SEAK: Graffiti and Street Art Diary

This Tops even having your own signaturshoe at a well known sneaker brand! Having your own magnetic Trading cards. Love and Respect! Nice, feels like Commons: Ive you play your cards right.

Er so: Jetzt so einen auf dicke Hose?  Von wegen Ich bin so geil, und wichtig, und so, von mir gibts jetzt sogar ne Sammelkarte; oder was?!?

The SEAK Trading Card shows a large canvas Triptychon.  ive painted the 3 canvases live at a castle of Reinold Messner in Bolzano Tirol Italy a few Years ago.

SEAK so: Öööh, ja so ungefähr, wie bei der Sache mit den Eastpak Rucksäcken vor ein paar Jahren, aber halt nur in Amerika.

Er so: Aha!! Also nicht in Deutschland. Hmm Naja.. hmmmm…..

The Trptchon on the card shows a SEAK lettering Style which flavored in favour of its new owner a infamous european multimedia Entrepreneur.

play your cards right or  bricks at a good price.

SEAK so: Die sind auf mich zugekommen, lief alles per Empfehlung über einen Kollegen aus Los Angeles.  Ein Homie von ihm aus New Jersey, macht die Karten, und für die 2. Edition wollten sie mich.

Other Writers which have although a card are Lady Pink, Mac, Ogre, Bomber, Aroe, Scribe, Emit, Sket, Atome, Ket, Rime, Cycle, Ruets, and, and, and, and many collegs more….

SEAK x Overcollectibles Magnetic Trading cards

Thanks to Holgr for the dope Photos, Joe for recommending me, and to Felix for making it happen and  the big Sample package.

SEAK`s Wunschzettel (Reihenfolge egal): 1. Durchstarten im Kunstmarkt
2. liebevolle erotische Traumfrau die mich wegflasht findenund mit ihr zusammen kommen 3. weiterhin so geile Aufträge und Projekte 4. meinen Führerschein endlich mache 5. Das Nike 2010 ein bisschen grosszügiger mit Sneakers ist, und es auch sonst mit Klamottensponsoren generös läuft.… 6. Ich weiterhin Gesund bleibe, und regelmässig Sport mache. 7. Das ich mit Sieb und Digitaldrucken durchstarte. 8. Das es meiner Familie, meinen Homies und Freunden gut geht. 9. Das ich weiter lerne, verstehe, und wachse.

My wishlist for Santaclaus this Xmas:

1. Sucess at the Artmarket. 2. to find and mutually fall in love with my Dream Woman and Soulmate. 3. To keep on getting such interesting Comission and Project Requests. 4. That i will finally will do my car driving license or at least get a new Motorcycle. 5. That i keep on staying healthy and will work out regular. 6. That will be  a bit more genreous with free Sneakers in 2010, and i will keep on getting funky clothes from fresh brands. 7. That I will finally start with prints (digital/ giclee/ silkscreen). 8. That my Familiy, Homies and Friends staying fine, happy and healthy too. 9 That i will keep on learning, understanding and growing.

Parallel zu meinen Wandbildern im öffentlichen Raum, arbeite ich seit Anfang der Neunziger auf Leinwand.

new frontal pic of one my 2009 canvases (leinwand) Thanks to lil Olli

Iam working regulary in my style on canvas since the mid nineties. A mix of spraypaint, marker, fineliner, pens, and pencils.

Hier mal der Buchstabe “S” in Nahaufnahme. Die untere Seriffe ist an geschnitten.

and in the close up my Letter “S”. The colours are in reality much brider

dedicated to the musicial hairspray here in cologne. Advertisment for the new Musical

Love from Nike, another pair of premium af1`s. Kleine Gesten erhalten die Freundschaft.

SEAK Sammelkarte/ SEAK Collectors Card…Collect them all.

Another Busy Week is over. The rainy weather is blockading me a little bit @ the Big Planet Mural in Cologne Bocklemuend, but i keep myself busy any how. Cutting a  few stencil for Bocklemuend aswell as the Rose Club Outside. My Homie Olli sended me fresh frontal pics of one my actual 2009 canvases.

The Berlin Newspaper “Berliner Zeitung” did a pretty personal feature about my background. at first i thought its maybe a bit too personal, considering the hiphop/graffiti/street/urban culture/ survival of he fittest subculture iam coming from. But fuck it.

Nike was sending me some love to have a proper start into this cold and dark time of the year. airforce1 premium. SInce there were talks at Nike to do a SEAK signature Sneaker, a Homie who back then worked for Nike brought me into the Friends for Nike Circle. Besides a few well known Artists friend of mine, there are although Folks like Harris, Sido, Oliver Korritke…..

