After visiting restaurants such as The Boiling Crab (pictured above), and Woodstock’s Pizza, I am always amazed by the amount of graffiti on the walls, benches, and tables. Personally, I feel that the little messages and quotes written by people give the restaurants a sense of uniqueness and personality, as
Tag: streetart
Yarn bombing is a type of street art that uses knitted fibers to create colorful displays. A man only known as ‘Bryan’ and approximately 30 others knitted flower stems and pedals onto the stop signs in his Clairemont neighborhood. The project resulted in approximately 100 stop signs being turned into
Dutch artists Dre Urhahn and Joreon Koolhaas painted whole neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro and Phildelphia with the help of the communities involved. They focused on poverty stricken areas, and centered their projects on the inhabitants and neighborhood. This allowed residents to take part and mold the project to their
Peter Gibson is known for his street designs using lines already drawn on the street and adding to them to create his own works. He was arrested for his many creations like the one above. In this case, I think that these helpless crimes could be seen as disrupting societal
I have recently seen 3D chalk art popping up around on blogs that i follow and also at chalk art festivals I have been to recently. Much of this art (besides in festivals) is impromptu and, although not too terrible, disrupts the typical days of people. In general, street art
Artists such as DS 13 and Alex TMT are using street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia to talk about socio-political issues. Yogyakartra is a city of students, culture and art with many movements going on. The street artists work individually or in groups to create vibrant works that respond to daily
When many people envision an urban landscape they see opportunity, adventure and excitement. Street artists on the other hand see a blank canvas in which they can visually express their individual ideals. Although critics view the median of this art form illegal and consider it as vandalism or graffiti, can
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a 2010 documentary that explores the inside story of street art. A French shop keeper turned hopeful film-maker ventures out to capture some of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists in action. His main goal is to find Banksy (an alias name), an artist
Nearly two years ago, San Diego artist Nicholas Nicholas coined the word “mendalism”. It happened on January 1, 2011 when he noticed that Brazilian artist Stephan Doitschinoff’s untitled contribution to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Viva La Revolución street art exhibition had been vandalized. The mural’s red ribbon