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It’s hard to capture people’s attention online, even for a couple of minutes… But whatever you are doing right now you MUST sit back, have a kitkat and watch this video. Trust us, you won’t regret it.

STEPHANIE is the latest single from JetTricks (released as a digital download & limited pressing 7″ single in June) and the video is off the wall… literally! The tune features serious groove, a fat bassline, and the unmistakable & humorous lyrics from ‘the man with the tiger mask’ Shawn Lee.

The video is a visual collaboration between JetTricks, HutTwenty9 Video productions and one of Graffiti Life’s top artists.

Now go on, share the love and spread it on!

We’ve been asked to keep the artwork for this one under wraps, so you’re going to have to tune in the FA Cup final (ITV1 - 3.15pm on Saturday 5th May) to see our artwork in its entirety!

We’ve just wrapped up another massive live art performance at the first ever Great British Tattoo Show. We had a huge 14m white wall that we filled with super detailed marker pen artwork.

Sport Wales is an arm of the Welsh Assembly Government and is the national organisation responsible for developing and promoting sport and active recreation to the population of Wales. They got in contact with us recently, asking for help. They wanted an exciting and unique way to encourage young people to get into sort, and not only that, they also wanted to encourage older people to stay active and help their community as volunteers and coordinators for various sporting activities.

We were honoured to be invited to Bite the Ballot event this weekend, and made a real impact with a live graffiti art display. Our friends at Spirit of London contacted us and told us all about what was planned and the message, to get the youth of London voting in the upcoming Mayoral elections. So we packed up our spraypaint and headed south to the Ministry of Sound where the event was being hosted. We built a wall at the end of the red carpet area and got painting.

This was a random one! Our graffiti artists were called in to help design the set for a section of Russell Howard’s Good News show on BBC3.

Every week Russell interviews someone who has been in the news and tries to work out what it is that they do. This week he had to guess the profession of expert breakdancer ‘Sunni’ who was in the news for taking second place at the World BBoy Championships. The producers of the show wanted an ‘urban’ backdrop to set the scene for the interview; this is where we came in. We arrived a few hours before the show was filmed and put together the structure, which was built of faux brick walls and a wall of ghettoblasters. We were given a very specific direction from the Good News team and quickly threw the paint around creating a traditional graffiti scene. Russell was walking around and at one point we had to hide, so as to not give him any clues about who his guest might be. In the often fake world of television we thought this was pretty cool, keeping Russell completely in the dark so that his reactions on camera were genuine.

One of Russell’s first guesses was that Sunni may be a graffiti artist, so we must have done a good job! We have a couple more set design jobs on the horizon, including a really exciting one for the Disney Channel – so watch this space.. Who knows where you might see our graffiti next!

This Saturday we are going to try to mobilise the young people of London to get out there and vote in the Mayoral elections. 

Graffiti Life along side Bite the Ballot, Spirit Of London Awards, UpRise and London360 are giving you the opportunity to be part of the biggest voting Registration Rally for young people in the UK, in the run up to the London Mayoral Elections on May 3rd 2012 Many youth organisations as well as media partners will be present on the day. 

Its going to be a day of inspiration and ‘edutainment’ with special guest speakers, artists, dancers, comedians, a heap of celebrities and most importantly young Londoners! UK rapper Sway will be performing, check out this freestyle about YouthVoteLondon.

This event is free to attend so come down, watch us paint, learn something and get involved. Register here;http://www.bitetheballot.co.uk/youthvotelondon/

We recently got together with some of the SBTV crew at our paint space in North London. Georgia wanted to try her hand at painting so Adam took her through a beginners graffiti workshop. Our workshops are structured to give the foundation skills of graffiti in a short amount of time. Georgia was a quick learner and steadily improved on drawing straight lines, shapes and then filling areas in with a spraycan. We also threw up a quick SBTV piece. Check out the wicked work they are doing at www.sbtv.co.uk. And click here to find out more about Graffiti Workshops