June 25, 2008
A large straw in a small lake
Artist: Vinchen
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Crate Man Rides Again
Spotted along the Newport Railway line in Melbourne.
(Photo by John Evans)
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June 4, 2008
Liz Hickok - Jello Artist
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Crateman Returns To The Streets of Melbourne
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June 3, 2008
Seen On The Streets Of Berlin
Artist: Jaybo
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May 30, 2008
Seen On The Streets Of Hong Kong
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May 20, 2008
Shit We're Diggin: Benjamin Verdonck's Giant Nest in Rotterdam.
(via)
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May 19, 2008
Catchin' Up With Filippo Minelli
"This is a 3D inscription I put yesterday in front of Milan Town Hall after several months during they decided to censor expos about homosexuality, religion, violence and graffiti. Everything degenerated when they decided a few days ago to remove the town councilor purposing the expos."
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May 7, 2008
Henk Hofstra's "Art-Eggcident" in Leeuwarden
Dutch artist Henk Hofstra (who's Blue Road we featured in April of last year) is back with a new environmental art project called ‘Art Eggcident’ in Leeuwarden, a city in the north of the Netherlands.
Yesterday, several large eggs (each 100 feet wide) were spread on th Zaailand, one of the largest city squares in the Netherlands.
‘The eggs’ will remain in Leeuwarden for the next six months.
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April 24, 2008
Street Art in Lower East Side
(Foto nicked from here)
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April 19, 2008
The Depot Project
In March 2008 seven artists were given unrestricted access to Dandenong's historic Grenda's bus depot in Australia prior to its demolition. You can see the full documentation here. The work above was created by Robbie Rowlands.
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April 17, 2008
Dudu Geva's Giant Duck
To celebrate the life of Dudu Geva, Israel's most famous cartoonist (who died of a heart attack back in 2005) a giant yellow duck has been placed on top of Tel Aviv's City Hall in Rabin Square. The piece will be in place for one month in honor Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary.
Before his untimely death, Geva had been tongue in cheek - or rather tongue in bill - trying to convince Tel Aviv's mayor to liven up the city through weird, wacky and subversive art projects. One dream was to turn Tel Aviv into a city of ducks - an animal character he used often in his cartoons.When Geva died, his dreams to liven up Tel Aviv with bizarre art installations and stunts lived on. The Duck was just one of the ideas.
Geva had been quoted saying that Tel Aviv was in dire need of decoration. "City Hall," he said, "is a lost cause. If a giant duck is placed on its roof, everything will be turned upside down. The idea is to bring joy to people's hearts and to make art a part of daily life."
Other ideas that Geva thought about included opera singers who would spring out of garbage trucks singing arias, or the placement of giant snakes on the roofs of Tel Aviv's swank Rothschild Boulevard.
Most of his ideas weren't taken seriously though by the city. Recently, his family returned with the duck idea and within a week it was accepted.
Come mid-April, Geva's friends, colleagues and children will kick off the launch of the giant duck at Tel Aviv's City Hall.
"On the 15th of April, there will be a small ceremony around 6pm in the evening in Rabin Square, and we will watch the duck on the building get inflated," Caspi tells
ISRAEL21c. "It will be a small artistic event and a ceremony," he says, intended to honor Geva, his duck and Israeli comics.After all he contends, "Dudu Geva's duck is not a duck. It's The Duck - maybe the most famous Israeli symbol. Well, at least for Tel Avivians.
"This project is a memorial to him," says Caspi.
Why ducks and why art? "Artists make life a bit happier," says Caspi. "The whole idea is not a political one. It is not an artistic statement. It is all about being happy and making the city a nicer place to live - a place that kids like to be in."
Geva's daughter Tami recalls her father's plan to turn Tel Aviv into a Duck City: "He never at any stage thought that they would take him seriously, but he wanted to spread the 'duck movement' as an artistic and social movement," she said in a local newspaper.
"We don't want the event to feel like a memorial," she said, "We want my father's idea of putting art in open public spaces to continue to exist, with humor, in the spirit of the duck."
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April 15, 2008
The Toronto Plaques Explained
From Torontoist back in December:
"The strange plaques were part of the grand Gestures installation by the 640 480 Video Collective, which aimed to memorialize inconsequential events captured on video at ten spots around the city. Each marker was placed in September and describes the unexciting details of a YouTube-sourced video shot at that particular location (like the ones above at left and at right)....
640 480 takes its name from the original 4:3 aspect ratio of video screens, and the group has an obvious affinity for the rapidly disappearing magnetic tape format. Memorial lapel ribbons made from videotape were also part of the grand Gestures installation, and taped copies of the videos are to be converted into an artificial diamond, signifying the preservation of memories from an increasingly obsolete format into an everlasting state."
More info here.
