Jon Reiss returns...Bomb It 2!

Are you ready? Bombin' 2 is coming...Jon Reiss got his passport and boarded on a plane....several of them!

Copenhagen...Singapore?! (the city/country where chewing gum is illegal)...Tel Aviv...Bethlehem...Chicago...Bangkok...Hong Kong...Melbourne...Perth...Austin...Jakarta...




The original "Bomb It" film inspired the "digital broadcast network" Babelgum (which seems to be off-air) to commission Reiss to create a web series. After all, there are millions of new Android, Apple and other Internet-connected devices out there. Reiss does expand his original footprint to venture across the world to six countries, so that's why including Chicago and Austin seems a bit out of place. Artists featured include Klone, KnowHope, GreatBates, Zero, Darbotz, Killer Gerbil, Bon, Alex Face, Sloke, Husk Mit Navn, Ash, Phibs, Stormie Mills, Beejoir and plenty more.

“I was inspired to explore how and where graffiti and street art had penetrated the globe into some of the most unlikely places – such as Singapore.    I am especially fascinated in how each culture (and each person) takes this art form and makes it their own – and how the local culture affects the development of graffiti in each place that I visited. Tel Aviv and the refugee camps of Bethlehem couldn’t be more different.  The former is on the verge of a street art explosion similar to Barcelona in the early 90s.  In the West Bank, graffiti is much more about a political statement and “art” is often viewed as reconciliation.  At the same time it was interesting to see how some of the constants of graffiti exist nearly everywhere – from Perth to Copenhagen: the need to express oneself in public – and the addictive nature of getting up!” Jon Reiss, director