Continue the BOTY from the last post, tomorrow the BOTY Vietnam

will be organized in the location for the first time.

More then 20 crews will join the battle, more info go m2u.

Location: Hanoi, Vietnam

Date: 1st July, 2009
Venue: Giang Vo

I know we have posted once the other Asia battles, here are the upcoming,

just a little remainder:

Jul. 1st 2009 BOTY Vietnam Hanoi / Vietnam
Jul. 4th 2009 BOTY Taiwan Taipei / Taiwan
Jul. 5th 2009 BOTY Japan Kawasaki / Japan

Jul. 17th 2009 BOTY China Shanghai / China

Jul. 25th 2009 BOTY Thailand Bangkok / Thailand
Aug. 1st 2009 BOTY Asia Singapore / Singapore

Last chance to enter. 1 more days left!

On the first Friday of every month, we will put up a Handstyle battle contest.

Winner will be decided by our guest judge and annouce on the first friday of July.

This time we will have James (Owner of Oink) to be our judge.

Deadline for the current battle: 1st of July

The handstyle phrase for this time is: “BUILD FROM SCRATCH”.

Winner will receive an issue of the latest Invasian as well as a surprising gift pack

(a random combination of markers, magazines, shirts, books, caps, inks, streaks, etc)

that worth over $50! We’ll ship the prize to the winner for FREE.

The handstyle work can be done by paints, marker or whatever you can find

but NOT by computer!

You can either scan it or snap it with your camera and send it to:

invasianmags@gmail.com

You’re welcome to participate no matter where you’re from.

No photoshop shit please…

With different kind of reasons, I couldn’t manage to see

the battle of the year in the last few years every time when I went

to Europe. Either I missed it, or I was too early there…

But this year, I am able to catch at least one battle where it’s held

in an old train station in Bielefeld, Germany. Thanks Daniel brought us in.

We didn’t stay until the final as we were in a hurry to work on

another party. So here is just part of the event.

Bombing Science did an interview with Dabs, one of the early cats

smashing Taiwan.

“It’s a difficult relationship being forged between our proud little

subculture and the commercial world. At times it can be helpful,

accelerating careers into international levels, allowing writers to

see the world and realize youthful dreams. Other times, it just looks

like they’re kicking us in the balls and patting us on the back all at once.

So I recently connected with DABS (aka Dbsk1) an artist currently based

in Taipei, Taiwan with a long graffito-rap-sheet and a slighter newer

career as a artist working within the current world to talk about this

strange symbiosis and more…”

read the rest: HERE

June doesnt seems to be a pleasant month. After Iz left us, now it’s the guy

who taught everyone how to moonwalk. Keep rocking in heaven, RIP MJ.

“LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop” who once moonwalked

above the music world, died Thursday as he prepared for a comeback bid

to vanquish nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50.”

more: here

New Delhi, India. June 2009.
Not meant as a graffiti trip, didn’t plan anything, didn’t expect anything, wasn’t even really about that.. This was a short sight seeing tour of the capital of India and its surrounding areas. Me my girl, some cash, a taxi driver, a few grout pens and some montanas that magically didn’t get pulled out of my luggage. Heres sort of how it went (well, the graffiti part anyway)…

… All in all, if you were going on a graffiti campaign, India wouldn’t know what was going on frankly. I reckon you could do as many a day as you wanted, it would just be a case of what paint to use and where to get it.

source: Here

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Hong Kong Master vinyl maker Eric So has teamed up with

Japanese photographer Yasumasa “Yone” Yonehara on this

upcoming figure. Mixed with Eric So’s clean lines and round

edges, the character cleary exhibits some of Yone’s signature

semi-erotic flavor.

SOURCE : highsnobiety

Graffiti is not very popular in Macau, at least not as popular as

Japan, Philippines, China, etc. but now, we are glad to see

there is a movement over there! Thanks Rocklee for spreading the news,

at the end of this month, a graffiti battle is beginning at 3pm.

Registration was closed last week but free entry for non-participant,

so…why don’t just go have a look if you have time.

Venue: Av. da Concordia, Edf. Industrial Wang Kai, 11 andar C, Macau

Time: 3pm - 6pm

Entry Fee: $0

*Reminder: You may need a mask if you areallergic to spray paint, as it’s indoor.

Source: QOOS

Kiddydlc, also writes “Kids”, comes from Dalian, China.

It is not hard to find people who do very nice pieces in China

but it is rare to see writers who can do fine pieces but also go crazy bombings!

Now here is one of those, more to know, check kiddydlc’s blog

This post is out of Asia, sorry i didn’t want to talk about but

my partner was suggesting, well…I thought i can escape a little bit

from work in Hong Kong, today I realized it’s not working…

So here I am one of the INVASIAN founders, currently staying in Germany

for an art project and will be here for another 3 months =)

I was in Berlin at the beginning of the trip, thank you Akim lending me

the mini mac (now i am using) and the tower where I could crash at night.

I really appreciate that! People there are very busy and working seriously,

therefore it was a great chance for me to find out the city alone!

One day i was walking outside myself, I saw his stuffs again this year! Every time when

I see his painting I just feel happy : ) his name is Kripoe / CBS (Thz Lush)

And Vali, who is a very sweet girl she showed me around and of course

we painted together, in a Park where lots of writers were also painting.

it is a chill place to paint and everyone is pretty nice there. We found lots of cool

bombs or pieces there behind the stadium..

She also took me back to the abandoned train station where I painted once

in 2007, my other friend Lubi told me now they have the Pimp My Ride car show

over there so we can’t paint there anymore! Also Vali said the station collapses

time by time, it’s quite dangerous to paint as well…

At the end, Vali and I went a bit wild together but I promised not to show

hers, so here was the last bomb dropped before we went home in the morning:

Dear partners, you know I’m with you wherever I am;  friends in HK or anywhere,

i miss you : ) Will continue updating the blog here as if my homies do at home

(actually i did…just in coming 3 months there could be some news from Europa,

hope our audiences don’t mind) but next post will be about China!