French photographer and large-scale paste-up / urban artist “JR”is in Shanghai launching his worldwide “Wrinkles of the City” project. The project, which starts in Shanghai, pays tribute to the history and heritage of great cities through portraits of local elderly who have lived through generations of their changes.
This execution is particularly good.
Friday, 12 November 2010
JR pastes up Shanghai
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
UNDERBELLY
The Underbelly Project in NYC took place in complete secret. It's in a mysterious location in an abandoned and half-finished New York City subway. Over the past year The Underbelly Project has brought more than 100 artists to the station without any official authorisation. Each artist was given one night to paint something. Here are some of them:
Read more at Vandalog here
Monday, 16 August 2010
Journalism warning...
Tom Scott has made some fantastic little warning stickers about the integrity of what we read in papers - he's sticking them to articles in papers he find left on the London Underground. We can dig that...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Monday, 2 August 2010
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Above Hollywood
'Above' hung his new revised "Movie star arrow mobiles" in the heart of Hollywood giving Los Angeles a large dose of exactly what it obsesses about; movies and the actors that make the city of Los Angeles so uniquely scandalous...
ABOVE HOLLYWOOD from ABOVE on Vimeo.
Monday, 28 June 2010
Newspaper sculptures
NYC urban artist Nick Georgiou creates organic sculptures out of old newspapers, depositing them in random locations around the city...
More over on Flavour Wire
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Steve Powers at PSFK
"Who he?" you say. Shame on you. He be the man behind Love Letter in Philidelphia as previously blogged and also featured in top film Beautiful Losers. Check it:
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Favela Painting
A project by Jeroen Koolhas and Dre Urhahn, two artists from Netherlands who in 2006, started developing the idea of creating community-driven art interventions in Brazil - Favela Painting 
There are loads more picture here
PS: this is a lot like The Dulux 'Let's Colour' project... soon it will be on here no doubt
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Graffiti preservation
Sweza uses QR Codes to preserve graffiti, photographing graffiti before it is removed by local authorities. Once the graffiti has been removed, he adds a QR Code in the same location, leading to an image of the original.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Car as brush
Last week a group of cyclists dumped 13 gallons of paint on the road at Berlin’s busy Rosenthaler Platz, creating a series of colourful lines as cars drove through.
Check more pics and words here
Monday, 12 April 2010
Thursday, 8 April 2010
TrustoCorp
NYC based TrustoCorp (an upstart street art conglomerate) are full of mischief and mayhem.
They've made fake products and put them on the shelves of real stores....
More on that over at Arrested Motion
They've done tons of guerrilla street signage as social commentary and culture jamming. Like:
Their Flickr stream is full of cool shit and is well worth a look; their minimal official site is here
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Monday, 22 March 2010
Love letters
Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program... love letters and murals all over town, each numbered. Impressive stuff.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Sweman
This is old (2003) but good - on the streets of Bologna. A life size human poster of a character called Sweman who has a drinking problem, pisses everywhere and is just generally a man about town. 
Monday, 25 January 2010
Banksy Film
"Exit Through the Gift Shop". The hype starts here.
Wooster Collective have already seen it and say it's brilliant. let's hope so.
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