November 26, 2011
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November 25, 2011
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October 24, 2011
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October 19, 2011
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October 15, 2011
Follow the leaders from Isaac Cordal on Vimeo.
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October 11, 2011
Three days. from CHAIR on Vimeo.
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October 10, 2011
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September 27, 2011
some where near Mexico City from wendell mc shine on Vimeo.
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September 24, 2011
"In July-August 2011, five street artists were invited to NHH Norwegian School of Economics to give their comments on capitalism directly on the schools huge white walls. The project was a collaboration with the Nuart Festival, and what Escif, M-City, EINE, DOLK and Hyuro came up with can be seen from this video. For more information, visit CAPITALISM.NO
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September 18, 2011
Vhils - Deconstruction from Arrested Motion on Vimeo.
"Arrested Motion filmmaker Carlos Gonzalez follows Portuguese-born artist Vhils as he completes his latest work on the streets of Venice, California. This particular piece was done in conjunction with the "European Bailout Show" at the Post No Bills showspace and located just on the side of the gallery."
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September 12, 2011
3 KINGS from Agents Of Change on Vimeo.
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August 30, 2011
DRABxBUZZ from Drab Art on Vimeo.
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August 29, 2011
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Prefab77 'Soul on Fire' from Rich Kenworthy on Vimeo.
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August 23, 2011
This music video above for Família Gangsters was directed by Mauro Moreira and Andre Leon. It documents a day in the life of typical autonomous Brazilian trashman. The project is based on an artist, called Mundano, who paints the "cars" of these trashman.
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August 22, 2011
.jazim-(oak street revival) from Jude Appleby on Vimeo.
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July 30, 2011
Lupe timelapse from two twelve on Vimeo.
Geisha from two twelve on Vimeo.
Love from two twelve on Vimeo.
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July 25, 2011
MEGGS x LISTER x KID-ZOOM from itdrewitself on Vimeo.
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July 24, 2011
Fishing Smiles Project from Hip Hop Creative on Vimeo.
"A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes. Among humans, it is an expression denoting pleasure, joy, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it is known as a grimace. Smiling is something that is understood by everyone despite culture, race, or religion; it is internationally known. Cross-cultural studies have shown that smiling is a means of communicating emotions throughout the world. But there are large differences between different cultures. A smile can also be spontaneous or artificial."
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Three days. from CHAIR on Vimeo.
Beautifully shot in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia by Vova Chernishev, what we love about this video is that its not about the finished piece, but rather about the mood and atmosphere that exists when you paint on the street.
Music by Loess - Greensland.
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Buff Monster Does Hollywood from Carlos Gonzalez on Vimeo.
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July 22, 2011
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July 20, 2011
Dotmasters "On The Hop" from Martin Hawkes on Vimeo.
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July 14, 2011
Here's the new trailer:
And here's the first episode:
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July 11, 2011
"QRadio" it is an audio-visual-interactive pasteup project currently on the streets of Berlin. There are 5 tapes in Berlin now but more to come.
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June 24, 2011
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May 20, 2011
David explains the piece…
Scion Installation 7 Interview: David Choe from Scion ART on Vimeo.
Next stop for the Scion video tour: Minneapolis
Scion Installation 7: Video / Minneapolis, MN from Scion ART on Vimeo.
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Last Summer, while in Berlin, BOXI spoke to us about a new project he was working on - an extremely intricate six six layer hand cut stencil of a curtain made on 8mm MDF and illuminated by 12v Dimmable SMD LED's.
This month, the curtain was finally completed and is now hanging in Wuppertal at Reinking Projects "Streetart TM" show.
You can see photos of the install here.
Just did an amazing job documenting the whole show, here is an excerpt of what I put up.
http://just.ekosystem.org/BLOG/?p=2271
All the best
b*
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May 18, 2011
Paper of Joy from Multipraktik on Vimeo.
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SUPAKITCH et KORALIE from Filmaciones de la Ciudad on Vimeo.
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May 11, 2011
More by SUSO33 here.
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May 10, 2011
Yesterday our friends over at BoingBoing posted "Home is a Fire", a new music video for the band, Death Cab For Cutie.
The director is Shepard Fairey, in collaboration with the band's bassist, Nicholas Harmer.
Shepard writes about the video:
"I have been a fan of Death Cab for years so I was excited to hear from bassist Nick Harmer about his idea to collaborate on a video piece for their song Home Is A Fire.
I love the democracy of music and I'm always excited to bundle visual art with great music. Nick sent me the lyrics to Home Is A Fire and they evoked the duality of "home" both as a place you inhabit, and also as a place that inhabits or traps you. One's relationship with home might be complicated, but ultimately it can be a two-way dialogue, of which we can at least affect one-way.
The city can be an impersonal place, imposing, simultaneously anonymous and claustrophobic. However, there are opportunities for us to affect the city(and life) experience rather than accepting things as passive voyeurs. We all have fears and insecurities about ourselves and our circumstances, but if we have the courage to take risks and participate we can adapt and embrace the flux, rather than fear it. This video is about illustrating these ideas and the multiple dimensions of the city experience by taking the viewer on a journey to encounter the Home Is A Fire lyrics as street art. Street art appeals because it makes the landscape a little less dreary for the viewer, and it is a bureaucracy free creative outlet for the participants. I would say that a street art call to action is "if you don't like your home... reshape it".
The power of street art is in its intrigue and authenticity , so it was crucial to actually put all the lyrics and images up on the streets. We wanted the viewer to experience the urban environment in a very real and intimate way that celebrates that one persons wart is another's beauty mark. Some of the art was put up prior to the video shoot in places that seemed appropriate to the lyrical themes, while other pieces were put up during the shoot. We filmed the preparation of materials as well to demonstrate the energy and process involved in becoming pro-active. Some of the street art was cleansed within a day.
Street art, like everything, is ephemeral but I hope that in watching this video and listening to the song, people see a little magic and potential in the unappreciated details of the landscape of their lives, no matter how fleeting they may be. "
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May 9, 2011
Stencil painting by Eime from Eime on Vimeo.
More from EIME here.
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April 27, 2011
BR1 | billboard in roma from BR1 on Vimeo.
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April 14, 2011
BYMALODJA 2011 from Okerland on Vimeo.
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April 10, 2011
MadGods vs Failure // One Night Stand from Mad Gods on Vimeo.
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April 6, 2011
44flavours x KLUB7 - Step by Step from editude pictures on Vimeo.
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How & Nosm from Julie Congo on Vimeo.
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April 1, 2011
Phlegm from Andy Skillen on Vimeo.
More from Phlegm here.
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March 10, 2011
If you ever wondered why someone "does street art", watch this video:
"I was walking around Brooklyn and saw the streets flooded with faces made out of chalk. Following their trail, I ran into a man sitting on a crate, rapidly making them as he scooted backwards. His name is Felix Morelo".... Keith Haskel
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March 8, 2011
Project Green, Lipton Ice Green Tea's urban arts initiative, is beginning to take shape. Showcasing the talents of some of the country's most renowned urban artists, Project Green aims to spread a bit of green positivity in Australia's urban spaces.
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March 7, 2011
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WK - Black Palace (Mexico) from adolphus on Vimeo.
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February 23, 2011
Vhils takes it to a whole new level, this time using explosives to create his images.
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KID ZOOM - This City Will Eat Me Alive from kidzoom on Vimeo.
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February 14, 2011
"2011:The Pre-Occupied Horsemen", SeaPuppy from Christian de Souza Jensen on Vimeo.
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February 13, 2011
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February 9, 2011
Street Art and Reality on Hanbury Street, London. from Shafiur Rahman on Vimeo.
From Shafiur Rahman:
"Joe Deane, Joseph Loughborough and Ben Slow paint on Hanbury Street, Brick Lane. Ben and Joe paint a piece called "Ma o Shishu" or mother and child from a photograph I found in a book about photography and its power to change in South Asia. Their piece changed the street. Everyone who passed - young and old, local or tourist - responded very warmly to it. As did the restaurant owner who owns the wall. But there was another hidden story just behind the painting...of destitution and homelessness in London. 21st century London.
Joseph painted with amazing speed and created two striking pieces one of which lasted only a few weeks before someone decided to make it their private property.
This video is part of a larger project on Brick Lane seen through art and artists.
Filmed March 2010. Music by Moka Only
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February 8, 2011
Crystals of the Colossus from Shida ZRF on Vimeo.
Shida
CRYSTALS OF THE COLOSSUS
17 – 26 FEBRUARY 2011
UNTIL NEVER
2ND FLR 3-5 HOSIER LANE MELBOURNE 3000 AUSTRALIA
OPEN 12 – 6PM Wednesday to Saturday
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February 7, 2011
Michigan Central Station - Rediscovering space from [PÅ::NU] on Vimeo.
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January 26, 2011
Replica from Jeff Howard on Vimeo.
A collaboration between Jeff Howard and Alex Vessels for the Big Screens class at ITP. Presented at the IAC building's 120 foot video wall on Friday December 3rd, 2010.
Replica is a performance using live image processing to explore how the awareness of time affects the perception of self-image. Patterns unfold creating a dialogue between the performer and her representation, bringing the contrast of control and authenticity into question.
The project was performed by Claire Westby with the song “Lost in the World” by Kanye West.
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January 10, 2011
The wrinkles of the city - Shanghai 2010
Uploaded by JR. - Watch original web videos.
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January 2, 2011
El Mac Singapore from Viet Nam The World Tour on Vimeo.
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December 22, 2010
Barry McGee - TRANSFER SP Brasil from Antonio de Paula Ternura on Vimeo.
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December 14, 2010
From Alexandros Vasmoulakis and Manolis Anastasakos:
"During 2010, Greece came under the supervision of IMF and EU. The fear of poverty and financial recession has built up a feeling of social unrest. Memories of the Greek riots of 2008, according to the media, have created the expectation in Greece and abroad, of a new, more violent riot. Influenced by this atmosphere, we created in a deserted ceramics factory in Athens a series of actions during May 2010. At the time we wanted to give form to feelings intuitively provoked by the signs of unrest we received from all around us. We used the objects that were plentifully scattered in the ruins of the factory: red powder, ceramics, wood and ropes. We installed sculptural structures and we recorded, on video, short collision-scenes. Red powder represented the outcome of every human violent act. The deserted industrial setting was used as a metaphor for the financially devastated country. The multiple-screens structure of the video is a reminder of the surveillance cameras used by the police. The sound was recorded live during each of the actions. We doubt the efficiency of violent rioting and search for a new way. Essentially we have found nothing yet, however, we enjoy searching".
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November 30, 2010
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Shida from Shida ZRF on Vimeo.
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November 16, 2010
Roa's Big Bird on Hanbury Street, Brick Lane, London from Shafiur Rahman on Vimeo.
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November 12, 2010
People Watching Plus from Rune Madsen on Vimeo.
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November 8, 2010
The Shadow Machine from Jason Eppink on Vimeo.
"The Shadow Machine is a hand-made analog projection system that reanimates two blacksmiths from the late 1800’s, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge and compiled on plate #374 of his Animal Locomotion series.
The Shadow Machine was conceived of and created for the The Underbelly Project, an extraordinary, unauthorized exhibition of more than one hundred international street artists in an abandoned subway station in New York City. The Shadow Machine’s projected, ghostly figures hammer away in complete darkness at the far end of the platform, ever-toiling spirits working on a never-finished station that was abandoned generations ago.
Inside the Machine, six frames hand-painted on clear plexiglass operate as gobos when lit from behind by narrow beam LEDs. A light sequence, controlled by an Arduino board with custom software using a 9V battery, casts each successive shadow in a loop."... Jason Eppink
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October 28, 2010
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October 22, 2010
The other day Jaimie D’ Cruz, the producer of Banksy's documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop, and Chris King, the film's editor, sat down with David Poland of Movie City News for an extended interview that covers a wide range of topics.
For the first time ever, Jamie and David provide a lot of behind-the-scenes information and anecdotes about the the film and Banksy's process in making it. If you've seen the film and have questions about how it was made, this rare interview is a must watch.
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October 9, 2010
WK from RE:FORM SCHOOL on Vimeo.
If you are in New York, be sure to stop by RE:FORM SCHOOL this weekend. It's a fantastic project.
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September 30, 2010
WHEN TRU$T IS THE NEW MONEY
New walls and works by Broken Crow
XYandZ Gallery 3258 minnehaha ave S mpls
Opening reception Friday October 1st, 2010 7p
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September 21, 2010
Sara and I recently sat down with writer Carlo McCormick, artist WK Interact, founder of Creative Time Anne Pasternak, and photographer Martha Cooper to talk about TRESPASS: A History Of Uncommissioned Public Art which hits stores worldwide this October.
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September 15, 2010
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August 31, 2010
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August 28, 2010
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August 18, 2010
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The Grain Terminal from Charles le Brigand on Vimeo.
