Posts Tagged as ‘public art’

September 20, 2008

Just a Sprinkle a Day…

I’m really digging this deviant art trend – urban landscape as inspiration and canvas.

Street artist, Morfai, is responsible for bad-assifying transforming this statue called Seeder in Kaunas, Lithuania.
In addition to the actual piece there is an interesting short video brainstorm of the ideas that Morfai threw around before deciding on the handful of star dust.
 

September 9, 2008

Making Do With What You Have

A perfect Batman drawn over the shadow of a crosswalk box on the sidewalk near the corner of Iroquois Shore on Trafalgar Road in Oakville Ontario.

August 31, 2008

ATE – XI

The streets of New Orleans are patrolled by a vigilante called The Gray Ghost, 52 year old Fred Radtke, a man who’s been systematically obliterating every piece of graffiti across the city with the same shade of gray paint since 1997. 
For my eleventh installment of All Things English… check out how British street artist Banksy used [...]

August 27, 2008

The Hills Have Eyes

JR’s latest project, titled Women Are Heros, in the favelas of Rio is just breathtaking. 

Right now JR is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where the context of favelas has encouraged him to meet women for whom crime, violent loss of loves ones and arbitrary repression are part of everyday life.  Favela da Providencia was chosen to [...]

August 26, 2008

The Magical Fruit

The Bean, a.k.a. Cloud Gate, is a public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois.  It’s made of 168 highly polished stainless steel plates, and stands 33 feet high, 66 feet long, and 42 feet wide, and weighs 110 tons.  Inspired by liquid mercury, it was designed to reflect the city’s skyline.  I [...]

July 27, 2008

Fire In The Sky

There is this random video I stumbled over on MySpace (don’t judge me… it’s part of my job) that I just cant get out of my mind.  It’s of these paper lanterns being lit and set free to float away.  Now, I don’t know if this video is doctored or not… my guess is that [...]

June 27, 2008

Suck it!

I have a very active imagination… maybe too active… but that isn’t the point.  The point is that Vinchen’s A Large Straw in A Small Lake tickles it.