When Skirl and I first met in August, we were constantly walking around with bottles of water and spray cans in half-empty Rome, between abandoned factories, train stations and working-class areas, and I had this feeling that it might be just the first of many other meeting and,…
Nar and his works in Athens There are some trips giving you more than others – their own path, places that amaze you, communities where you’re welcomed with open arms. That is what happened to me in Athens in September. A destination chosen at the last moment and…
When people ask me to explain what Urban Lives is, I try to to explain that it is much more than a publishing project – it is a collection of articles, reports, interviews and people’s vision about street art in Italy: well, actually, it is my everyday life….
Urban Lives discovers European Capitals of Street Art When I kick-started my editing adventure with Urban Lives, I followed my ambition and determination to explore better national territory through its Street Art, free and acceptable for everyone. It also defined a purpose to travel over new cities and…
Few months ago, interested in discovering other “European street art capitals“, I started researching on what could have been the most interesting foreign situations to be study and explore. Not that I was losing interest in my national scene, rather than I wanted a comparison: I needed to…
I was sitting on a bench, publishing a photo on Instagram of a 1UP piece, taken that afternoon in Kreuzberg (Berlin), when I looked up and suddenly saw them, just in front of me: a big crew with many members, some of them with bikes, all of them…