"On the far side of Red Hook Park’s soccer and baseball fields, locked-up behind a fence made of enormous concrete blocks, lays the last vestige of Red Hook's industrial grandeur: The New York Port Authority Grain Terminal.
This massive 429-foot long and 12-story high beige-colored fortress was built in 1922 for the purpose of washing, drying and storing grain from the Great Lakes, before the grain was loaded onto freight ships and delivered to breweries, distilleries and flour mills. Ultimately, the terminal was built to invigorate New York State’s Canal System and compete with railroad-owned stationary elevators.
Nevertheless, NYC’s uncompetitive labor costs and storage disputes forced the Port Authority to cease operations in 1965, after 40 years of under-use. Since then, the grain elevator has sat vacant and majestic on Gowanus Bay's waterfront, alongside the Erie Basin, dominating Red Hook's urban landscape.
City officials and engineers refer to the Grain Terminal as the Magnificent Mistake. However, Red Hook’s inhabitants affectionately term it one of two distinct names: “The Lady Finger,” due to its unique structure which consists of a series of 54 joined concrete semi-circular silos; or simply, the "Elevator.”
NYCitizen, my urban exploration accomplice, and I decided to pay the Lady a visit. That Sunday, the park was packed with baseball and futbol players, picnickers and street vendors. I asked a carnitas taco vendor if he knew how to get closer to the Grain Terminal. His first reaction was to tell me that the building was under government surveillance and that the coast guard was watching it as it was located right in front of an oil refinery on the other side of the Erie Canal. However, while heating up a stack of tortillas, he also told me that the easiest way to climb the concrete barricade was to scale a tree near the baseball field’s bleachers, and jump over the fence. Right...
A more realistic and less hazardous way seemed to be through the bus depot alongside the Grain Terminal. As we approached the main entrance, the security guy stopped us and asked for the reason of our visit. I said that we would like to take some pictures of the Elevator. He retorted that it was a private property but that we were welcome to do so…from the sidewalk.
As we walked along the concrete blocks desperately looking for an access point, we realized that the enormous barrier had suddenly transformed into a 3-foot high hurdle. The last and only obstacle left was a duo of State Park officers sitting on a bench, watching a baseball game in the shade. After waiting for them to leave for a couple of minutes, I realized that these two were here to stay. I decided to approach them and ask candidly if we could jump over the hurdle to snap a couple of images. Despite an obvious negative first response, my insistence won them over and the female officer told us grudgingly that they don’t want any problems. We could do so at own risks, but that they never had this conversation with us. As we dashed to the closed-off section of the Grain Terminal, the two officers decided to begin patrolling around the park.
At this point, we were only halfway there, as we still needed to get inside the actual Terminal. After running between cargo containers, we decided to stop in the transformer house and study our options. From there, the terminal looked completely hermetic. Concrete chunks blocked the doors, and windows were obstructed by metal bars and barbed wire. Graffiti on an oxidized beam gave us the gist of the challenge ahead: “How do we get in?”
Approaching one of the windows, I noticed more graffiti on the ground floor and thought, “If there’s graffiti, there must be a way to get in there.” After wandering around the building for a while and a round of seemingly impossible physical contortions, we were finally inside the Grain Terminal.
The ground floor, which seems to be the warehouse floor, looked like an old Greek temple, with immense concrete columns, long passages and adornments created by street writers. Loading railways were still fixed on the ground. Three dilapidated metal staircases were located on the Erie Canal side of the building. We climbed the middle one to access the following floor which happened to be the top-floor. A grain terminal is simply a large, empty box, where huge concrete silos separate the ground floor from the top-floor.
The penthouse was a huge open space; a massive loft filled with old machinery, boasting an unbeatable panoramic view of the surroundings. A bunch of no-smoking signs were still hanging here and there. I've read recently that grain elevators are actually explosion-proof, due to the highly flammable nature of the grain. As we investigated the top level, we zigzagged between large holes in the floor with just the right diameter to swallow a human body. These holes were actually located right on the top of the silos, and hence allowed the grain to fall from the top to the bottom, just like the sand in an hour-glass.
At both extremities of the top-floor, staircases led to the Elevator’s tower used to lift the grain. We decided to start with the south tower, which seemed bigger from the park. The tower is a complex metallic structure filled with all sorts of geared traction machinery and empty lockers. The oppressing silence was only broken by pigeons, apparently disturbed by our visit, and by the wind filtering in through the black metal walls.
At the end the climb, a hatch on the ceiling revealed an incredible 360-degree view of New York City. After the Williamsburg Savings Bank's clock tower in downtown Brooklyn, it is probably the highest point in the borough. From the rooftop of the south elevator tower (about 68 meters high) Brooklyn looked like a miniature replica of itself.
The Terminal gave a full frontal view of Lady Liberty, the busy NY Harbor, Jersey City and the Verrazano Bridge. The old Kentile Floor sign, hung above the elevated Prospect Expressway where cars and trucks look like Hot Wheels toys. On the foreground, the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges guided our eyes to the Empire State and the Chrysler buildings in mid-town and the Citi Bank tower in Long Island City.
Seagulls, helicopters and planes from JKF Airport soared over our heads as we sat on the roof, absorbed by the sunset and the silence that exists only in the city’s cacophony.
We left the “Lady Finger” as the light begun to disappear. On our way back to the car, a black Ford which looked just like an under-cover vehicle stopped in front of us...though it was just a lost driver asking for his way to Ikea. Funny enough, the Swedish furniture retailer was constructed two years ago at the mercy of two other Red Hook industrial history symbols, the Revere Sugar Refinery and the Todd Shipyard, which were torn down to give rise to the global giant.
As of today, The Port Authority is trying to sell 159 acres of land in the Gowanus Bay area, including the 43-acre site of the Grain Elevator. As the barren Terminal faded into the distance, I could not help but hope that the Grain Elevator would not end-up being recycled into a Hilton Hotel like in Akron, Ohio, or into luxurious condominium complexes like the plan the city has for the Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg."...
See full photo narrative here.
Words, images and video by Carlito Brigante
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August 17, 2010
"We are very excited to debut PaperGirl-NY to New York City! PaperGirl-Albany was a good practice run for the amazing event that will take place at the Dumbo Art Center from August 24-25 and at The Armory from August 27-29. The show will also be in Albany at the Marketplace Gallery from September 3-6 as a part of a show that will also include Chris Stain, Billy Mode, and Scout in addition to other artists. PaperGirl-NY (PaperGirl-Albany combined with the newly formed PaperGirl-NYC) 2010 will include at least 90 artists from 11 countries. The art will be exhibited for 8 days in 3 galleries and will be distributed in the 2 cities of Albany and New York."
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August 13, 2010
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August 4, 2010
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July 15, 2010
If you're an artist working with video, be sure to check out YuTube's latest collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum: YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video
YouTube is looking for "amazing animation, motion graphics, narrative, non-narrative, or documentary work, music videos and entirely new art form"s to showcase at the Guggenheim in New York City, and throughout the Guggenheim network of museums in Bilbao, Venice and Berlin.
The deadline to submit videos to YouTube Play is rapidly approaching: July 31, 2010. Click here for more info.
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July 7, 2010
Freedom Tunnel from Charles le Brigand on Vimeo.
"Under Manhattan’s Upper West side, runs the “Freedom” Tunnel. Built in the 30’s by Robert Moses, the passage boasts legendary graffiti murals and piles of debris remaining of the past homeless city era. After using it for only a couple of years, Amtrak discontinued the line and left a massive cavern which later became a shelter for street people. Progressively, the tunnel turned into a veritable underground metropolis where thousands of homeless were living in organized communities underneath the city’s skin.
The tunnel also became a prime spot for graffiti artists. Chris Pape, aka Freedom, was one of the pioneers and his work inspired the name of the tunnel. “Freedom” painted immense murals utilizing the unique lighting provided by the ventilation ducts, turning the tunnel into an extraordinary underground art gallery. Some of his most notable paintings survived for decades and are still conspicuous today (“Venus de Milo”, the “Coca-Cola Mural”, Dali’s “Melting Clock”,a self-portrait featuring a male torso with a spray-can head, etc.).
In 1991, Amtrak decided to reopen the tunnel. The shanty towns were cleared out by the police and homeless were evicted. Although deserted, the tunnel is now an active train line and a stunning experience for urban explorers.
It is a bizarre blend of dark and light, silence and rumble, solitude and multitude. As you penetrate the tunnel and walk along the tracks, the sunbeams perforating the ceiling and highlighting the railway gives the place a post-nuclear feel. Voices from children playing above in Riverside Park sound like lost souls and trains whistling and roaring through the ruins of the shanty towns send chills down your spine.
This is one of the most uncommon and fascinating journeys I’ve ever taken."
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July 1, 2010
More from Christian here.
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ProjectRoom London from Agents Of Change on Vimeo.
Following on from the success of the ProjectRoom series in Berlin, Remi/Rough and Jaybo brought ProjectRoom to London with the help of the UK's abstract graffiti pioneer; Juice 126.
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June 30, 2010
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June 29, 2010
3 sketcbooks from ema jons on Vimeo.
"three small sketchbooks of lines and thoughts putted down in moments of waiting like the turn in the public office or the coffee machine at breakfast, small life time lost captured in pages. distractions from keeping my brain quiet standing for the next action, my metropolitan bombing when i know that in 5 minutes i will take the train. "... Ema
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June 28, 2010
Sombras e projeção na escola from Fábio Riff on Vimeo.
By "Goma Oficina" "Studio Curva" and "Maracatu Baque Cidade", at the "Escola da Cidade" college
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June 22, 2010
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June 20, 2010
Refait from Pied La Biche on Vimeo.
"Refait" is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban environment. Each sequence takes place in one or several locations and then the city temporarily becomes the lab for unsual experiments. The soundtrack is made up of the original commentaries mixed with interviews of the audience recorded during the shooting."
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June 16, 2010
OCUPADO from rodrigo pizza on Vimeo.
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June 9, 2010
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May 19, 2010
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May 18, 2010
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"This short movie is made in the neighborhood i grow up. The old buildings will be destroyed to make place for new buildings. That means, all the good memories will be destroyed. Thats the reason to make a film."... Cem
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Pop Hit - Electric Puha from Department of Development on Vimeo.
From Paul -
"years ago we found some old 16mm reals on a flee market in AMST. stuffed in a blank wrapper, so we did not know where it came from. when played from a 16mm projector we discovered fascinating 70's skateboard stuff. we digitalised the reels and started vj-ing with it during our dj/vj events. also re-edited it on one of our tracks of 'our' Electric Puha Sound System. (mid 2000's).
(oh and maybe by chance you know which crew actually filmed this in the 70's?)"
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Activity is a guarantee of Success from milk_and_cookies on Vimeo.
More from Zukclub here.
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UP THERE from The Ritual Project on Vimeo.
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May 15, 2010
M.CHAT Lisbonne 2010 from louise Traon on Vimeo.
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May 11, 2010
TOTTI-WOLF by sten and lex from STEN on Vimeo.
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April 28, 2010
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April 27, 2010
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The Mystery of Flying Kicks - Skewville from Closer Productions on Vimeo.
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April 26, 2010
EYE HEART STL!!! from Peat Wollaeger on Vimeo.
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April 21, 2010
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April 17, 2010
On the homepage of YouTube, graffiti and hip hop legend Fab Five Freddy introduces a selection of videos, talks about graffiti, hip hop, and Banksy's film Exit Through The Gift Shop.
Fred sent us this terrific annotation of his favorite videos currently on Youtube:
I was a part of a very cool underground public access TV show in 1979 called Glenn Obrien's TV Party that aired weekly back then. I was a regular guest and one of the show's cameramen. Typically, it was a groovy talk show format but this was a theme show. Bad musically, but a lotta fun. Check Jean Michel Basquiat standing there with a guitar smiling. And he wrote Mock Penis Envy on the wall visible behind Blondie's Chris Stein, also with a guitar and shades on.
This is a mash up video of scenes from my film Wild Style. Some clever guys in Amsterdam did this and I love it.
Here's the my scene from Downtown 81, a film done in that year that stared Jean-Michele Basquiat and is a very good look at that time on the downtown scene in New York City. Lee Quinones, the legendary graff artist, is in the scene with me painting as Jean walks up. Then we go inside and have a 'lil fun.
2 Pac was a friend of mine and here he's free styling during an interview I did with him for YO! in '95.
Wu Tang Clans TV debut on YO! MTV Raps before the world would embrace there raw and clever version of hip hop music.
An encounter I had with George Bush senior a couple of years ago. The fact that he discussed our brief chat with Larry King was impressive.
