French street artist JR is behind the “Wrinkles of the City” campaign in Los Angeles, California. JR first photographs older individuals from the city taken at a range of 28 millimeters, creates gigantic prints of these images, and then wheat-pastes them on to building exteriors. (via Designboom)
Stockholm-based street artist Akay has created the “Rainbow Warrior: Tool No. 05.1” which is part of his “Instruments of Mass Destruction (Complicated Technical Solutions to Aide in Simple Acts of Vandalism) Series,” that includes the previous “Robo-Rainbow: Tool No. 10.” For both of the “art-making’ tools, the individual attaches an implement to the back of his/her bicycle.(via Designboom)
Although the sight of shoes hanging on power lines is a common form of graffiti, this functional wooden alternative doubles as a birdhouse for the migrant pied flycatcher. (via Designboom)
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One of Banksy’s most famous works has been defaced in what may be the latest episode of a long-running spat with a rival street artist.
The image above a shop in Bristol, which is generally accepted as the artist’s home town, shows a police marksman with a child about to burst a paper bag behind him.
It appeared near Bristol city centre four years ago but has now been defaced with black paint. The vandalism has been signed “Team Robbo” apparently a reference to King Robbo, regarded as a founding father of the London graffiti scene.
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Brooklyn based street artist Aakash Nihalani uses brightly colored tape to create geometric pieces of art. Utilizing fluorescent colors and basic shapes, Nihalani only adds, but never changes the space since the nature of the material causes no damage to the built environment.
Nothing beats the smell of paint fumes in the morning. So check out Atlas, a documentary on a few L.A.-based graffiti writers only recently digitized.
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Ninety percent. That’s the amount of ocean life depletion since 1950 and a figure too dry to make most people pay attention. Presented visually, however, the statistic takes on new strength, and as a pie chart splattered in spray paint across an urban wall, the fact-as-street-art becomes unavoidable for any passerby.
Have a shocking, injustice-exposing statistic that you want to share with your neighborhood? Thanks to arty designer Golan Levin, it’s now easier than ever. That is, if you’re willing to put on a black stocking-cap and go spray paint your activist data onto private property. Levin created this downloadable, customizable stencil called “Infoviz” that resembles a pie chart-style infographic. Read more …
