November 27, 2011
More from Ludo here.
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October 15, 2011
"Rythmic Gymnastics FreeStyle"
"Egg in the target" Celebrating the National day of Army Forces in Spain (12 October). Where public can take an egg and throw it to the work.
"Rena Monrovia" To report Rena ship disaster near coast of New Zeland. 88 containers into the sea, 350 tons of oil poured, over 200 wild birds dead.
More from Vinz here.
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October 12, 2011
"it's fair season on the rez. each region on the reservation has a fair with parades, marching bands, carnaval rides and of course, rodeos. this coming weekend the western agency fair will begin in tuba city. my friend, austin mix (who is distantly related to fabled cowboy tom mix), has a roping area he calls the roping zone. western agency the rodeos start friday. here's my contribution to his announcer's stand."... Chip Thomas
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September 27, 2011
Collaboration by www.maartenalexander.com & www.rul3rs.com
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More here.
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September 9, 2011
"I would like to share with wooster collective the project I work on these days in my hometown Athens in Greece. I think their aesthetic the one given by the builders does not add to the urban culture and in fact causes a deficit at what is called "historical center" of the city.In addition to that their is quite a lot of tags and motos making them look abandoned.I thought I could "link" them to the architecture and beauty of surroundings, some of go back to classical ancient Greek era."... Bleeps.gr
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August 29, 2011
More here.
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August 23, 2011
From Dan:
Gaspesia: Les portraits en papier
The large-scale portraits in Gaspesia: Les portraits en papier represent former employees of Papiers Gaspesia, a pulp and paper mill founded in 1912 by Percy Milton Chandler in Chandler, Quebec. Named for the mill’s founder, the port city’s economy and social organization depended heavily upon this industry. In 1999, Papiers Gaspesia’s closure was announced and, despite a government-sponsored infusion of roughly $400 million, it is now set for demolition. The closure of the mill has had a profound effect upon the people of Chandler. Widespread unemployment, the permanent and temporary migration of workers outside of the city, the separation of families and subsequent increased rate of divorce, and the ground and water pollution left from the plant are just some of the economic, social and environmental problems created by the closure.
Gaspesia: Les portraits en papier literally puts a human face on the industrial remains of Papiers Gaspesia. Portraits of the former mill and forest workers are installed on the front of the mill and on the mill’s oil tanks. While these men and the story of the mill are well known in the community, the deteriorating mill itself has been the only public memorial to the pride, grief and frustration those affected by the closure feel. The images of these workers now mark the physical structures of the mill and lay claim to its history and to its continuing impact on Chandler. One of the subjects, Serge Soucy, remarked that you could see his “eyes were crying for the mill” when he saw his own 30 foot face on the Papiers Gaspesia’s oil tank.
Gaspesia: Les portraits en papier was commissioned by Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie en Gaspésie as part of their annual photography festival in conjunction with the city of Chandler, Quebec.
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August 22, 2011
Hey Wooster, here is a wheat paste project I did this summer in San Diego, California. The repression of mass peaceful protests in countries like Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, and Syria has exposed some monsters. As I write to you, news lines read "rebels sweep into Tripoli as Gaddafi forces crumble." I felt like the struggles for justice and freedom in the middle east needed to be acknowledged. The Gaddafi, Mubarak, Assad, Saleh, and Hamad bin Isa, governments are truly monstrous.
Best Regards,
-Scott "Lie-fe"
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July 11, 2011
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May 18, 2011
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May 11, 2011
Since 2006, Erik Berglin and John Skoog have been put up over 3,000 life scale photos of birds across Sweden.
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April 27, 2011
(Thanks, Elise)
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April 24, 2011
More from Dimitris here.
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More here.
