July 15, 2008
"50 Cents Per Idea"
From Charlie Todd:
"Jake Bronstein recently bought a toy vending machine off the Internet. He filled the toy capsules with ideas of fun things to do and started placing the machine in various spots around New York. For 50 cents you get the original toy, an idea, and a map to guide you to the location for your idea. Each capsule also contains a quarter, refunding half of your purchase price (the machine wouldn’t let him charge less than 50 cents.)"
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| Seen On The Streets Of London
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July 7, 2008
Melted Signs In Leeds
Artist: FinalFrontier
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June 25, 2008
Shit We're Diggin: The Street Art Projects Of Spector
You can see more of Spector's work here.
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June 23, 2008
Seen On The Streets Of Lombardy, Italy
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April 24, 2008
Bus Stop Fun In Columbus OH From Vinchen
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March 12, 2008
Fresh Stuff From Dr. D
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March 8, 2008
Make LOVE not ZONE in Utrecht the Netherland
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February 15, 2008
Happy (Belated) Valentine's Day From Thundercut
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February 13, 2008
ZAST TV Hits The Berlin Subway System
From ZAST:
"In Berlin subways you have all these tv commercials. I decided to break this boring information and broadcast ZAST TV."
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January 4, 2008
Shit We're Diggin: "The Decapatator" In London
From Wired:
"Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been bombarding the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag - eerily removing the heads from major adverts around town, replacing them with ghastly, gory stumps. (Before and after images of a gruesomely guillotined model in a print ad, right).
Based on the images uploaded to his/her Flickr stream, "The East London Decapitator" as he/she has been dubbed, is largely striking mainstream advertisements, like this (my personal fav) High School Musical 2 poster."
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November 22, 2007
Advertease with ZEK Crew in Slovenia
"Hello,
this is a project that we did. Three interactive billboards against advertisment. First one is interactive with the environment as it only works with the one next to it. Second is a trivial joke from the elementary school but also gives a new meaning when written on a billboard. It's interactive with the bystanders. And the third one..sometimes is better that the picture don't work..especially in advertisment. Its interactiveness lies in the
media(billboard) itself as the picture doesn't appear. Although provoking, our purpose was putting a smile on peoples faces.
cheers,
ZEK crew
Slovenia
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Seen On The Chicago El Redline
(Thanks, Lott)
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October 31, 2007
Do Not Enter - Happy Halloween From Dan Witz
Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Location: East London
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
You can see more images from Dan's "Do Not Enter" series here and on his website.
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September 27, 2007
Fresh Stuff From Laura Keeble
"The project was based on the theory of magical thinking, looking at belief systems and idol worship, and creating an intervention that like other work I have installed, plays with the viewers perception and with any luck(;-)) creates a pause for thought!
The 'headstones' were made from polystyrene, plaster and spraypaint.".. Laura
(Note from Wooster: Laura is the artist behind the amazing Damien Hirst Skull prank that we featured on the site a while back. Until now she's gone uncredited and we're thrilled to let you know who was behind it)
Laura Keeble
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July 12, 2007
Fucking With Perception - Hirst's "For The Love of God" Diamond Skull
Placed outside of the White Cube Gallery Masons yard at 3.30 am on Sunday night in response to the Damien Hirst's "For The Love of God" diamond skull exhibition.
The "For the Love of God" prank was created using 6522 Swarovski crystals
and took Laura, the artist, a month to create.
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June 18, 2007
The Telephone Box
Kathrin writes: "i send you this picture of a faked telephone box in Dortmund, Germany. It seems that the artist created it specially for this place. He added the address of the house where he put it: neuer graben 67.
When i saw it the first time, i liked it immediately, because the "telephone box" seems to stand by with the little stationery shop which is there since many years, but has less and less customers because of big stores in the City Centre. now with the imaginary telephone box seemed to be underlined the function of the shop as a point of reference for the quarter."
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June 7, 2007
FedUp With Excess
Seen in Columbus Ohio
Artist: Vinchen
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May 14, 2007
Seen On The Streets of East London
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May 10, 2007
From The Vaults of Improv Everywhere: Anton Chekov
100 years after his death, Anton Chekov speaks at a Barnes and Noble.
You can read the story behind the event here.
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April 20, 2007
100 Landmines in Dublin, Ireland
On Sunday 1st April. artist and activist Will St. Leger placed 100 fake 'landmines' made from stenciled metal plates in park around Dublin, Ireland.
Will explains: "The reason for doing this was to get people asking themselves "what if the world I walked in was littered with landmines?" They're nearly all gone now, the Police took away most of them when a tourist called the emergency number to report 'Landmines'. Afterwards, I wondered who the people of Laos, Cambodia and Iraq gonna call when they step on real landmine?"
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April 16, 2007
Pampered And Privileged
Recently the Columbus, Ohio Hilton Hotel exhibited the work of Vinchen, albeit unknowingly.
The artist tells us - "The Hilton Hotel presents itself as a paragon of excellence and class. The brand's image badly needed updating."
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April 13, 2007
Every Image Has A Story - "Sacred Lights"
From Laura:
"I'm currently looking in to the world of magical thinking, that of belief systems be it regarding religion, superstition, obsessive disorders and advertising, each of which controls the thinking of an individual by potentially negative assumptions i.e I am not worthy/guilt/sin/ideals.
I have been looking at stained glass windows and how they are installed to let only sacred light through them in to the vacinity of the holy area, whilst depicting holy scenes or preaching holy scripture as to how one should behave and live their life, this in turn had me look at billboards and how they too preach 'scripture' and depict how one should behave and live their life. So to the job in hand I set out for my first project : to transform a bus shelter billboard (lit at night) to a stained glass window as
a comparison between the two 'sacred lights'"
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April 10, 2007
No Skiing Stickers
From Lee:
"After that crazy guy skied down the Angel tube escalator we thought we'd add to the fun - with No Skiing stickers.
