Our inspiration provider Kristel shot some great street art pieces in London, enjoy!

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Name: Bruno Dias Country: Brazil Job: Paintings of Brazilian regional culture
URL: http://www.brunodias.com.br/blog About: Hi, I’m Bruno Dias. I’m a painter and designer, live in Brazil. My artworks are taking an international dimension, by making paintings of brazilian regional culture. A graduate in Industrial Design. Bruno Dias lives in a tropical country, a fact that inspires and drives him to changes. His designs show themes of regional Brazilian culture in a free, personal and playful manner. The work expresses the relationship between physical space and the people of the country. Graffiti is an important reference for his work but it are feelings, nature and the chaos around us which ensure the various painting techniques. Illustrator multimedia, using as well manual as digital techniques, software tools, spray, paint and objects. The style of his work is young and spontaneous.

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Last weekend I went to Berlin for a long weekend sightseeing and was impressed with the artistic vibe of this city. Marked with different events in history I found this city very inspirational. I selected 50 of my own photographs, shot all over the city. Hope you like them as much as I do!

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Name: Manuel di Rita Country: Italy Job: Painter, Sculptor, Designer URL: http://www.peeta.net
About: Peeta is a young Italian artist born in a small town near Venice. He entered the graffiti scene in 1993 and since then, he has been collaborating with some very important crews: the Paduan EAD, the FX crew and the RWK crew, both from NY. After having painted his graffiti all around Europe and America for a very long time, he has started producing also sculptures and canvases and exhibited them all around the world. The elaboration of his personal style comes from the intention of joining together traditional lettering with 3D painting. This experiment has finally resulted in giving life to a unique kind of visual rhythm, created by the intersecting lines between sections of conic, cylindrical and twisting surfaces. Get Inspired by: In general my first source of inspiration, that is to say what at the beginning drove me to take up this career, is represented by my school education. I attended state school of art where I learnt how to create sculptures and subsequently how to transport my knowledge of plastic volumes into paintings and walls. Then, the first crews I met, that is the Paduan graffiti school were really into painting without outlines and so I kept on learning how to reproduce 3D effects. Finally, I took inspiration from the works of two writers I admire: Delta (NL) and Daim (D). My daily source of inspiration is then represented by everything around me, all shapes and objects are interesting from my point of view and I love keeping on observing them and studying light and shadow effects on them. Finally I’ve always been inspired by industrial design and architecture, especially by Zaha Hadid’s projects, an Iraqi female architect that has always shocked me for her uncommon use of shapes and volumes.

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What is Lastplak and how did it all started?
We started out as a sticker plaque in 2000  with only four guys and ended up as a 11 man strong collective with skills in graffiti, stencil art, screen printing, canvas painting, giving workshops, illustation and graphic design, organising party’s and generally having fun in everything we do. Members in order of joining are: the founder and inventor of the name Lastplak; Boortorrie, our own personal Wolverine; ACAB, mr. Tomek, from birds to larvae to ghosts; Oles, international tit monster; OE (quit painting and moved to Berlin), flying pink heads; OX-Alien, mr. black and white and sometimes red; Yen, heavy metal man; BA, paint addict and bike crazy; Pinwin, funk master Grrt, always in eehhh…; Sake, contacts superhero’s; May-B and last but not least, our graff legend: Ces53.

Where do you get your inspiration from?
That is different for each member, we inspire each other, watch movies, visit museums and art shows, read cartoons, travel, party, meet new people and have an open mind to all types of visual communication.

What tools do you use?
We use everything that leaves a mark on a surface, but our favourite tools are spraypaint, posca’s and the always delicious Lascaux acrylic paint. The strangest thing we made was an ice carving for a graduation project, we had to use screw drivers and chissels to carve our work in different couloured layers of ice.

Tell us something about the handmade OX-Alien dolls
Ox-Alien: After painting a lot of ox-aliens on walls, canvas and stickers my girlfriend decided to give the ox-alien more life. She managed to get hold of an old sewing machine of her grandmother, and after many evenings of drawing and try outs it finally worked out. Even though the ox alien looks very evil, as a lovely pink plush he’s very adorable!

Where have you been and where do you still wanna go?
We have been in so  many places, but the ones we remember best are Vienna, Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Damascus and Corfu. In Holland we always try to paint in as many cities possible, of of wich is our annual trip to Maastricht. Our list of wishes is also different for each member, but high on the list are still Tokyo and anywhere in Australia. Besides geographical locations we would love to paint a big jumbo jet plane, the inside of a swimming pool and many more group canvasses.

Because most of you got a graffiti background, don’t you got any problems with authority while painting for Lastplak?
We don’t have problems with them, but sometimes have troubles with us. We always try to stay cool and sort things out the Lastplak way: a big smile and a good story. So far we have never been arrested or fined, even though sometimes it came very close!

Any cool upcoming events?
We hope to attend some of the festivals this summer and do bit of live painting there. For the rest we hope to have a few shows in Holland and abroad and in august we’ll be on Oprah to tell girls how to live with a Lastplakker!

More info about Lastplak on http://www.lastplak.nl

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