Ein Kessel Buntes / Itzehoe DE

Big paint'n'bbq session at the Itzehoe "Kessel". This time no rain'n'mud but sun'n'burners! Nuts: Asie, Murfy, Fany, Jury, Shor, Kater & the wired Abi-2009-gipsy-kid!

Förtress / Hamburg DE

We just had a sunny Monday so i joined in to paint a wall. Haven't had too much time so i dropped my work even before the Bandits from Dresden/DE aka Slide and MadC arrived with there touring bus. But we met just the next day for another sunny and chilling paint action... flix of it later.

New Summer Shirts

Finally all shirts arrived from the printer. You can get them as usual over at RockawayBear.com. There you can find more t-shirt colours and also the FF-Blitze-Logo black-on-black to fit the Teddy Troops Series 03 packaging style. And we have a new Dave The Chimp shirt, too. Burn your old stuff and get some good new shirts to sport this summer!

"Stick My World" / Rome IT

While being "off" to Munich i missed to post the Stick My World event in Rome i took part in. Together with ThaRootboy from NoBrain crew we came up with this colaboration poster design. Hopefully we will have a small run of signed prints available soon. Amburgo verso Roma. "Halbstark - Oh Baby - Baby - Halbstark!"

SUPER CYCLE Artshow @ Geheimrad / Munich DE

Upcoming Thursday 25th of June there will be the "SUPER CYCLE Artshow" at the Geheimrad bike store in Munich. Together with my friend Burns124, R. James Miller & Noem Held. There will also be my new "Cycling Is Greener" t-shirt be available (will post pictures later today). Auf geht's Buarsch'n! Für alle Starrnarben & Einzelgänger!

Förtress X J.Christ / Munich DE

I have been to Munich this weekend for my friends' wedding. The day before i had a quick rendezvous with Christ/WY in the rain while having a hang-over. Thanx for taking care of everything!

New Shirts / Preview 2

The new shirts are just starting to pop in from the printer. The "Wurstwasser" design is one of my favourites. The whole idea is based on a story a friend told me a while ago. He was hanging out at a plaza in Munich when seeing a junkie-twosome with a baby in a buggy. The parents where totally stoned and having a guzzle attack. So they were eating cheap sausages out of a jar. La class! After finishing they just poured the left-over water from the jar into the baby's bottle. Yummy! Your kids love it!

Förtress / Weil am Rhein DE

I have been to Weil am Rhein to set up my booth inside the Carhartt Gallery for the "Public Provocation" group exhibition. Please visit it to see all the inside artwork there. Really a great collection of artists set up there. We also had time to paint the outside on a sunny day before i had to leave home. More flix soon.

Fanart / Avignon FR

My good friend Cptn.Rouget sent me in this lovely tribute sticker he spottet in Avignon/France. Merci! To be honest when i started to do graffiti i was also a little copy-cat. I just re-draw style letters from Loomit and Neon that i had seen at the local hall-of-fame. I guess this is still the best way to get into some basic knowledge at the beginning of your passion.

Museum Night / Utrecht NL

I will be around in Utrecht this Saturday for the Museumnacht / Museum Night at the "Twilight" venue. More Details here.

New Shirts / Preview

Rockawaybear.com will release the new collection of Förtress t-shirts in June. First look: the "Förtress Chrome Logo". Maybe you have spotted the stickers already in the streets... More designs to come.

"Public Provocation" @ Carhartt Gallery / Weil a.R.

Brian Colin's customized 10" Teddy Trooper

See the whole process of this amazing customized Teddy Trooper "Shaman of the Vulturites" on Brian Colin's website!

PEZ's new website and vinyl toy

PEZ is back from Bogota and just launched his new website. Also showing this preview of his upcoming "Happy Fish" vinyl toy. Nuts!

Dave The Chimp's "Prints For The New Power Generation" show / Berlin

My friend and better-half of mine Dave The Chimp is showing new works at the ATM Gallery in Berlin. Check it out if you around doing some shopping in Mitte. Also his book "Part Of Rebellion #2 - Dave The Chimp" is coming out. Check photos here at the Ekosystem.org

"New Skateboard Graphics" / Book

There's a new book called "New Skateboard Graphics" featuring a lot of skateboard companies - both small or big - including my friends' brand Hessenmob. Along with the who-is-who of today's skateboard deck designers there are a bunch of graphics in the book that i did for Hessenmob over the past few years. "New Skateboard Graphics" is a great follow-up to the well-known "Disposable - A History of Skateboard Art" book. Get your dirty hands on it!

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!