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Ron English take his own works of art and plasters them over billboards and ads with very clever designs. Some contradict commercial advertising campaigns like McDonalds or Ford, and others just challenge conventional thought.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/adgoosenyRon English take his own works of art and plasters them over billboards and ads with... more
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Max Lugavere and Jason Silva host a look at the parts of New York City that usually are seen only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. Features a real graffiti museum in Queens where spray paint artists from around the world can tag with abandon.Max Lugavere and Jason Silva host a look at the parts of New York City that usually... more
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This is another edition of some FAILs that I don’t think are FAILs. Because not every FAIL is really a FAIL.
It's that age old dispute: the stripper versus the gamers. These Russian strippers were hired to distract Counter-Strike players, during an important LAN party. They FAILed, thus allowing the gamers to score maximum points.
How did this sign FAIL? It suggested that rocks might fall, and rocks fell. You could get away with some clever points if you had the same picture but with no boulder in the middle of the road.
I guess they're making an interesting point: Indecision is FAILure. But what if the bill they were voting on was awkwardly worded. Politicians will muck up the way a bill is worded to gain more votes for the opposition. A vote for no, meant a vote for yes.
This isn't a FAIL at all, they've probably just relocated to the corner of April and Perch.
Thank you to Current user Nettle, for finding this non-FAIL. I'm going to agree with her on this. There are many places in the world where it's actually easier for a cow to get a motorcycle license than a human. The passenger is doing the right and LEGAL thing by letting his heifer drive.
Are you really going to tell me it's a FAIL to sign your name on a hurdle? This guy probably just won a race, and he's gone back to write his name on the final hurdle he had to jump over. Oh it's fine for Banksy to draw anywhere, but when an athlete engages in graffiti it's a FAIL? C'mon, end this double standard.
Some amateur scientists took the idea of powering a car with corn to the next level. I'm told that clipping three de-kerneled corncobs to your battery, will make your car much more efficient than you ever could have imagined.
Do you have some FAILs, that you don't think are FAILs? Add them to the Current Group: Some FAILs that aren't FAILs.This is another edition of some FAILs that I don’t think are FAILs. Because not... more
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Lots of public art campaigns are renegade. Banksy paints on a wall that he doesn't own. His art is about the extrajudicial reclamation of public space. This project is different, because the organizers have done their research, and discovered that other people are breaking laws.
A company called NPA / City Outdoor operate street level billboards. They didn't get the proper permits, so their operation is illegal.
This is a very cool public art campaign, because it legally reclaims public space from corporate interests.
I wonder if more campaigns like this are happening near me. Check out more projects at the public ad campaign site.Lots of public art campaigns are renegade. Banksy paints on a wall that he... more
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Who's got a sexy gray zip-up pullover, a turtleneck, and loves bobbing his head at a hip-hop show? Why, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin! He even gets up on stage and promotes at least three of the pillars of hip hop: rap, graffiti and break-dancing, saying they promote a healthy lifestyle. "It is hard to imagine break dance being combined with alcohol or drugs."
As if it was just another chapter out of recent Russian history - the hip-hop event was called The Battle For Respect.
(Hat-tip Joshua Kucera at True/Slant)
(Update: Also posted to Current Music by TravG73)
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"The world's most innofensive graffiti - there's a new form of graffiti in town, and it's extremely pleasant. Who in their right mind would come face to face with a sweater-wearing tree and do anything but smile?""The world's most innofensive graffiti - there's a new form of graffiti... more
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Nice alternative!
South African Artists Tag Walls By Scrubbing Them Clean
by Yuka Yoneda, 03/10/10
Graffiti is one of the most controversial art forms out there since it defaces public property – but what if graffiti artists actually cleaned up the walls they tagged up by etching their sketches into the grime that already exists on them? The delightful process, called reverse graffiti or “scrubbing” isn’t new – we’ve written about it here and here before – but awesome examples of it keep popping up. Case in point: one band of students in Durban, South Africa who’ve been gracing spaces with works of the subversive street art form in their area.
Inspired by the works of Paul Curtis (a reverse graffiti pioneer), South African student Martin Pace decided to “scrub” the walls of his own town. While others have used giant stencils and high-pressure water hoses to “wash” reverse images onto, or technically off of their canvases, Pace decided to use a metal scrubbing brush on his first project – a filthy freeway wall. The result was a charming pictorial timeline of Westville’s (the town where the wall is) architecture.
Pace eventually formed a gang of reverse taggers with his friends Stathi Kongianos, JP Jordaan and Nick Ferreira called Dutch Ink. The bands triumphs include a beautiful mural of trees on a Durban North wall as well as a giant “Sardine Run” (featuring a school of stencilled fish) swimming across a city bridge.
The best thing about reverse graffiti is that it’s not illegal! Think about it – you can’t really arrest someone for cleaning up city surfaces. Of this fact, Pace said, “That’s the beauty of the whole project. We have had council guys in police cars stop us in the middle of the day while we are working and asking us if we have been commissioned to do this and when we answered no, they gave us thumbs up and said keep doing what you are doing.”