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April 14, 2011
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April 10, 2011
"Through the exploration of public space within an urban consumer environment I wanted to connect my views as an artist to those that see public space as owned space. I question who owns the underside of a bridge, the walls of a stairwell or the wall in an alley by a dumpster. Within the urban milieu these free places definitely come with an assumed ownership. I have seen the effects of this first hand within the week of this guerilla artfare, half of the images put up to challenge the norms of this society were promptly removed leaving no trace that art existed. This leaves me to wonder if the disobedience to the norms through this creative expression may still be seen as paralleling the Anti-Art in the Dada movement of the early 1900’s.
Now this guerilla artfare was not just to challenge the norms through civil disobedience but also for augmentation of the space. This augmentation of ‘free space’ was to generate the canvas for the art I was giving unreservedly to the community in which I reside.
Now to reflect on the image meant to grab the attention of those passing by. The juxtaposition of creation and the unpredictability that that capacity holds within human hands or even far beyond the reach of the infinitesimal specks that we are in this universe. Delving into the ‘Mother’ a sacred image of pregnancy and how to move away from the expectations that capitalist society holds for the individual. Through the use of new media we were able to escape the mold set by society of cookie cutter pregnancy photos and produced the beginning of this art project, which is still in the early stages of its production. This being a New Media world this incarnation of ‘Mother’ is 1.0.
We really hope that you enjoy this work as much as we do."
East Van Westen Crew
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More from Ludo here.
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April 1, 2011
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March 25, 2011
Photo By Graham Boyle
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Artist: Daniel Lumbini
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March 16, 2011
Photos by Juliana Juice
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More from BR1 here.
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March 2, 2011
Artists: rabie cakes and petite
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February 14, 2011
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February 9, 2011
The work above, as well as those in the video, are from Various and Gould's Rabotniki series as well as one about modern saints, called "Sankt Nimmerlein" (Saint Neverever?!). Saint Redundus is the saint of the homeless and unemployed. Saint Spekulatius is the patron of the bankers.
You can see more images on their website here
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February 7, 2011
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January 21, 2011
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January 14, 2011
Artist: ICY
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January 7, 2011
More from Monsieur Qui here.
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January 5, 2011
More from Dimitris here.
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January 2, 2011
"The images above are part of a project that I developed at my hometown, related to my research at the University of the State of Rio (UERJ). It consists in several human scale representations of people that could have lived in the place that I painted them. The location I chose, o Morro da Conceição, is a Collin in the downtown of Rio, just beside the great agitation of the day-by-day of the city. However, it's a very particular area, as it seems more like a little town hidden by the concrete walls than just a part of the center. It's one of the oldest habitation areas of Rio, and one of the few that kept the city's ancient structure, with old houses and narrow streets - it had also a slave market and a slave port until the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th it was meeting point for many musicians at the begging of samba era. But weirdly, in spite of all this history the place is not well know for most of the cariocas, probably due to the Brazilian habitude of not giving so much value to its own past. For someone who's walking by the downtown and enters this area it's like being transported to a different city layer, knowing such a thing I decided to paint this figures as if I could make a mixture of the day-by-day of the past with the present one. So it's a project about the remembering and the forgetting in a city, and how the past can be imagined today, or how a place can induce us to image this past. I painted during the afternoon so I also had the chance to develop the idea in interaction with the local habitants, who gave suggestions and their opinions about the paintings, or shared their ideas about anything."... Vanessa
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December 28, 2010
More here.
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December 22, 2010
Artist: Ludo
Title: "3 Heads Taseropode"
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December 19, 2010
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December 13, 2010
Artist: ICY
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November 30, 2010
From Michael: "some of them had white roses in them to symbolize how street children
are vulnerable to losing there innocence on the streets."
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November 29, 2010
More here.
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November 20, 2010
International Urban Art Festival Detonarte 2010
Artist: Marco Sueño
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November 9, 2010
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November 1, 2010
Artist: Michael Aaron Williams
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October 13, 2010
moebius
old cow springs trading post
More photos and back story here.
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September 16, 2010
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September 15, 2010
More from BR1 here.
