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300 original photos taken within city limits over many years to help preserve the mediums aesthetic. The following is a small window into this temporary world that's constantly being revised in a flux of new symbols. Some of the work only existed for a day before it was written over by other artists or removed by the city.
http://seattlestreetart.com/300 original photos taken within city limits over many years to help preserve the... more
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Aside from its rain and coffee, Seattle, Washington is known for many things subversive, from Grunge music to the activist driven WTO riots. This region of America raised the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. Today, there is a culture here that is only represented anonymously in the reclaimed public spaces of the city. Images dot the urban landscape in the typical street mediums that are used across the globe; spray paint, stickers, paste-ups, stencils, wheatpasting, posters, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing, installations, post-graffiti, mosaic tiling, murals, wood-blocking, LED art, reverse-graffiti and yard bombing.
You will see that these are not commercial enterprises or vandalism graffiti, but individual creative statements... something we can all relate to. Street art as a medium has been popularized internationally by the likes of Shepard Fairey, Banksy, D*Face, Paul Insect, Swoon, Twist, Neck face, Faile, Space Invader and WK Interact. It can take on many purposes and sometimes involves activism, phenomenology, repetition, attention capture, culture jamming, direct action, guerrilla messaging, propaganda, subvertising, decoration and territory claiming.
The following is a small window into this temporary world that's constantly being revised in a flux of new symbols. It's a snapshot of work on the Seattle streets over about a 3 year period, a visual capsule in time, not a comprehensive representation of Seattle street art and the people involved over the years. Some of the work only existed for a day before it was written over by other artists or removed by the city... a reminder that nothing is permanent, and control is an illusion in the chaos of a city. Enjoy.
http://seattlestreetart.com/Aside from its rain and coffee, Seattle, Washington is known for many things... more
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The illusive JR has pasted gigantic portraits all over the world, and the public still doesn’t know the artist’s full name. He insists on JR, which are his real initials. He refers to his performance-exhibitions as the mix of photography with graffiti art. His work involves showing up in a shantytown in Kenya or a favela in Brazil, a place where some event has been noted in the media and has captured his attention. His work turns it inside out, photographing the residents, then wrapping their buildings with the results, on a scale so vast that you can see their eyes from the sky.
Often he works through the night, and as soon as he’s done, he disappears; so when the installation becomes front-page news, there is no one left to explain it but the people whose voices had not been previously heard. As a woman from Kibera, a neighborhood in Nairobi, put it in Women Are Heroes, a documentary recently released in France that JR made about his work: “Photos can’t change the environment. But if people see me there, they’ll ask me: ‘Who are you? Where do you come from?’ And then I’m proud.”
JR’s collection of works entitled “Women Are Heroes” features a compelling and empowering style focused on the struggles of women in society today. JR was recently awarded the 2011 TED Prize for “Women Are Heroes.” At the age of 28, JR is the youngest recipient of the $100,000 prize.
JR’s latest project is “The Wrinkles of the City,” an installation of street pieces in Shanghai (and later, in other large cities). The project features images of the elderly, who represent the memory of the city. The photographs have been pasted up at locations that he feels speak to the heritage of a city that has definitely had its share of ups and downs, “from the Japanese occupation, the establishment of the Communist Party, The Liberation, World War II, the end of the foreign concessions, the victory of Mao Zedong over the General Tchang Kaï-Chek’s troops, the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward to the actual development of the city.“
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/jr-the-compellingly-powerful-street-art-of-a-guerrilla-photograffeur/The illusive JR has pasted gigantic portraits all over the world, and the public still... more
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Out of this year's roughly 200 Oscar nominees, the Academy is hoping that all but one of them show up at the Kodak Theater on February 27.
The problematic nominee is Banksy, the elusive graffiti artist nominated for directing the documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop."
Banksy doesn't show his face in public, appeared hooded and in silhouette in the movie, and didn't even admit to being the film's director until months after its release.
Before his film made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, he left several pieces of street art around Park City, but did not make any appearances during the festival.
For an organization that prides itself on security and decorum, there's something unsettling about the thought of an Oscar winner taking the stage in disguise, or trying to accept the award without revealing his identity.
"The fun but disquieting scenario," said the Academy's executive director, Bruce Davis, on Monday, "is if that film wins and five guys in monkey masks come to the stage all saying, 'I'm Banksy!' Who the hell do we give it to?"
(Davis was apparently referencing a newspaper article, which has since been disputed, claiming that Banksy sometimes wore a monkey mask in public. A promotional still from the film, above, depicts Banksy sitting next to such a mask.)
At the annual nominees luncheon, which of course Banksy did not attend, Davis told TheWrap that the Academy "needs to have a procedure in place," and is working to figure out what that procedure might be. "That's the fun part of this job," he said. "There's always some crazy-ass wrinkle you never thought of before."
As the luncheon wound down, Davis and Academy president Tom Sherak huddled at a table with Jaimie D'Cruz, the producer of "Exit Through the Gift Shop," who is also nominated for the award, and with an executive producer. And on Tuesday afternoon, Sherak told TheWrap that he thought they'd come to an agreement on what might happen if "Exit" wins – a scenario, he hopes, that involves neither Banksy nor anybody claiming to be him.
"The reason we had that conversation," Sherak said, "was that we had to make sure we were all comfortable with what would happen if he was to win, knowing that he doesn't want anybody to know who he is."
If Banksy isn't comfortable showing his face on the Kodak stage, Sherak said, then the Academy isn't comfortable having him on that stage.
