Kofie One

Kofie One is one of our favorite artists representing L.A. We feature him in our new Californian Streert Art issue (Issue 06). Until you get your paws on that, here's a taste of Kofie's work:









Check out more of Kofie's work on www.keepdrafting.com

Hit the Deck!

Get your hands on The Overspray HitTheDeck cards while you still can!

The decks consist of 54 street art pieces each done by a different artist. The artists featured include: The London Police, D*face, Lister, Bast, Elph, Infinity Man, and many, many more.

We only printed 1,000 decks, so they were extremely limited to begin with and they are going fast-- apparently kids in London are pining for limited edition street art cards. We got a few hundred decks left so get on that ish.

Each box is hand stamped, numbered and done up in a special Overspray packaging by a pretty lady. The cards are casino quality and fully playable. The decks are $13 plus shipping and handling, which is $7 in the US, $10 everywhere else. These cards are being sold exclusively online and can only be found on the Overspray website- www.Overspraymag.com

Issue 06

Our issue dedicated to Californian street art is finished and will be dropping in stores soon!

It's stacked with features on the giants of the left coast scene, including Shepard Fairey, Dave Choe, Above, Kofie One and Empte Eyes. We also sat down with the makers of the film Quality of Life, checked out the fantastic Swoon/ Faile/ David Ellis show, and went all out for our latest & greatest edition of Threads. We even got back in time to curate an Overspray wall for Wooster on Spring Street.

Go grab Issue 06 at your local book store, art store or on our website, www.overspraymag.com.
Here's a sneak peak of what went down during our travels:


Street Art in San Francisco








Threads shoot with Kate


Doze Green and DarkCloud at Wooster on Spring


Dave Choe


Nic Hill, Director of Piece by Piece


Photos: Molly Prentiss, Io, A. Wolf

JayRx

We want to shout out to JayRx 126 from Chicago for sending us fifty incredible hand-painted stickers. This dude went all out and we love his stuff.

Quality of Life

Time for some random but definitely warranted promotion--

Benjamin Morgan's Quality of Life is undoubtedly a classic graffiti movie. If you haven't done it already, check it out.

Here's the trailer:

Adam Carnes Drops by Overspray

Adam Carnes, who has contributed to the Overspray 'Hit The Deck' project and our upcoming issue on materials, dropped by the office recently and was kind enough to paint an amazing piece for our home base. Here are some photos of Adam going at it:




Photos: Matt Mulholland

Word to the Time Lapse

Our girl Gandja Monteiro hooked us up with these two videos of some friends working on murals in NYC:

Rekal's New Site

Rekal, one of our favorite artists, just put together an impressive new site: http://www.rekal.org/
Check it out.

Photo: Matt Mulholland

Shepard Fairey & Faile NYC Shows

We know we're a little late on these two awesome shows but here are some photos of what went down...without that Harry Potter smoke bomb douche:


Jonathan Levine Gallery Presents Shepard Fairey in Dumbo








Faile Returns to NYC






Photos: Matt Mulholland

Back in Action

The Overspray fishbowl is back and in full effect!

Our new, and constantly growing staff of street art fiends are pining to spread the word and hook up an inside look at events and upcoming Overspray features. We are also going to be including a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what goes down in our offices and on our shoots. They'll definitely be a wave of posts going up these days as we continue to hustle for the upcoming materials issue. If that isn't enough-- check out our myspace page (myspace.com/overspraymag), and our ever-improving website (overspraymag.com). PEACE

the website

the website is down for now kids. Too many little grubby paws on it at once. Give us just a little time. For now you can hang out here.. :)

Overspray05 OUT NOW!!

Yes indeed kids. Overspray05 - TheCharacterKings is out now. The world's first 100% international street art magazine in full size and full glossy color featuring The London Police, Elph, Fafi, Dface, Faile and much more. Hit up www.overspraymag.com, go to the shop and order issue 5!

Subscriptions are only $12 but they have to be ordered directly through paypal. $12 plus shipping which is $6 per year in the US, $16 p year in AU and EU, and $8 p year for Canada.

Hit us with any ordering questions at orders@overspraymag.com

Go get it!!

peace la
io

Pick Up the Pieces Puerto Rico

Here are a couple shots from the Puerto Rican Pick Up the Pieces segment. It was a small show due to many many complications, but peoples' response to it was incredible. They loved it. A few things sold, we got on TV again, and I got a sunburn. Badabing!

News - March 05

So here's the latest news:
We're taking the Pick Up the Pieces show that we had here in NYC in September, to San Juan, Puerto Rico between April 4th and 6th. There's an open call for art out there, but we need everything by Friday...so....it's tight.
Otherwise, we're doing a fashion shoot for the Threads section of issue 5 (our premier full size issue) on Sunday. Its looking amazing so far. Articles and images are coming in for that too and everything's looking stellar.

The street art deck of cards is almost complete. We're just waiting on the last 2 or 3 and a few updated ones, then we're good to go! You'll all be kept posted as soon as they're done, never fear.

