by Creative Tempest | Apr 7, 2017 | Graffiti, Street Art
What has your creative journey been like? Graffiti Writer since 1985. I’m currently focused on Portraiture in the streets and studio work (oil painting). WHO or WHAT inspires you? Traveling, my Ghanaian heritage, my son, contemporary art, photography and London...
by Creative Tempest | Mar 12, 2009 | Street Art
Edgar Mueller walks out of his quiet home every morning and questions the safe solid ground, upon which he stands, and grows discontent at how steadfast, and certain life can become if you never go too far beyond your front door. So Edgar Mueller imagines and creates...
by Creative Tempest | Mar 5, 2009 | Street Art
The ghost of Babe Ruth visited the dreams of Benny the Jet Rodriguez one night and left him with the message, “Remember kid, heroes get remembered, but legends never die.” In a similar line of thought, Above understands something important over most street artists,...
by Creative Tempest | Feb 16, 2009 | Street Art
Shel Silverstein cuts loose in the work of BLU, and fulfills the dark undertones of his books of poems that we at Creative Tempest loved as kids. Limbs are lost like trees, heads are cracked open like eggs shells, and people are cannibalized and un-cannibalized like...
by Creative Tempest | Feb 3, 2009 | Street Art
Banksy is iconoclastic. It’s hard not to see a work of graffiti done in stencil and not think of him, and that’s saying a lot. His work is simple and it is his daring and perfect wit that has made him famous, and known to many of you. We love him for making us stop,...
by Creative Tempest | Jan 27, 2009 | Street Art
We are used to featuring street artists here at Creative Tempest, but typically they are the ones, who want to write their names in the history books with a huge permanent black sharpie, but Kurt Wenner is a street artist who cares little for permanency, and he does...