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August 28, 2010
Artist: Swoon
(Thanks, Michelle)
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August 17, 2010
From the artist; "it's a commentary on the xenophobia that seems to pulse through the Southwest. es eso lo que tenemos miedo? (is this what we fear?)"
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August 16, 2010
Artist: M. Sueño
More photos here.
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August 10, 2010
Artist: Urban Cake Lady
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July 28, 2010
More here.
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July 5, 2010
Tiger Rabbit in Hongdae, Seoul from Gaia Uroboros on Vimeo.
"The first of five pieces for each quadrant of the city. The hybrid of the Tiger and Rabbit signifies the annual transition in the Korean calendar. Furthermore, these archetypal symbols of aggression and submission address the hierarchy of japanese colonization and contemporary Korean identity. Situated in Hongdae, the center of Seoul's fashion and nightlife, the neighborhood is the confluence of traditional korean culture and American influence."
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June 29, 2010
Artist: Sone
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June 24, 2010
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BR1 | 150A3SHEETS from Aklee on Vimeo.
BR1 | 150A3SHEETS is a poster made with 150 A3 papers pasted up in an abandoned factory of FIAT Motors in Turin
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June 20, 2010
"With all the catastrophes befalling society, the oil spill, the declining financial market, these guys have a lot on their minds."... JMR
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June 17, 2010
Artist: Manu Budant
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June 16, 2010
More from orticanoodles here.
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June 14, 2010
Artist: Dimitris Taxis
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June 9, 2010
More from OX here.
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June 7, 2010
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More from ludo here.
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June 3, 2010
From YZ:
This is a new project I am working on. First part was made in Guadeloup, second part is in Paris with those two big scale painted posters. I will be working the whole year on this project that will be ended with an exhibition at Galerie Bailly Contemporain in Paris and an exhibition in Sainte Rose in Guadeloup too."
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June 1, 2010
More photos here
If you are in LA, be sure not to miss JR, Vhils, Conor Harrington, Anthony Micallef at
Lazarides Temporary Gallery & Shop, Beverly Hills
320 North Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills CA 90210
(323) 202- 6339
Open Daily, Noon - 8pm
Exhibition: June 9 - June 27.
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More here.
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More here.
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May 21, 2010
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May 19, 2010
The piece above is a 5meter high handmade poster of Zahra, a girl from Tunisia.
BR1 tells us:
"Usually I love to make my subjects happy, that smile and they are amused and they can spread love to the people that look at them. but in this case I want to show a girl melancholy: she is sad because she had words with her sparring partner. and you know, this is a typical situation that many people live everyday."
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(Photo by Kewlio)
More from Gaia here. For those in San Fran, be sure to check out The Reinvention Of Nature, Gaia's solo show currently at Gallery Heist.
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May 18, 2010
"I've always thought it was strange to see large images of celebrities, models and news anchors on walls, billboards, and buses. I've wondered why these people are adorning our walls and public spaces instead of the individuals that make up our community. This project serves as a physical representation of the city of Portland through drawings of it's inhabitants.
Everyone pictured is completely unknowing and chosen at random. Whether your reaction is positive or negative, please let me know by clicking the "Submit" button at the top of the page or emailing me at pasteyoface@gmail.com. I'd like to hear your initial reaction, as well as what you think now that you know what this is all about.
I'm sorry or you're welcome, depending on how you feel about this."... Mister12Gage
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Photos by by Zeyneb Akel
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May 14, 2010
Our friend Specter is currently in Russia working on a public art project in the city of
Kemerovo located in Siberia. But Before arriving in Kemerovo he visited St Petersburg where he hit the streets with a new series entitled "From Russia with Love" It's about love and separation.
You can follow the project on a blog that Specter is keeping.
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May 12, 2010
When people ask us... What kind of street art do you like the most? Our answer is "The kind that you see in the photos above" Simple. Fun. Interactive
Photos nicked from here.