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April 2, 2007
Urban Warning Sign
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Pixelator
"Pixelator is an unauthorized on-going video art performance collaboration with the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, Clear Channel Communications, and its selected artists.
Since 2003, the MTA has made available for exhibition purposes 80 LED screens located at subway entrances across New York City. Unfortunately, the high cost of exhibiting (an estimated $274,000 per month per screen) prevents most artists from having access to these facilities. While the MTA's effort to create more opportunities for video art exhibition in public spaces is to be commended, selected works remain wholly fixated on commercial goods and media conglomerate events, a short-sighted curatorial choice that regrettably ignores the full potential of these promising exhibition spaces.
In an attempt to broaden the scope of MTA's video art series, Pixelator takes video pieces currently on display and diffuses them into a pleasant array of 45 blinking, color-changing squares. Since the project is an anonymous collaboration, the resulting video is almost entirely unplanned and unanticipated, with the original artists helping to create new works of art without any knowledge of their participation.
(Translation: Pixelator turns those ugly, blinding video billboard ads into art.)"
See the video here.
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March 28, 2007
Every Image Has A Story - "MIT Bus Schedule"
"i made this simulated bus schedule near MIT where I work to show the incredible number of suicides that happen there, many of which are hidden from public record. by hiding the information in a bus schedule-like frame i hope it will be treated with respect, and let a lot of members of the community realize how precious life is without being taken down"..... leonardo bonanni
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March 7, 2007
Graffiti. It's a FUN Crime
(Thanks, Zoltron)
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February 26, 2007
Things We Absoutely Love: "Pritable Cold Sores"
"Nowhere in advertising is the gap between natural beauty and manufactured perfection more apparent than on subway posters. As we wait for transportation, we are unwillingly assaulted by larger-than-life representations of supposedly beautiful salespeople. The large scale of these ads and their extremely close proximity to the viewer offer up more than perceived intimacy, however... they give us the chance to see the mechanical flaws designed to correct their physical flaws.
Why don't we just see them for what they are? They are regular people just like us, they just have a team of retouchers waiting at the ready.
Printable cold sores allow us to take action! Bring these people back down to our level, and tell advertisers that you don't agree with their message. How can you help? It's easy..."
More here.
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Urban Flora - A Taxonomy Of The City
"Urban Flora is a project that aims to alter city dwellers’ experience of their environment through a series of stickers that identify objects in the urban environment. These "urban flora", such as mailboxes, lamp posts, and fire hydrants, are presented in a traditional taxonomy such as one would see in an arboretum or botanical garden. By defining these man-made artifacts in the context of the botanical world, the project draws attention to the presence or absence of nature in the urban space"
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Before and After
Location: Columbus OH
Artist: Vinchen
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February 13, 2007
Female?
It's the little details that often tell you the most about society's prejudices. An artist in Iceland got tired of only seeing male figures on the traffic lights so he put breasts on them.
You can see more of Iceland's street art on Margret's blog here.
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This Isn't You?
As an art project about identity and safety in public space, a group of artists in Rotterdam put up a series of posters featuring composition-drawings of non-existing people. The artists were arrested by the police...
"At first they thought we were some kind of terrorists, the whole atmosphere seems to be so stressed nowadays. Most ironic is that we got caught because of camera surveillance. In The Netherlands we also have to wear an ID since last year so when we couldn’t show one we all got arrested. This is where part of the project is about! The police also found it very interesting to see how we worked with the composion drawings, it took quite a while before they finally got it. So our mission was quite successful!"
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February 5, 2007
El Carlos Presidente
On December, 3rd of 2006 about 74% of Venezuelan registered voters went to the polls to exercise their right to vote. Approximately 60% of these confirmed their desire to re-elect, for an undetermined term, president Hugo Chavez. The outcome was easy to predict, everyone knew he would be crowned yet again, but the conservative media tried to convince us otherwise, and the government bullied and insulted the other 40% that abjectly and doggedly cast their futile vote. But I don't care about stats and numbers. I don't care about winners or losers, because in the end nothing changes, politicians crave power and are determined to do anything in order to get it. They'll lie and cheat, steal and manipulate. They'll hypnotize, terrorize, sell promises and buy votes. Prior to the elections and for an entire year all you could hear, see and breathe was politics. The city walls were emblazoned with political posters; The radio waves blabbed bullshit; Television channels blabbed bullshit; The pundits blabbed; The experts blabbed; The president blabbed. The political feud has been on in Venezuela for years, and I was sick of it. Sick of the fear, the rumors, the lies, the promises, the campaigns, the unrest, the
protests, the violence. Everything for the same reason, the same cause: the agglutination of wealth, the hunger for oil and cash. Ultimately I felt annoyed and betrayed, tired of the divergent opinions that led nowhere and the constant accusations that fled like missiles from one side of the political fence to the other. I began to loathe politics and the cheap parties that rise from it. I realized I didn't trust the system that continued to mock me, instead I wanted to mock them. I began to confirm my suspicions that everything is rigged, and I hated the machine and its spinsters for making me feel paranoid and powerless. So, I began the project of EL CARLOS. I wanted
to tell them: "The joke's on you and not us!". I wanted to use art as a protest in their own forum: the streets, were they choose to sell us their crap. To alleviate the tension they had inspired in an ironic, satirical yet concerned statement; To protest the lies, the campaigns, the media's message of confusion, the here say and