Category Archives: Urbanyouthfiles

The writings on the wall 3

Last weekend I found myself headin’ to Doel, a small town in the vicinity of Antwerp (Belgium). For those of you who aren’t aware with the history of this little town in Belgium, I’ll try to enlighten you all… Situated beneath a nuclear power plant along the river “De Schelde”, the town drew the short [...]

Ich bin ein Berliner fixed gear head 0

A while back I wrote a couple of posts on fixed gear bikes, which are so damn hot right now you might burn your fingers on the steering wheel. On-point even confirmed this straight from NYC this week and claims he hadn’t grasped the greatness of them and visiting fixed mecca ha opened his eyes [...]

Blinded by the lights: light graffiti 1

The members of LICHTFAKTOR use light to give expression to their creativity. They take advantage of a variety of light sources to produce photos and videos in cities by night. The Cologne artists’ collective experiments with the possibilities yielded by bulb (long-term) exposure and painting. Their aim is to explore all aspects of “lightwriting” and [...]

Think Ink: the pen & the needle meet. (part one) 0

Ever since I was about 9 years old and visited Henk Schiffmacher‘s tattoo museum in Amsterdam I’ve been fascinated by bodyart. That’s why I’ve been meaning to write a rather extensive blogpost on the changing art of tattooing for a while now. That longterm project got pushed forward after I saw today’s newspapers though. Seems [...]

Skateboard Film Festival’s seeks to celebrate skateboarding and skateboard filmmaking. 0

“Skateboarding permeates global culture. From Gus Van Sant’s film, Paranoid Park, to the success of MTV’s Rob & Big and national ad campaigns around the world that use skateboarding as a way to connect with the youth culture, skateboarding continues to serve as a creative launching pad for aspiring actors, graphic designers, and filmmakers alike. In many cases it [...]

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