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Following in the wake of this year’s hugely successful Nuart Aberdeen, Zap Graffiti were throwing their maiden festival, Contrast Mural Festival, in Liverpool.

Cities have soul and character; there are an undeniable charisma and vibe about them and, often, there’s a sort of personification of the city, somehow ‘speaking’ to us. Berlin is one city with a lot to say, expressing it’s voice through many kilometres of intriguing street art, urban murals, and graffiti.

Our friend Danila Shmelev just wrapped up a giant new mural on the streets of Odintsovo in Russia for the first edition of the Urban Morphogenesis Festival.

After three graffiti artists were killed by a train, our writer speaks to veterans of the scene – and enters a clandestine world of kings, tags, throw-ups and toys.

You can’t ask for a more colourful lens on the world than to view it through its street art. In any city you’re in, take a longer look at the painted, tagged, stickered or wheat-pasted facades around you, and you’ll get a story about a place — usually, a different story than what the local…

A few months ago, we paid a visit to the Motor City. Only a few years ago, Detroit was the biggest graffiti playground in North America and possibly the world.

Just over a week ago Edinburgh welcomed the latest legal graffiti wall, incidentally also now the longest in the UK, with a monumental jam at Leith Docks. The 330m smooth surface outdoes the current record held by Dundee’s legal wall (190m) by some margin, and promises plenty of exciting outdoor creativity in the near future.

Graffiti techniques and tricks and have grown tremendously over the years, and from its underground roots on the gritty streets, they’ve been past on and developed through word of mouth for years.

Roulette is the recognized queen of gambling, which has its own rules and features. Beginners, little familiar with the game, are wondering “How to cheat roulette.” Let’s try to figure out what can be meant by the deception of the game of roulette, and whether there are effective algorithms that can help in this. In…

Graffiti artists have the right to protect their artwork from being painted over—even by the building’s owner—according to a New York court. But enforcing that right might take too long to actually prevent the artwork’s destruction.