Street Art is... "so simple to install, and inspire", Pt. 1
 

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Street Art is... "so simple to install, and inspire", Pt. 2
 

...and also cause you to blurt out and laugh, at times.

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Street art is... sometimes playful, sometimes dangerous, sometimes all-encompassing
 

...and hilarious.

Playing Pac-Man is not it's all cracked up to be, as in reality, you can come away with blustering bruises & cracked bones.

portrayed by French "mad artist", Rémi GAILLARD.

Street Art is... not always kind, but a sign of the times.
 

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DO NOT CROSS: Tourists stood on a sidewalk Thursday (May 20) along Fifth Avenue in New York where an anonymous artist painted a white line and the words
“New Yorkers” and “Tourists” in an attempt to divide pedestrian lanes. -- (Photo: Mike Segar/Reuters)


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Street Art is... a philosophy: "when driving becomes writing"
 

The really cool iQ Agility Font concept - This idea originated when Belgian advertising agency Happiness Brussels asked Pierre Smeets and Damien Aresta of pleaseletmedesign to create a typeface with a Toyota iQ. They collaborated with Stef van Campenhoudt, a pro race pilot, who had to drive all the characters with the iQ. Zachary Lieberman wrote a custom software to track the movements of the car and translate them into single characters. Of course you can download the font for free HERE. You can find some making of pictures in this Flickr set.



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Street Art is: messy, and uncoordinated, in the grand scope of things
 

Street Art is ... creatively-real, cynical, literal
 

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It's the work of Sydney-based "creative collective" The Glue Society.
The project was commissioned by Eric Romano of Pulse Art, New York
for its Miami art fair. Romano had seen the group's "Hot with a Chance
of a Late Storm" installation, a comment on global warming in which a
melting ice cream van oozed across the promenade and onto the sand
at Tamarama in Australia last year as part of Sydney’s Sculpture by
the Sea event, and commisssioned them to create this new work.


[creativereview.]

Street Art is: touching, and poignant.
 

On May 5th, it was Mukhtar's Birthday, who is currently a bus-driver in Copenhagen.
He had no idea that a large group of people had planned to celebrate him...

Street Art is... "Life Imitating Tetris"
 

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SEMANA SANTA 2010 by sky juc

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Tetris by sinkdd.

“Play Me, I’m Yours” is an artwork by British artist Luke Jerram who has been touring the project globally since 2008.



From 9am-10pm each day, 60 pianos will be available to play across New York City. Presented by Sing for Hope, they will be located
in public parks, streets and plazas; the pianos will be available until 5th July for any member of the public to play and engage with.

This street installation project is being presented simultaneously in London and New York. Connect HERE with the street pianos across the Atlantic.

author's comments:
The idea for “Play Me, I’m Yours” came from visting my local launderette. I saw the same people there each weekend and yet no one talked to one another. I suddenly realised that within a city, there must be hundreds of these invisible communities, regularly spending time with one another in silence. I hoped that by placing a piano into the space acts as a catalyst for conversation.I’m so excited to see what will happen.

The pianos are a blank canvas for everyone’s creativity so it’ll be interesting to see just how much talent is out there. I’ve always had the feeling that this artwork was meant to be presented here. When the pianos arrive on the steet they’ll belong to the people of this great city. Enjoy!


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Great guy. A man off the street suddenly put on a white jacket and started playing.
Had a blind dog in his bag which he carries round with him. Seen in Times Square,
on 44th Street, NYC.

When I first started seeing these cool, large murals on Philadelphia walls, I didn't know that many of them are part of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Mural Arts Program: News None of these photos are mine, but I have been carrying a camera with me while driving around town so I can collect every one I see. Some of these are not part of the Mural Arts Program, but cool nontheless.

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An anonymous group has sprayed compass roses outside the entrances of NYC
subway stations to help people get their bearings when they come up from underground.



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Litter alley a masterpiece, photography by Deborah Freeman.

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ONE MILLION ACTS OF KINDESS ; as seen on Prince Street (NYC).

Here are three you might like.

