2 NEW ORIGINAL VIDEO ARTWORKS FROM METEORA, GREECE 2022
Available on auction now here
ITW
A new interview for Vice Greece was published today.
Text Diana Vassiliou
Read about Grifters Code: Unlockdown, Subway graffich, NFT's, Leolulu collab and more.
Meanwhile more interviews in this collections here.
BOOST ME HARDED DADDY! NFT
DIM NFT COLLECTION
My collection of 6 original NFT's.
All artworks directed, produced and sound engineered by myself. 2021
Discover the collection here.
LIVE TALK AT LJUBLJANA STREET ART FESTIVAL
I was invited as a guest speaker and moderator at LSAF 2021 which took place from 28 June to 04 July.
Great experience, lovely organizers, and wonderful company of artists, curators, academics and more.
The recording of the Livestream of my presentation on “Documenting and Publishing Graffiti from Books to Social Media”, focused on my recent OnlyFans experience for the upcoming Grifters Code: Unlockdown.
(At 1:55:00 the conversation continues with a round table of all panel speakers)
My conversation with the curator Stefano S. Antonelli on the topic of exhibiting Graffich/Street art, right after the projection of The Man Who Stole Banksy by Marco Proserpio.
All images ©LSAF
NEW PRINT
GRAFFICH ALPHABET
Limited edition Signed & Numbered Screen-Print
This is the firts screen-print from the Graffich Alphabet series
Edition of 20 + 3 A.P.
47,4 x 35 cm / 18,6 x 13,77 in
2 Color hand-pulled screen-print on 300gr. Hahnemühle paper.
GRIFTERS CODE ONLYFANS EXCLUSIVE EXPERIENCE
GRIFTERS CODE: UNLOCKDOWN
DOCUMENTING GRAFFITI WRITING AND BYPASSING GLOBAL PANDEMICS
An exclusive OnlyFans experience followed by G.C. PPV film special and a book publication.
ACTION FIGURE
The limited-edition action figure was SOLD OUT.
My next project will be announced soon.
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GRAFFITI TOY
Release on Thu 11 Feb, 10 am (CET);
and 24h earlier shop access only for my Mail List Subscribers.
Limited edition of 150.
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REMOTE SENSING
An art-collection created from the best aerial photography, videos, and sounds; acquired from the photo, video & audio content, collected during the process of Remote Sensing the Line-1 of Athens Metro system. The project includes:
a limited edition of fine-art photo prints (SOLD OUT),
a photo-book (COLLECTOR EDITON SOLD OUT),
a song,
and a music video.
NEW PRINT: YOU ARE SPECIAL LIKE EVERYONE ELSE
YOU ARE SPECIAL LIKE EVERYONE ELSE
Signed & Numbered screen-print
Two color hand-pulled screen print on handmade Hahnemuhle 300gr with deckle edges. Edition of 60.
SOLD OUT
NEW PODCAST for ILOVEGRAFFITI.DE
You can listen my new ~70min podcast for ilovegraffiti.de. Available on YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts
THE ULTRA WIDE SYMPHONY
ULTRA WIDE SYMPHONY
I recorded and sampled sounds from the MONTANA ULTRA WIDE spray can and made this beat. Enjoy and share.
NEW PHOTOBOOK: TRUCK GRAFFICH - GRAFFITI ON PARISIAN TRUCKS
TRUCK GRAFFICH
GRAFFITI ON PARISIAN TRUCKS
Photographed by Good Guy Boris
AVAILABLE FROM 25 NOV, 10am (CET)
As the title obviously reveals, my new photobook is entirely dedicated to graffich on trucks from Paris.
I hunt down and photographed all i could find, within Paris and its suburbs in the late 2016. Unfortunately due to a hard drive issue i lost all pictures . Totally me 🤷♂️
BUT, a couple of months later i found the motivation to redo the whole exercise, and together with my bicycle and camera i did the whole process again. ✊
#TruckGraffich is a photobook, documenting the most present and vibrant transit graffich in the capital of France. While at the time (2016-2017) when the repression of vandal squad and the effectiveness of the buff on train and metro lines let almost no graffiti to be seen in traffic, on the surface of the city, few hundred of trucks were circulating full covered in graffiti. I managed to capture (almost) all of them and to put them in this book, filled with pieces, trow-ups and tags from various french & foreign writers.
