Posts tagged Street Art
Yesterday I tagged along with Lorna, from Knits For Life (my sister!) while she installed this super awesome iphone yarn bomb on this sad looking pay phone. As you can see in the before above, the receiver is gone so this is a definite upgrade. I wanted to ask her a few questions about the idea and her process
Read it here: The Dapper Toad: iPayPhone Yarn Bomb)
I really like this, and have just lately been thinking about abandoned pay phones and booths. Who owns them, exactly?
Anyway this is a cool project. Via No Expectations.
Who cares about bad graffiti or street art? The spray paint scrawls of ill-chosen tag names (“Piggy Nasty,” “Pony Tail,” “Tricky Trout, Jr.”), reckless vulgarity (penises and boobs drawn on absolutely everything), and sad drawings that barely shape into the animal, face, or whatever they’re trying to be, who cares about all that? Usually these aerosol-on-concrete creations just fade into our visual background without a second glance, but artist Scott Hocking has recognized them for the masterpieces of mediocrity that they are in a photography book appropriately called Bad Graffiti, released in December 2012 by Black Dog Publishing.
(via An Appreciation for the Often Hilarious, Usually Horrible, World of Bad Graffiti)
The likes of Katsu, Kidult, Blu, Insa and Lush are some of the artists turning street art on its head by adding a digital dimension to their work. These artists are not only documenting their process, but rejecting the commercial direction of the medium and using the internet to ensure their works are seen by millions—in the process establishing a new definition of street art, one whose sole intention is to be consumed by online audiences.
(via How Graffiti Artists Are Journeying From The Streets To The Computer Screen | The Creators Project)
Video: Kidult - Visual Dictatorship | HUH
I’m really interested in Kidult. The rhetoric is rather juvenile, but strikes me as sincere. And some of the results are pretty thrilling. This is a rare street artist today who is a full-throated advocate of vandalism — that is, he has said that if graffiti were legalized, he wouldn’t do it — and who vows never to work for brands.
Absurdly bombastic on one level, but at the same time I find it fascinating. Sort of a cross between CAP (fromStyle Wars), Anonymous, and Adbusters?
Artist Paolo Cirio has created street art works that capture moments — or “street ghosts” — from Google Streetview.
“On the street, the public encounters the random victims of this war as unclear, impermanent colors and shapes, inclined to fade away but always there, like ghosts haunting the streets and sometimes reappearing from the ethereal hells of digital archives.”
(from the artist statement)
Update, more images here.
After repeatedly commenting and complaining about the pockmarked streets of Yekaterinburg, local blog URA.RU turned to Voskhod to create a brilliant campaign: under the cover of night they would paint the faces of local politicians around the most unsightly potholes and potentially shame them into action. The response? It worked!
(via Embarrassing Pothole Caricatures of Politicians Spur Action to Fix the Streets in Russia | Colossal)
SINGAPORE—A street artist known as “Sticker Lady” has mounted a challenge to this city-state’s obsession with order. In her portfolio: stickers pasted onto traffic-signal buttons with messages such as “Press to Time Travel” or “Press to Stop Time.”
When Marc Jacobs employees awoke to a vandalized Soho boutique the morning after the Met Ball, they snapped a few photos before starting to clean it up.
But instead of just stopping there and moving on, Marc Jacobs decided instead to turn the whole thing on its head, slap the photo on a t-shirt, and sell it with the caption “Art by Art Jacobs.”
(via Marc Jacobs Slaps Graffitied Store Photo onto Shirt, Gets Last Laugh)
I’m really enjoying Anubis and the muslim girls (seems like a series spread out all over town) watching everyone pass by – a quiet provocation.
That’s the interesting, if slightly cryptic, explanation at Poppytalk: Dispatches from Italy: Turin, a Walk on the Streets.
Earlier this year, Metaform atelier d’architecture asked Luxembourg graffiti artist Sumo to collaborate on a house in Luxembourg City. The architects were interested in reconciling urban development with artistic production in the built world, two seemingly opposed roles personified by Architect and Street Artist.
Sumo — a well-known street artist who owns a gallery — agreed to work on the project, and ended up covering most of the house with illustrations ranging from “cloud” screening patterns below to one-off pieces framing the interstitial interior volumes of the home. The paintings, say Metaform, emphasize the “formal game” of the architecture. Continue.
Sumo points to society’s shifting views on graffiti, moving away from “illegal vandalization” and towards “street art,” an essential part of the urban fabric. We’re living in a post-graffiti era, says Metaform,”even if many refuse to admit it.”
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