Paralyzed Artist Draws With His Eyes
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Graffiti artist Tony Quan suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and is unable to move any part of his body other than his eyes. But thanks to an open source computer project called EyeWriter, he can still draw. The technology tracks the movements of his eyes, allows him to select different shapes and colors, and then projects his images onto the sides of buildings. The above video is a selection from a documentary about the project.
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COMBO, Animated Graffiti by Blu and David Ellis
Remember Muto, the "animated" or time-lapse graffiti by Blu that took the InterWeb by storm? Well, here’s the sequel: a collaboration by Blu and David Ellis called COMBO (with music by Roberto Lange)
It was produced by Studio Cromie and released at the Fame Festival 2009
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The Graffiti Of Tenerife
Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s beautiful Canary Islands is home to an enormous amount of unique street art. See a small selection of the awesome graffiti at Direct Villas Tenerife.
(image credit: Flickr user herr_S)
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Graffiti Needlework
This great needlepoint work was created by Tennessee artist, Jacquelyn Royal. If you like her work, there’s more on the site, but I don’t think any of them look nearly as real as this one.
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3D Graffiti by Sander van Heukelom
Sander van Heukelom combines typographic design, graffiti and sculpting into unique pieces of 3D graffiti (He uses styrofoam, plexiglass, synthetic resin and wood).
This one above, Quod dubitas, ne feceris – Latin for "when you doubt, do not act" – is probably a concept most graffiti artists do not recognize.
Check out the rest of Sander’s artwork here: Link [Flash] – via Rue The Day!
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Spray Paint Can Lamp
Your spray can empty after a hard night graffitying? Don’t toss the can! Remember the environment, and recycle it into something cool.
That’s what artist Jake Rankin of Portland, Oregon, does: he takes spent Krylon cans and turn it into a lamp. Best yet, the on/off switch is the paint nozzle.
(No words on whether you get the faint smell of fumes whenever you turn it on). Breeze Block Gallery has ‘em for $60: Link – via Coolbuzz
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Anti-Elephant Begging Graffiti
Australian artist Brooke Bobridge, who is currently living in Bangkok, Thailand, took a series of graffiti by local and international artists imploring passer-bys NOT to feed the elephants. They want to discourage "elephant begging" where the pachyderms are used to part tourists from their dollars (or technically, bahts).
Link – via amy sol blog
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Enjoy Subprime Lending
Flickr user Enjoy Banking posted a series of photos where derelict shops and other urban decays in New York are tagged with giant "Enjoy Subprime Lending," "Enjoy Stimulus Package" and other cheeky stickers.
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Geeky Graffiti
Check out 23 examples of how geek culture has invaded the streets and made graffiti infinitely more interesting. Link -via Gizmodo
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Think All Graffiti Taggers Are Poor and Underprivileged Youths? Think Again!
Think that those urban graffiti are all left by poor, underprivipeged taggers or teenagers led astray by gangs? Think again: the Los Angeles County sheriff just arrested tagging crews who are surprisingly rich:
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies today arrested at least eight alleged members of the notorious Metro Transit Assassins tagging crew, some of whom are believed to be responsible for a several-blocks-long “MTA” tag in the concrete Los Angeles River bed that authorities say will cost millions of dollars to remove.
The arrests occurred during a series of early-morning raids centered in the Hollywood area. Among those detained for a parole violations is a famous tagger whose work “SMEAR” has has won acclaim in the art community. [...]
Most those detained are in their 20s; one of them drives a $60,000 BMW, and another member possesses a diamond-and-ruby-encrusted Metro logo pendant with paperwork suggesting it’s worth $29,000, Finkelstein said.
Link – Thanks Tiffany!
Photo: Al Seib/LA Times
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Slum Art in Kibera, Kenya
French street artist JR has just completed an art project in the slums of Kibera, Kenya, where he covered the rooftops of homes with a material printed with the pictures of eyes of the women who live in them.
The art does have a practical purpose: the material help protect the houses from heavy rain:
Today, after more than a year of planning, 2000 square meters of rooftops have been covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera. The material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season. The train that passes on this line through Kibera at least twice a day has also been covered with eyes from the women that live below it. With the eyes on the train, the bottom half of the their faces have be pasted on corrugated sheets on the slope that leads down from the tracks to the rooftops. The idea being that for the split second the train passes, their eyes will match their smiles and their faces will be complete.
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Fantastic Global Street Art
Good Magazine has a fantastic gallery of some of the best street art in the world. Some are sculptures and some are murals. The site paired up with Wooster Collective, a street art blog that has some great stuff and some just ok sauce.
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The Mundano Building in São Paulo, Brazil
Those distinctive eyes, nose and lips are the hallmark of a Brazilian street artist Mundano. But instead of graffiti, this particular one graces the whole facade of a building in São Paulo. I can just imagine the lower "lips" rolling up when the store opens for the day.
Found at Wooster Collective, where one would find such things: Link | More of Mundano’s street art on Flickr
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How NOT to Sign Your Graffiti
Here’s a tip for all you graffiti "artists": when tagging public buildings, do not – I repeat – do not sign it with your online identity!
Here’s a story of one Melanie Brockway, who used her MySpace profile in her graffiti:
The 23-year old single mother was tracked down by police through stickers mentioning her online identity – Devient Art – which she left by the side of her pieces.
Melanie Brockway’s page on the social networking website details her age, location and what school she attended, allowing officers to piece together her identity. [...]
Since her arrest the unemployed mother-of-two’s MySpace page has been accessed, and now bears the banner heading: "Devient Art does not promote illegal graffiti in anyway. It is illegal you will get arrested, and its wrong… i again do do not promote illegal graffiti in anyway."
Her mood has also been set to “p—– off”.
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