Here's a scene from the first film/documentary to showcase New York Subway graffiti. "Stations Of The Elevated" released or finished in 1981. Back then I'm sure this film was not seen by to many. I don't recall it ever airing on TV. But these days thanks to digital tech and sites like this, we can see what it was like when nearly
every New York City subway car was touched by graffiti. I love this film!
"One Love" for Nas, off of his first album. Most of my favorite video's had a narrative storyline. This lyrical masterpiece from Nas was like a great script and I shot this entire video in the Queens Bridge housing project where he grew up.
"Talking All That Jazz" is a clip I directed for Stetsasonic which is the first video to deal with the soon to be large issue of sampling. Also, because I grew up in a jaz loving house hold and drummer Max Roach was my godfather, I knew I'd be able to do a good job with this one.
Kool G Rap & Polo, "Road To The Riches", one of the first video's to illustrate the rise & fall of New York City drug dealer.
of 1988.
BLONDIE'S video for the song Rapture was like my coming out party in 1981 and introduced me to a world that really wouldn't know me well until several years later in 1988 when YO! MTV Raps would air weekly coast to coast and in many countries around the world. Click here to view.
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April 13, 2010
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April 11, 2010
... and no, we're not talking about the Banksy film.
If you're a loyal Wooster reader, then you know how much we love Ryan Dooley's low fi style. For us, Ryan's comments in the video personify what makes street art so much a counterculture community. This is a nice complement to the wonderful animated videos he makes.
Rockbois Documentary from ryan Dooley on Vimeo.
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April 6, 2010
Mezzoforte et Mr Qui KLAPSHOP.COM
Uploaded by KLAPTV. - Discover more animation and arts videos.
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April 5, 2010
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April 2, 2010
From Pablo:
"Got back to Montreal from Chile 5 days before the megaearthquake. I spent a few months there this winter writing a fiction script and a shooting demo for a new documentary project about Chilean Street Art called Chile Estyle. Chile's scene is so vibrant and ripe right now its really incredible how much painting on the street goes on down there and the amazing artists working on the street. Learning about all the political painting brigades before in late 60's and the whole history makes me feel like Chile has a unique muralism/street art tradition in the world. With the demo we are trying to create awareness for the project and the artists and to help to finance the feature length version. Chile is NEXT! Keep your eyes peeled for when we launch www.chileestyle.com any day now.
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March 29, 2010
Dinosaur ♥ Robot from Dinosaur Robot on Vimeo.
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March 26, 2010
The Fallen from THE REAL STINK on Vimeo.
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March 22, 2010
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March 18, 2010
To celebrate Wooster Special Edition of the 35th Anniversary Edition of the Faith of Graffiti we sat down with legendary photographer Jon Naar and artist Snake I to better understand the impact of the book when it was released in 1974.
This first video explains the difference of the new edition from the old edition, the reason for choosing the "Red Bird - Stay High 149" as the cover and Wooster print and how Jon took over 3000 photos in 10 days.
Redbird In The Bronx
Limited Edition Print of 300
8 1/2" by 11"
Archival paper
Signed and Numbered by Jon Naar - 2010
Faith of Graffiti
Words by Norman Mailer. Photos by Jon Naar
128 pages
Paperback
$75 USD
Shipping US: $12 USD
Shipping EUR $25 USD
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March 16, 2010
Original music by Cuneta.
More from Escif here.
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March 11, 2010
"Stick 'Em Up! is a documentary that takes an in depth look into the overshadowed world of wheat pasting in Houston, Texas. Directed by Alex Luster. You will not only get a candid view of the daily life of several street artists but we will also focus on the other perspectives & opinions from city officials, art critics and everyday citizens."
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March 10, 2010
Bienal Internacional De Arte De Rua from Jared Levy on Vimeo.
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Claudio Ethos - Casa Das Caldeiras from Jared Levy on Vimeo.
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March 9, 2010
Erosie & Graphic Surgery at Alley from Geert on Vimeo.
The video above was created for the exhibition Random Order in the Alley Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium.
Erosie can be found here.
Graphic Surgery can be found here.
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March 1, 2010
"Make the Difference" : MADSTEEZ from MADSTEEZ on Vimeo.
"I had just 6 days to complete this mural and although I thought it wasn't humanly possible, I somehow pulled it off!..........The piece spans 80ft x 30ft and is on the rooftop of the Ricardo Montalban Theater on Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles....It's one of my most proud pieces I have created...." MAKE THE D!FFERENCE"-madsteez
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February 18, 2010
HELP THY NEIGHBOR from ABOVE on Vimeo.
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February 17, 2010
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February 13, 2010
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February 10, 2010
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February 8, 2010
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February 3, 2010
From Mjar in London:
"Back in June 2005 a group of street / graffiti artists took over the walls of an abandoned East London bus depot/ crack den in Dalston. We were there and took a bunch of photographs.
Having just recently found the pictures again on a disk after a spring clean last week, we have put some of them together in this clip. This is out first upload to Youtube and we haven't worked out the best size, format to ensure it looks its best so watch the video in HD if you have a fast web connection. But is is good to be able to share them online, as we had believed they were forever lost via a stolen computer of ours.
Photos feature the works of some talented artists and friends including What Collective (Richt, Gumbo, Oath and 45RPM) , Dave The Chimp, PMH, Busk, Blam, Showchicken, mjar, Sri, Thought Police, Skire, Adam Neate, Jerm, Herse, Fybe, Probs, Pheks and Ink Fetish to name a few."
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February 1, 2010
In 2005, Urban Edge, held in Milan was the biggest urban art event in Europe. Over 55 artist from all over the world met in Milan and over five days collaborated on an amazing collection of work. The video below, which was recently completed, gives you a taste of what it was like.
Urban Edge Show 2005 from Diana Manfredi on Vimeo.
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January 28, 2010
Doze Green painting his recent mural project in Las Vegas, filmed and edited by Orlando Reyes.
New work by Doze Green is now on view until February 13th at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York
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January 27, 2010
Witness the Fitness, RGB Gym from Department of Development on Vimeo.
Twenty sports enthusiasts practicing their regular cardio routines, in an infinitive (24/7) video loop.
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Bill and Jimmy (Ugly Money) from Department of Development on Vimeo.
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Scion Presents: 'THIS MUST BE THE PLACE' from Scion ART on Vimeo.
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January 20, 2010
Geisha from two twelve on Vimeo.
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January 16, 2010
More from Miss Bugs here.
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budapest wall paint 09 from ema jons on Vimeo.
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January 15, 2010
Art Mosh Paris from Charlie Inman on Vimeo.
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STREETLIGHT collectif presents from Louligan on Vimeo.
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January 4, 2010
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December 25, 2009
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December 23, 2009
The Ghostvillage Project from Agents Of Change on Vimeo.
The Ghostvillage Project was created over 3 days on the west coast of Scotland. 6 artists - Timid, Remi/Rough, System, Stormie Mills, Juice 126, Derm - were given free reign to paint in an abandoned 1970s village.
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December 21, 2009
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December 15, 2009
This timelaspe features the Best Ever and Dead Leg crews painting at Mutate Britain's One Foot in the Grove show, Directed by Charlie Inman and Produced by Jack Lomax. www.mutatebritain.com for more details.
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December 14, 2009
Congratulations to 2501 for winning Babelgum's Metropolis Art Prize 2009!
A free screening of the video above will take place on the giant billboards in Times Square in New York on December 17 from 7 to 8pm
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Marco Grassi aka PHO from stylemag on Vimeo.
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December 8, 2009
You can learn more about MPG here.
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December 6, 2009
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555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.
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November 29, 2009
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November 21, 2009
The tallest building in Dublin gets wired up with two huge 100,000 Euro screens...
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November 12, 2009
Scion Presents: 'FLUX SUPER 8' from Scion ART on Vimeo.
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November 11, 2009
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November 8, 2009
Papergirl Portland from abraham ingle on Vimeo.
In 2009, Abraham Ingle brought Berlin's Papergirl Project to Portland. Over 200 pieces of original 2d art were displayed in a gallery, then rolled up, and distributed via bicycle to randomly selected people on the streets of Portland.
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November 7, 2009
In February of 2006, Sara and I traveled through Italy leading up to attending the Winter Olympics in Torino. As we often do when we travel, we posted a note on the Wooster website saying that we'd love to meet up with local artists in Milan, Florence, and Rome.
On February 9th, when we arrived in Milan, we posted a note on the site letting people know that we'd all be meeting at the statue in the Piazza Duomo. We had no idea who - and how many - people would show up.
It turned out to be an amazing evening. Amongst the twenty-five or so people who joined us was Blu. He had traveled by train from his hometown in Bologna earlier that morning. It was the first time we had ever met Blu, and Sara and I were delighted that he had come all the way just to see us.
At the end of the night, Blu handed us a small wooden box. He told us that inside was one of his sketchbooks. He said that each week he did a new sketchbook and that he wanted us to have the one he had just completed. Sara and I were blown away by his thoughtfulness and ever since it's been one of our favorite gifts. Not just for the wonderful drawings inside but for the intimacy of the gift itself.
The other week Blu came over for dinner and we showed a few friends the sketchbook. It occurred to us that because it's a book in a box and not something to hang on a wall, very few people will actually get to see it. So this morning Sara and I did a short video "tour" of the book. We hope you like it as much as we do....
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November 5, 2009
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November 4, 2009
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epitaph from rowan pybus & faith47 on Vimeo.
From Faith47:
"epitaph is an exploration of lost spaces entered through sounds and images
to reveal the echoes of empty rooms, flakes of paint, swollen curves, fragile lines, stories hidden in the flat colors broken apart by wood and steel... "
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October 31, 2009
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October 30, 2009
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October 29, 2009
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October 28, 2009
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October 26, 2009
D*Face, Artist :: Off The Wall from friendswelove.com on Vimeo.
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October 23, 2009
The Carlsbad Temptress by bryan snyder from Bryan Snyder on Vimeo.
(via Animal)
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October 21, 2009
Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.
"Chris O'Shea's Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain?
Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.
Hand from Above is a joint co-commission between FACT: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology and Liverpool City Council for BBC Big Screen Liverpool and the Live Sites Network. It premiered during the inaugural Abandon Normal Devices Festival."
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October 20, 2009
Living Decay (fairy tales in the middle on nowhere) from nulli versi on Vimeo.
In the summer of 2008 Dolk and Pøbel, two talented Norwegian street artists, took on the challenge of Lofoten Islands countryside in Norway to create large-scale murales on the faces of abandoned houses which are about to be demolished. “Living Decay” is suggestive daily log that narrates through 4 tales, the making of these huge paintings inside the unique northern landscape.
The documentary opens and closes with the narration by the American artist John Fekner, pioneer of 70’ street art. The soundtrack alternates between original tracks from “Starving pets” and tracks of “Perturbazione”, “Armstrong?” e “Farmer Sea”.
LIVING DECAY (fairy tales in the middle of nowhere) -
a 12' documentary-film by NULLIVERSI
amazing paintings by DOLK, PØBEL, LOFOTEN LANDSCAPE,
voice over by JOHN FEKNER ,
edited by LUCA VIGLIANI, DAVIDE FASOLO
music by FARMER SEA, STARVING PETS, ARMSTRONG ?, PERTURBAZIONE,
shot, written & experienced by NULLIVERSI
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More from Gestalten here.
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October 15, 2009
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October 13, 2009
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October 11, 2009
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October 10, 2009
LNB - Episode 3 from Late Night in the Bedroom on Vimeo.
The latest episode of Toronto's "Late Night in the Bedroom" features an interview with Elicser - one of Toronto's most well known and adored graffiti artists, a short interview with Wooster fave Roadsworth and Piotr Adas who has been installing his beautiful paintings around the city of Toronto. Musical guest is singer songwriter Tim Moxam
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October 9, 2009
Dave Adey, Craft Puncher from Brad Kester on Vimeo.
NOTE: On November 5th, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego has invited Dave to host an interactive exhibit where the public will collaborate with him on a large scale installation.
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October 8, 2009
We're not huge fans of "viral videos" sent out by brands, but we quite liked this one by Volkswagen:
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October 6, 2009
JR talk to VernissageTV correspondent Christophe Ecoffet about “Women are Heroes”, his new open air installation around the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris.
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September 29, 2009
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September 27, 2009
Once again JR's work takes your breath away...
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September 25, 2009
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September 21, 2009
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September 15, 2009
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September 14, 2009
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Agents Of Change in Cardiff from Agents Of Change on Vimeo.
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September 12, 2009
Off The Wall :: INVADER from friendswelove.com on Vimeo.
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September 11, 2009
Starring: a few people, two cars, a generator, a PS3, a mega projector, 7 buildings serving as the worlds biggest screens (Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Interior affairs, National Opera, Prague Castle...).... and seven police crews.
