(0)Another excellent stop-motion street painting video by Blu.
19Jun2008
16May2008
Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place - New York Times
Though street crime is relatively low in Japan, quirky camouflage designs like this vending-machine dress are being offered to an increasingly anxious public to hide from would-be assailants.
02Apr2008
The Wooster Collective recently featured video of a piece of street scultpure by Joshua Allen Harris. It could be describe as kinetic pneumatic art, and features an inanimate pile of material attached to a subway grate. When a train passes in the tunnel beneath the grate, the upward flow of displaced air fills the material and produces a medium-sized bear. The continued flow of air makes it appear as if the bear is actually animated, like it’s shaking off some arctic water. When the train is gone, the bear retreats to its former state of hibernation, waiting for the next train so it can rise again.
28Jan2008
This was in due to be posted last week, but I just forgot to unwrap it from my drafts, so for those who missed the happening held in Rome, by Mad-hatter artist Graziano Cecchini who has struck again. He released 500,000 brightly colored plastic balls Wednesday from the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome.
The balls, similar to the ones you can jump into at a Chuck E. Cheese pizza parlor, “represented a lie told by a politician,” Cecchini told the Italian press.
The stunt cost Cecchini close to $30,000. Excited tourists grabbed the balls as artistic mementos, while Italian police proceeded to arrest Cecchini. Look for overpriced plastic balls on eBay.
He was the same public-art prankster who filled the Trevi Fountain in Rome with blood-red dye last October.
14Jan2008
Faces in Places: a growing collection of … well … faces in places!
11Dec2007
Bethlehem is one of the most contentious places on earth.
Perched at the edge of the Judaen desert at the intersection of Europe, Asia and Africa in the state of Palestine it was governed by the British following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. After World War II the United Nations voted to partition the region into two states - one Jewish, one Arab and there’s been fighting ever since.
It’s obviously not the job of a loose collection of idiot doodlers to tell you what’s right or wrong about this situation, so you’re advised to do further reading yourself (this month’s National Geographic has an excellent article all about Bethlehem).
We would like to make it very clear Santa’s Ghetto is not allied to ANY race, creed, religion, political organization or lobby group. As an organisation the only thing we’ll say on behalf of our artists is that we don’t speak on behalf of our artists. This show simply offers the ink-stained hand of friendship to ordinary people in an extraordinary situation.
Every shekel made in the store will be used on local projects for children and young people. Not one cent will go to any political groups, governmental institutions or, in fact, any grown-ups at all.
Salaam.
Blu
Banksy
This wall marks the spot where over 40 people were killed during the first Intafada (the little holes along the top are from bullets).
While Banksy was painting it a lot of people came over, some to shake his hand and others telling him to go away. Eventually the local MP was called out to diffuse the eighty-strong crowd that had built up (by which time Banksy had left and the piece was completed by the local kids).
Sam3
Banksy
03Dec2007
Shepard Fairey exhibition Via Wallpaper Mag’s Blog.
Whether you hail him as the originator of the modern urban art scene or a propagandist provocateur, it is undeniable that Shepard Fairey is a staggering success. Since coming to prominence in 1989 with his ‘Obey Giant’ sticker campaign, Fairey has achieved cult status amongst high-end galleries and graffiti artists alike.
16May2007
Prolific New York-based Parisian artist WK Interact holds his first ever Barcelona exhibition, courtesy of Maxalot Gallery.
Never-before-seen renditions of his distinctive black-and-white action-based graphics will be featured inside and outside the gallery; his canvas the gallery walls and doors, the street outside and wooden objects found on the streets of Barcelona.
As well as limited screen-prints, mixed media painted works, and an outdoor triptych mural, the exhibition will feature an installation showing the artist’s “guerilla gear”, his work uniform and tools for pasting and bombing cities all over the world.