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These are all chalk on pavement. Every year my little berg has an art walk downtown and to kick it off and join in the festivities, there is a chalk art contest. It's amazing some of the stuff people do with chalk. These are from a similar festival in Germany.

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"DAIM around", by Mirko Reisser.

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The Evolution of DAIM’s 3D-Style.

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Sandrine Estrade Boulet is an artist greatly inspired by the urban environment
that surrounds her. She expresses her strong imagination through these ironic
and colorful illustrations.

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[trendland.]

Street art is hidden, visual, inside, hilarious, serious, kitch, and punworthy
 

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Air Mail, by Samantha Smith.

Street art: can have history embued into it
 

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A new class I’m taking brought me to the University [of Texas] earlier this week and I happened to park near this mural. I couldn’t resist snapping a photo of it. It was painted by Daniel Johnston on the side of what was then a record store called Sound Exchange. While I was in school at UT, Sound Exchange closed and Baja Fresh bought the place. They were going to tear down the mural until the proprietor saw a photo of Kurt Cobain wearing a “Hi How Are You” shirt. So he went out of his way to keep the mural in tact while tearing down the rest of the wall. Eventually Baja Fresh closed too and now it’s a sushi restaurant, thus the sickly-looking bamboo.

If you don’t know who Daniel Johnston is, I highly recommend the documentary "The Devil and Daniel Johnston". It captures a specific moment in the Austin music and art scene and I think it captures pretty well what it’s like to love someone suffering from mental illness. The stories his friends and family share are unforgettable.

06/29/10 7:37 PM

-- courtesy of Katie Spence

Street Art at its finest . . .

“Mediocrity invents. Genius steals.”
 

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Famous Quotable by...

-- Spoiler: attributed: T.S. Eliot Pablo Picasso BANKSY

[as seen at the Banksy exhibition in Bristol]

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Michael Johansson
Self Contained, 2010
Containers, caravan, tractor, Volvo, pallets, refrigerators, etc.
Dimensions: 8,2 x 10.8 x 2,4 m.
Installation view: Umedalen Skulptur, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Umeå (SE)

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by Friends With You ; as seen in Taipei, Taiwan, for the Very Fun Park 2010 exhibition.


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Christmas in Madrid (2007) ; Photo by: MnGyver

Street Art is: a cause for awareness and safety
 

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As the rest of the city watched the World Cup, Brazilian activists painted
pedestrian lines around car-clogged Sao Paolo. The urban repair squad
hammered home their point with makeshift signs reminding drivers,
“Slow Down, Lives Around”.


[GOOD.is]

Street Art is: direct
 

Street Art is: not for everyone - wait...
 

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created / installed by: TrustCorp ; as seen in Manhattan.


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credit the artists
 

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above: Kissing Couple in New York ; also: Kissing Couple, seen in Toronto.


*(semi-relevant) context: The Watchmen

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The HeART@SF series: "Reverse Graffiti ; as seen in San Francisco (on the Broadway Tunnel).

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ROA's Rabbit (from the front) ; as seen in London.

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ROA's Rabbit (Vascular view) ; as seen in London.

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ROA's Rabbit - series of 3: The Third.

missed: Gaia + Imminent Disaster at Ad Hoc Gallery

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Mythical owl in the weeds by Gaia (photo: Steven P. Harrington)


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A very eerie type of anti-war street art in Greenpoint, and is it even true?


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[wostercollective.]

Barrel Monster Art in Raleigh
 

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A May 31, 2009 handout photo released by Joseph Carnevale shows a sculpture made of
traffic barrels by Carnevale in Raleigh, N.C.. Carnevale says he didn't have a grandiose
point to make when he chopped up orange-and-white traffic barrels and turned them into
a massive statue of a hitchhiking roadside monster. But the North Carolina college student
has become a celebrity artist of sorts since city police charged him with possession of stolen
goods. And now, the construction company whose barrels he took wants to keep the statue.
--(AP Photo/Courtesy of Joseph Carnevale)

Street art is: meta-cultural
 

Street Art is... illuminating. And Grandiose.
 

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