230 color pages - truck per page
15x21 cm
Softcover - Perfect Binding
FAR OF THE LAND
FAR OF THE LAND
The Schtory
This summer i went to Crete for vacation. For a first time..
I tried to keep the expectations low, not to get disappointed.
Regardless the fact that everybody already told me the island is great - the island is fucking great.
Even the places where all tourist de merde focus (5% of the island) are great.
For particular reason i focused more on the east. Less traffic, less info online and - NO GRAFFICH!
No asshole, except me, have made the route before. At least he haven't let a mark (with few exceptions).
My trunk was full of spray paint. As proper 12 yrs old 30 yrs old i smashed the virgin spots across the hotspots, or at least where i could find any concrete structure - most preferably “abandoned”. And not talking small tipex tags on the plastic garbages, talking huge ultrawide tags, that i can see from google earth and my drone.
The myths i heard about Cretan people says they have a strong temperament. Conservative and they carry knives. Drink a lot, know how to enjoy life and even they rely mostly on the tourism for their income, of course - hate tourists. Myth busted or not, doesn't matter. What matters is that before you go there you have consider to respect, and specially if u go on relatively small island planing to write graffich, you better do it clever. Specially on place where there is no graffich. The island can get very small, if you fuck up 🙂. Not talking from experience but warning the people who will follow my steps after seeing the footage.
1 a.m. in the local Rakadiko (tavern) - tired (mostly from raki). Bumping into a drunker lady.
Me: Sorry! (in greek)
She: Sorry in greek (french accent)
I Switch to French introducing my self - Boris.
She:
- The Boris?
Eventually not hard to notice the name if you take a drive to any beach out of the city. The lady introduce me to her full company. "This is THE BORIS". “Aww i love your work…” continues with admiration. Eventually the nice lady has a gallery, we talk about art and we exchange contacts to do something in the Louvre (dim). All good vibes until the young daughter arrives and "WHY DON'T YOU DO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL AND WITH MEANING, instead of spamming my name????!"
After a short (probably long) conversation (drunk) explaining the lady, that was admiring me (at first) but now asking explanation, why i make the island ugly. That i shouldn't do it in such a virgin place...
Schtrong defense mode on! Explanation on graffich culture, the power and meaning of tags and the regular French-gallery-artsy-fartsy talk i used to give, and people still give to rich people to explain them how cool actually vandalism is.. I won (at least in my head lol).
We shake hands. I end up twerking in the local disco. Twerking havn't arrived yet in town. Specially not performed by man 😂.
My name is not common for greek people, simply because it has meaning in greek. It means "You can". Some locals were confused it is a kind of motivational guerilla campaign. The clever ones got the link immediately after i introduced myself. Who is that stupid to write his real name around, walking with a local girl in his arms… 😅
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I went to island equipped not only with paint but with light video equipment to shoot a vlog-like-travel-video.
After arrival on the island and few days of exploring the wilderness, the idea for doing a "Boris guide to Crete” came. I saw places i thought others should see and find easy. Also the idea of doing this urbex-graffich guides has been turning in my head since long time.
I did few aerials with the drone. The landscape was just incredible. Also what and how u see the land from above is not the same as what you see from the ground. The roads are empty so i had the idea to let my gf drive while i pilot, so i can do long shots following the car, who (the car) later on turned into the main character of the video. Those shots, stood above all of the rest of the footage. Watching it from my phone screen was enough to get the idea, i want to use only them in the video.
Far of the land. Before the teacher start telling the students what the author wanted to say, i will say it. Its about the trip far from the main land. It's a song about my cute little drone and it's POV above the road trip i had.