His graphic works, installations, and painted murals have been exhibited at high-end contemporary spaces around the world including Cooper Hewitt (New York), Visionaire Gallery (New York) and Colette (Paris).
07Apr2007
A set on Flickr with walls painted with well-known comic strips, on this French Village (Angoulême) where the biggest Comics festival in the world is held. See an history of the festival. More info on the set.
"Sales Mioches" - Berlion & Corbeyran - 2003 by alexaaannndre on Flickr.
See where this picture was taken: loc.alize.us, google map [?]
Blake et Mortimer - André Juillard & Yves Sente - 2000
06Apr2007
BLU > started out his artistic career following his passion for drawing, public art, particularly unauthorized, illegal art. Coming from the graffiti culture he started developing his art based on a very personal figurative style. His work lives in two stages and two different spaces. It originates from sketches jotted down in sketchbook, which represent a diary as well as an image database to be used in the second stage: the mural. The actual project starts in front of the building, with size and load bearing elements of the wall, in effort to identify an impossible combination between painting and surrounding architecture. He avail himself of the most traditional and essential painting tools : brushes, paint roller, one colour and black; he often use techniques drawn from scenography as well as long sticks, which act as supports when working on large surfaces.
Via megunica.org.
Blu’s travel is being currently documented n a trip by Lorenzo Fonda, an Italian director who’s fan of his work. (see the progress, pics , documentation and info needed at megunica.org.
Can’t wait to see the final result of this on screen!
25Mar2007
The Stockholm Tunnelbana has three lines encompassing 110km of track and 100 stations of which 64km and 55 stations are underground. Several of the deep underground stations are cut into solid rock which were left with cave-like ceilings. The builders carved fascinating artistic objects out of the rock. One like the base of a gigantic Greek column (Station Radhuset) resembles the excavated remains of some lost city of Atlantis encased in an ancient lava flow. The Station Kungstradgarden has torsos and lion heads emerging from the rock. Modern murals and statues are liberally used in many other stations.
08Mar2007
7 Laserdeck Skateboard Show, curated by Refill Magazine
A select group of artists globally have contributed their works to explore this new technology. Only 50 limited edition decks will be produced per artist. The aim of the show is to have a series of unique decks that collectors may choose to ride or display.
The exhibition will have its first show at the MTV Gallery Space in Sydney, Australia scheduled on Thursday 29th March, to be followed later in the year by New York, LA, Japan and finally a scheduled tour of Europe.
12Feb2007
Via: BKRW
ADIDAS ORIGINALS and FOOT LOCKER gathered over the last months some of the best seven graffiti artists in the world SKORE (UK), CAN2/ATOM (GER), SILOETTE (US), RIME (US), SCIEN (FR), SMART (IT)) to work together on a fresh concept - a collection of footwear, clothing and accessories that takes their artwork from the sketchbook to the streets.
The result is the transformation of a rolling masterpiece of graffiti artwork originally applied to a subway carriage, running from end to end, into a graffiti-based streetwear collection.
Over a period of three days, the chosen 7 artists worked day and night, in a custom-built environment, to create the artwork for this distinctive collection. In gathering the artists together under one roof, this approach created a new process in developing graffiti-based product.
Furthermore, ADIDAS ORIGINALS and FOOT LOCKER documented the process allowing the viewer to see this unique project from start to finish ? providing a rare insight into the skills of the seven graffiti artists.
The collection launches in March ‘07 with the “All City and the Burner Collections”, made up of signature clothing and footwear designed by each artist, showcasing their own individual talents and styles.
11Jan2007
Polar Inertia has been making constant and solid issues loaded with photo essays and issues about nomadic and urban themes. They are online since 2002 and still doing great articles like this collection of Hong Kong skyscrapers by Michael Wolf.
11Jan2007
UK Guerrilla Artist Banksy launches his free shop. Everything in the shop is free. All the images can be downloaded to print or use as a desktop. Banksy free Shop
Serving suggestion:
Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.
ahah!
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