BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU
Another brilliant stop-motion street art animation by artist BLU. This is probably BLU’s best work so far in my opinion, in that this one is cyclical and has a sense of plot and message, rather than just the random transformations of his previous projects. Check it out and see for yourself.
ESPO is a legendary graffiti artist who now goes by his government name, Steve Powers. For his most recent “A Love Letter For You” project, ESPO collaborated with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program to create a series of murals viewable from public transportation. Essentially they are an extended poem that tell a love story, envisioned by ESPO as a guy trying to get a girl’s attention on the train by using graffiti/painting as his way to communicate. I’ve attached some more images after the jump, but a full presentation on the project and ESPO is below.
This new Banksy film is a little hard to explain, so I’m gonna let the summary do it for me…
“Exit Through the Gift Shop” tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, “It’s basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed.”
Debuts April 16th in the UK, and select US dates forthcoming…
Here are some pages from the sketchbook of Banksy, famed UK graffiti artist. It shows that none of his ideas are half cooked- it all comes from a distinct idea that is developed before hitting the streets. The sketches play out almost like political cartoons or practical jokes, a key element to just about every statement and work of art Banksy creates.
These are drawings come to life in Armsrock’s “Passage / Works†light works series. The panels are hand etched, wispy drawings and then light is shown through, projecting scenes of everyday people on walls and surfaces around Copenhagen for an urban exhibition there February 10th-28th.
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Seems new Banksy work has been appearing in Park City, Utah lately, just in time for the Sundance Film Festival. The documentary “Exit Through The Giftshop†about Banksy is supposed to have a surprise screening there, so it makes sense.
This week has been declared Graffiti Markup Language Week by the Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab, a week celebrating the various projects developed with the use of a specialized XML protocol dedicated to capturing the motion data created by tagging. Check the video and try to wrap your head around it.
SpY is a Spanish street artist that has been creating urban art since the late 1980’s. SpY prefers to call his pieces “interventionsâ€, and the above image is called “Street Wars”.
via Urban Prankster
More cool video art installations. This one is by UK’s Chris O’Shea who created a large electronic billboard that captures real-time video footage of passing crowds. A large hand then pokes, tickles and picks up the onscreen image of pedestrians in the crowd. Check out the fun these people have with it.
Hand from Above from Chris O’Shea on Vimeo.
Via PSFK