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September 10, 2009
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September 6, 2009
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September 4, 2009
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September 2, 2009
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A side project of Torontos's Whippersnapper Gallery, Late Night in the Bedroom is a new interview series filmed before a live audience in a residential apartment and then edited and broadcast on the web. The goal is to provide emerging talent in and around Toronto (artists, musicians and community organizers) with a venue to discuss their work and reach a larger audience.
The first episode features the work of Che Kothari, The Poster Pocket Planters and The boys who say no.
Check it out below...
LNB - EPISODE #1 from Late Night in the Bedroom on Vimeo.
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September 1, 2009
The Nuart Festival which kicks off September 10th in Stavanger, Norway is starting to upload videos from the excellent speaker series. Here's the first one, from Leon Reid IV.
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August 20, 2009
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August 18, 2009
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August 11, 2009
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Beat13 / Lucy McLauchlan - Fame Festival 2009. from Beat13 on Vimeo.
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August 9, 2009
(via Urban Prankster)
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August 5, 2009
The Art Collectors blog recently featured a terrific video interview with Dalek done in May while Dalek was in Paris for the opening of his exhibition with Mike GIANT at Magda Danysz gallery.
On August 28th, Dalek, along with Delta, will show new work at the Elms Lester’s Painting Rooms.
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August 1, 2009
Last Summer, Chicago based film and video artist Justin Jach spent a month in São Paulo, Brasil making A Series of Exchanges, a short film about graffiti as a form of social discourse...
A Series of Exchanges from Justin Jach on Vimeo.
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July 31, 2009
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July 20, 2009
As many of you may have now heard, the renowned Parisian artist (and good friend of the Wooster family) Zevs was one of three people arrested last week after painting one of is iconic "liquidated" Chanel logos on the façade of an Armani store in Hong Kong.
While Zevs is currently out of jail on bail, it is said that, if convicted, his fines may be as high as $860,000 USD
The South China Morning Post has produced a terrific video interview which not only discusses Zevs arrest, but also the motivation behind the work.
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July 19, 2009
Tonight we had the pleasure of spending some time with Alex DeForce of On-Point.be who was in town from Brussels. We fell in love with one of the videos he showed us. It's shows an extensive body of work done by ROA in an abandoned building in Ghent...
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July 13, 2009
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July 11, 2009
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Shot entirely with webcams. Directors: Masashi Kawamur, Hal Kirkland, Magico Nakamura, Masayoshi Nakamura
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July 1, 2009
Love from two twelve on Vimeo.
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June 28, 2009
Avantgarden Gallery put together this terrific little video of a large wall done by Bo130 and Microbo as part of the "Cut'N'Past and Dirty Fingers" exhibition at the Avantgarden Gallery in Milan:
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June 19, 2009
If you're not familiar with Improv Everywhere's MP3 Experiment, watch this:
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June 16, 2009
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June 12, 2009
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File this under "made us smile on a rainy Friday morning"
Erik Burke, who recently did the fantastic "Writers Bench" tribute sent us a link to the video below. He writes:
"Following the DIY memorial to the Writers Bench, I found a simple and playful way to reenact subway graffiti. With a little help from my friends we went to a subway platform in Manhattan and Brooklyn to give life to the old saying "My Piece is Still Running."
My Piece Is Still Running from Miss Tint on Vimeo.
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June 9, 2009
Upper Playground's Walrus TV has posted another interview from their "Run Up" DVD up on Youtube. This one features Swoon and is absolutely terrific...
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June 4, 2009
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May 17, 2009
Five ( Dramatic Pauses ) from Brendan Bell on Vimeo.
Artist Statement:
"We let the television news into the perceived safety of our lives on a daily basis. Even without direct contact, the language of the medium connects with us via background noise, internet blips, and watercooler small-talk. It has a distinct, and often overlooked, authority over the way we think and feel.
The nightly half-hour national news format attempts to condense the state of the world into easily digestible soundbites. My intention is to release these soundbites, inherent powers intact, realign them and force them to interact in unintended ways.
For seven months, I watched NBC Nightly News, recording phrases that piqued my interest. I focused on this single media outlet to give the project a specific voice and began reconfiguring the phrases into what can best be described as collage poems. Poetry, like the news media, uses evocative language to provide insight into the inner workings of the world. However, poetry allows subtleties and subtext to take center stage. The resulting collage poems highlight the ambiguous spaces between language and life, exposing the vagaries of the ostensibly concrete world around us.
The term (Dramatic Pause) implies a brief deviation from an intended script, or a small crack in real time, where things that are normally hidden become visible. It is based on instructions written for news broadcasters on their teleprompters."
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April 30, 2009
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April 29, 2009
For many years we've been fascinated by Pixação. There's an energy in the tags that's undeniable and, for us, extremely powerful.
But to be honest, we've never fully understood the nuances of Pixação and in some ways become comfortable with it.
And then today we came across a terrific video from Cool Hunting that in some ways is a "Pixação 101"
There's a great line in the video that for us, struck a strong chord:
"I would rather you hate me than ignore me"
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April 21, 2009
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April 15, 2009
Faith47-The Cape Of Good Hope from Rowan on Vimeo.
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We've been fans of Kelsey Brooke's for quite some time. It was terrific to come across this recent studio visit on the website, SEZIO:
Read the interview with SEZIO here.
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Beat13 / Lucy McLauchlan "Tacit" from Beat13 on Vimeo.
From Matt Watkins: "Lucy and I made a short film which follows us gathering urban detritus and it's re-installation at the "Outsiders" show at Walsall Art gallery last December. We made the music using a 'borrowed' piano modified with found nuts, bolts and erasers and combined with a circuit bent broken radio. I hope you enjoy watching it"
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April 14, 2009
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Speto_Ideia Forte from Ideia Forte on Vimeo.
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April 13, 2009
This morning on the Wooster Collecive Facebook Fan page we asked the question:
What are the most creative and inspiring videos on the web? (Blu's MUTO excluded)
Here's some of the responses:
ERICAILCANE -BACK TO SCHOOL
Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Len Lye's Swinging the Lambeth Walk (From 1940)
MORE, Written and Directed by Mark Osborne
Lobo Skank Onesong
People are strange from Denis Fongue on Vimeo.
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April 9, 2009
20 Minutes With Ron English from Art and Design Films on Vimeo.
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March 25, 2009
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Set to go up in Times Square April 1st
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March 24, 2009
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March 23, 2009
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March 22, 2009
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March 19, 2009
(Thanks Rogier)
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March 17, 2009
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March 13, 2009
Artist Profile: Aaron Noble from By Osmosis TV on Vimeo.
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March 12, 2009
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From our friend Romanywg comes this terrific little video featuring current Wooster obsession Herakut. The video was put together for an upcoming show at Phillips Contemporary and Urban Art Auction that takes place on Saturday the 14th March. Herakut's painting 'For Sure' is being auctioned with the proceeds going to the charity Warchild.
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March 11, 2009
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March 10, 2009
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Our friends over at Upper Playground recently released a three part interview with David Choe. It's terrific...
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March 9, 2009
Every day for the last eight months, Eric Pakurar has been taking a photo of one specific door on Greene St in Manhattan to assemble into a time-lapse movie of how the graffiti and street art builds over time. Eric tells us: "I like to think I'm documenting a sort of collaborative art project -- lots of different contributions continually adding to a living work of art."
Eric is now looking to acknowledge all the different individual artists who have added to the door over that time and is hoping that people will "crowdsource" the names of the artists on his Flickr page here.
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From 2501:
"Italy it's going through a weird moment right now,everyday we suffer more and more restrictions upon our personal liberty. Berlusconi "the King" of our Republic is eating up the city of Milan beat by beat. Since 2000 squats and populist cultural centers have been the homes of myself and many other like minded artist. In march 2006 24 people were arrested were trying to put a stop to a fascist demonstration. They were convicted of in-sighting a riot and were forced to serve 9 months of a 4 years prison sentence. Meanwhile, the violent and ruthless actions of Italian cops operating at the G8 summit have continued to go unpunished. In september 2008 Valentina a young artist with no previous criminal record that was among the 24 accused of rioting died tragically in a car accident. She was only 26 years old; the stop lights at that intersection were out of order. The city of Milan is devoting its resources to a private war against free and ungoverned cultural spaces, funneling money away from public services.
This video is a tribute to Valentina and to everyone who still resists."
LIFE IS A BRIDGE from 2501 on Vimeo.
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March 3, 2009
(Note. In 2007, we published All My Friends Are Made Of Paper, a book of the work of Armsrock with an introduction by Swoon. You can learn more about it here)
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March 2, 2009
all city animation project, video 2, Napoli
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February 26, 2009
More from Hannap here.
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By Osmosis and Beautiful Decay teamed up to create this terrific short video profiling the prolific Los Angeles based activist/street artist Robbie Conal. Robbie's work has been prolific in LA for over 25 years...
Artist Profile: Robbie Conal from By Osmosis TV on Vimeo.
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February 20, 2009
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La Entrada Project - Wall1 from geraluzlove on Vimeo.
"La Entrada is a collaborative art project of public art in personal spaces. Infused as murals and art workshops throughout the new landscape rising in San Diego California. The project actively cultivates culture in the community and is a reflection of social change. The core mural pieces are embedded on the new architectural development of affordable income housing in Logan Heights. La Entrada's design have a meaningful approach that speaks with the people's language; the imagery becomes cultural tools of social engagement and in its stories of experiences move and circulate as positive information which become vehicles for connections within the community."
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February 19, 2009
We've been huge fans of Jeff Soto's work for quite some time. Juxtapoz hipped us to this terrific video timelapse of a piece that Jeff did at the end of last year for his solo show at the Riverside Art Museum. Enjoy...
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February 13, 2009
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February 9, 2009
all city animation project, video 1, Milano
From Ryan Spring Dooley:
"I just finished the first of my all city animation projects, an 850 drawing long film looking at Milan and trying to capture it's current spirit, a bit broken. The film touches on recent repression in Milan, Italy and some hopeful ways around it, check out the final cut, it has been projected in neighborhoods highly affected by recent
re-gentrification and cultural cleansing. many underground venues and occupied houses, artists cooperatives and unique local institutions have been literally destroyed in preparation for the 2015 worlds fair. Local governments are boasting about having expelled 1300 people of color in recent months using military and police in a way never expected from a contemporary democracy. If there is anyone interested in the current situation in italy, please consult the website of a historic cultural site painted by Blu, being forced to close by police, http://cox18.noblogs.org/
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Keith Haring Documentary from ovic one on Vimeo.
We don't know much about this documentary, other than its fantastic. (In English with Dutch subtitles)
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February 5, 2009
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January 30, 2009
Among the accolades Shepard Fairey has been receiving recently is "Character Approved" a new award from USA Network that honors leading innovators who are shaping American Culture.
For the awards, Henry Alex Rubin (the director of Murderball) has put together a fantastic five minute vignette about Shepard that is, for us, one of the most informative "Shepard Fairey 101's" we've yet seen.
Ever wonder why Shepard uses only red and black in his images?
Watch the video.
In addition to Shepard, USA Network is also honoring Lupe Fiasco, Shepard Fairey, David Chang, Patrick Robinson, Charles Best, Jimmy Wales and Jennifer Siegal. Click here to watch the rest of the videos. They're all terrific.
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January 28, 2009
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January 14, 2009
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January 8, 2009
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December 29, 2008
Video Production by Arbiter Productions.
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December 22, 2008
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December 20, 2008
You can see more of Bruno's work here.
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December 19, 2008
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December 17, 2008
WK INTERACT + ANTHONY LISTER at Elms Lesters Gallery, London. from Dan Fontanelli on Vimeo.
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December 12, 2008
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December 9, 2008
Río* from B a s t a r d i l l a on Vimeo.
The video clip above, fir the song Río (River ) by the band Aterciopelados, was created by the artist Bastardilla frame by frame through photographs with the art drawn on glass and transparent surfaces that were located in multiple locations around Bogota.
Bastardilla tells us:
"The river Bogota is the most polluted in the world and the message of this song is clear, ecological awareness and action against the Bogota River, water and environment in the world in general. The concept of the video Clip is based on the Boa, animal that according to the story of some indigenous communities the trapeze amazónico, she is the mother of water and the mother of life."
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December 8, 2008
ASBESTOS BOXING CLUB from king adz on Vimeo.
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December 5, 2008
"Director Anna Brownfeld is the winner of the first I Want to Live Here film competition. She interviews Rayna Fahey of Radical Cross Stitch on her fence stitching of vacant land. Why does this trend of vacant land exist during Australia's worst ever housing crisis? "
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December 4, 2008
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Recently Evan Roth from GRL put together a short video with his idol Jay-Z for (RED). The video, shown above is for a new Kanye West produced Jay-Z song for RED & the Global Fund to Fight AIDS in Africa. It launched earlier this week on World AIDS Day at red.msn.com.