It looks like we'll be taking the Pick up the pieces show to LA in May as well. Email us at ospickupthepieces@yahoo.com if you'd like to be a part.

Hmm...what else..we've got so many new ideas for subscriber bonuses with the new format, like tee give aways every issue, etc.

Our website is in the works but there's no definitive date when it'll go up. Sorry about that. Its rough getting shit done for free.

Otherwise, you know how to find us (overspraymag@yahoo.com). Hit us up with any questions, thoughts, requests or comments and we'll jew it to it.

peace la

io

oh man

Wow niagras, it's been a MINUTE since I've had the chance to put anything up on here, or have had anything i wanted to put up here. A HOT minute. We're going through some major changes right now and our new website should be up really soon, so sit tight.
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Issue 4 launch party

Holy shit what a debacle. According to Ali (who runs it) it was the biggest opening in the history of the gallery. Hundreds of people over the course of 3 hours.
Here are a couple shots.

DeLaVega

Street drawings by DeLaVega seen on Manhattan's lower east side yesterday.

A Melbourne event

All you Melbs kids get another event to droool over.



And dont forget NYC headz, Jet + Rubble open tomorrow night..

All girls art battle

On Saturday September 10th, Artbattles presents an all female girls vs. girls artbattle event!

At M1-5
52 Walker St. Manhattan
htpp://www.m1-5.com

Complimentary Brooklyn Lager from 9-10!!!
$3 Shots
$3 Beers
All Night Long
Music by DJ Hiro & DJ Joey Buddafucco

A benefit

Many of you know Dusty Derouen, the owner of TERRA.

Dusty is from Louisiana, and 72 hours ago decided to put together a GIANT fundraiser for hurricane relief.

In three days, he put everything together and the event looks to be pretty special.

full details via http://www.folktofolksf.com/. they are expecting 10k people, and I agreed to help him procure ART that will be sold at the event. 100% of proceeds go directly to the American Red Cross. EVERYONE working on this is donating their time + talents, and Dusty managed to sign up loads of corporate sponsors.

Now he just needs some great art!

If you are interested, kindly sign up via http://www.folktofolksf.com/volunteer.html - change the subject line to read ART DONATION if you are able to donate a single piece and someone from Dusty's team will contact you with logistical information.

all donating artists get a free ticket to the event.

There are a host of volunteer opportunities at the event as well, so feel free to forward to this whomever you think might be interested.

I realize that time is tight, but anything that you are able to do is much appreciated.

THANK YOUI!

Event - TLP in Zurich

Pure Evil - a rather interesting invite

KILLER RABBITS IN NEW YORK

a night with PURE EVIL featuring artwork & cult movie mashup

Hey there!
Come and check this out... over a drink or six (premium vodka kindly provided by 42 below)

PURE EVIL TAKES NEW YORK ( www.sofuzzycrew.com )
Pure Evil is a Virgo. He appeared as a rebel commander in 'Return of the Jedi', is the biological father of 12 children in California and once somebody tried to mug him with a knife on the beach in Rio de Janeiro and he broke their nose with a swift flat handed punch . He is English & Dangerous.

This artist has a cult following all over the world..
Which is suprising as he has no can control and he paints like a ten year old and he is probably a mentalist.
Come and see for yourself

don't miss this exclusive
Friday 9th September 2005 between 7-9pm.
at
55DSL
1 Union Square West (at 14th Street)
NYC, NY 10003
(subway to Union Square, 14th Street)

Please rsvp to ann_akiri@55dsl & print this invite out for entry

Overspray does Orchard street

On September 22nd we're coming to the Orchard Street art Gallery to bring you 150 pieces by street artists around the world, music by DJ Nature, free drinks, and most importantly OUR NEW ISSUE!! The overspray fashion issue tears it a new one.
Sadly, we'll also be saying goodbye to this blog with the arrival of our new website. Keep an eye out for that and come down to the event! You dont want to miss this one...

Damn.

It's been a helluva while since I've had the chance to put something new on here. We've been going non-stop for at least two weeks now. The ELC is tearing it up. With a set for a photo shoot, some roooftop bombing, a huge canvas in a skateshop in Connecticut, an event on Thursday, my huge blowout birthday bash last night (no voice now) and an event tonight it's been a real busy week or two.
Here are some of the fruits of that labor.
Again, the ELC is Inifinity, Royce Bannon, Anera, Splat, Gore-b, Flaca, Abe Lincoln Jr and Anon and it's out of NYC.

NYC street art/graf from two wheels

Graffiti Ride

Although the crackdown has had effects, New York City remains a vast
and vibrant open canvas for street art and graf. Coming up as a graf
writer on the streets of California we were in awe of the artists
here -- artists like Zypher, Kaws, Revs, and Samo. Some of the old
pieces can still be seen along with breathtaking new work from bold
young artists. The work spans this entire town, so the best way to
see it is on two wheels.

Bike tour starts at the Wall of Fame
106 Street and Park in the school yard, Manhattan
Noon; $free