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Hadouken not withstanding, I agree with urban artist COMBO that Muhammad Ali would totally best Street Fighter's Ryu. But I'm not so sure about E. Honda. It's not so easy to defeat a fat man in undies. Via Twisted Sifter
AMC is promoting the return of the TV show Mad Men with a minimalist poster showing a falling man, with a blank expanse around him. The only other thing the poster contains is the date at the bottom right. That’s just asking to be embellished, and plenty of folks have great ideas about what to add. Gothamist asked for submissions, and has been collecting the “improvements” to post for your pleasure. Link to gallery one. Link to gallery two. -via Laughing Squid
It took me a while to get this juggling image by urban artist ABOVE, who wrote:
He found that wire setup in Madrid, Spain: Link - Thanks ABOVE!it might sound weird to most people but similar to a burglar
waiting and observing a spot for a future hit,
i had been searching the streets for over 9-months for this type of wire setup.kinda strange how such a simple wire can bring so much excitement to a person.
this "hit" had the foundation laid and with the correct timing
i climbed up a ladder repeatedly a total of 11-times
each with a new layer to make this piece complete.
This adorable 8-bit style animation comes to us fresh from some walls in Lecco, Italy, where pixel penguins stroll the day away, dodging the occasional Space Invader and *ahem* helping the flowers grow.
I really like how they freeze the animation at the end and pan across to show you the rest of the amazing graffiti art that adorns this city wall. Now that’s what I call fresh!
–via WoosterCollective
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Not a fan of Rodrigue’s Blue Dog paintings? Neither am I, which is why I was amused to find that one of the little buggers had become roadkill somewhere in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Link –via Wooster Collective
When graffiti artist Strook decided to create a piece for De Invasie, a series of artworks based around ecology, he grabbed a high pressure hose instead of an aerosol can and removed the moss from the wall, one line at a time, to create this awesome mechanical bird mural.
You can see more photos of this reverse graffiti piece at the link below, including shots of Strook at work on the wall and close-up detail shots so you can more fully appreciate the linework that went in to creating the mural. I wonder if law enforcement agencies will vilify this form of clean graffiti as they have with other forms of street art?
There are few aspects of city life as boring as manhole and storm drain covers. Fortunately, some artists are willing to turn these bland icons into artistic canvases -often in surprisingly humorous ways. There are more great paintings over at WebUrbanist.
Two men want to paint, but have different objectives. One is a graffiti artist; the other paints over graffiti. Who will prevail when both have paint powers beyond human understanding? Check out the excellent visual effects in this short film from Corridor Digital.
-via The Uniblog | Production Company’s Facebook Page
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Abandoned buildings can be quite an eyesore in urban environments, but when artists get on board they can become their own makeshift museums.WebUrbanist has a great collection of cool empty buildings that are now brilliantly adorned in a variety of manners.
Oh, that guy Banksy. Maybe he's tired of spraying graffiti on walls, so he moved on to cows. Well, at least it's better than Wim Delvoye tattooing pigs! Link - via Waslijn and Skull Swap
From Pedobears chasing children to “Stop Hammertime,” some graffiti artists have a great sense of humor. Happy Place has a lengthy collection of these reinterpreted signs for your viewing pleasure.
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Who
says that street art has to be for young punks? A graffiti course in Germany
is teaching the art of spraying to an unlikely segment of the population
... senior citizens!
Alison Kilian of Spiegel Online explains:
Often grey-haired or bespectacled, with some participants as old as 80, they don't exactly fit the profile of rebellious youth commonly associated with graffiti culture. And for most of them, it's their first time wielding a spray can.
"Many older people regard graffiti as vandalism," says Stephanie Hanna, a Berlin-based artist who has organized several graffiti workshops for older people. "But that is changing as people start to see that it has artistic value." Indeed, in recent years graffiti and street art have enjoyed growing prestige. Works by the elusive British street artist Banksy now change hands for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Link (Photo: Andreas Koepcke)
I know altering street signs is one of the more dangerous forms of graffiti, but in most cases the changes are minor enough that the sign’s effect is still obvious they’re just a lot more funny now. WebUrbanist has a great collection of some of the funniest altered signs around.
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Every city has graffiti, but awesomely geeky street art like these ones on BuzzFeed are few and far between. Enjoy more skilled Mario graffiti at the link.