The entire video is composed only of the letters from the word BROOKLYN, and as far as we know it's the first rap video to ever be released with open source code.
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December 3, 2008
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December 1, 2008
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November 30, 2008
"when I make graffiti in the street I don't write my name. I developed a way to draw characters with one line, as a kind of tag that is a character and not a name. I decided to make a stop-motion animation piece of these "tags" as a way to show the movement of them being drawn. each frame was hand painted on a large sheet of paper, taped to my flatmate's bedroom wall. the final animation was shown at my solo show ("Searching For The Perfect Line") at Vicious Gallery in Hamburg, alongside the paper the animation was painted on."... Dave The Chimp
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Blu returned to Berlin this month. To see him in action, watch the video below:
The final piece (nicked from Blu's blog)
(Thanks, Just)
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November 25, 2008
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November 24, 2008
SouthCentral: Part 4 (The Final Chapter!) from ABOVE on Vimeo.
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November 23, 2008
You can see more of Aakash's art here.
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November 20, 2008
For over fifty years Alan Abel has been creating absurd hoaxes to fool the media. "Abel Raises Cain" is a very touching tribute to Alan, produced and directed by his daughter, Jenny.
For the next few days, Link TV, a non-profit with no advertising, is streaming the entire film online for free. If you're interested in learning more about one of the original "culture jammers" check out the film here.
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November 19, 2008
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November 10, 2008
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Faith 47-The Restless Debt of Third World Beauty from Rowan on Vimeo.
More from Faith47 here.
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November 6, 2008
A City Renewal Project from Dan Bergeron on Vimeo.
"A large-scale, site-specific collaborative installation by fauxreel and Specter, the project focuses on the state of decay within the city, specifically examining abandoned storefronts and infrastructure that's on the verge of being erased from the cityscape. Housed inside a 4400 square foot warehouse, the project renews these dilapidated buildings as artistic monuments and documents their history amidst the gentrified frenzy of urban change."
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November 4, 2008
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November 2, 2008
From Ryan: "All city animation project" is a simple means of expressing our territory and our community through an itinerary of projections taking place on different walls in different zones of OUR CITY, this project requires nothing else but a plug in for the projector and the participation of the viewers who can become potential critics or musicians depending on their relative comfort and enthusiasm INSIDE their LIVING spaces. The animated film "Choo Choo" by Ryan Spring Dooley, is a surreal hand drawn film about how it is often our thoughts that project our realities onto the the barriers that compose our surroundings and how these barriers indeed well modified by media and municipal repression are always OUR OWN. Inviting Ryan to project
his film from your living room, participating as a mini site specific festival of animation, choosing from what point or window to diplay this big drawing, you become active as a critic and a PARTICIPANT ( it is strongly encouraged that the crowd improvises the soundtrack and reflects on the meaning of the film.) The simple event of projecting animation onto the walls of a neighbor or the car parked behind your
bicycle in front of your apartment, next to the grocery store, at the back of the alley or in the biggest castle in town; gives a new attention to how much of the space around you is governed by your own thought and how much is just left to nothing and nobody, an empty chair or wall that could be OURS or at least a reflection of OUR will and thought. An authority very unique and very real, let's give this away, let's hang out a bit, eat some popcorn."
Project starts in January in Milano, Febuary in Berlin, March in Dresden, April in Naples, May in Paris; June, July and August in the United States, *all films are site specific, hand drawn impressions of the city in question, the trailer on My space is a reflection of Milan, Italy?
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TRICK OR TREATING AT THE McCAIN'S from ABOVE on Vimeo.
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October 31, 2008
Circular Painting from Fly on the Wall on Vimeo.
A Fly On The Wall is a stop motion, timelapse, motion control in a circular canvas film made for Discovery Channel in South Africa. The theme was the environment and the artist's responses to it. Numerous street artists, musicians, painters and animators contributed their talent and time for the cause over a non-stop 12 hour period to make the final 2 minute film. the film was conceptualized and directed by Bryan Little of Fly on the Wall.
Artists:
Bryan Devlin
Luis Tolosana
Warren Lewis
Ree Treweek
Daniel Ting Chong
Mike Morocco
Toyah Moon Humphreys
Paul Ressel
Josh Ginsburg
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October 30, 2008
Know Hope Interview from Zack Nielsen on Vimeo.
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October 28, 2008
WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN from ABOVE on Vimeo.
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October 27, 2008
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October 21, 2008
NOTCOT: Banksy's Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill from Jean Aw on Vimeo.
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October 20, 2008
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October 15, 2008
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October 14, 2008
Another 4 Years (Edit08) from john fekner on Vimeo.
Yesterday the legendary artist John Fekner uploaded a new three minute video of the archival South Bronx stencils along with a newly edited vocal soundtrack for this election season. The video includes some rare stenciled images never published and photographs from my archive of 70s & 80s. Great stuff.
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October 13, 2008
Untitled from mudlevel on Vimeo.
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October 12, 2008
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October 10, 2008
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October 1, 2008
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September 25, 2008
More from Mr. Dheo here.
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September 24, 2008
STEALING FROM THE RICH from ABOVE on Vimeo.
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September 22, 2008
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September 18, 2008
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September 4, 2008
Street animation like this that been exciting the hell out of us these days. While not as elaborate as Blu's Muto, for us, Sam3's "Water Kiss" is equally inspiring.
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We've been fans of the artist Bruno 9li for quite a while now. It was terrific to learn more about his work via this short documentary film by Ideia Forte...
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Matt Haffner's wheat paste installation - "Pushcart Vendors" from matt haffner on Vimeo.
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Created by Jordan C. Greenhalgh, Brian Baldwin and Danielle Hazekamp, the process enacted mutoscope (which is essentially a giant flip book)! contains 987 polaroids that make up an original film. The poject took two and a half months to complete. Watch the video above and check www.thechasefactory.com for more info.
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August 19, 2008
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August 18, 2008
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August 14, 2008
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As part of his talk at the Tate Modern a few weeks back, London based artist Rough showed a short film that he put together of UK based graffiti. You can watch it below:
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August 12, 2008
From Lorcan:
"The second music video I directed for Dublin band Sickboy. There are a few idea behind this video; two of the band members, Colm and Brian are identical twin brothers - like carbon copies of each other, which got me interested in the idea of copying and reproduction of images. I was also interested in the aesthetic of the home made fliers and self promotional material being produced by local bands, often cracked and torn black and white photocopies showing a picture of the band and a date etc. Also the idea of animating 'silent' photocopies of a face smushed up against the glass of a photocopier to make it appear as though they are singing was part of the idea.. So I photocopied colm's face in a photocopier and got him to move it around as the light from the copier passed his face to create distortions - we made hundreds of photocopies with all the main mouth/facial shapes needed for lip sync. Then I shot them playing on whitescreen, photocopied the frames etc - put the mouth shapes in order and photographed them etc. I think it worked out pretty well in the end..."
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August 8, 2008
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August 4, 2008
Korean Been - Graffiti Research Lab from fi5e on Vimeo.
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July 31, 2008
From Ironic Sans:
Bunge Grain complex in Quebec City is made up of 81 individual silos 30 meters tall. In celebration of Quebec’s 400th Anniversary, artist Robert Lepage used the complex as a screen for an incredible site-specific motion picture called The Image Mill. The film tells the story of Quebec’s 400 years through video, pictures, and sound. I expected a cheesy patriotic movie. But what I saw was subtle and elegant. The video, which shows 10 minutes of the 40 minute film, gives a good idea of what the movie was like. It shows how Lepage made innovative use of the contours of the silos, turning them into bullets, candles, a printing press, cigarettes, etc, and how he turned the entire complex into other kinds of buildings completely, such as a factory and an airport.
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July 25, 2008
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July 22, 2008
Glitter on the streets* from B a s t a r d i l l a on Vimeo.
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July 15, 2008
Above is a new six minute trailer for the upcoming film, "Roadsworth: Crossing the Line" We've been hearing great things about it.
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July 9, 2008
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We're big fans of the Date Farmers, so it was terrific to see this video introduction to their work from Current TV...
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July 8, 2008
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July 3, 2008
A terrific video from SMAC (ScribeMedia Arts and Culture):
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June 26, 2008
One of our favorite artists is Alëxone. While we weren't able to attend it in person, we've heard from many people that his exhibitiona at Galerie LJBeaubourg in Paris was wonderful. The video above, created by Sofarida, is a behind-the-scenes look of Alëxone as he prepares for the opening.
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June 25, 2008
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June 24, 2008
Recently JetSet Graffiti caught up with C215, the Paris based stencil artist at London's Cans Festival....
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June 23, 2008
Very sad news to learn that George Carlin passed away last night. He was definitely a one of a kind and his talent will be greatly missed.
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Fresh of the heels of tours of the U.S. and Europe, ABOVE has spent the past 6 months painting his way across South/Central America. Starting in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and ending in Mexico City, Mexico, the artist has documented his travels in a four part series of videos, the first of which is available today.
From ABOVE:
"DEJANDO LO MEJOR PARA EL FINAL." Is Spanish for "SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST."
This Word/Play was painted in Bogota, Colombia in an area where every building around this "Last" building was being torn down and demolished for new construction.
Bogota is going through a transitional period "rebirth" as many of the older buildings are being torn down. By now this building is probably already destroyed!
ABOVE: SOUTH CENTRAL TOUR (PART 1 OF 4) from ABOVE on Vimeo.
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June 20, 2008
You can see more of Posterchild's work here.
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"As the economy worsens here in the UK it seems to be becoming more and and more relevant. It features Gordon Brown and our chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling... they often pin the blame on the economic situation on the US sub prime market... failing to remember that Gordon Brown, now PM, was in charge of the economy for the past ten years. Politicians tend to have a very short memory."
Syd TV
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June 18, 2008
We've been fans of Eltono's for a long time. We love his latest exhibition in which he brings interactivity into a local gallery in Lima, Peru.
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Scribemedia.org has posted a terrific video (embedded above) in which Swoon discussed her current show at Honeyspace. After you watch the video, click here for more.
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June 13, 2008
A while back we had the pleasure of meeting the artist Moose while he was passing through New York. It was Moose who first introduced us to the concept of "Reverse Graffiti'. If you're not familiar, be sure to watch the video above, directed by Doug Pray.
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June 12, 2008
Norman Cook (aka Fat Boy Slim) in collaboration with David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal
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June 11, 2008
"Ellis Gallagher is a native New Yorker who creates chalk etchings of shadows of everyday, urban street objects. As a former graffiti writer, his work can be found in New York City and beyond, in Autograf: New York City's Graffiti Writers by Peter Sutherland (Powerhouse Books 2004), as well as in numerous newspapers, magazines, on television and in films. Currently a Contemporary/Street Artist known as (C)ELLIS G.. Gallagher will publish his first book "Adhesives," the ultimate compendium of graffiti, graphic design and street art stickers with Miss Rosen Editions for Powerhouse Books."
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June 9, 2008
To coincide with Armsrock's upcoming shows at Black Rat Press in London and Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn, opening this week, JetSet Graffiti has put together a terrific video showcasing Armsrock has his work. They visited with him in his studio in Bremen Germany a couple weeks ago as he was preparing for the two shows.
(The video above is Part 1 of 2. Part 2 will be released on Wednesday)
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June 5, 2008
Revamped Graphic Equalizer from Marcelo Costa on Vimeo.
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June 4, 2008
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More info here.
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June 2, 2008
"IDENTITY/Madrid documents a constant dialogue between neighbors who follow the production of one of Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada´s urban charcoal murals.
IDENTITY/Madrid shows the changing identity of a city being physically and socially reconstructed
By questioning the controls imposed on public space, the role models that represents us in the public space and the type of events that are guarded by the collective memory Rodriguez-Gerada breaks preconceptions of where art is permitted, when art is needed and to whom it is directed."
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Ztohoven - Znásilněné Podvědomí from Míra Sláva on Vimeo.
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To celebrate the Los Angeles premiere and DVD release of BOMB IT, the filmmakers are posting short clips from the film on YouTube. The first one is a terrific little interview with Space Invader.
Bomb It plays at the Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theater in West Hollywood June 6-12th. At each Friday and Saturday night 7:50pm & 10:10pm screening one Limited Edition numbered run (of 80 total) silk screened Bomb It Poster signed by Shepard Fairey and Director Jon Reiss will be raffled off.
The Bomb It DVD is out now.
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May 27, 2008
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May 20, 2008
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May 19, 2008
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May 15, 2008
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May 14, 2008
The JetSet Graffiti team is back with another terrific little video, this one showcasing the work of Adam Neate in London.
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May 11, 2008
Blu never ceases to amaze and delight us. His latest wall animation left us speechless. It was done in Buenos Aires and Baden took months to paint, film and edit.
