I’ve been collecting a stash of graffiti images for a while. They range from cutie kitsch to angry gangbanger to political harangues. The ones I like best combine existing natural foliage with painted images and play around with scale—large and small—creating an improvised, witty, public art gallery.
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On the heels of the yellow tape beam-of-light illusion, a simple yellow triangle painted on a flight of stairs transforms it from utterly ordinary to quietly surprising and wonderful. What is it about a simple yellow triangle?
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In 1972, artist Gene Davis painted his 414-ft-long painting “Franklin’s Footpath”on the street in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. So beautiful. Imagine if all more streets were painted in glorious stripe… via Clauda Bruno Related posts: why not paint the sidewalk (or any outdoor floor?) how a little colored paint can transform neighborhoods the…
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We were knocked out by the insanely colorful streetscape made by a Lebanese team of artists/designers, known as dihzahyners, in Beirut. We imagined how the the worst and bleakest urban neighborhoods we’ve traveled through would be TRANSFORMED by color. All it takes is paint, vision, collective effort:
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We recently stumbled on Serbian artist ABVH‘s GIFs that animate famous outdoor artworks by Banksy. This one makes us incredibly ANXIOUS (a powerful emotion); the GIF animation turns up the volume on Banksy’s original message. It made us think about what we REALLY need reminding of: to stop, slow down. What would be…
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Dargelos posted this cool doorway while on their trip through Germany. It made us think how wonderful it would be to see public street signs that inspired creativity rather than just “Walk/Don’tWalk” etc. The “How to Work Better” wall sign we posted a while back is a great example. via dargelos Related posts: improvisation is…
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The maker of this cool little video saw a sewer grate and made the connection to a skeleton’s ribcage, and went from there: one of the many tiny miracles of vision and association that happen daily. And then he/she took that revelation, and the technique of stop-motion, and made something wonderful … via BoingBoing
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We’ve spent the past ten days or so on the other side of the country, looking at everything but our laptops, and being nothing but lazy. Somehow doing NOTHING filled us up, gave us lots to think about and share… Like this sign we saw (when Nina said LOOK UP!) in Balmy Alley in San…
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New York Magazine sponsored this video about Joshua Allen Harris’ and his very cool street sculptures. He creates giant creatures out of taped-together plastic bags and positions them on subway grates; gusts of warm air from passing trains inflate them momentarily, animating them. He’s made a Loch Ness monster and an uncannily life-like polar bear,…
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