CULTURE BUZZ – Street artist Slinkachu uses nontoxic paint to decorate the shells of wild snails, pimping their rides.The London based street artist frees the snails after painting them and calls the project “Inner City Snail – a slow-moving street art project”.

The Best Links:

1. Inner City Snail - Pictures
2. Graffiti Snails Roaming London
3. Little People, Another Sinkachu Art Project

CULTURE BUZZ – Artist D.Billy creates graffiti from balloons.He chronicles the onomatopoeias of everyday life by adding words like ‘floosh’ next to a fire hydrant and ‘rrring’ next to a pay phone. He is joining ranks with other graffiti artists who explore alternative materials in street art like Reverse Grafitti (graffiti made by cleaning grime) Knitta Please(knit graffiti) and the Space Invaders mosaic graffiti.

The Best Links:

1. Balloon Graffiti Can End Vandalism Forever
2. D.Billy: Street Interventions
3. Balloon Graffiti
4. D.BILLY (official site)
5. KNITTA PLEASE
6. space invaders > the story of an invasion
7. Reverse Grafitti

CULTURE BUZZ – Urban gardeners take on abandoned patches of earth and make them bloom.Part political statement, part an act of pure cultivation, the guerrilla gardening movement is sprouting in cities everywhere.

The Best Links:

1. Entertaining Guerrilla Gardening Short Film
2. Green Guerrillas, Spotted in New York!
3. Fight Filth With Flowers
4. Guerrilla Gardening Primer
5. Guerilla Gardeners in Toronto!
6. Guerrilla Gardeners in Los Angeles!
7. Guerrilla Gardeners in San Francisco!

CULTURE BUZZ – An enormous, animated wall-painting by the Argentinian street artist Blu.This is amazing; if you like it, check out the artist’s site for more.

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The Best Links:

1. Blu’s Site, With Other Videos and Art

MOVIE BUZZ – A documentary celebrating the D.I.Y. spirit that unified a group of American artists who emerged from the underground worlds of skateboarding, graffiti, punk and hip hop like Spike Jonze, Mike Mills, and Harmony Korine.We can’t wait to see all the early 90s footage. Maybe in some alt universe, they’ll start re-running 120 Minutes on MTV.

The Best Links:

1. YouTube - Watch the Trailer for Beautiful Losers
2. Documentary Tracks the Unlikely Careers of Artists Who Converged at Rose’s Infamous Alleged Gallery During the 90’s
3. Excellent Review On the Film Beautiful Losers
4. Beautiful Losers Official SXSW Page
5. Screenings announced for SXSW
6. The First Movie to Define a Movement Since Andy Warhol’s “Exploding Plastic Inevitable”
7. Check out the Nice Poster
8. I Attended the Screening, which Included a Grafitti Gallery Exhibition
9. A Little about The Director’s Background
10. Beautiful Losers the Film Website
11. Beautiful Losers IMDB Page

CULTURE BUZZ – Famous NYC grafitti artist now has his own line of markers.He’s responsible for that ubiquitous “drip” look. Now, with these markers and squeeze bottles, you can make anything you own look like a Lower East Side signpost.

The Best Links:

1. Squeeze Bottle Gives You that Perfect Trademark Drip Look
2. New Krink T-Shirts and Markers By Alife
3. Buy Them from Turntable Lab
4. Alife x Krink 2008 Tees
5. Colette’s Awesome Shopping Website Features Famed Grafitti Artist Krink
6. The Colorful Krink Sticker Packs Just Dropped!
7. The Signature Drips Are Everywhere!
8. I Krinked My Ikea Bookcase