Archive for street art
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
next level street art: knitting
perhaps the cutest piece of streetart ever, we want to see more of this kind!
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

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

see also the giant campaign
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse

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

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/

DIY: painting a car with markers
perhaps, try your daddy´s toyota fist:
http://necromanc.blogspot.com/2007/09/
lamborghini-car-painted-amazingly.html

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

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*

street art: street painting - different artists
amazing 3D effects, at a huge scale
*thanks phillip*

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/

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:
via coolhunter

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

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

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*

mosaic art on skateboards
simple and cheap:
http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/
2006/10/invader_does_sk.html
via wonderland

street art: wk interact
one of the big ones in his genre, has finally a projects section on his website

tagging the airforce one - for real?
a video of a guy spraying his tag on mr. bush´s airforce one plane:
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*

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

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/

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

how to make t-shirts from stencils
graffiti fonts / comic fonts for DTP
graffiti fonts:
you can find fonts for making comics here:

interactive sketchbook on streetart
wow! highy recommended! the sketch book navigation is very cute, the artwork even more!
via http://flexgordon.yugo.at/
stencil art resources on the net
a short collection on stencil art archives and sites on the net
http://www.stencilgraffiti.com
http://www.obeygiant.com (very political!)
http://www.stencilrevolution.com (nice tutorials for multicolor stencils!)
http://www.reclaimyourcity.net
a very special link-pool: wellvetted.com
only once in a month users are allowed to suggest their favourite links - therefore HQ links
also very nice links:
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
crisp graffiti sites
some link recommendations from mike orduna
http://www.123klan.com //very nice stickers
via: http://www.nervousroom.com/interrogation/012/main.php