(Thanks Candice)
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April 14, 2008
Seen On The Streets of Toronto
(Thanks, Brad)
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March 29, 2008
Signs Of Spring From Mark Jenkins
More from Mark's new series here.
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March 26, 2008
Street Art At Its Best #3: Plastic Bag Animals
Every time we start to think that street art is starting to get a bit tired and boring, along - out of nowhere - comes something that reconnects us with why we fell in love with street art in the first place.
The story we heard at dinner tonight is that there's an artist who's been making these animals out of discarded plastic bags. He (or she) ties the bags to the ventilation grates above the subway lines so that when the subway rushes through underneath, the animal jumps up and springs to life.
(Thanks Trish for sharing the photos with us!)
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January 4, 2008
Seen On The Streets of Rome
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December 21, 2007
Brad Downey Returns To The Streets of Manhattan
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November 19, 2007
Urban Cancer
More here.
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October 16, 2007
New Crate People In Melbourne
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October 8, 2007
A Lithuanian Fingerprint
(Thanks, Oko)
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September 26, 2007
Eltono and Nuria Go Big in Madrid
Location: The yard of “Matadero Madrid”, a t new Contemporary Art Center in Madrid.
Size: 29 m x 40 m
More from Eltono and Nuria here and here.
(Photo by Hoffamm)
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September 10, 2007
Slinkachu's Little People At Nuart
Photos of the full installation here.
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August 20, 2007
Every Image Has A Story - "Gates Of Hell" in Mebourne
Artist: Heather B. Swann
Location: Degraves Place
(off Degraves Street between Flinders Street and Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia)
Dates: 20 July 2007 – 9 March 2008
The multi-headed dog monster Cerberus protects the entrance of Hades, the classical underworld. Swann's sculpture stands guard at the Degraves Place entrance to the Flinders Street pedestrian underpass.
Gates of Hell has its origin both in the stories of Greek and Roman mythology, of Hercules and Orpheus, and in the forms of French Romanesque sculpture, with its heraldic, symbolic and decorative beasts and its Last Judgement hell mouths.
More important than these cultural references, however, is the work's primitive emotion, its expression of angry threat.
Cerberus's biting, barking heads are designed to frighten us. The artist is challenging our complacency and lethargy.
She wants us to think about (and act against) the hellishness of now, the purgatories and punishments of the contemporary world.
Sculpture manufactured in collaboration with Ian Burns and John Clark of Millennium Art Services.
Photos: John Raptis
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August 15, 2007
Crateman Ventures Into The City of Melbourne
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August 12, 2007
Seen On The Streets of Miami
Artist: without Wax, Bingi
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August 10, 2007
Doma Goes Big in Berlin For PLANET PROZESS
More photos here.
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"Eusebio" from NAF in Lima Peru
You can learn more about NAF and the "Amazing Ghost Circus" project here.
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July 19, 2007
D*Face's Missle Strike
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July 16, 2007
Florentijn Hofman's Rubber Duckie
"Loire Estuary 2007," is an outdoor, contemporary-art exhibition now taking place in France that features the works by 30 artists from around the world. All of the work is being installed along a 40-mile stretch at the mouth of the Loire River, from Saint-Nazaire to Nantes.
Our favorite piece is Florentijn Hofman's massive rubber duckie.
From the artists' website:
Title: Rubber duck
Year: 2007
Location: river the Loire, France
Dimensions: 26 x 20 x 32 meters
Materials: inflatable, rubber coated PVC, pontoon and generator
Assigned by: le Lieu Unique and the Biennial Estuaire
A yellow spot on the horizon slowly approaches the coast. People have gathered and watch in amazement as a giant yellow Rubber Duck approaches. The spectators are greeted by the duck, which slowly nods its head. The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn't discriminate people and doesn't have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relief mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!
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July 11, 2007
Seen On The Streets of Barcelona
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July 4, 2007
Tunnel House
More info and photos here.
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June 13, 2007
Seen On The Streets of Amersterdam
3D wooden piece by Delta
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June 10, 2007
Anna's Textiles
From Anna:
"I'm from Baltimore but am studying embroidery in the UK. I've been really interested in and excited by graffiti and street art for several years but have always been frustrated by the lack of textiles present on the street. It still seems to be a scene ruled by spray paint and wheatpastes. For a while this made me feel like it was an inaccessible art form, albeit out on the street for all to view for free and destroy or alter. But then I thought more and more about the potential of textile graffiti, until I couldn't sit and think anymore and had to get up and do! First I made mittens and put them around the city for anyone to take and in doing so started noticing just how many construction barriers there are in Manchester. Until then I had never thought twice about how they're ubiquitous but unnoticed, nor the fact that we're all walking around in a gigantic ashtray."
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June 5, 2007
Seen On The Streets of Leerdam in the Netherlands
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