Funny, i almost sold the idea/footage to a director for another musician's video…
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My learning and development with music continues with full speed since last year. I wanted to make a calm beat and write a song for the footage and wrap everything together in a audio-visual experience. The video part was much-much easier since i already had the footage and the concept. Another two months of producing the beat, writing the text and recording 100 times. Testing audio effects, searching for tonality, flow that satisfies me (hard). Another i don’t know how many weeks of mixing learning and applying new skills on how to mix the track. 🤯
it's here. Made from A-Z by myself. Hope you enjoy.
As always, feedback is crucial so don't be shy to share it with me if you want to see future progress.
DM me, leave a comment under the video. Find your way, in public or private i would love to learn and improve.
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P.S.: The travel guide thing won't happen. I will not share the locations with anybody. After i saw what Balos have been turned to thanks to Insta tourism i rather keep the locations. If you clever you can figure it out yourself. If you want the easy or the professional way i am available for hire 🤑
Stream the song here. (links to be updated)
The premiere is at 2pm on YouTube here.
AUTHORITY BIAS
VANDLISING VANDALISM
Protecting and preserving streetart & graffich.
In my new vlog i am tapping on a few verry important topics for the art community:
- Shall we protect and preserve vandalism from getting vandalised?
- Y nobody protect MY graffich?
- How long we can stand art thiefs, who sell stolen vandalism on art auctions?
And of course for the artists, who wonder how the magic is done - this video will serve as tutorial on how to:
- Make
- Protect & preserve your graffich, when no one else does
- Raise the value of your own art
- Exploit the authority bias
FLAT EARTH TATTOO TOUR
I am doing 20 days tour in Germany and Switzerland for tattoos, cooking, music and vloging.
8-11 Stuttgart
12-13 Karlsruhe (BLACK HALO SECRET STUDIO)
14-16 Bern (Outlawz Tattoo Studio)
18-22 Hamburg (Trap House Tattoo Studio)
22-27 Berlin
On the 14th April from 17h-21h i will be cooking and serving food at the Outlawz Vegan Food Truck
You can book appointment for tattoo or contact me for collaborations via Insta DM or using the contact page.
TOYS ARE BETTER PEOPLE
2 years passed since my ex-girlfriend, first told me i should start producing more content for YouTube. Eventually I took her advice(partially) and i started the video series called #INFLVENCERS. A project that parked in the channel of The Grifters, focused entirely on the art of graffiti, galleries and exhibitions.
Fast forward in the time, i put my energy in other projects, leaving the YouTube content behind, meanwhile testing 360* video content, IG Schtories and livestreaming.
Earlier this year i finally decided to take the necessary step further and to invest more of my time and energy into video and eventually to start vloging.
A good opportunity came across, when my friend Constantinos Pantoflas came to Athens with the idea of "following" me for few days in my daily life. Filming for an anthropology project for his university, focused on the link between social media and graffiti art.
Before our shooting i already tried to document myself using my phone, while shooting the video for Happy Socks & Montana Cans. You can watch the "making of" from the campaign video here. This was the closest i've came to vloging and the first test of putting myself 100% infront of the camera, narrating my actions and thoughts.
For the shooting of the first vlog, me & Constantinos spent a wonderful day in the coast of Athens, looking for the perfect spot. The whole adventure you can see in my 2 episode vlog bellow.
I will appreciate a lot if you leave me some feedback in the comments (of the videos ☺️).
TOYS ARE BETTER PEOPLE
SCREEN-PRINT
I decided to make my first vlog graffiti piece a history, by releasing a small edition hand-pulled, signed and numbered screen-print. The (almost) whole process of the creation of the print is documented in the 2nd part of the vlog (watch above).
Update: The print was soldout in 1 day and the original drawing in less than hour. Much love for all your support ❤️
Edition of 60. 2 Colour hand pulled screen-print on handmade 300gr. Hahnemühle WILLIAM TURNER 300g. 33 x 48 cm.
MY FIRST VLOG
TOYS ARE BETTER PEOPLE
Part 1
MR DHEO TOOK ME TO BALI
Portuguese artist Mr.Dheo painted me recently in Bali, Indonesia and created a tourist attraction. Thank you ❤️
© Images courtesy of Mr. Dheo
