Jon Burgerman is back in Hamburg for his second solo show at heliumcowboy artspace. He's returned to the Lossy Botany Lab, a project he explored in NYC at the 2009 Scope Art Fair. Influenced by dada and fluxus, the laboratory explores lossy data through questionnaires, word association games, psychological profiling, and spacial awareness tests with the audience. The show is up now through August 6th.

Obviously everyone is talking about this one and we love it too. Blu did it again, now with his evolutionary (in many ways) animation "Big Bang Big Boom." Incredible work.

Tomorrow, Saturday July 10th, Carmichael Gallery will be opening another double-header with shows by Serbian photographer Boogie and Poland's M-City. Boogie will be exhibiting a new series of limited edition photos showing vandalized property, storm clouds, public housing, youth and the elderly. Images that both stand alone and chronicle a more extensive, multi-layered story. M-City will be putting on a showcase of new canvases, a site-specific gallery installation as well as an outdoor mural.

Retna and El Mac just recently finished this powerful mural in the heart of LA's Skid Row. The project was their second collaboration with Estevan Oriol, who's photograph was the basis for El Mac's part of the wall. The mural is a tribute to the community members in Skid Row as well as the perseverance of the homeless who reside there. The image is amazing and the best part is the entire photo report on Retna's website, from start to finish. It's definitely worth checking out if you've ever enjoyed the amazing collaborations between these two artists. (sort of via Revok's blog)

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East Eric just sent us over some pics of his latest blast of paint. Here he flips up the concept of train painting by making the train go over the paint rather than the other way around. Read on for some more photos.

Zoe Strauss just took a heart-wrenching trip to the beach. This beach happened to be in Waveland, Mississippi and is of course entirely covered in crude oil. No New Enemies has posted Zoe's report up along with some more of her photographs. Sometimes it's a few photos and some honest words are what really begin to drive the reality of a situation like this home.

We recently had the pleasure of meeting up and hanging out with Marco Zamora, a painter from Los Angeles who's currently in Barcelona preparing for his show, 'Sensory Overload.' The exhibition will open this Thursday, July 15th, at Miscelanea gallery. We first discovered his work via an interview he did with Fecal Face some time back and we're definitely looking forward to seeing it in person.

This is pretty incredible. Lilo Krebernik, aka The Lemming, has created what might be the largest DIY toy mold in the world. The toy has been cast in conrete directly out of a specially designed skatebowl and now almost two years after they came up with the concept the first proper skate, paint, and bbq will go down to celebrate their achievement. If you're around Radstadt, Austria this Saturday, July 17th, it's sure to be a fun day.

The Laserkatz artspace recently opened their latest show in Innsbruck, Austria under the theme 'Beautiful Diversity.' And it sounds like a nice and mixed crowd made it out. On display were works by Lukas Goller, Tobias "Ludschi" Ludescher, Lukas Thaler, Stephan Wimmer, Andreas Prugger, Florian Thaler, Carlos Blanchard und Reen West as well as the skateboard-project by Markus Graf and a booth of the Aids Awareness Association "Gummi Love." You can see more at: www.facebook.com/LASERKATZ

Using only tape and garbage bags, Harris creates giant inflatable animals that become animated when fastened to a sidewalk grate. Steven Psyllos caught up with Harris recently to discuss his older works (including a bear and a giraffe) and unveil a new beast that looks not unlike the Cloverfield monster. Video by Jonah Green.

The Street Heroes Festival will take part in the beginning of August in Bucharest. There are numerous disciplines like Skateboarding, BMX, Graffiti....we will attend the event and will show you everything that happens on location. A huge mural will be painted by Flying Fortress, Fafi, Blu, Stefan Marx and The London Police...take some days off and join us.

Ludo from Paris just dropped this not-so-little lenticular bomb on the Cordy House shutters, the same spot where Roa and others have done some amazing works as well. Vandalog actually has a bit more researched article on the spot, check it out here. Read on for a few more recent botanical works.

In 2008 Open Space Gallery in Beacon, NY put on the amazing Electric Windows project which saw 24 windows of a 19th century factory filled with paintings (mostly) created on the spot. After two years they're back with Electric Windows 2010 and Electric Walls, the indoor gallery part of the show. 30 Artists, including Skewville, Ron English, Logan Hicks, Gaia, Elbowtoe and many more, will be taking part in the exhibition. Electric Walls has an opening reception this Saturday, July 24th while the Electric Windows works will be painted and installed next week, on July 31st. If you're in the NY area it's not hard to get to and it will be more than worth it.