for voting for your favourite street art piece is on December 1st with the award ceremony happening in East London on December 4th.

The piece pictured above is the current highest rated piece and is on track to win the award.

Links:
Street Art Awards 08 Website

Auction Saboteur has got exclusive canvases from South London artist Data. Data gains inspiration from geometry, colour and space. He combinines organic forms, design and mixed mediums to demonstrate the decay of nature in urban surroundings. Data’s work mixes chaos with structure giving an overall clean intricate image.

The new canvases title Bird of Paradise can be found here.

Bird of Paradise
51 x 71 cm
Edition of 10, each one unique.
Spray Paint and Acrylic on Canvas.
Signed.
£250 including P&P to UK.

This is Now is a unique European collaborative art project, in which the public are invited to co-create an unparalleled collection of images that capture the essence of ‘now’. Those images can cover various subjects from design, fashion, architecture to street art/ graffiti, etc.

The whole project is tied together with a blog – http://www.thisisnow.eu/ - where Kai, an English blogger and passionate photograph highlights contributions from the public and providing further context on the project as it evolves.

But Kai is not the only blogger on This is Now: we’re also offering selected bloggers, and artists the chance to guest-edit the blog. For example, some of the up and coming artists who took part in the campaign This is Now have started guest blogging. David Wilson was the first artist to share his vision of ‘now’ with the readers of This is Now (http://www.thisisnow.eu/2008/11/i-know-what-youre-thinking/) ; artist Alex Turvey will follow this week while some amateur photographers and artists from all over Europe will also have a chance to share their own vision, like British-based Chris Osburn (http://www.thisisnow.eu/2008/11/hi/) and Spanish photographer Joan Mercadal (http://www.thisisnow.eu/2008/11/meeting-point/) did.

The best part of all is that they are looking for active bloggers or flickr users to get in touch with them and you guys have the opportunity to become a guest blogger on this exciting new project.

Sorry for the downtime earlier but we are back up now raring to provide you with the latest street art news, competitions and interviews. Thanks a lot for your patience.

Just a quick reminder to jump on and sign up in our quickly growing forum sporting several new competitions such as Character and On the street battles.

I received an email yesterday from a Norwegian fellow called Morten yesterday. He was explaining to me a new street art auction that is taking place in Norway, fortunately for most of us, the auction will be taking place on the internet and over the phone at the same time as I’m sure most of us aren’t prepared to make our way to Norway despite our love for great art. The best way I think to explain the project is to tell you what Morten said:

I work for a street paper in Norway, called Megafon. We help homeless people by giving them a job selling papers, and they keep half the coverprice, like “The Big issue” which you may know already.

We have contacted street artists around the world to gather some of their works, and will now have an auction of all these artworks in Bergen, Norway. However, we will make sure it will be possible to participate in the auction, both by phone, and by internet. For those who are interested in this, they can contact me on morten@megafon.no.

We have been promised artworks from the following artists:
Dolk, Pøbel, Rene Gagnon, Terp, Mogul, 108, Zef, El Celso, Akay, Orticanoodles, Elyasaf Kowner, Ignorancia, Dr. D, Bandit, Bonk, Nomad, Klone, Funk 25, Difusor, Jef Aerosol, Dan23, Ripo, F-codes, Mr. Mucho, Vihls, Ocosio, El Cartel, Ikkeno, Chris Stain, Know Hope, Snub, Ame 27, Beth Granter, Arofish, John Grider, Is This You?, Luke Da Duke, The lover, Rugman, Santy, Tek 13, Kinsey, Fremantle, Zevs, Kama, Goro, Specio, Dave Warnke, Mon53, Zonenkinder, Senso, Strøk, John Fekner, Royce Bannon, Sztuka Fabryka, Lunar, Veng (RWK), 3+1=4, Gaetanosk, The 5683, M-City, and SixTen.

The auction of the art is Nov. 16th, at 19:00 local time. We will make the auction available for everyone, so if someone wants info on how they can partake in the bidding, through internet or by phone, they can contact me on phone +47 90773295, or mail: morten@megafon.no and I will send them a brochure with pictures, info on the paintings, bio of the artists, and opening bid.

Some great artists have already signed up so I’m looking forward to seeing whats in the auction.

Our sticker competition has now drawn to a close and our winner has been decided by the forum residents.

We are pleased to announce that we will be getting Matt Robinson’s design produced. He has won 1000 of his design too.

However, as the competition was drawn into a second round of voting due to an initial tie, we will also be getting Cleandemon’s (who came second) design produced. He will be receiving 500 of his design:

Thanks to all those that entered. Keep checking back on Concrete Canvas for more competitions.

We have a brand new item exclusive to the Concrete Canvas online shop.

Titled ‘Elder’ this black and white screen print by Lints looks awesome on any wall.The design is printed onto 300gsm acrylics paper and is a tidy 20″x16″.

This is limited to only 60 pieces, all Signed and numbered. At all £25 this is a steal. Shipping is free.

Click here for the screenprint.

If you haven’t already, don’t forget to buy one of our charity t-shirts we are selling for Cancer Research. Two awesome design on quality t-shirts. If you got the cash, buy both :P.

At Concrete Canvas, we want to move to become more involved within the global street art community and so are looking for lots of people around the world with different skillsets.

Initally Concrete Canvas wants to look at putting together a media team of camera men, photographers, editors etc.

Criteria:

• A love for street art.
• Up-to-date knowledge about the artists and current trends.
• An ability/experience at using a video camera and/or video editing software.
• Preferably located near to a street art hotspot (e.g. a city such as London, New York, Barcelona).

If you feel you fill the criteria above please get in touch via the contact page - we would love to hear from you.

C215 has been getting around recently. We featured his work in New Dheli recently and since then he’s been in Brazil causing a stir. Here’s a brilliant short little film about C215 and their work in Brazil.