Regarding the Berliner Zeitung article, i will try o get a English translation and post it soon.

In case you are in germany/switzerland or austria make sure to get a copy of the HipHip Magazine JUICE.

They did in there current monthly issue a large Interview with me. ( i will double check with them, maybe they are cool, and i can post a translation here too.

Felix from Over collectibles in New Jersey send me a mail, announcing that my collecors cards are ready to Ship. As soon as i have sample`s i will post them.

The canvas of the card is done in Bolzano Tirol Italy for a art collector, on a castle of the Mount Everst Climber Reinhold Messner.

About the BMW Mini Project here more soon in between the next days.

see you all on facebook, here, twitter, or in real life. later

peace & piece & piece

SEAK

almost 14.000 visitors here on my website on one day, and 8000 on my flickr account. nice.

The Worldpress was there. I will get a full press coverage beginning of 2010 of the whole project.

The people of Thalys and there partner agencys in germany, france, belgium and the netherlands where fun to work with. Thanks although to Boris Breuer for these great Photos here. Aswell as Big Thank you to SIlvia, Andre, Bjoern which came with me to Paris for support.

I combined the letters of my artist name “Seak” with the my birth and hometown “Köln” (cologne).

Using the offical colours of cologne (red and white and a bit of blackand orange) aswell a few local visuall traditions and heritage like the 11 blacks flames represent the 11 virgins which rescued cologne in very early medieval times from the huns, the three crowns, the top parts of the “Kölner Dom” (cathedral), etc, etc, etc…

The fact that ive painted the bar waggon makes perfectly sense with the party, carnival and highlife image cologne has in the world.

cnn, zdf, kölnerstadtanzeiger, el pais, reuters, wdr, getty images,……………….. OG press veterans!

I fucking love how serious the all watch and look on this pic´s. feels like being in Vietnam during the Ted Offensive.

Putting the establishment the horns on, or maybe the Graffiti movement, and then what is graffiti and street art. Just a thinking channel, defined by others. feel free to research this website to feel my interpretation.

YES YES YES. Endorphines, dopamin, all in. mum can you see me, iam on Tv.

I know iam sexy bastard on this photo. perfect web 2.0 profile pic. I think i will use it for facebook.

The SEAK Thalys Bar Waggon. Life is Beach!

first picture of the Thalys action here.  have to get some sleep. more images and the whole story in a few hours here!

Did a Special Skid Row debauchery Diet and dropped 20 stones in 4 Month, while ballin.
So time for new Gear!!

I just recieved a package with a bunch of free fresh Shirts from my Homies @ Joker Brand. Thanks Timo youve made my Day. Wishlist on a fastlane.

Weve chatted yesterday about my Selection, and Today i recieved my gift.

Just recieved a Surprise Gift-Package from my Friends at the NikeHQ in Berlin.

Thanks to Michael for the nice Selection! Jetzt kann der Sommer kommen.

Die Tochter von Martin Kippenberger zählt mittlerweile auch zu meinen Sammlerinnen.

Helena sprüht selber, und beschäftigt sich seit ein paar Jahren mit Graffiti und Street Art.

Helli give them Hell!

The Daughter of the infamous German Artist Martin Kippenberger just became a Collector of mine.

Helena is following the Graffiti and Street Art scene for some time now.

looking back to the satelite series ive did for the biennale in Shenzhen ill tend to break down my letters more and more recently into plain satellites.
ill started this canvas 3 years ago, and it took me almost 2 month in my studio to finish this baby up.
love and hate are sometimes so close together. iam kinda over with those hardcore detailed big canvases unless ill add a zero at the end or triple the first number.
no one told me 16 years ago that urban art will be so much work.
in anycase thats a keeper deluxe, for sale only in good and the right hands.
still thinking about a good title. it kinda represents the infinitive possibilties, movement, creative chaos, the joy of repeating yourself,….

While everyone is focusing on prints and the secondary market, this rare huge Monster of canvas is now finally finished after 3 years.
My personal record in fighting with a painting in terms of size/action/details/time
Ill guess this one falls under the urban art categorie ” schluesselwerk”, or in other words, its a beautiful highly detailed accident.
Dont know ive it will end up in an auction, or ive i will stash it for someone special.
maybe its time think about some highclass prints.
iam still thinking about a name, “we`re having a party, my memories and me” vs ” the mother of all battles”. i open for suggestions…….