Once again Blu takes "the bar" and raises it to an even higher level...
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May 8, 2008
If you're not yet familiar with the work of SheOne, be sure to check out the video above. It was shot last year in Vancouver by Jeff Hamada when SheOne was in town for a live painting event put on by Addict Clothing. You can read more about it here.
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May 5, 2008
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If Keith Haring were still alive, yesterday he would have celebrated his 50th birthday.
Here's a tribute by Peat Wollaeger
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More photos here.
(Thanks, KrieBeL)
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May 2, 2008
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April 29, 2008
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April 24, 2008
Last year an amazing group of artists including Nick Walker, Eine, Blek le Rat, Arofish, C6 Dotmasters, D*Face, Dolk, Herakut, Pobel, Word to Mother, Logan Hicks, M-City, and others came together in Stavanger, Norway for the NuArt 2007 festival. Recently a short video of footage of the installation was put together...
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April 23, 2008
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Vice Magazine's always terrific "Art Talk!" on VBS.TV put together a terrific two part video interview with Barry McGee. For the piece, McGee took took the interview he did for VBS.TV with Aaron Rose and animated so that it becomes part of the art itself.
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April 22, 2008
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April 19, 2008
You can learn more about Outsides here.
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The Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council recently interviewed the Minneapolis based stencil artist Broken Crow is the second of an ongoing series of short videos featuring local artists.
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April 17, 2008
Nick Walker's solo show at the Black Rat Press opens later this evening. The video diary follows him preparing for the show and a massive Vandal is projected onto the Bank of England and The Houses of Parliament.
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April 14, 2008
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April 9, 2008
(Thanks, Keith)
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Flying Cat from peaches on Vimeo.
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March 29, 2008
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March 26, 2008
G.R.L. @ M.o.M.A. from fi5e on Vimeo.
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March 25, 2008
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March 19, 2008
Check out their live performance on the 28th of March here.
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March 12, 2008
Reuters television recently spent time with our friend Jace on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
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March 7, 2008
For over an hour, Jeremy Gibbs stood across the street from a fresh piece by Banksy on Essex Road and filmed people who stopped to look at the piece and take photos.
What we find to be most important about the video is the diversity of the people who stopped, noticed, and most importantly - appreciated - the work. The video is a terrific testament to the "value" of street art.
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March 2, 2008
If you, like us, have been wondering how Zevs get's makes those perfect drips on his Liquidated Logos project, wonder no more. Here's a video of Zevs in action at Glyptotek in Copenhagen....
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February 23, 2008
"Jorge Rodriguez Gerada transforms common people into icons by rendering them in charcoal as urban murals. He delves not only in the identity of the neighborhood where he realizes his work but also in his own identity. By questioning the controls imposed on public space, the role models that represents us in the public space and the type of events that are guarded by the collective memory he brakes preconceptions of where art is permitted, when art is needed and to whom it is directed.
Documentary created by Ana Alvarez-Errecalde and FILMCHICK PRODUCTIONS."
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February 12, 2008
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February 8, 2008
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February 5, 2008
Nick Walker's work is currently on display at the Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
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February 1, 2008
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January 30, 2008
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January 23, 2008
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January 18, 2008
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January 16, 2008
(Thanks, Tom)
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January 15, 2008
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January 10, 2008
Last November, Swoon, Chris Stain & The Polaroid Kidd joined together in Paris or a collaboration at the galerie LJBeaubourg.
Sofarida has put together a short video documenting the installation.
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Some time back we featured the amazing charcoal portraits of Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada. Now Ana Alvarez-Errecalde and FILMCHICK PRODUCTIONS have put together a short documentary on Jorge that explains his work and the motivation behind it. Enjoy.
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January 4, 2008
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"What would happen if you remade the Matrix in the ghetto, cast a rapper from Yonkers, NY as Neo, Large Professor as Morpheus, and 8—> Peter Vallone Jr as Agent Smith, manned the Nebuchadnezzar with the best graffiti writers in New York City armed with high-powered lasers and then set the whole thing in the true Zion: the County of Kings, Brooklyn, New York?"... GRL
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December 17, 2007
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December 10, 2007
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December 5, 2007
Jeff Soto from Jean Philippe FLORIN on Vimeo.
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December 2, 2007
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November 28, 2007
Travis Millard - Fudge Factory Comics from By Osmosis TV on Vimeo.
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November 24, 2007
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November 23, 2007
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November 15, 2007
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October 31, 2007
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October 19, 2007
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September 30, 2007
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September 27, 2007
If you look back in the Wooster archives, the first post we ever did on this site talked about the 'Stick'em Up' exhibition that took place at the Magma Book Store in Clerkenwell in 2002, and the subsequent book by Booth Clibborn.
While it's only been five and a half years since then, it sometimes seems like a lifetime ago. This week Chex in Guadalajara, Mexico finally go around to editing some video he took of the Magma exhibition and posted it up on YouTube.
If you've been following the sticker scene for a while, then seeing all the old stickers in the video will be a treat..
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September 26, 2007
(Thanks, Judith Supine)
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September 25, 2007
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September 16, 2007
(Thanks, Nico)
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September 13, 2007
More from Rene here.
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August 31, 2007
(Thanks Sam!)
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August 30, 2007
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August 17, 2007
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August 15, 2007
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August 12, 2007
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August 10, 2007
The finale of the amazing PLANET PROZESS in Berlin will take place on August 11th. You can learn more by clicking here.
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August 6, 2007
"For my sophomore final film this past year at the Rochester Institute of Technology where I study stop motion, I used Polaroid 600 film to capture all of my imagery. During the development phase of each image the Polaroid's were manipulated to create lines and shapes as well as pulling some emulsion completely off. After shooting all of the Polaroid's (987 to be exact) I re-shot them in black limbo with a Canon digital SLR. There is no digital compositing or computer trickery ... just what was in front of the lens. hope ya like it."... Jordan C. Greenhalgh, The Chase Factory
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July 9, 2007
Of the now from bednarz and Vimeo.
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July 4, 2007
The band: The Willowz
The song: "Jubilee"
The label: Dim Mak
The director(s): Toben Seymour
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June 26, 2007
More from Lichtfaktor here.
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June 22, 2007
Last week On-Point.be sat down with the legendary photographer Martha Cooper while she was in Brussels to sign her new book Street Play.
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June 20, 2007
These wonderful clips from "Rivers and Tides", a terrific documentary about Andy Goldsworthy are a great reminder of the importance of nature in our creative pursuits.
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June 19, 2007
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June 18, 2007
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June 13, 2007
Interesting story from the BBC about how the National Gallery is using hi-end printers to bring priceless works of art out onto the streets of London. Click here for more.
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June 11, 2007
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June 8, 2007
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June 5, 2007
The latest work from Bonom & Lork runs the length of an entire block in the center of Brussels, near the Central Station and directly opposite to the statue of the former King Boudewijn/Baudouin the First.
The King was known for his fierce stance against abortion.
(Thanks, Alex)
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May 31, 2007
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May 29, 2007
You can learn more about the project here.
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May 24, 2007
"Myself and a couple have friends have entered the above into the Modest Mouse video competition. Using green screen footage provided by the band we cut a simple music video. We then degraded the images and printed out each frame sequentially. (all 4133 of them) We then nailed each "shot" of 50-100 posters to various structures and posts. Then using a digital SLR camera with a long exposure we frame by frame shot each poster. Oh, and theres a little video projection (again, frame by frame on the SLR) just to mix it up. There is no compositing, no shortcuts, just lots of blood, sweat and tears, and a huge Kinkos bill!".... Max
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May 21, 2007
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From the Artist:
"This piece is part of a line of work I have been developing over the last year or so, which is called "Urban Impressionism", in which represent 3D objects in 2-Dimensions through shadows. These shadows are created at a particular point of day, or night, and later stenciled and spray-painted in order to resemble real shadows. Through this process I am able to discuss light and form, in an unconventional way, placing it directly on the streets of the contemporary urban "cityscape" that surrounds us.
Ideally I hope to create a moment of magic or illusion in which the spectator or passer-by questions the space around him/her, through the shadows that are either naturally cast or artificially created. This particular piece incorporates text to politicize a very important issue for many of us today- the end of the war in many regions of our globalized world.
PS. I noticed that on the site, the piece had been mistakenly tagged as a "chalk" piece... The piece itself is was stenciled on the floor using a shadow cast by a light post at night, and later carefully sprayed with a 'camouflage black' can."
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May 17, 2007
From Nick Walker:
"Screen prints are kicking off these days but there are a lot of people out there that don’t know the about the amount of work that goes into producing one. It just arrives in a tube at your door smelling of fresh ink - and that’s it. Here’s the ‘Making of the Moona Lisa’ made by film maker Matt Wicks"
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May 9, 2007
From the artists/filmmakers: "It's a short stop motion film. There is no digital image manipulation in it! Everything you see has really been wheatpasted!"
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May 6, 2007
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May 1, 2007
Excuse me, is this a work of art?" is an intervention in contemporary art museums done by Ana Velez.. The project is a commentary about the confusion and sometimes the absurdity of conceptual art. The first stage of the project was made at the MoMA in New York in April 2007
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April 27, 2007
More on WK here.
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April 25, 2007
More here.
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April 19, 2007
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April 17, 2007
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April 13, 2007
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April 7, 2007
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April 6, 2007
from David Hart at MoMA comes word that the Museum has begun uploading videos of the various speakers who have given presentations at MoMA to Youtube. The first two above are of Swoon. The one below is of Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz, two founding members of the feminist activist group the Guerrilla Girls.
Great stuff.
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abLA brought our attention this morning to a terrific video documentary on Youtube done for the current exhibition, Street Level, which runs until July 29, 2007 at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The show features the work of Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode.
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April 4, 2007
A few months ago a handful of Arizona's small art scene worked together to transform an old boarded up art store into a free public art gallery. The video above will be shown at an upcoming event on the April 13th featuring the artists in the film.
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April 3, 2007
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Robert Anderson interviews Swoon about her collaborative project with Pancho that opening recently at the MU Gallery in Eindhoven.
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March 29, 2007
After seeing it on the Razor Apple blog, Jake Dobkin just sent us an IM asking if we'd seen the video on Youtube in which REVS discusses the metal sculptures that he's been placing in different locations around Brooklyn.
Not only hadn't we seen it, but we had no idea that it even existed.
Now after watching the video, the only appropriate response is - "Holy shit"
A must watch....
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March 26, 2007
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March 23, 2007
Amongst the various documentary crews that covered the 11 Spring project was a terrific team from GOOD Magazine. They've just completed their short video and put it up on YouTube. You can check it out above
Also don't forget to RSVP for the GOOD Newspaper2.0 party tonight in New York. You must be a GOOD subscriber to RSVP, but the good news is that all of the money goes to charity. RSVP here.
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March 22, 2007
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March 20, 2007
(Thanks, Adam)
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March 19, 2007
More here.
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March 16, 2007
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In addition to being a sculptor, Nick's a wonderful filmmaker as well. He's been working on a documentary about Cyprus and recently crossed the Green Line and saw his father’s village for the first time.
Nick writes on his blog - "Crossing the checkpoint felt almost like stepping into an old 8mm film. I was struck by the silence. At my own risk I brought a camera and recorded what was left."
Here's a preview.
Here's his response to some of the reaction to it.
and here's Part 2:
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March 15, 2007
One of our favorite shows this year has been GRL's OPEN CITY at Eyebeam here in New York. True to the spirit of everything they do, the Graffiti Research Lab has put the entire show online here . (But that shouldn't stop you from actually seeing the show, as it's up until April 7th and is worth the trip to Chelsea)
There's a ton of great videos in the show. Here's a couple of our favorites:
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March 12, 2007
Kapitaal is a fantastic animated video illustrating the overwhelming amount of advertising we are forced to confront every day in our urban cities...
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March 5, 2007
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March 2, 2007
(Thanks, Gaetane!)
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February 26, 2007
"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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February 24, 2007
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February 23, 2007
From malatron comes a link to a website that has been launched to support the DVD release of JR and Ladj Ly amazing 28 millimeters Project. We're big fans of the book (and of JR's) and can't wait to see the DVD.
More on the DVD, including lot's of photos here.
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February 20, 2007
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February 19, 2007
More from Buffmonster here.
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February 14, 2007
... but a terrific video never-the-less.
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February 7, 2007
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February 6, 2007
We loved this video above, called Defaced, for so many reasons. A. It's extremely well made and B. It's storyline speaks to the heart of so many issues that we write about on the Wooster site as it addresses the the whole street art vs corporate advertising issue with a lot of fun, humor, and heart. The films is about a man, trapped in the confines of a corporate poster, as he tries to escape and become part of the street art on the opposite wall. "Although the street art is free, it is condemned and usually destroyed to make way for advertising, a risk he is willing to take to be with the stencilled girl on the other side." You can watch the Youtube video above or a higher quality one here.