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May 5, 2010
Artist: Zoltron
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May 4, 2010
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April 20, 2010
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More from TV Boy here.
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More from the Paper Twins here.
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April 15, 2010
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"I saw this along the river in Kreuzberg on my vacation to Germany.
It was next to a local bar called "Ankerklause".
Don´t know who the artist is, but people at the bar told us they noticed it sometime in March. Pretty amazing, and it really described the people at the bar :D LOL".... Henning
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April 14, 2010
From JermIX:
"I 'suffer' from manic depression. since I found street art as a release a few years back, I have not sunken into a deep depression, until these last few days. this piece is the best that I can describe what that quick transition feels like as it transforms me."
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April 13, 2010
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April 6, 2010
More from Chifumi here.
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April 5, 2010
More From Dimitris here.
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March 29, 2010
"I'm exhausted, but i want to get this out. I pasted Red Lake today.
I woke up late this morning, around 10:30 or so. Stumbled out of bed thinking "...no, I'm not up for pasting today afterall." Around noon I wandered outside for a moment and thought "...Shit! The weather is perfect. It's warm and there's very little wind. I've got to go paste." I'd thought I was going to collaborate with someone this weekend, but she pulled a no show (leaving me alone to hang a 14.5 foot piece in 4 parts). On the 30 mile drive over to Red Lake I rethought through hanging this piece alone but hoping all the while I'd be able to find someone at the old trading post to help me.
Once I got there I connected with Lorenzo who runs the place. I learned later that he lives above the trading post. He said he'd run the place since 1991 and thinks the lower part was built in 1891. (Dig that.) I love old trading posts. The inside of this one is totally old school.
Lorenzo was super nice. Upon seeing me, he started cracking jokes and giving me shit for not knowing more Navajo after 23 years. We have a deal going. I'm going to find a hot, young nurse for him at the clinic where I work and in return, he's going to find for me a hot, young, sheep herder. (This was all his idea.) I'd told him I'd try to get there last weekend to hang this piece. He greeted me today with "....I had four young sheepherders waiting for you last weekend." I thought "...great. I've no idea why I didn't come last weekend but really wish I had."
Lorenzo and his three grandsons (by clan), along with the cashier from the trading post, all helped me. And here I thought I'd be installing alone and I ended up having 5 people help me. Gotta love it. I asked Lorenzo to document the process with my camera. These are his photos.
Once we were done, Lorenzo invited me to join them in a sweat. It was a most incredible end to a day when I thought I woundn't paste. In addition to the teachings from the wise ones and his own life observations, Lorenzo gave me the name "Hosteen James." He said "...Chip just doesn't sound right."
They went a full 4 rounds. I loved the songs and sharing of the 2 rounds I experienced.
What a day."... Chip Thomas
More photos here.
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March 24, 2010
(Thanks, Jesse)
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March 16, 2010
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March 3, 2010
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March 2, 2010
From NeochaEDGE we learn about the Guangzhou, China-based street-art collective FIRExRD. The site explains the new work above:
"The new poster design is titled “Go!Go!Fighter!” and features their signature “Big Doll Head” (大头娃娃) character. The “Big Doll Head” inspiration comes from full-head masks that were formerly popular at major celebrations and parades in China. The use of this Chinese prop has declined, but like many of the best Chinese creatives we cover, FIRExRD are bringing back this uniquely traditional Chinese symbol in a modern way."
You can read NeochaEDGE's interview with FIRExRD here.
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February 23, 2010
More photos here.
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February 13, 2010
From Maura:
"I love your blog. I have been taking photos of the street graffiti around Denver, Colorado for a year or so..mostly in my alleys around my house. I recently took a road trip home to Flagstaff, Arizona and drove through my old stomping grounds, the Navajo Indian reservation and saw these amazing wheat paste pieces on some water tanks in Grey Mountain, an all but abandoned gas station and hotel stop between Tuba City and Flagstaff. I love that they are traditional icons..the gramma and grampa herding the sheep, with the ominous coyote hidden around the corner. Good stuff. I had no idea there was a street art culture on the reservation. Hope you like the images"
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From Mr Prvrt:
"This is my part of a group installation with the newly formed Rochester NY-based collective Sweet Meat Co. What is pictured here is built entirely using salvaged objects, including the lighting and functional speakers. The entire installation took six people just over one month to complete. The work pictured here is my own, but more pictures from the show can be found here"
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February 8, 2010
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More here.