"We suggested to them that it might be a good idea that if he did win, one of them would accept in his place – that it would not be dignified for the Academy to have somebody come up wearing a monkey's head."
The Academy and D'Cruz essentially came to an agreement, Sherak said, that if "Exit" wins, D'Cruz will accept for himself and Banksy, without any additional shenanigans.
http://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/academy-grapples-banksy-problem-24563Out of this year's roughly 200 Oscar nominees, the Academy is hoping that all but... more
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Pinch one off, drop the kids off at the pool, however you refer to the ritual, relaxing the sphincter of the anus is key. The Crack Team (pun intended) of researchers at JohnStallWisdom.com has just concluded the study titled " METHODS TO PROMOTE THE RELAXATION OF THE INTERNAL SPHINCTER OF THE ANUS" The top method discovered was reading Graffiti while "chopping the log" or as many refer to it, "taking a dump". In the course of its research the JSW team fond a disturbing trend sweeping the country. It appears that significant funds have been diverted from the Obama Stimulus Plan for painting over John Stalls. It has forced many public toilet users to re-read "Made in China-Waist 34-100% Man Made Material from the insides of their belts. "Proper relaxation of the sphincter can best be achieved through the reading of fresh content" the report goes on to explain. Martin Lewis, Media Director at John Stall Wisdom advises 'anyone who wishes to have fresh Graffiti at their disposal while dumping to carry their laptops,smart phones, netbooks into the Stall and log into the all new website:
http://www.johnstallwisdom.com
The following was excerpted from an article found in the course of the study on afraidtoask.com:
The small and large intestines are muscular tubes. Normally, these tubes contract in different ways to both mix the digesting material and to slowly force the contents down the gut towards the anus. About four times a day, a mass movement forces the stool through the colon and towards the rectum. When you eat a meal, food traveling through your upper gut causes muscle to contract throughout your gut, and stool from your colon is pushed into the rectum. This is called the GASTROCOLIC reflex. This is why your morning coffee can trigger you to need to move your bowels. This is also why babies poop after they eat. The reason why you don't poop after every meal is because you have learned to control when and where you pass stool as you were growing up.
Defecation, or the act of passing stool, is partially voluntary and partially involuntary. In other words, you can control some parts of it, but not others!
When stool enters the rectum, the rectum expands. This causes a nerve reflex, which relaxes the internal sphincter of the ANUS, and gives you the urge to move your bowels. At this point you tighten your external sphincters until you can find a toilet or other appropriate place to evacuate your bowels. When you are ready to make a BM, you take the position (sitting or crouching) and consciously relax your external sphincters. The muscles of your pelvic floor (levator ani - L) will also relax, thus allowing the stool in your rectum to pass through to your anus. Muscular contractions and gravity help push the stool through your anus, and out.
How often should I be moving my bowels?
There are no set rules as to how often is normal. Though the majority of people move their bowels once a day, this varies considerably depending on your diet, activity, illness, and many other factors. Once a day is a general rule-of-thumb, although some "normal" people may have a bowel movement only once in 2 or even 3 days. Sometimes people can have more than one BM a day.
What does a normal bowel movement look like?
A normal bowel movement should be some shade of brown, should be soft but still formed, and should be roughly the size and shape of sausage links, although this can vary with the softness of the stool. Your stool takes the shape of your colon. Foods and vitamins you eat can affect how your stool looks and smells, but so can diseases discussed in the following section. Normal bowel movements DO NOT contain blood, and are not black or tarry.Pinch one off, drop the kids off at the pool, however you refer to the ritual,... more
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For the past four years, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have walked by or on top of the orange lines have unwittingly passed what is the biggest graffiti tag in the world. The tag, which is so vast that all parts of it cannot be viewed at the same time, was created by an artist known as Momo in 2006 and consists of a single paint line that runs about eight miles long and spells out his name.
It runs from the East River to the Hudson River and extends north to 14th Street and south to Grand Street. The line runs over curbstones and subway grates and zigzags around lampposts and manhole covers. Its route begins at the edge of a West Side pier and ends after crossing a footbridge over the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. “I wanted to make a trail that people could follow,” Momo said. “And I realized that I could write something if I planned it out with the street grid.”
The project was inspired by a series of purple footprints that were painted on Manhattan sidewalks in 1986, which stretched all the way from the Upper East Side down to Foley Square. Those mysterious markings led to a spot on Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side, where the city had bulldozed an elaborate community garden called the Garden of Eden, which had been created by a squatter named Adam Purple. Momo said he glimpsed the footprints as a child and was captivated.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/momo-tags-manhattan-the-biggest-graffiti-tag-in-the-world/For the past four years, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have walked by or on... more
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Teaser about Paris Tonkar, the first book speaking about French grafitti (1984-1992) by Tarek and Doriath.Teaser about Paris Tonkar, the first book speaking about French grafitti (1984-1992)... more
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If you're into the graffiti scene then you may have heard of Insa. He has a unique style that has been seen on many walls worldwide to cars in the Gumball.
Now he has started his own custom one stop shop and wants to create a piece of his unique artwork on your car, boat, tank, or space shuttle...
http://www.fueltopia.co.uk/forum/topics/get-you-vehicle-customised-byIf you're into the graffiti scene then you may have heard of Insa. He has a... more
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masterpieces indeed.
Keep painting so we have beauty to stare at verses the trash on the streets.masterpieces indeed.
Keep painting so we have beauty to stare at verses the trash on... 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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Leave it up to FOX news to spread lies and propaganda... SABER is highly under rated artist...Leave it up to FOX news to spread lies and propaganda... SABER is highly under rated... more
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