Judge awards 5Pointz graffiti artists $6.7M after works destroyed | WPIX 11 New York

"A New York judge has awarded $6.7 million to graffiti artists who sued after their work was destroyed on buildings torn down to make room for luxury condos."

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Judge awards 5Pointz graffiti artists $6.7M after works destroyed | WPIX 11 New York

Graffiti Workshop for Teens with Louie KR1 Gasparro on January 27 in Long Island City

OKABALOO will be hosting our buddy Louie Gasparro on January 27th for a graffiti workshop geared towards tweens and teens. Louie will be teaching the art of the letter, showing attending kids how to write their names in a classic graffiti lettering style!

KOLORSTORM - Art as an Answer 

OKABALOO

35-52 32nd Street

Long Island City, NY 11106

January 27, 2017 from 4-6PM

For more info check out the OKABALOO website as well as Louie Gasparro's website.

ARTISTS at DCON: Tag the Giant All City Style Train at Play Nice Booth #1444

All City Style and Bigshot Toyworks are teaming up with Play Nice Toys to lend some rolling thunder to their awesome live art / dance party which will take place in Oakland, CA in May 2017.

To celebrate, they've printed up some GIANT 8-foot-wide All City Style trains which will be at their DCon booth #1444. ALL ARTISTS are invited to roll up on their way into DCon and blast some art onto the giant ACS canvas!

Play Nice is easy to find at DCon. Their booth is located in the hallway between the big room and the little room, just past the entrance and the 1000toys booth. Can't miss it, there's a giant steampunk DJ booth and also Play Nice will be projecting artwork onto the opposing wall.

WHAT IS PLAY NICE?

Dance, create, collect and share YOUR message with the world, Play Nice Toys // Booth #1444...

The DesignerCon countdown continues! As the nation continues to make history this week, con-artists everywhere are creating. What better time to get together with like minded friends to support the scene you love? 

Play Nice Booth 1444 is promoting an art/food/music mashup event located in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the historic 16th Street Train Station in Oakland, Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 27, 2017. 

Showcasing designer toys, graffiti, sticker and DJ culture... there'll be everything from food trucks and interactive art installations to state of the art video mapping and some of the playa's favorite art cars. Get the exclusive Dcon ONLY ticket offer before prices go up!! 

Artist roster:

Alex Gwynne . Bengi Nati . Big C . Bit + Paper Toys . burn353 . Colby Sunshine -Ghost Pyramid- . Cubeecraft . DJ Qbert -Thud Rumble- . Gary Ham -Marsham Toy Hour- . Jerome Lu -Hyperactive Monkey- . Jesse Hernandez -Urban Aztec- . Keith Allen . Luke Chueh . Marko Zubak . Matt Hawkins . Nanibird . Nick Knite . Nolizz Z Li . Rosston Meyer -Poposition Press- . Ryan Hall . Salazad . Shin Tanaka . Stand Up Artista . Super Cooper . The Space Wanderer . Tougi . Toygami . Urban Paper Collective . Woes Martin -Angry Woebots- . +MANY more TBA

DCON EVENTS at BOOTH 1444:

SAT:  3 PM ~ Catch a LIVE scratch session with DJ Qbert, grab some awesome *free* papertoys, and make sure you're first in line for a collector's edition autographed poster giveaway

SUN: 2 PM ~ Live art session, featured artists customize a GIANT All City Style *blank* train car 

UVD Interviews Mike Giant At Inner State Gallery For His new Show "Impermanent Vacation"

While in Detroit Urban Vinyl Daily got to talk with the legend Mike Giant about his new show "Impermanent Vacation" hosted by Inner State Gallery. In the interview Mike talks about the creative process, inspiration, the meaning behind the show title and so much more! To keep up with UVD's latest videos make sure to subscribe at the link here.

'KOLORSTORM: The Art of Louie "KR.ONE" Gasparro' Available on Amazon Now

NYC graffiti art, heavy metal, comic books, and fantasy art intersect here in Louie “KR.ONE” Gasparro’s visual autobiography. This legendary Queens artist-drummer weaves these powerful influences into a medium he calls "Graffantasy," creating tags, wall pieces, paintings and illustrations, model trains, jackets, and more.

Gaze at this modern Renaissance man’s work from 1977 to the present, and trace his evolution from his adolescent days watching bombed subway cars whirring by in a KOLORSTORM, to the underground period tagging trains and evading cops, to his legal works and whole–school buses. Starting with a scrapbook-like photo collection from Louie’s youth and his other career as drummer of several heavy metal bands, the book moves on with elaborate sketches from the artist’s blackbooks, and colorful concert posters and album covers.

