As you probably noticed new sixpack tshirts are in and you should buy them a) for your streetcred b) girls like them (actually boys too if you’re a girl) c) they are ludicrous fresh and super quality.
Grotesk is among the talented cast of graphic designers who work for Sixpack. Mr. Newton made an interview of the infamous graphic designer in his site. read it here. Grotesk(among others) also keeps an excellent blog in 12oz prophets
Egs and Jani Tolin are two artists who became friends 20 years ago in Helsinki’s graffiti scene. Since then Egs has become internationally known figure in world of graffiti with his controversial style. He has also worked successfully in design and art direction for 10 years. Jani Tolin has worked with his Alfons Helsinki Studio for over 10 years in graphic design, art direction, interior design and video direction while exhinbiting his art in scandinavian and baltic countries.
If you’re in London please give them a visit.
Two friends of ours ABOVE and Ripo are doing a tour in South America and they put up a blog for it. If you have any interest towards streetart you should read it: the south central tour.
For a definition of dedication go to Above’s site and have a look. The first one who’s ready to put the batman game on and figure out how one can hang an arrow up to 10meter gets a free tshirt k? Basically I met these dudes when they came hangover from the ferry boat from stockholm (if you’re never been in finland you probably have no idea and I’m not going to tell you about it..now). They were touring around europe last summer doing streetart with fake printed eurail tickets and stayed at my place while here. Good times.
So whats next? Mashmarket crew is off to fuckup their heads with taxfree ferry boat booze and to party with Mehdi, Cool Kids and our homies Timonthy and Downtown in Stockholm. Stay tuned for BFS action, Russell Maurice from Gasius show at the black market and party and bullshit..
If anyone who we should meet with is around in BFS drop us an email.
A one hour documentary film about the renowned Finnish breakdance collective Flow Mo crew showing mad ill talent in Finland and Korea. Directed by Jenni Linko. Watch the whole documentary here.
Also don’t forget the Flow Mo “Lifetime of Soul” DVD in our shelves…
Pingstate - Art of a Visual Community, Book 1 is out and NOW available at Mashmarket! All hail Finnish eye candy!
Thatcher & Ol’ E? What a fucking mess… Anyways, come check out Gavin Watsons ‘SKINS’ exhibition going down in HELSINKI 10. Exhibition runs from 15th until the 30th of November and is open during shop hours. What’s that then? Something like from not too early in the morning ’til sometime in the evening. Not obviously on sundays, ’cause everyone working in rug shops tend to be hangover and need to have their joint closed. But Oi! Back to the SKINS book. It’s launched for the first time in Finland, contains some really fucking captivating pics from the early and misunderstood Skinhead culture. It’s not a racist thing you see… Wouldn’t mind seeing some West Indian rude boys and British mods up in the mix…
What yer looking at mate?!
Our friend Above had a story in SF chronicle. Read it here. Some more stories from Above’s travels in can be found at woostercollective. What I’ve heard there’s a story from Helsinki coming up soon as well…
seriously.. have you ever read the book Million Dollar Vandal about Desa (MTA)? The title as it says is about a graffiti writer that faced prosecution over a million dollars for graffiti and yes I really don’t care what your opinions about graffiti are but how often you see a rapist or a whatever heroin dealer facing a verdict like that.. So please if there’s any chance you could help out KET who has been part of building entire culture in the last decades visit this site and learn more:
