Posts Tagged as ‘street art’

October 14, 2008

Owww… that REALLY hurt!

 

Doesn’t Banksy’s latest NYC piece remind you of the YouTube darling, Charlie Bit My Finger?

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 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 [...]

July 25, 2008

The New Crunk

Krink.  Basically the gold standard in marking products for both street and studio environments developed by graffiti writer/artist, Craig “KR” Costello.  The most notorious and recognizable (to my the untrained eye) effect is the dripping ink aesthetic that has graced many phone booths, mailboxes and subway windows.  This is the stuff I am talking about…

This stuff reminds me of late night [...]

July 20, 2008

Aaaargh

This is first time I have seen deviant art on a boat.  Who does this kind of work?  A pirate?  Regardless, I dig it…

So a pirate walks into a bar and sits down. 
The bartender comes over to take his order and notices a steering wheel on his lap.  Curious, the bartender asks, “what’s up with the steering wheel?”
The pirate [...]

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.  

 

May 13, 2008

Weebles Wobble But They Dont Fall Down

I do not condone defacing property… in fact, seeing it done brings the crazy, right-winged, (redundant, I know) personality-I-prefer-to-pretend-doesn’t-exist out of me.  However, when I find street art done WELL in an appropriate spot, I am not only impressed but I egg it on. 
Case in point:

And this wonky-eyed view is actually painted on a construction barricade in Paris.

March 17, 2008

UFO

What’s not to love?