Congrats to the Producer/Director Lorcan Finnegan and the team at Lovely Productions in Dublin.
Nice one, guys!
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Thanks to everyone who emailed us about Stefan G.Bucher's Daily Monster drawings. They are indeed terrific. You can check the first one out above but be sure to watch the subsequent ones as well.
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February 1, 2007
Watching this video on Youtube had us thinking - It would be cool if more artists and illustrators made these types of videos. If you make one - be sure to send a link to us.
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January 29, 2007
Sometimes less is definitely more. We quite liked this extremely simple, but effective, little video for the song "fate or faith" by Ror-Shak featuring Julee Cruise, directed by Jodi Terwilliger & Ror-Shak.. The piece features a non stop live drawing by Gordon Hull of surface 2 air. (The intro art and logo was done by Jodi Terwilliger)
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January 20, 2007
Back in September we posted the photo above of a 3D wheatpaste done on the galss recycling bins of Berlin.
Now the mentalgassi crew have created a little video of a recent action. (The quality of the video isn't very good, but it's still good to see the guys in action.)
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January 15, 2007
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For many years, if you were to ask us where the "heart" of the street art movement was, the answer we would give was always Barcelona. Not only would artists travel to Barcelona to paint on the streets, but many of them would move their as well just because the city was tolerant to their work.
Barcelona was for us, a live version of the Wooster website. On the walls you would see work from artists from all over the world together.
But then, not too long ago, the city of Barcelona began systematically wiping out the street art scene in the city. Today, the scene in Barcelona is only a shadow of what it once was.
From Chaz comes a link to the video above created by Pas. In 2004, Pas became a fan of The London Police and walked the Raval neighborhood taking pictures of the TLP lads as well as work by other artists from across Europe.
Two weeks ago, Pas returned to stay at Raval. But what he found there was very different then two years before. To show how things had changed, he took pictures of the exact same locations he visited and shot in 2004.
The result is one of the best photographic reportage we've seen yet that documents the disappearing street art scene in Barcelona.
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January 11, 2007
Congratulations to our old friend Dave The Chimp who recently completed his first pop video, for the band Robots In Disguise.
What we like most about the video is that all the props and sets were made from cardboard and wood reclaimed from the trash. Ichi Bunny was the editor, Product Two helped build sets, and Saru was one of puppeteers. (If you know the London scene then all of these names will make sense to you)
We think it's great fun... especially if you know all the people involved.
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January 10, 2007
One of the favorite characters that we met during the three days of Wooster on Spring was a dude with a video camera named The T-Bird. His laid back style and humor reminded us a bit of Ricky Powell, and we thought that the little doc he would create about 11 Spring would be something like Rappin' With The Rickster
This afternoon T-Bird sent us a link to the video above and we like it a lot. It pokes some fun at the whole street art hype and will probably give people who want to hate street art a bit of ammunition to hate it even more. It's a bit goofy and that's why we like it.
As for the short clip of me (Marc) in the video, it made me realize just how much the lack of sleep created this amped up quality in me during the three days. Like I was on speed or something.
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January 9, 2007
In November we profiled a group of artists who to protest extremely high rent prices in Tel-Aviv, took to the streets with cardboard "whores" attempting to show the city government that they "had enough of prices going up day after day.
From Blog Soup comes the video above found on Youtube.
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Abstractor is the latest guerilla intervention from The Bubble Project.
The project transforms the video billboards that are now popping up all over Manhattan (as well as other cities) into pieces of public art.
Click on the image above to watch the video
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For us Dennis Hopper is not only an icon from such films as Easy Rider and Apocalypse Now, but also an incredibly important figure in the contemporary art world.
Recently Madsteez, after seeing Hopper's latest exhibition at the Ace Gallery in Los Angeles, took it upon himself to contact the guy and do a portrait of him.
Madsteez writes - "I've seen a lot of shows and this is the most inspirational body of work I have ever seen. I wanted to do a portrait of him the same way he did portraits of his friends and people he was inspired by like Warhol and Lichtenstein."
The 96" X 48" painting will be on display at his upcoming Chelsea art show which opens here in New York on January 31st.
Check out the video below to see how the Madsteez/Hopper collaboration came together.
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January 6, 2007
Lovely stop motion video directed by Kris Moyes
(Thanks, Howard!)
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January 4, 2007
We get asked all the time - "How do I made a stencil?" If you're interested in the process of how something goes from idea to image, check out Posterchild's "How To" video above.
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January 1, 2007
From time to time (yet probably not enough), we've highlighted various projects that have been put on by the New Brunswick based group Albus Cavus. The dedication they have to public art, with very little resources or funding, is incredibly inspiring to us.
Watch the video above, produced for News 12 New Jersey, to learn more about the Albus Cavus.
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December 31, 2006
This summer Maximiliano Benitez organized a group of 14 - 17 year old kids to create a documentaty film on graffiti and street art as part of a class he was teaching for the Tribeca Film Institute. The film features wonderful interviews with Swoon, Lady Pink and others and the fact that it was done by young students makes it all the more worthwhile.
You can see it here.
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December 28, 2006
Not too long ago we posted a terrific little video called Float that is part of a series called Backspace. Earlier this month Stephen posted part two of Float. If you haven't checked it out yet, give it a look. Like the first one, it's lovely.
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December 26, 2006
Many of you have already seen the video above. But for us, as we finish up the last days of the year, this video is the perfect example of just how inventive people can be if given the tools to be creative. The video was done completely in stop motion animation and took the guy who made it six months to complete.
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Back in June, Cassidy from the terrific Graffiti Archeology website sent us a note about an amazing animated short called "virus" that he saw at the Annecy animation festival in France.
What was so impressive about the piece is that it looks as if it is painted frame by frame, directly on the walls, and done illegally in the middle of the night.
From Cassidy's site we learned that the filmmaker is Baptiste Buonomo, an animation student from EMCA in Angoulême, For those of you without Real Video here's Cassidy's description -
"The fun starts with a live action shot of a kid in a hoodie tagging "virus" on an old plaster wall. The kid exits, and the tag grows, multiplies, and morphs into a simple cartoon version of him, which then starts running around the town's walls making mischief. This may not sound like anything special, until you realize how it must have been done: it looks like every frame of animation was actually painted directly on the wall itself, in the middle of the night. This meant erasing the old frames before painting each new one, a technique also known as "painting under the camera". You can see the ghosts left behind from earlier frames in the image above. It must have taken hours of work f this is what it looks like, it may well be the first ever example of underground, unpermitted street animation. Whatever you call it, it took a lot of guts! Monsieur Buonomo, my hat is off to you."
You can see the video using Real Video by clicking here.
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December 25, 2006
One emerging trend that we hope to see grow in importance next year are guerrilla projections done by artists and videographers. Here's one example
Earlier this month Miga Collective´s video-jockeys (Nökeö and Decolora) organised a video attack in Granada City, Spain, projecting images on the front of the Alhambra (Comares Tower).
You can see photos on their website and can watch a video of the action on Youtube below.
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December 21, 2006
One of the decisions we made as a group when we began working on the Wooster on Spring project was that rather than hire our own documentary crew and limit access to the "the story", we would open it up to as many young filmmakers and photographers as we could accommodate. We wanted many people to create their own interpretations of documents of the project.
One of the young filmmakers that we gave access to the building before the show opened was Jason Scott Jones who stayed with us for the last five days or so. The emotion that Jason shows at the beginning of the film touched us a lot as it's exactly how we all felt in the final days. Jason was a good guy and has a very good heart.
This afternoon he posted a rough cut of his video on Youtube. You can check it out here...
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December 12, 2006
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December 8, 2006
Earlier this week, I participated in a radio segment about Detroit's Object Orange project by giving a short interview to NPR (America's National Public Radio). The segment ran yesterday on the show Day to Day and you can listen to it here
As you will hear (and are likely to expect), we're huge fans of the Object Orange project and expect to see artists and activists doing similar interventions in other cities around the world.
GOOD Magazine recently did a short documentary on Object Orange as well. You can watch it below...
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December 5, 2006
One of the DVD's that we can't wait to see is DEAD SPACE, a film that documents the French graffiti writer Psyckoze's work in the Parisian catacombs.
Check the trailer above, but also search for more video of catacombs on youtube as many of them are really amazing.
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November 29, 2006
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November 21, 2006
Remember Banksy's Guantanamo bay inmate which he snuck into Disneyland? If you wondered how he did it, check out the video the he just posted on his website.
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November 15, 2006
After finishing his terrific documentary on the legendary Blek Le Rat, King Adz spent some time this summer at the Cyprus College of Art, where he shot a short documentary on the founder Stass Paraskoss. Stass has spent the last seventeen years building an amazing piece of street art around the college. The wall that separates the college form the street is built out of 100% recycled material.
You can view the doc online here.
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November 8, 2006
Fly On The Wall is a terrific collective of young creative filmmakers in Cape Town South Africa. Recently they did a couple of short narratives with the help of Warren Lewis of wetpaint / circuslabs. They were so go that MTV ended up buying them a week later. You can see more of the films on their website site here.
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November 5, 2006
"The four members of FRONT make it possible to materialize hand made sketches through using a unique method where they combine two highly developed techniques. Invisible pen strokes in the air recorded with Motion Capture become digital 3D-files. Through Rapid Prototyping, the files are materialized into real pieces of furniture."
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November 3, 2006
Every artist has a vision. For Momo (who's been absolutely killing it lately in New York), the vision was to tag the entire width of Manhattan.
Click here to watch the video of how he did it.
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October 31, 2006
From Case: The other day we painted an abandoned house near Barcelona. I love painting in old abandoned buildings, it's true not much people will see it but it's nice and quiet to paint in places like this. I really like the big rooms full of floating dust, the sun coming through the broken windows, and the floor full of pieces of bricks that make noise under your feet while you walk. I also like it because it's not vandal at all.
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October 23, 2006
"Researchers of Carnegie Mellon University has managed to teach a computer to recognize and transform 2D images into 3D"...
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It's interesting, at least for us, to see the approach different communities take to combat graffiti. The video below is a video advertisement that plays on the tv's in the subways of berlin.
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A sequence of images drawn on a wall on the back of Etterbeek train station. Drawings by BONOM.
Uploaded by michaeluyttersp
You can see more of Bonom's work here
(Thanks, Colin!)
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October 20, 2006
Sony's out with a new commercial for Bravia. Like the bouncing balls, we like this one a lot... Their website says that to shoot the spot it took.... 70,000 litres of paint, 358 single bottle bombs, 33 sextuple air cluster bombs, 22 Triple hung cluster bombs, 268 mortars, 33 Triple Mortars, 22 Double mortars, 358 meters of weld, 330 meters of steel pipe, 57 km of copper wire.
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October 19, 2006
So after posting the video last night of Alexandre Orion talking in Portuguese about his work. Our friend t.w., sat down and did a translation of it...
Thanks t.w!
here it goes:
Sao Paulo brasil
my name is alexandre orion. i was born and live in sao paulo brasil. my life and my work were always related to art. i made and sold hand printed tshirts, i worked as a tattoo artist, i made several things related to drawing since early age. my involvement with graffiti started when i was 14 y.old doing a kind of graffiti related to hip hop culture and at the same time i worked as an illustrator, graphic designer, in a publishing agency and then i started to work with photography, researching and studying it. I feel in love with photography and that was a step towards my project metabiotics that i show here.
technique:
i tried not to do with my art something that is is tied to techniques/technical aspects. i have an idea and try to see what i need to execute this idea and then i apply the the technique so ican achieve the results i want. in the metabiotics project the idea is: i choose a place in the city that i believe an intervention can happen. usually i think of an intervention and choose a place in the city or a place offers me an idea for an intervention. something very curious in the process is the "waiting moment". the interventions are made with stencil graffiti and in the waiting moment each situation is a new situation and always people adds something interesting to my work. always something that i could not imagine would happen and then i register with my camera. that is the moment the work gains power and i loose control of it. the image of the guy holding up a gun was the first of the project and i did not have great expectation of what the image would give me. so, i did the stencil and in the same day i got my camera and waited for the situation. then this older man showed up, looked at the painting, looked at me and lift both of his arms and asked me if he was disturbing me or the art. i got so nervous with my legs shaking and did not believe the perfect situation (him with his arms up and the stencil of the guy pointing the gun) that i could not take the picture. By the time i did he had lowered his arms but his expressions were still strong.
illegal:
this style of graffiti you see here is a type of graf that is getting strength in brasil and people are respecting it and it almost turns itself into something legal. it is not as dangerous like it was years ago. but even being an illegal act, the police does not arrest or want to punish you. sometimes they try but it ended up not working.
future:
the objective of my life i i think of the future is not get stuck in just one thing. what i like to do for my future is to do what i like, what is not something selfish. what i like is to do things that i see that people like. i want to keep working in this project, in this medium or any other like musical, sculptural but i want to be sure that i am entering people's life and that i am giving space, opening space for them to get in my life so we can create something or a world or an idea of a world that could appear to be or be better than the one we have. that is it.
cheers, paula (aka t.w.)