Via Neil Coppen and Wooster Collective
http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/10/reverse-graffiti-south-african-artists-tag-walls-by-scrubbing-them-clean/Nice alternative!
South African Artists Tag Walls By Scrubbing Them Clean
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Basquiat's Art: Like You've Never Seen Him Before
Blog, Erricka X,
Way before Kim Kardasian, Nicole Ritchie, and Paris Hilton, there was Jean-Micheal Basquiat--the first black artist-socialite, some would say. He was famous, first for his art, and then for being himself. Basquiant took his humble beginnings as a graffiti artist and catapulted himself into a lucrative career as a painter.
Nearing the twenty-year anniversary of his death, a new documentary, The Radiant Child, has surfaced with never-seen-before footage of the painter in his studio, making art and answering candid questions about his life. The footage is from just two years before his death. The director of the documentary, Tamara Davis, was reportedly so shaken up by Basquiat's death that she threw the documentary tapes in a drawer and refused to look at them until just a few short months ago. The film won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and has helped present an alternative viewpoint to the fictional Julian Scaleable film about the deceased artist. Below is a short clip from the film.
read more at
www.youthoutlook.orgBasquiat's Art: Like You've Never Seen Him Before
Blog, Erricka X,
Way... more
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Sao Paulo artists Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente created the 6emeia project in hopes of transforming daily life by bringing art and humor to the people. Through 6emeia the artists have introduced a new way of looking at mundane objects regularly taken for granted or ignored by creating unusual paintings that incorporate these pieces of the urban environment – storm drains, light posts, and manhole covers.
Read more: http://www.whitespace.bz/ws/web/forms/pulse/PulseMainArticle.aspx?id=385Sao Paulo artists Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente created the 6emeia project... more
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If you haven’t yet come across Matthew Albanese’s landscape photography, then you’re in for a treat. The New Jersey-based artist has captured it all, from grassy fields that invite you to run through them and crystal clear lakes, to tornadoes, fires, volcanic eruptions and even a moon landing. How does he manage to be in the right place at the right time? He subjugates time and place to his will. Intrigued? Find out more.If you haven’t yet come across Matthew Albanese’s landscape photography,... more
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Often found hanging from power lines or melding with urban architecture, Above's site specific stencils, paintings, and installations push past the traditional expectations of graffiti. The evolution of his name from text to a symbol inspired him to explore less conventional media, leading to his trademark wooden mobiles. Whether subtle or massive, his pieces retain an innate sense of beauty through their dialogue with the surrounding environment. Refusing to show his work in galleries, Above has instead "toured" through Europe and North and South America to get his work up. Watch the interview from "The Run Up," available for the first time to the public for free, on Walrus TV.Often found hanging from power lines or melding with urban architecture, Above's... more
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A teacher was shocked to be issued with a £75 graffiti fine after putting up missing posters for her lost cat Fluffy.
Whilst she was delighted that the posters helped her to relocate her prized persian pussy, she was perhaps understandably miffed to be fined by her local council for putting up the posters under Section 43 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act.
"In a world where there is less and less community spirit, to impose a law and fine me for something like this is horrible," she said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7215256/Missing-cat-poster-brings-75-graffiti-fine.htmlA teacher was shocked to be issued with a £75 graffiti fine after putting up... more
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For some time now I have been looking for art created by African Americans in the mainstream of America and I can honestly only name a few who have become familliar to my conscious mind.I go to art galleries visit museums and read most of the art publications available and I can't seem to find very many.The ironic thing is that I see plenty of graffiti & street art but it is produced by caucasian people from the subburbs who become brand names and are promoted to the highest ranks of stardom.Doesn't anyone find this a strange phenomina in the year 2010.For some time now I have been looking for art created by African Americans in the... more
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When in London, there’s no need to visit art museums, simply look up, look left and look right. London’s vibrant graffiti culture is backed by individual writers, artists and crews that are always moving fast. From large-scale political showcases to quirky stencils and tags, the rainbow flecked streets captivate eyes and minds like no gallery could.
http://jetsetta.com/travel/londons-super-cool-street-art/When in London, there’s no need to visit art museums, simply look up, look left... more
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Outdoor advertising is all around us – on billboards, benches and even stairs. So it was only a matter of time before the ads took to the streets themselves in the form of stunning 3D chalk drawings, paint, stickers and even “reverse graffiti” which cleans messages onto dirty pavement. These 14 urban street ads sometimes blur the line between guerilla art and guerilla marketing, drawing in crowds and using their respective environments in clever and creative ways.
http://weburbanist.com/2010/02/01/word-on-the-street-14-fun-urban-street-ads/Outdoor advertising is all around us – on billboards, benches and even stairs.... more
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A shot doc exposing the striking similarities of illegal billboarding and Urban Graffiti, and the discrepancy on how they both get treated judicially.A shot doc exposing the striking similarities of illegal billboarding and Urban... more
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Yesterday I had the honor to seat down with Seville's artist Manuel who's artistic name is "Grouper" We talked about the competition, the love for the amazing art, the disappointments and the refreshing satisfaction of a work well done///
by Brava:DYesterday I had the honor to seat down with Seville's artist Manuel who's... more
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