Through a stunning array of styles and techniques, witness KR.ONE’s transformation from restless punk to major decorative artist and abstract painter.

Kolorstorm is available on Amazon now.

We've enjoyed working with Louie on several different projects and shows, including his participation in The Grand Slam All City Style show, painting several commissioned ACS trains for Bigshot Toyworks and Klim, and painting live at the Bigshot booth at two successive NY International Toy Fairs. Louie is both a talented artist, and a great guy. Support Queens artists!

Original Gee Painting All City Style Trains Live at ToyCon UK

All City Style (winner of Best DIY platform in last year's Designer Toy Awards) has announced that Gordon Smith, aka Original Gee, will be representing ACS at ToyCon UK. Gee will be at The Toy Chronicle booth (#1-3) at the April 9th show in London, showcasing his superb, hyper realistic graffiti-covered ACS trains. Gee will be painting ACS trains live, selling his completed pieces, and attendees will also be able to pick up blank ACS trains at the booth. Get there early to grab a free mini ACS wall graphic!

Full blog post here on the ACS site, including more info about Gee.

MIST Solo Show at Wall Works New York Opens Saturday June 6 in the Bronx

Worth posting: A gallery called Wall Works New York in the Bronx will be hosting French graffiti legend MIST in his first solo exhibition ever in New York! Opening reception is Saturday June 6 from 5-8pm. There will also be a limited-edition print available through the gallery, so it's highly recommended that you make your way to Wall Works, which is located at:

 39 Bruckner Blvd, Bronx, NY. 

Why am I telling you about a gallery show? Because MIST has designed some of my favorite art toys. We even have a couple in the shop, available for purchase: his Lucius character (to the right), and the giant Holybrikus. Buy your own MIST toys here.

MIST's toy designs mimic his signature angular characters and shapes he applies to walls and canvases. You can even see echoes of the classic MIST toy shapes in the 2D piece above. Looking at the toys next to his graffiti and more abstract painterly piece, you can definitely pick out a signature style which is consistent throughout his work.

SNEAK PEEK: All City Style trains for The Grand Slam (Nov 22 at PIQ)

L, top to bottom: Bio TATS CRU, NICER & BG183. R, top to bottom: Spencer Herr, Original GEE & Ralston Fox Smith.

We are super excited for Saturday, which is the launch of the next show that we are helping out with! Klim Kozinevich, owner of Bigshot Toyworks and creator of the All City Style 20-inch DIY trains, managed to pull together an absolutely ALL-STAR crew of artists for this show, which he dubbed The Grand Slam. Graffiti legends, designers, and artists of all stripes all exhibiting together at PIQ in Grand Central in NYC!

RSVP to the show here on Facebook or just drop by PIQ at 4PM on Saturday November 22nd to check out the trains. 

If you can't make it to NYC for this show, make sure you are following All City Style on Facebook and on the All City Style website. There will be many more ACS shows popping up around the world, as the next batch of All City Style trains are set to hit US shores in early December. Ask your favorite retailer to stock All City Style!

Till Saturday, we leave with with the video below of some of the trains Original GEE had painted in the past... chalk another one up for this legendary artist!

Bigshot Toyworks and PIQ Products Present THE GRAND SLAM on November 22

Bigshot Toyworks and PIQ Products present The Grand Slam, an art show of one-of-a-kind custom painted All City Style subway train models. The Grand Slam opens on November 22, 2014 at 4PM in the PIQ shop located in the Shuttle Passage of New York’s Grand Central Terminal.

The All City Style train is a DIY platform representing one of the most iconic (and controversial) canvases for street artists and writers worldwide: the NYC subway train. Created by Klim Kozinevich, and produced by Bigshot Toyworks, the All City Style trains were tremendously popular upon their introduction in 2004. Supported by multiple art shows in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Moscow, Melbourne, and more, the All City Style trains were embraced by the street art, fine art, and designer toy communities. Artists of all styles agree that the All City Style train is an excellent and unique platform for expression. In celebration of a decade of All City Style trains, PIQ gallery and Bigshot Toyworks proudly present The Grand Slam: the next chapter in this ever-evolving concept.

The artist roster for The Grand Slam includes some of the most respected names in graffiti and street art:
PHASE 2 • VULCAN • DOME • RIFF 170 • CHOR BOOGIE • Glenn Barr • SCIEN • KLOR • Louie "KR.ONE" Gasparro • AW177 • Galen McKamy • Brutherford • Steve Talkowski • Martin Hsu • Joshua Izzo • Luis "ZIMAD" Lamboy • BRISK • APEXER • Tkid • Ralston Fox Smith • Gabriel Shaffer • Tragnark • Lou Pimentel • Joe MacCarthy • James "SEXER" Rodriguez • Rob W Hunt • Eternal • Task One • Kurt Barbee • Bio • BG183 • NICER • DERO • PER • Frank Kozik • AngryBlue • Frank "Wore" Croce • Eric Orr • MCA • MERES CBS • Part TDS • Carlie Ramer • Hieronymus • Spencer Herr • Original Gee & more

This show is open to the public and the pieces will be available for purchase in the PIQ shop, with pickup available 2 weeks after the opening. Art aficionados of all ages are welcome to attend the show, as are members of the press. Blank All City Style trains will be available for purchase at PIQ or from one of the All City Style retail partners listed on the website:
http://www.allcitystyle.com/

Kids can download the All City Style training page or papercraft model from the All City Style Downloads page:
http://www.allcitystyle.com/downloads

Check the list of All City Style retailers:
http://www.allcitystyle.com/retail-shops

Visit PIQ Products:
http://www.piqproducts.com/

Learn more about Bigshot Toyworks:
http://www.bigshottoyworks.com/

Derailed 2: Electric Boolagoo All City Style Custom Train Show by Cardboard Spaceship Opens Nov 1

On Saturday November 1, Cardboard Spaceship's newest custom All City Style train show will open at the Wootbear Gallery in San Francisco! If you're in SF, hop on over to the gallery to see a bunch of awesome custom ACS trains!

Wootbear Gallery

147 Clement Street

San Francisco, CA 94118

If you don't know what ACS trains are, check out the website here. Created and produced by Klim Kozinevich of Bigshot Toyworks. All City Style trains are 20" long blank halfsubway cars which are specifically designed to customize with markers or paint or sculpey, and hang on the wall. Each train, which has a flat back, comes with mounting hardware. Also included are rods to attach 2 ACS trains to each other back to back to create a full train car.

All City Style Trains are back on track and available to shops at wholesale

Big news from Bigshot Toyworks: their insanely popular All City Style blank subway trains are back! Bigshot is now accepting wholesale orders from shops interested in restocking this product which sold out nearly everywhere, world-wide. I'll definitely get some.

ACS trains are 20 inches long and are essentially a half of a train car- back is flat and comes with necessary hardware to mount to a wall. Each ACS train also comes with pegs and holes so 2 can be combined to form a whole train car. A versatile piece. So many famous artists have customized ACS trains that it would be absurd to even begin to list them. Basically, it's everyone you've ever heard of. Go to the ACS website and click on Shows to see a bunch of custom painted trains. ACS shows have been help in countries around the world. I think the last one was in South Korea. Next one I believe will be Cardboard Spaceship... and I only know that because I'm paying attention to attentive bloggers. Just like you're doing now. How meta.

Anyone wishing to purchase single trains, or small numbers, will have to contact your favorite local retailer to obtain them. SRP is $40 each.

Shops wishing to make wholesale purchases can email orders into sales@bigshottoyworks.com - wholesale pricing begins with orders of 40 trains. The ACS trains come in 10-pc cases and you can buy 10, 20 or 30 of them but you'll be paying a higher price per piece than you would at true wholesale pricing you get when you order 40+ pieces.

Best of all, Bigshot has for the first tme produced crystal-clear Ghost Trains (pictured below) which are ONLY available at wholesale to shops that make 40-train purchases. Shops can buy 20 Ghost Trains for every 40 silver (original) ACS trains they buy.

The shipment of All City Style trains is headed our way... so get your orders in!

If you need more info, click here to view the most recent ACS email. Or sign up for their email list yourself at the bottom of their Contact page.

All City Style Custom Train Show at ART TOY CULTURE in Korea TODAY!

Follow ART TOY CULTURE on Facebook here.

Follow All City Style on Facebook here, or check out the newly relaunched ACS website. Retail and wholesale info on the All City Style train products available on the site. Look for global expansion of this brand soon!

Introducing Canmans Vinyl Toys: Coming Soon to a Shop Near You!

Canmans Series 1 (Pose, Dabs Myla, Craola, Revok)

The Canmans are a series of vinyl figures focused on graffiti artists and the art of collecting spray paint cans. There are 2 editions of the Canmans, the Artist Editions and the Blank Editions. The Artist Editions are "Limited Edition" Canmans that have been designed by some of the world's most prolific graffiti artists. Each artist creates the artwork and design for their exclusive Canman figures.

