Happy Easter!

Kids go crazy on Easter! Thanx to Amielle & Elias!

Hector Umbra / Comic

My good friend and great illustrator Uli Oesterle just released his comic book "Hector Umbra". It is a great story about friendship and brain aliens. And it is set in the environment of my home city Munich. The book contains all 3 chapters of Hector Umbra's story. While the first album was released in 2004 the 2nd and 3rd chapter now are coming all together in this complete trilogy. I visited Uli in his studio while he was working like mad on his comic book. And all his effort turned out worthwhile because the book is a bomb! So far it is published in German only. (uh, just heart there is also a Polish, Dutch and French edition out!) Get it here.
(psst! ... my very first street sticker is making a sneaky appearance in the cityscape somewhere in the comic book :-)

meanwhile...

While i had been off to Zagreb to doodle and mess around my friend Burns124 came to Hamburg and dropped this nice piece in return for the keys to my hostel flat!

Förtress customized 10" Teddy Trooper

I am not doing this often but here is another hand-painted 10" Teddy Trooper...

SenorB @ NinaSagt / Düsseldorf

If you around you should check out my friend SenorB's exhibition "Der Pappe 1-100" at the NinaSagt Gallery in Düsseldorf. He will show his 100 pieces of cardboard faces. Here is an exclusive one: the Teddy Trooper tribute cardboard!

Hope Box Angels @ MOMA / Zagreb

After our stay in Berlin we went straight to Zagreb/HR. Hope Box set up a wall painting project at the Museum Of Modern Art (still under construction) in Zagreb. Heaven and Hell. Together with the YCP gang we painted this clash of our characters there. Evil vs Good. Shout outs to all the good guys: Lunar / Angel / Morka / Lortek / Zets / Zeds and Rienke!
The whole thing also here.

Pictoplasma Character Walk @ F.I.T. / Berlin

The London Police and me painted the F.I.T. art space for the Pictoplasma Character Walk in Berlin. This building is a former gas station and so we made our characters pumping colours through that place instead of gas. There is also a small gallery space inside showing some original artwork on canvases there. Thanx to all people from Pictoplasma for making this happen and giving us good times and party. Also thanx to Dida from F.I.T. for bringing us constantly bottles of world's best beer "Tegernseer Hell". And cheers to Just for his work-in-progress photo report here.

Förtress X Base23 / Berlin

Just back from my 2 weeks travel to Berlin and Zagreb. Will hit you up with the lastest productions from it bit by bit. First here is a wall with my friend Base23 at the Cassiopeia area in Berlin-Friedrichshain/DE.

Pictoplasma Character Walk / Berlin

Take some time-out and have a walk to see the 30 galleries and art spaces in Berlin at the Pictoplasma Character Walk next week. More inforamtions on Pictoplasma.com

Interview / Streetart Berlin Blog

I will be in berlin the whole next week together with my mate The London Police. We will be there for the Pictoplasma Converence. Read more in the interview i just have given for the Streetart Berlin Blog (sorry, it is in German language only).

ELEMENTS Alpha Series / by Artoyz

Artoyz from Paris just released the first artists series of there very own ELEMENTS vinyl toys. The Alpha Series includes skin designs by Koralie, Mist, Grems, Jean Spezial, Koa, Jon Burgermann, Flying Förtress and many more. See photos on the Artoyz Flickr site and on the Artoyz Blog.

Go Figure @ CocoonClub / Frankfurt am Main, DE

This Friday 13th there will be the opening of the temporary artspace "Go Figure" at the Cocoon Club in Frankfurt am Main / Germany. Set up by Krauts Gallery and bringing new work by Smash137, RuediOne, Stefan Strumbel, Sandro Kopp, Case, David Le Fleming and Flying Förtress.

Toyland Book

Just recieved a copy of the great new book Toyland by Louis Bou (author of the books "Street Art" and "BCN-NYC Street Art Revolution"). The book is published by Monsa.com in Barcelona and it is written in English and Spanish. Get one for your library if you have survived Wirtschaftskrise...

Keats X Poch X Honet X Form X FF / Hamburg

A quick one this afternoon. Just before we start to party again with our French guest here in Hamburg. À la tienne!

Run!

Uh! What? A dream? This has been the rarest Teddy Trooper ever so far: the exclusive variant for the Theme Magazine in New York. Now they just have launched their online store and offer this Trooper for $25! You better hurry to catch this baby! Only a few left... then gone forever!

Teddy Troops @ Woolwill / Hamburg, DE

Due to the release of the Teddy Troops Series 03 we set up a little show at the Woolwill Shop & Gallery in St.Pauli / Hamburg, Germany. There will be all released 3" and 10" Troopers on display. Also we have some original customized Troopers by Buff Monster, Parskid, James Yeah?, Miss Stephanie, Purple Pace and Förtress. And a few secret scraps...

Förtress X Serval / Geneva CH

Yep! Got a photo from last weekend's wall with the injured-but-unbreakable breakdancer Serval (Gute Besserung!) in Geneva/Switzerland. Still snowing over there...

New Teddy Troops Website

Finally i took some time and switched the Teddy Troops website from the old Flash code to an easier online tool. So there is finally a big update on this site. New look and more content: the complete overview of all 3" Troops series and 10" figures so far. Also there is a big customized Troopers gallery. Already filled with more than 120 flix. All the great works i had already posted here on the blog and a bunch more i snatched on the web. Please feel free to send in your own design to join the gallery army! Go and enjoy:

www.TeddyTroops.com
www.TeddyTroops.net

Förtress X Djil X NadaOne / Geneva CH

Before the opening of the ZEE exhibition i hang out with NadaOne
and Djil to paint a wall in the rain in the afternoon. Weather was a mess but it turned out very nice. Just 2 hours before i hit a wall with Serval under a bridge so rain didn't bother us a that time. Have to wait to get flix from that, too. Will post it then... Thanx again to all of you, guys!

Zee Trooper Installation

Made this 4-pieces artwork installation for the opening night of the ZEE toy release exhibition in Geneva.

ZEE Vinyl Toy

Here is my design "Graffiti Grenade" for the brand new ZEE vinyl toy series one. Released by Characterstation.com from Geneva/Switzerland. Packaging design by my friends from 29-degres.com. Good medicine for your toy collecting madness!

Thank You, Switzerland!

Back from Geneva! Thanx to all my friends there! Flix soon...