This video is an oldie but goodie I thought i’d share with you, featuring some amazing animation painted directly on walls around Buenos Aires and Baden. Graffiti artist and animator BLU is responsible for the mess, which somehow seems to clean up behind itself as the animation runs down the street, leaving a whitewash in its wake. The video even features a slick soundtrack that syncs perfectly with MUTO’s movements across the wall. Enjoy!
via BLU
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Simply the best bathroom wall graffiti EVAR! Via Accordion Guy
A new exhibition in London’s Mica Gallery will feature contemporary Egyptian art, much of which depicts themes and imagery from the Arab revolution. The exhibit includes graffiti from the streets of Cairo re-created on a gallery wall and a mummified man wrapped in pages from the Qur’an. Read more about this exhibition at the Guardian link.
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If these pictures are an accurate sample of the storefronts and public buildings in Berlin, the city is practically covered in graffiti, street art, murals and political messages from guys with paint cans. This building above is the Cassiopeia, a sort of mishmash of night club, writers’ work space, and rock climbers’ go-to. The city spends about 30 million euros a year cleaning up errant graffiti. More pics of all kinds of public art (artistic and otherwise) on Wonder a Day. Link
Kinect Graffiti is a digital graffiti tool that uses the range camera technology from Microsoft Kinect to create various patterns and formations.
Idea behind this project is to use the kinect to track the motion behind graffiti. Visualizing the body and drawing trough different angles in realtime, Understanding surrounding space, pausing the time, etc…
Driving around Los Angeles, New York or any city you may be dismayed by all the graffiti that covers buildings and over passes with unintelligible scribbling. If you’re going to make graffiti make it a work of art, like these awesome creations celebrating Star Wars. Link
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Move over, Banksy – there’s a new avant garde graffiti artist prowling the streets. Behold, Hanksy! via Wooster Collective
Previously on Neatorama: T.HANKS: The Tom Hanks Trash Bin
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This work of work of art, according to Neatoramanaut chriskayTO, can be found in a subway station in Toronto. Examined from the correct angle, it looks like a staircase.
Link via Geekosystem
When you and I see a crack in the wall, we probably think of grabbing some spackle to fix the eyesore … but not French artist OakOak, who grabbed some art supply instead. Check out more here: Link
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts rented a billboard sign for their exhibition “Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting.” It featured a portion of the nude painting Venus Rising from the Sea. It didn’t stay nude.
Apparently, someone thought it was just a little too nipple-y outside. Even if this is some kind of Midwestern modesty thing, at least the vandal did grant Venus a saucy red strapless deal–hardly sensible blizzard-people attire.
The MIA’s PR staff held a little pow-wow with Clear Channel, who offered to take the billboard down immediately. But head of PR Anne-Marie Wagener was tickled.
“Without those words it did look as though someone’s trying to censor it,” she says. “But with ‘Brrrr!’ it has that whole sort of funny element. Because it is cold!”
They’ve decided to leave Venus and her new wardrobe up.
Link (contains art nude) -via reddit
This picture shows a school restroom stall on which someone has written the entire first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Schools have much nicer restrooms now than when I was a student. Link -via The Daily What
This video game is guaranteed to move very slowly. Kimi Spencer and Marko Manriquez created an interactive mural that uses moss to depict Space Invaders:
Moss invaders comprises a living graffiti mural and a capacitive sound installation into one piece. The moss mural is made using laser cut stencils to mold a moss milkshake concoction of our own devising. The moss paste is “painted” onto the stencils to grow directly onto the brick wall surface. The sound installation aspect takes the moss invaders into the intergalactic realm. Each moss pad is a capacitive sensor which plays 8-bit musical sounds when touched.
Link via DVICE | Photo: Core77 | Previously: DIY Moss Graffiti
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Famous faces in public places, but these aren’t advertising bill boards. Web Urbanist rounded up pictures of street art that incorporates celebrities you know and maybe love. This image of Jack Nicholson was painted in Berlin a few years ago. Link -via Rue the Day
(Image source: Lost At E Minor)
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Here’s a clever use of shadowing by photographer Joe Baran. All that’s necessary is the right spot at the right time and a little bit of graffiti.
This project has something for everyone: those who enjoy gadgets, bicycles, graffiti, overthinking, steampunk, art, and/or rainbows! Creator Akay calls it a “complicated technical solution to aide in simple acts of vandalism.” Read more about it at Underwire. Link -via Laughing Squid