The Blank Edition is a Canman that comes with no artwork. It's a blank canvas, ready for you to do it yourself.

The Canman figures have a removable lid for storing spray paint tips and other items discreetly. Each Canman includes a "real" spray paint tip that may be interchanged with other types of spray tips!

The Canmans were originally conceived by Tyke (Witnes) of AWR and Toynami (www.toynami.com). Series 1 includes Pose, Dabs Myla, Craola & Revok.  Series 2 includes Ewok, Rime, Tyke & Persue.

Check out www.canmans.com for more info.

- Benny Kline

All City Style trains by BigShot ToyWorks

Alright, this is not really 1/6 or a designer toy related but I do think its worth a mention!

One of the key elements that ties the Hip Hop culture together, Graffiti, I'm sure some of you may have been or still are, into that sub genre, I'm still am, always will be!

Was back in 2005 that BigShot ToyWorks first released these 20" long blank canvas trains for all Graff artist to throw up pieces in a miniature scale, the trains had amazing success, with original Graff artist and along with the designer toy community, produced some amazing works, with exhibitions all over the world. 

Now they are back, due to be released early January 2014

Check out this video by UK artist Original Gee

If you are interested in buying or stocking these awesome trains, contact Klim on sales@bigshottoyworks.com

Thanks for reading

Wai Man

www.onesixthbruce.co.uk

Estria Battle Festival 2013: A Celebration of Public Art - A Kickstarter Project

Public Art is something that every community in the world should have, support and celebrate. Globally renowned muralist Estira Miyashiro created the Estria Battle in 2007 to help engage youth, celebrate public art and build communities. For 2013, the Estria Battle has turned into, what hopefully will be, a great festival for the arts in Oakland, CA.


Funding huge events such as this one does not come cheap or easy. In order to help fund the Estria Battle Festival, Estria Battle has recently launched a Kickstarter, which will run until July 11th, 2013. With a $25,000 goal and a little over a month to reach that goal, Estria Battle will need all the help they can get.

Pledge levels start at $5, which will get a Thank you from Estria Battle. A $25 pledge will get a backer an 11x17" never before released poster by Alex "Defer" Kizu. Jesse Hernandez has also hopped on board, lending a Estria Battle Poster($25 Pledge) design that will also be printed on T-Shirts($50 Pledge) and Hoodies($100 Pledge) for backers. Prints and original pieces from a bunch of other artists are also available as a reward for varying pledge levels. As with all Kickstarters, keep in mind that funds will only get charged to backers if the Kickstarter is fully funded when the Pledge period ends on July 11th.

I've always been a fan of art, no matter what the medium. Public art plays such a vital role in every community, often by turning dreary and bland walls into great colorful works of art. Make a pledge if you can, or at least help spread the word and let's all help get the Estria Battle Festival Funded.

- Mark-Anthony

Robots Will Kill 2.5-inch Box Truck by TYO Toys

TYOTOYS teams up with Chris from Robots Will Kill to release this 2.5 inch box truck collectible diecast edition. You've seen his art on the street and his canvas in the galleries, now you can own a miniature bombed delivery truck with the familiar RWK robot. Each truck comes in clamshell packaging with a pack of two 4x6 TYO x RWK box truck stickers and a sheet of uncut mini stickers.  $20 each. Don't sleep on this one! There were only 200 units produced. Buy yours here.

Indie184 Matchbox Van by TYO Toys

 Fresh off her solo show at Munky King in LA, Indie 184 returns home to NYC to drop this limited diecast van with TYOTOYS. Click here to buy this piece. As a die-hard OG Matchbox collector, I am super excited about all these 1:64-scale TYO releases. Every time I see a new one, I feel like a kid again...

• $20 each
• Only 200 units produced
• 1:64 scale Matchbox van with Indie184 fill on one side, Kweenz Destroy logo on reverse
• Kweenz Destroy mini Sharpie included
• 5x3 color Indie184 vinyl van sticker included
• 4x6 black and white TYO x Indie184 thermal stickers included

TYO stands for "tag your own". Get it? TYO makes white vehicles that you can tag yourself without getting arrested. They also collab with graff artists to release limited-edition pre-tagged vehicles like this one. Click here to shop their store.

Trains of Fame new website and new DIY trains

Trains Of Fame presents its new website and online gallery. The works of graffiti artists such as Comer, Decap, Pone, Pro, Zenoy and DIY blank train cars will all now be available on the net.

