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stop motion graffiti

a stop motion shortclip, made out of graffitis, on the history of breakdancing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff_rtQa_EV8

best of streetart 2007:

http://www.ekosystem.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4689

both via nerdcore

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next level street art: knitting

perhaps the cutest piece of streetart ever, we want to see more of this kind!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maskerade/506493997/

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order HQ stickers online

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intersections of art and street culture

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site dedicated to weird signs

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street art: the bubble project

an amazing project, on the site, you can download templates for empty speech bubbles, then print them out and put them into public space.

after a while, photograph what the crown has written in and the send them to the project site

http://thebubbleproject.com/

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book list: culture jamming

a very intelligent book list on the topics culture jamming, communication guerilla and street art

http://www.amazon.de/CultureJamming-RebelArts-Kreative-
Kampagnen/lm/R268WBSNHKE1K7/
ref=cm_lmt_srch_f_2_rsrsrs0

see also the giant campaign

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse

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streetart: stickers

a very interesting (pdf) magazine on sticker culture

http://www.wallspankers.com/

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virtual street art

spray online with others:

http://graffiti.playdo.com/

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street art: game inspired

a huge gallery of video game inspired street art

http://albotas.com/index.php?option=com_
content&task=view&id=119

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documentary: graffiti styles

a very interesting documentary without many words can be found here:

http://joox.net/cat/44/id/1366938

be sure to check the website too:

http://www.graffitinstincts.com/ 

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DIY: painting a car with markers

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streetsy: your daily dose of street art

a very nice street art blog

http://www.streetsy.com/

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graphic design: adam woodhouse

impressive digital graffiti artwork here; generally, it seems to me, the whole adobe site has increased in quality

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/gallery/swf/
index.html#u_sContent=woodhouse

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street art: skulls scratched from dirt

an interesting approach to graffiti; dust and dirt inside a tunnel are scratched away to generate skulls:

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/07092402.html

*thanks rainer*

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street art: street painting - different artists

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street art: banksy finally no graffiti any more

an interesting article on the preception of banksy´work; london underground workers are trained to recognize his work, so that nobody removes it accidentally, read the article here:
http://www.supertouchblog.com/2007/08/24/ukbanksy-beats-the-system/

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fashion: graphic design: BUTTONS

one of the coolest sites i´ve ever seen, hundreds of buttons for every flavour, sorted by motive, artist or tag

you have to see this one:

http://www.prickie.com/

via coolhunter

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graffitti with a laser pointer

awesome! via a laser pointer the user is able to draw on skyscrapers:

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video

here is how it works:

http://muonics.net/blog/index.php?postid=15

via boingboing

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bodypainting: t-shirts on flesh

this one is really awesome! a guy painting 30 drawings on his body:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zRVts7TFw-Y

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streetart going huge

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crisp portfolia: base-v

nice project with painting huge walls and rooms

http://base-v.org/works.htm

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streetart/graphic design: video

one week of japanese design, many people painting a wall over and over again, for one week, the video is played fast forward, total 5 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wuruTIhV8tM

*thanks david*

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mosaic art on skateboards

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interactive touch art

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street art: wk interact

one of the big ones in his genre, has finally a projects section on his website

http://www.wkinteract.com

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graffiti on trains - the next level

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53FQ1tMy5Yc

note: don´t try this at home!
*thanks matthias*

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tagging the airforce one - for real?

a video of a guy spraying his tag on mr. bush´s airforce one plane:

http://www.stillfree.com/

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZj21yxb0cg

believe it or not, read here:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1875386

or here:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/tagging.asp

*thanks matthias*

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streetart: banksy paris hilton fake cover

read the article here:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1325440.ece 

edit: the video seems to be offline

this video showing the street art artist banksy in action. he puts fake paris hilton cds in music-stores around london

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUl9Mxbh1E

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street art: pictures of walls

note: following link may contain explicit artwork and text not suitable for younger viewers

a huge collection of statements in public space

http://www.picturesofwalls.com/

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tagging deluxe: zoomirphic calligraphy

“Developed in Turkey, India, and Iran in the 15th century, “zoomorphic calligraphy” is “not a matter of script metamorphosing into living forms which are also readable letters, but of using script to delineate such forms.”"

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html

via boingboing

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graffiti in austria: grime

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65 skateboards designed by 65 artists

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create cheap and HUGE posters

you have a laser printer? go and use it:

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

 

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a graffiti robot

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how to make t-shirts from stencils

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sticker(s) on flickr

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graffiti fonts / comic fonts for DTP

graffiti fonts: 

http://www.graffitifonts.net/

you can find fonts for making comics here: 

http://www.blambot.com/ 

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3 little sites on street art

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graphic designer crew; nice portfolio;

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graffiti graphic designer zedz; interesting navigation too

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interactive sketchbook on streetart

wow! highy recommended! the sketch book navigation is very cute, the artwork even more!

http://www.blublu.org/

via http://flexgordon.yugo.at/

 

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stencil art resources on the net

a short collection on stencil art archives and sites on the net

http://www.stencilarchive.org

http://www.stencilgraffiti.com

http://www.obeygiant.com (very political!)

http://www.stencilrevolution.com (nice tutorials for multicolor stencils!)

http://www.banksy.co.uk

http://www.reclaimyourcity.net

 

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an intersection of grafitti, photography and light art

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a very special link-pool: wellvetted.com

only once in a month users are allowed to suggest their favourite links - therefore HQ links

http://www.wellvetted.com

also very nice links:

http://www.newwebpick.com

 

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political activism and grafitti

these liks come via: http://www.banksy.co.uk/links/index.html

www.freewayblogger.com - this one is a bit special

www.adbusters.org - not as good as the magazine but still worth it

www.woostercollective.com - street art site staffed by workaholics

www.davidshrigley.com - funny bloke

www.picturesofwalls.com - pictures of walls

www.space-invaders.com - recently managed to sticker the french president

www.popaganda.com - contains one really good picture of mickey mouse

www.artcrimes.com - the encyclopedia of world graffiti

www.stencilrevolution.com - for people who think stencils are a good thing

www.akayism.org - for the traffic island alone

 

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HUGE linksection on styles and photography

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crisp graffiti sites

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dictionary for american slang

helpful for hacker as well as ghetto-slang

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

 

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