Stencil Republic review from Vandalog.
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)
(via The Guardian / image Felix Clay)
As crimes go it was not the most heinous of offences, but Islington council’s principal law clerk, Sidney Porrett, made it his mission to nab the perpetrators.
“I had to catch these two monkeys,” he said. “They were a couple of darlings, make no mistake.”
The darlings in question were the playwright Joe Orton and his boyfriend – later murderer – Kenneth Halliwell, and the crimes were taking library books and returning them with comedy collages on the dustjackets.
After a fruitless investigation that involved undercover librarians, Porrett eventually caught the pair in an elaborate sting operation and they went down for six months each.
(via The Guardian)
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.
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.
The Crockpot: A Weekly Link-Digest from Utne
A new Tumblr blog compiles headlines that read like they were lifted from the front page of the satiric newspaper The Onion—except they weren’t. - Pressure drop: A 9-year-old came up with an ingenious idea for everyday water conservation.
- Is “I would have loved to piss on your shoes” the best exit-interview line ever? Slate collects the best kiss-off notes from fired or resigned journalists.
- Did you walk through Central Park in 2005 and experience artist Christo’s epic installation The Gates? See what he’s up to now at the Arkansas River …
- The Art Newspaper asks, “Do street art gallery shows encourage graffiti?”
- A travel writer discovers that the only way to fit in in Berlin is to get naked.
- Hackers have developed a taste for a caffeine-packed tea drink—and of course they’re sharing it via open source.
- Raise the gas tax, many greens have been saying for years. Now even General Motors’ CEO agrees.
- The unhealthy ties between doctors and Big Pharma in the form of an infographic.
- From Reason: “Three arrested for attempting to feed the homeless in Orlando; face up to 60 days in jail.”
- Sarcasm boosts creativity? Yeah, right.
- Listen to 62 CDs-worth of electroacoustic music for free.
- A slow-motion landslide is dismantling a small town in New York square-foot by square-foot.
- Social critic and provocateur Barbara Ehrenreich on our complicated relationship with animals, enigmatically titled, “Man is Not Cat Food”.
Mural Marriage Proposal of the Day: 28-year-old Jeff Gurwin commissioned Bronx-based muralists TATS CRU to create “the world’s most creative marriage proposal” for his girlfriend Caitlin on a wall in the East village.
Sure, this has been done before, but so what? It’s just as romantic the second time around. Why can’t you just be happy for them? Is it because you hate love? It is, isn’t it? Well, get over yourself. Love is awesome.
[villagevoice / thehairpin.]
(Source: thedailywhat)
American graffiti writers are fiercely loyal to Rust-Oleum. Rusto is legendary as the thickest and most durable of all spray paints. It’s not for finesse: The thickness of the stuff precludes detail work, but there’s nothing that’ll last like it. Unfortunately, Rust-Oleum is busily making a switch to a “female” cap—one where the little post between nozzle and can is connected to the can, not the nozzle. It’s a small detail, but they wouldn’t have done it if they had listened to the people who know their products best.