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February 4, 2010
More from Gaia here.
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February 3, 2010
More from indigo here.
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February 1, 2010
More from Ludo here.
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January 21, 2010
From JermIX:
""i have spoken out a few times on the street about having been molested, and have been blessed to have inspired others to share their story with me.
i am constantly trying to find closure but can't seem to stop making variations of this confession. it's who i am apparently. no matter how far i run or how honest i am, i will always be that little kid, the victim, at that moment of innocence lost. stenciling, wandering, pasting, wondering, suffering, all i really know is that i need to continue screaming what i've always been afraid to whisper."
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January 20, 2010
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December 25, 2009
Artist: Dimitris Taxis
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December 21, 2009
More from Dan here.
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December 14, 2009
STEN & LEX from STEN on Vimeo.
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December 8, 2009
You can see more of jerm IX's work here.
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December 6, 2009
Artist: RENKO
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December 2, 2009
You can see more of imminent disaster's work here.
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November 29, 2009
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November 24, 2009
Artist: Run Dont Walk & Stencil Land
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November 23, 2009
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"In September I produced a work on the wall located on the main street of Gaspar. SC- Brazil. The intent was to encourage greater dialogue with the Itajai Açu river, which is main river around some cities."... Daiana
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November 22, 2009
Artist: max design 'n' shit
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November 21, 2009
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More from MAcAy here.
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More from Drab here.
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November 17, 2009
"Opulence Project: A series of posters (create by stencil media) that represent the opulence of modern age, a rich, big and old shit woman is my inner idea of this status."
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"Polluted city: I live in Turin with a grey sky. This situation condition my life, children have fun in a black black world."
More from 999 here.
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November 16, 2009
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October 31, 2009
Forget Ceke Kollektivet livet from CekeForget on Vimeo.
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October 30, 2009
Artist: HIKUPS
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October 13, 2009
From Sten:
"I was in Naples. The police arrested me and lex but after they recognize our stuff and they like it so much that they asked us to do something in the house of the Colonnello, Sergent of the police. So we painted the house of the police and they give us some money and didn't arrested us. It was the first time that we are friend of the
police. Sergent Giorgio thank you."
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October 6, 2009
if you are in Cologne be sure to check out L.E.T's upcoming show on October 30th at the Unique Gallery.
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October 2, 2009
There's something about Jerm IX's street poems that are very powerful. We asked the artist to tell us about the two works above. Here's the response:
"i have been affected by violence as both a victim and a perpetrator and therefore it has been a topic i speak on regularly in my street art. for example, when polish immigrant robert dziekanski was tasered to death by police at vancouver airport a few years back, i put a handful of stickers around the city that read 'i hope you don't get tasered', when the 'lower mainland' was inundated with gang murders i put up a 'lower gangland' sticker, and so on. now that my work has evolved to poetry scrolls i have merged my songwriting and street art, which has allowed me to work in my favorite format, my obsession, rhyme patterns.
the dexter piece speaks for itself, we are fascinated by the things that appall us.
we vilify the monsters and killers and criminals before we give oscars to the actors that portray their stereotypes.
the '...america's gun is drawn' piece is a peaceful protest, an anti-war slogan.
the eight year anniversary of 9/11 has just past and still america is at war.
my country, canada, where the piece was put up, is at war in afghanistan, outside our traditional and respectable peace-keeping role. it's shameful, you'd think being attacked on north american soil would teach us something about violence.
violence is not the answer.
stay smiling,
jerm IX"
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September 25, 2009
You can see more of Faber's art here.
