Multimedia performers, Sweatshoppe use a digital paint roller to project color lights and designs on city surfaces, creating a new style called video painting. All the art with none of the clean up!
This Iranian street art kinda looks like Goatse, no? If you're curious, the text inside the goat hole reads, “Where Is My Vote?”
A lovely street art tribute to AIG just in time for Easter. Don't worry - I'm sure that guy is planning on sharing his Easter eggs with the unhappy children once he's done celebrating.
Mario on the streets of New York. [Editor's Note: He seems smaller in real life. I hope he doesn't get lost.]
This piece of urban art is the work of 3-D street artist Edgar Mueller. It was debuted in Ireland last year as part of the town of Dun Laoghaire's 'Festival of World Culture'.
It's true that graffiti sometimes makes things look shittier. But this is not one of those cases.
A clever little bit of street art that involved sticking up thought bubbles around Brooklyn and photographing people as they passed by. Conveniently enough, love, cupcakes, and strippers just about covers everything that people in Brooklyn think about anyway. Or is that just me?
Longest game of HORSE ever. Now you know how Spud Webb must have felt.
Artist Joshua Callaghan specializes in making objects like utility boxes blend in with their surroundings. Sounds like a hilarious jogging accident waiting to happen, if you ask me.
The British street artist made a comment directed at the KKK in Alabama, and someone struck back by painting over his work. Struck a nerve?
A street artist with a pen was inspired by a rather familiar-looking shadow. ‘I Am The Bat’ was spotted in Ontario, Canada. I didn’t know the Bat Signal even shined that far.
Street artist Slinkachu hand-paints miniature people and sets them up in the streets of London for passersby to find. It’s a whimsical little world in which people occasionally get eaten by giant bugs or impaled on safety pins.
Culture Buzz Street artist Slinkachu uses nontoxic paint to decorate the shells of wild snails, pimping their rides. The London based street artist frees the snails after painting them and calls the project “Inner City Snail – a slow-moving street art project”.
Culture Buzz Artist D.Billy creates graffiti from balloons. He chronicles the onomatopoeias of everyday life by adding words like ‘floosh’ next to a fire hydrant and ‘rrring’ next to a pay phone. He is joining ranks with other graffiti artists who explore alternative materials in street art like Reverse Grafitti (graffiti made by cleaning grime) Knitta Please(knit graffiti) and the Space Invaders mosaic graffiti.
Culture Buzz Urban gardeners take on abandoned patches of earth and make them bloom. Part political statement, part an act of pure cultivation, the guerrilla gardening movement is sprouting in cities everywhere.
An enormous, animated wall-painting by the Argentinian street artist Blu, filmed in Buenos Aires and Baden. This is amazing; if you like it, check out the artist's site for more.
Movie Buzz A documentary celebrating the D.I.Y. spirit that unified a group of American artists who emerged from the underground worlds of skateboarding, graffiti, punk and hip hop like Spike Jonze, Mike Mills, and Harmony Korine. We can’t wait to see all the early 90s footage. Maybe in some alt universe, they’ll start re-running 120 Minutes on MTV.
Culture Buzz Famous NYC grafitti artist now has his own line of markers. He’s responsible for that ubiquitous “drip” look. Now, with these markers and squeeze bottles, you can make anything you own look like a Lower East Side signpost.