A New Street Art Medium

Should we try this on the side of a building....?

Cool Blog - Artsindrom.blogspot.com

Mr. Rudy's blog on art (called Artsindrom) contains some graffiti and also some other street art / transitory art / people's art posts. Great blog - visit it often!

I looove the post on cappucino cream designs. Amazing!

Web Urbanist Site

I enjoy visiting the Web Urbanist site and just discovered a great retrospective of 3-D street art drawings. They say:

Three dimensional drawing nothing new – the concept itself dates back to the Greeks in the 5th Century BC – but employing perspectival techniques on such a huge scale and with such a broad scope is a much more recent innovation. Some 3D street art takes up dozens of feet of sidewalk to create illusions of depth and three-dimensionality while other mural works cover the entire sides of twelve-story buildings.

Use the link above to see some more of this astounding work.

42 Works of Geek, Temporary & Reverse Graffiti

Web Urbanist is a great website that covers urban activity in general and art in particular. This specific link takes you to a page of various street artwork - stencil, light and paint - that has humor, outrage and overall energy. Check it out.


"As graffiti and technology evolve alongside one another more and more innovative street artists are mixing media to create radical hybrids of graffiti art, design and technology. Some employ high-tech equipment to project giant graffiti murals while others use it to enhance their street art stealth and portability. Some use tech less directly – as a source humorously geeky inspiration and subject matter."

Star Wars Street Art

Star Wars graffiti? What will they think of next?

Street Art and Graffiti in Ireland

I just returned from a vacation in Ireland and found some nice examples of street art in both Limerick and Dublin. Here are some photos:

From a skateboard park in Limerick

 From the sidestreets of Dublin:

Great Flickr Graffiti Site

Spinstertoo has a great selection of graffiti photos - mostly from Australia, it seems. Check it out here: Spinsteroo

Light Graffiti

I have seen this in various forms - laser shows on the sides of buildings, for example. But I have not heard of light being used in a three dimensional type of way from a graffiti artist. I am not especially happy that this is linked to an advertising campaign but am sufficiently impressed that it looks so neat. It is your call, folks:

Photographer Michael Bosanko swapped spray cans for flashlights to graffiti British landmarks in a new set of images commissioned by TalkTalk to mark the launch of an advertising campaign that uses the same technique

You Say Street Art, I Say Graffiti. Let's Discuss.

Here is an article from the San Francisco Chronicle discussing the finer points of street art vs graffiti. As for me, I see little difference - unless you want to get nit picky. In my mind, graffiti is essentially spray paint while street art uses wheatpaste, stensil and stickers. However I think an argument can be made that says that graffiti is anything applied illegally or surreptitously in the environment while street art might be, like a commissioned wall mural, just another pices of art on the street. Read the article and decide.

Whole in the Wall 1970-Now

The Village Voice reports this graffiti based travelling art show. Check it out:

J'Aime Graffiti BY ARACELI CRUZ

Helenbeck Gallery curators and twin sisters Chantal and Brigitte Helenbeck have a distinct love for the French Revolution and contemporary art. So much so that they've decked out their galleries, based in New York and Paris, in certified antique Louis XIV furniture, crystal chandeliers, and the most radical graffiti works. This play on eras in Whole in the Wall: 1970–Now examines graffiti through this very comprehensive and traveling retrospective, from the local street-art pioneers of the '70s and '80s (Blade, Crash, Daze, Jonone, Quik, Lee Quinones, Rammellzee, and Sharp) to their contemporary European counterparts (Victor Ash, Banksy, Blek le Rat, Ikon, Sozy One. and sculptor Plateus). The group show also has photography pieces by Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant, Jamel Shabazz, and Silvio Magaglio.

wELCOME TO mY bLOG

As the new art season gets going, I too am expanding and revitalizing my art, beginning with a revamp of my website and the addition of this blog. My intent in launching the blog is to jot down my observations on how the street art scene is changing, adapting, breaking out or, sadly in some cases, disappearing.

In New York City, for example, gentrification is wiping out many of my favorite graffiti and street art spots - the art that propelled the neighborhood into gentrification! The East Village in particular is losing the art vitality as is the Lower East Side. Many of my favorite streets (like Ludlow where I found "Big Foot") is almost totally "purged" of street art. I mourn the loss.