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September 18, 2009
You can see more of Various & Gould's work here.
Posted by marc at 6:24 AM in Wheatpastes |
September 14, 2009
More from Yote here.
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September 9, 2009
More from Ludo here.
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Artist: MVH
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Every girl should have a guy as romantic as Brusse.
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September 2, 2009
Elbow-Toe's Divine Hammer, placed in Union Square in Manhattan, is derived from Rembrandt's Monk in the Cornfields
More from Elbow-Toe here.
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September 1, 2009
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Artists: mentalgassi
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August 27, 2009
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The piece above was done for this weekend's Hacia Afuera Festival
You can see more of Michael's work here.
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August 24, 2009
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August 20, 2009
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August 17, 2009
More from Other here.
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August 14, 2009
More from b. here.
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August 7, 2009
If you haven't read it yet, Juxtapoz has an extremely insightful interview with artist
imminent disaster, who for the past few years has consistantly been putting up fantastic work in Brooklyn.
You can read the interview here (Part 1) and here (Part 2).
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August 5, 2009
Artist: Doodles
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August 3, 2009
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July 29, 2009
Artist: tip toe.
Posted by marc at 8:00 AM in Wheatpastes |
July 17, 2009
"My project deals with the representation of Muslim women and their social condition. I was been studying and dealing with this theme for years. As you can imagine, here in Turin, my posters are seen as an ambiguous subject. Some people mislead and rip them, while others love them. I would like to make people know that there is nothing strange with this particular subject: Muslim women are equal if compared to Western women. My Muslim women are represented in daily life situations: they are mothers, grandmothers and daughters, smoking, taking pictures and smiling. My message is: pointing out that Muslim women have the same needs and necessities of the majority of Western women. Certainly, the only exception is the veil. The veil changes in different countries, and here comes the sociological aspect of my work: I am very careful in rendering the different types of veil, the Maghrebi veil, the Afghani burga and the Iranian chador.
In my opinion, nowadays it’s crucial to conceive street art as a tool to spread social messages. Moreover, I made a deep research and I discovered that I am the only artist, in the street art movement, that deals entirely with this topic. Isn’t it strange? In general, the woman is the best source of inspiration for artists, why Muslim women wouldn’t be the same? I would like to create a network of artists of all nations, about this subject, eventually to compare the different viewpoints.
My posters are drawn and coloured freehand, each of them is unique. The subjects are not invented but real, I use images taken from newspapers, magazines and websites. Often they are portraits of important personalities of Muslim society (novelists, poets, entrepreneurs, feminists etc…), in order to make Western societies know who they are and what they do."... BR1
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July 16, 2009
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June 23, 2009
(Photos by Dr. Bastard)
Posted by marc at 9:03 AM in Wheatpastes |
June 17, 2009
"Lima, Peru is a beast of a city. A seemingly endless grey expanse teeming with life. Anywhere you go in Lima you will come across phone numbers scrawled on the walls, sidewalks, bridges and highways. These numbers are painted throughout the city by escarchadores (pebble dashers) and serve as a crude and subversive form of advertising. Intrigued by these mysterious characters, who get up so much they would put any tagger to shame, I decided to do a street art project about them. So with the help of my partner in crime Chanchito I tracked down the people behind the numbers and we managed to convince some of them to be photographed next to their numbers. We then created life size wheat-pastes of them which we posted up in the original locations where they were photographed."... Makisapa
Posted by marc at 7:27 AM in Wheatpastes |
June 11, 2009
More from Gaia here.
(Photo by Rebecca Fuller)
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June 6, 2009
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June 5, 2009
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May 27, 2009
More from pilpeled here.
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May 26, 2009
More from Armsrock here.
Photos by Just
Posted by marc at 7:56 AM in Wheatpastes |
May 25, 2009
(Thanks, Jonathan)
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Artist: Post
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