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October 18, 2006
While searching for information on Alexandre Orion, Mitchell found this terrific video on You Tube. (The only problem, at least for us, is that it's in Portuguese with no English subtitles)
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October 16, 2006
From Jordan -
"I'd heard of Stephen Wiltshire before but never actually seen any of his work, it's pretty spectacular... It reminded me of another man with autism called Gilles Trehin who, since the age of 12 has been designing a fictional city, creating graphical drawings of it and even creating a history, economy, geography.... "
More on Gilles here.
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October 13, 2006
We'd never heard of Stephen Wiltshire until this morning but here are two, albiet grainy, videos to catch you up....
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Watching this video, makes us remember how much we miss Barcelona. Not sure why really, as the video its quite simple. Must be the music....
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October 11, 2006
Lately, Judith Supine as been absolutely killing it here in Lower Manhattan. We're diggin the new style a lot. If you're interested in how the pieces come together, check out the video above.
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October 10, 2006
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October 9, 2006
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If you're like us and miss the days of vinyl records, then click on the image above to check out a nice little video made by Ugly Pictures
(Thanks, Orko!)
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October 4, 2006
If you haven't yet watched FLOAT, you should. We've been walking on air all morning. Float is Episode 1 of a new video podcast called BACKSPACE, which features a series of short films designed to stir the imagination. Episode 1 was filmed in Melbourne.
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October 1, 2006
Here's another reason to love Youtube.com. Someone has posted the Pop-Up video for Blondie's Rapture shot back in 1980. Amongst the cameos - Jean-Michel Basquiat at the dj.
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September 29, 2006
Boonika has been putting together some terrific little videos for their website. Here's one that we quite liked on Code Rock, a graffiti artist from Oslo
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September 26, 2006
Kaza Razat took it upon himself and created the terrific video above as a donation to Amnesty International and the ControlArms campaign. Check out the video and then click here to learn more about Control Arms and how important it is.
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September 22, 2006
From Derek Shumate comes this link to an even cooler giant puppet video.
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Rumors are that this was shot on behalf of a brand, but at the end of the day, it's still pretty fucking cool.
Check out the different angles and videos on YouTube. It's extremely well done.
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September 20, 2006
If you haven't yet checked out the video for John Mayer's new song "Waiting On The World To Change" give it shot as it features Futura, Tats Cru and Daze.
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September 19, 2006
UPDATE: It appears that the Nike ad was not only simple and clever, but also stolen. More here.
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Not the best one for sure, but still a somewhat interesting....
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September 14, 2006
We unfortunately couldn't make it over the the Deitch sponsored Art Parade in Soho last week. By all accounts it was a blast. Our friend Nick Georgiou made a short video of it above.
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September 5, 2006
Story here.
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August 29, 2006
Video of Yamsk taken during the preparation of the Mercurocrom exibition at La Condition Publique in Roubaix, France
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August 24, 2006
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August 22, 2006
Räubertanz, (the dance of the thief or robber) is a video depicting people in Berlin's busy district of Kreuzberg taking the artist Alejandro's personal belongings from the street.
Alejandro explains - "It's an attempt to document body movements and expression when morals strike. The final product is a memoir of the object that I didn't needed any more and had to let go. This is the text that the galleries used is = Through a period of six months Lecuna left outside his residency various objects that he didn't need anymore. A hidden camera is looking outside the window and recording the objects in the street. This "action" documents how the objects are "stolen" or taken by common people and the minimum dance and body movements they make whenever moral background strikes in the head. At the end the artist provides a voyeuristic pleasure of looking at neighbors, who they are, their clothes, the context, the memory of the original object, it's new owner and how it passed away.
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August 17, 2006
From Zoe:
"in terms of crowd art-
the mass games in north korea-
all the mosaics in the background are kids holding colored sheets of paper.
there is a movie about it which is called "a state of mind"
if you google video or youtube for mass games you can see footage.
it is pretty incredible.
i dont really know if it counts as "crowd art", but if you like crowd
art you'll be really tripped out by the mass games."
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August 11, 2006
... This One From Seseme Streat
(Thanks, Jake)
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August 9, 2006
Upper Playground has uploaded another preview video from their upcoming RUN UP DVD. This new one showcases the amazing talents of Maya Hayuk. In the last few months Sara and I have had the good fortune of spending some time with Maya here in New York and she's quickly become of our favorite people to hang with. We're thrilled that Maya will be in the Upper Playground series. Here's the clip....
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August 4, 2006
Matt Conley has edited a terrific little video of ABOVE's insane trips across North America and European which in the past we've documented extensively on the Wooster site.
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A big thanks to everyone who sent us a link to a "moving crowd" video this week. Here's another one we quite liked. A music video from Michael Gondry...
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July 31, 2006
Not exactly sure how to go about making your first street art sticker?
Jay in London has put together a video tutorial
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July 27, 2006
We don't know much about the band Malajube but we liked their new video for the song for the song Montréal -40° C. Check it out here.
(Thanks, Andrew)
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July 26, 2006
Part 1
Part 2
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July 20, 2006
The Spanish duo of Eltono and Nuria, true pioneers in the street art scene, have begun posting short videos of their work to Youtube.com. Three of them have been put up so far. You can check them out here
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July 15, 2006
While uploading our Armsrock video onto Youtube a few moments ago we came across a fantastic commercial by the Japanese cosmetics company, Shiseido. We have no idea when and where this originally aired, but it's fuckin' brilliant.
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For the last few days our friend Armsrock (who's currently painting and living in Bremen, Germany) has been staying with Sara and I in our flat in Manhattan. This afternoon we filmed the second of our "kitchen films", capturing Armsrock as he does a drawing in his sketchbook. If you're not already familiar with his work, search the Wooster site or check Flickr here.
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June 22, 2006
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June 21, 2006
Upper Playground has posted another trailer for their DVD,“The Run Up”. This one features one of our favorite artists, Jeff Soto. The Run Up is set for release this coming September. If you don't know Jeff's work, check out his website here.
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May 30, 2006
Yesterday we shot a short little video of our friend Galo freestyling a canvas for an upcoming show that he has here in New York on June 7th at Halcyon....
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May 26, 2006
You can watch the video by clicking here.
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April 21, 2006
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This morning we took a quick break from updating the Wooster site to check out this video by Tunng. We liked it a lot so we thought we'd share it with you all.
(Thanks Charlie for the link)
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April 18, 2006
From BoingBoing comes this link to a very creative little video of the ultimate tag - Air Force One.
Update: Of course we know it's a fake! So fucking what. It's still extremely clever and well done.
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April 7, 2006
You may not have noticed that Banksy has posted a series of videos on his website. You can check them out here.
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March 16, 2006
From PureEvil in London comes links to some interesting interviews and footage taken of Baquiat while he was still alive
Here's a seemingling fucked up Basquiat doing an interview and answering callers phone calls on "TV Party", a public access show:
And here's one of him hitting the streets of New York with a can...
While it may not be riviting footage, it - none-the-less - is an incredible document of the time.
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March 13, 2006
Most of you have probably seen this aleady. Just got back to New York and catchin' up on emails.
From Mark Ronson....
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March 8, 2006
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From Kolahstudio comes an interesting video showcasing graffiti on the streets of Iran. The qualty of the video is a bit dodgy, but it's great to hea Iranian HipHop (byt the group Bad Naam) You can view the video by clicking here.
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March 1, 2006
From our friend Pure Evil in London:
"GraffitiTV has a dream to create a full time Graffiti Television channel with art films and documentaries and feature films about graffiti...I am collecting films and producing small films of my own and working on a one hour film called STREET DREAMS with a filmmaker called KING ADZ who has just done a film about BLEK LE RAT.I am also really interested in looking at painting really closely, following the marks the artist creates as they build up a full piece from start to finish.. I love watching other artists paint and so i want to make that a big part of graffitiTV.
I have been doing a lot of travelling and meeting all the graffiti artists I admire and I have collected films that they have done and I am going to put more of those films on the site and hopefully get them aired on TV also. That means that they can then produce more and more films and people around the world can tune in and see films that are
not usually easy to watch because they are so underground.My favourite film out of all this is a film called MUROS LIBRES that my friend CHANOIR made, its all about the Graffiti in Barcelona, which is amazing... it features art by PONE, OYES, SPIT, ZOSEN, SKUM, CRANEO, SIXE, MISS VAN, DIOS, FLAN, XUPET, PEZ, MISTER and CHANOIR..
I dont really know how many films I have so far but it is a lot, and the list is growing every day..people send me films or links to films and I spend hours a day just webcrawling for new films...I just want to show how amazing graffiti is and promote it as an incredible art form and hopefully change peoples iideas about what graffiti is, and what it can be in the future."
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February 23, 2006
If you're a fan of David Choe then you have to check out this video trailer for an upcoming full-length documentary that Harry Kim is putting together. It's absolutely amazing, and captures David's spirit and energy to a tee. We can't wait to see the completed film. If it's 1/10th as good as this trailer, it may well be one of the best graffiti related films ever made.
Click on the image below to view.
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February 8, 2006
Sadhu in France, who creates some of the most beautiful calligraphy you will ever see in your life, has posted a few videos of his work. Click here and here
Also, here's a video of an old stencil session from the Summer of 2004 :
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February 2, 2006
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January 31, 2006
Ever wonder how the WALK - NO WALK "Walker" characters are made?
Our friends over at Thundercut have produced a short little film that walks you through the entire process. Very cool indeed.
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Nam June Paik's influence has effected the work of many of the artists featured each week on the Wooster site . Known as the founder of video art, Pail changed the definition of "what art is". While his art wasn't for everyone (so many people we know hated it) those who did connect with it (including us) were forever changed.
We were saddened to hear that Paik died earlier this week. If you don't know much about him or the work iteself, be sure to check out the official Nam June Paik website so that you can understand the massive impact that he had.
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January 25, 2006
From Current.tv, "Manufacturing Dissent", a profile of street artist and culture jammer Marc Brodzik of Phillidelphia
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On Google Video: "I'm a Spraypaint Artist" - World's Youngest Stencil Graffiti Artist Sam Wollaeger (Peat Wolleager's son) bombs the neighborhood with his dad. A non-toxic Tempra based Spraypaint was used in the filming:
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From Quick Flick World, some animations from Lolo in Barcelona
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From Nikita, a video document of January 8's NYC Memorial Bike Ride in honor of the 21 cyclists who were killed on the streets of New York in the year 2005.
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January 23, 2006
Since mentioning our interest in video last Friday, we've received links to a ton of cool little videos on the web. Here's a selection of some of the things we've been checking out this weekend:
Judith Supine hits New York's Time Square:
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Sketch's "mini graff" film featuring some of Denmark's most prominant graffiti artists painting mini train cars:
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Are You Generic's Boycot AOL Culture Jam:
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King Adz documentary about Blek Le Rat:
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January 20, 2006
At the end of each year, Sara and I sit down over a couple glasses of wine and we begin to map out a few high level goals for the year that's to follow. At the end of 2004, the goals included putting together the "Wooster Special Editions" limited edition books, more salons and get togethers at our flat, etc.
So last December, we sat down and decided that one of the major priorities for 2006 would be video content. As broadband becomes more of the norm around the world, as more artists pick up a video camera to start to experiment with making short documentaries, and as more sites begin streaming user generated content, we feel that the Wooster site can play a strong role in becoming a place to discover grea videos about art and artists. In addition we want to spend more time shooting our own short documentaries and getting back in the groove of doing our audio podcasts.
So for the last couple of weeks we've been meeting off and on the folks at Current.tv, a new American cable television channel that has become one of our favorite channels to watch. If you don't know much about Current, either check out their website or if you have digital cable, try to find it on your television. It's amazing.
We're not exactly sure yet how video will play a role on the Wooster site. But we do know that it has to. If you have shot videos or have good links to video content on the web, send it our way for sure. If you have any ideas for us, let us know.
Fnally, if you're interested in shooting some video of your work, one great resource to get some tips and suggestions is the "VC2 survival guide" on Current's website.
Here's a couple of video's that we sent to us over the past few days:
From Mysterious Al in London, comes this link to a short (3 minute) documentary on Channel 4's website about Ben Wilson, a guy who paints pictures on the chewing-gum left on the streets of High Barnet, North London:
From Font,. comes this link to a 54 minute film of dutch trains.
(You can check out a ton of graffiti video on Google here)
Also on Current.tv, there's a terrific profile of New York's own Skewville:
Send us you links. :)
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