After the success of the exhibition in the Oberkampf’s gallery in January, reuniting over 133 graffiti artists from France, Belgium, Switzerland, England, Germany, Spain, Italy and over a thousand people during the opening night, Trains of Fame decides to launch an online gallery and promote the works of five of the most influential french graffiti artists.

Always on the parisian subway model and for this special occasion, Comer, Decap, Pone,
Pro and Zenoy have customised some new trains, all of which can be seen in the online gallery.

Allowing everyone to express his creativity, Trains Of Fame also offers prepainted trains either of one and two colors or refering to the color code of the french trains and parisian subways.
 

The “Metro” model is composed of several types of subways referring to the current one
and those in circulation since its inauguration in 1900.
 

The “RER” model is a perfect copy of the parisian trains, carrying more than 2.7 million
passengers a day.

The “grey train” model reproduces old trains put on traffic in the 60s.

Once again, this gives a great opportunity to express yourself on historical train models!
Those reduced scale train models are specially designed be put on a desk, shelf or fix on a wall.

TYO Toys' MQ Chevy Van

This is a 1:64 diecast Matchbox Chevy Van with MQ artwork on both sides. 

Originally cast in 1979 by Matchbox/Mattel, these blank vans sat for years forgotten in the stock room of a warehouse in New Jersey. TYO discovered them in 2011 the VanDal series was born.

The first participating artist is MQ, see more of his work at http://mqism.com and http://tyotoys.com/graffititoys/mq-van. 

I really dig this type of piece- way before I discovered designer toys, I used to collect Matchbox and Hot Wheels in a big way. Apparently my Mom potty-trained me by bribing me with a Matchbox car. Seriously. I couldn't even make up a story that embarrassing.

Trains of Fame: Group Show in Paris, January 2011

I've been getting periodic updates from Vincent, creator of the Trains of Fame miniature subway cars, for quite some time now. I have been meaning to give him a nice post on this blog but with the holidays coming up and my main focus being packing orders, my blogging has been spotty at best.

But Vincent sent me this killer video, and I finally have time to give him the proper page space he deserves, so here's all you need to know about Trains of Fame:

The platform itself is a miniature version (52cm long) of the Parisian subway cars (French people call the subway "le metro"). Vincent and his crew pulled together over 100 European graffiti artists, each bombing, in miniature, a full subway car. This concept is both antithetical to, and a natural progression of, the concept of bombing a real subway car, as it is legal and fun and these guys can readily admit to doing these pieces and showing them off...

The Trains of Fame group show will be held January 7 thru 14 at:

Gallery Oberkampf

103 Rue St Maur

Paris, France

Germany: 1up.
UK : Roid
Belgium : Alora ; Amer ; Ansi ; Bond ; End ; Fars ; Hulk ; Noach ; Quatch ; Rush ; Vie ; Xols ; Xray.
Spain: Ceon ; Guan ; Iesk ; Iser ; Nakor ; Ogro ; Rate ; Rioga ; Sayno ; Zarp.
France: Apel ; Argne, ; Astuce ; Babs ; Bdb ; Bears ; Brize ; Brus ; Bugz ; Cezam ; Cinz ; Colorz ; Creez ; Comer ; Darco ; Decap ; Der ; Devil ; Dezer; Dife ; Disney ; Distur ; Dize ; Erase ; Eol ; Earl
; Don ; Dize ; Dixe ; Erer ; Exper ; Eyone ; Fenx ; Form ; Frez ; Ghetto B ; Goze ; Hank ; Home ;
Horfé ; Ioye ; Jacktwo ; Jade ;  Jen ; Jonks ; Jouer ; Junky ; Kade ; Keag ; Klet ; Kofy ; Mag ; Mier ; Nayor ; Neac ; Noe2 ; Noise ; Nose ; Nusko ; Oby ; Oeno ; Osta ; Osey ; Ozone ; Pner ; Pres ; Psy
; Rel ; Rest ; Rover ; San ; Salam ; Sarze ; Sciv ; See ; Sek ; Semi ; Seno ; Sew ; Sheed16 ; Shuck2
; Stock; Skizo ; Sleez ; Sonor ; Sor ; State; Tomek ; Tore ; Trane ; Wazo ; Woody ; Shone ; Yank ; Zenoy.
Italy: Aber ; Beat ; Brus ; Haker ; Jago ; Poison ; Runa ; Trota.
Switzerland: Smash 137.
USA: Utah

Here are a few pieces from the show- see if you can figure out who did each piece:

Here's the flyer from the show:

To learn more about the Trains of Fame platform toy, to follow the project or to get in touch with Vincent and the rest of his crew, go here. Vas-y!