Exit Through The Gift Shop – A Banksy Film

Posted by m1k3y on January 21st, 2010

That’s right.. seems street art legend Banksy done made himself a movie.

This here’s the trailer:

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Am I wrong in assuming he’ll just throw up a bittorrent server and we’ll all have our own guerrilla screenings?


RoboTagger

Posted by m1k3y on January 14th, 2010

Robotagger: GML + ABB4400 from Golan Levin on Vimeo.

More details at F.A.T


Believe

Posted by Spiraltwist on December 27th, 2009

From treehugger.com, via TheMammal’s photostream.


COMBO

Posted by Spiraltwist on October 16th, 2009

Awesome roving camerawork documents huge great graffiti pieces being painted on the walls, floor and roofs of a derelict courtyard over ten days, and stop-motion animation techniques bring it all to life. Add weird layers of sound design and a looping pattern to melt your mind even more, and this stuff feels like the graffiti-meets-film making equivalent of avant-garde jazz. Even stacks of wood and the crumbling walls themselves become characters in the animation.

Video and words via environmentalgraffiti.com.


Lil’ Cyborg Room

Posted by Spiraltwist on August 28th, 2009

For the emergency deposits:

Photos from bladediary.com. Thanks to Radian for the link!


Wii Spray

Posted by m1k3y on August 25th, 2009

Graffiti + Nintendo Wii = Wii Spray.


Wii Spray Stencil – Beta from Martin Lihs on Vimeo.

I hope this makes it to stores in the near future, because I would like to give these guys some money.

Plus, you know..  virtual grinder tags:

thanks to the guys from Stairs to Nowhere from the tip-off!


Grow Your Own Graffiti

Posted by xutraa on August 14th, 2009

A green form of graff. This I like.

Ingredients:

  • Two handfuls (or more, get lots) of moss
  • 2 cups of yoghurt
  • 2 cups of beer (you can use water if you want, but beer seems to hold it together a little bit better)
  • 1/2 tsp. sugar
  • Corn syrup (optional – for making it spreadable and sticky)

Wash/tease as much of the dirt from the moss as you can. Throw it, the yoghurt, beer and sugar into a blender and blend until a lovely smooth consistency. if it looks like it’s going to drip when you paint it, add the corn syrup to the mix.

When finding somewhere to paint, look for something porous (most older or rough concrete walls are perfect). Once you’ve painted your design, its suggested that you come back every week or to spray it with water, to help the moss along.

Check out Anna Garforth (her site is here), a dedicated moss artist.


Why

Posted by Spiraltwist on July 28th, 2009

From imgfave.com, via Debbie Millman’s photostream.


Banksy takes over Bristol’s museum

Posted by m1k3y on June 14th, 2009

From BBC News:


NY Activists reclaim illegal billboards

Posted by m1k3y on April 27th, 2009

From Urban Prankster:

This past Saturday over 120 illegal billboards were white-washed and covered with art in New York City by a team of volunteers and artists. The guerrilla operation was organized by The Public Ad Campaign over the past four months.

via Laughing Squid


whers my f*kin bailout?

Posted by m1k3y on March 20th, 2009

photo by Politics For Misfits, via the excellent Best Recession Ever!


The Graffiti of Aberdeen and Edinburgh

Posted by Spiraltwist on March 8th, 2009

Sent by A Radio Well, via email:

“These were taken around the cities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh a little over a year ago.”

A Radio Well also brings us a Library Mystery to solve:

“These next three are notably peculiar. They were part of a set of posters all over the city of Aberdeen, these three were an individual peice. Each peice told a story about a certain feature the city of Stockholm, with an accompanying photograph refering to the little paragraph of information. All of the paragraphs of information ended with a reference to a source called “Adams, 2006″, something that I haven’t been able to find any trace of on the Internet. The only other piece I remember seeing personally was something about flooded, unused underground tunnels that one can easily explore with a makeshift canoe, the accompanying picture being of a man in a trenchcoat and feder hat doing exactly that.”

I went searching the net myself and I didn’t find anything either. Anyone have any information on this hidden keys mystery?

Thanks again to A Radio Well for the words and photos.


if liberty means anything..

Posted by m1k3y on February 24th, 2009

Found on tumblr without attribution


future disorder

Posted by m1k3y on February 22nd, 2009

Found on tumblr without attribution..


Russian space-viewable graffiti

Posted by m1k3y on February 17th, 2009


Thirty eight years ago, in 1970 there was a hundred year anniversary of Vladimir Lenin, the guy who inspired Russian people to overthrow the previous Tsar government in Russia in 1917… Siberian town some woodcutters decided to celebrate this anniversary by cutting all the trees on a big field leaving only those that would form a really huge message “100 Years to Lenin”

Now you can see it yourself via Google Maps.

More stunning examples over on English Russia.

via Futurismic


The Light is Gone

Posted by Spiraltwist on January 30th, 2009

From phrotonda’s photostream, via imgfave.com.


Future Pirate Radio

Posted by m1k3y on January 27th, 2009

This is just genius and shows how much space is left to be explored in joining different bits of technology together.

Presenting Graffiti Radio (Future Pirate Radio):

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I found a connection between graffiti and pirate radio.

Both of these art expressions hack into public facilities. In the case of graffiti, the hacker uses the wall. In case of pirate radio, the hacker uses public radio waves illegally. It can be said that pirate radio is sound graffiti and I would like to propose to combine these two methods of graffiti; The artist can spray a QR code (two-dimensional bar-code) in the street with a stencil. Then when people who find the graffiti take a snapshot of the code with a mobile phone they can find the radio station through the internet.

via MAKE


Spending time with Poster Boy

Posted by m1k3y on January 20th, 2009

Improv’ed poster mash-ups armed with just a razor and his mind; meet Poster Boy:

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via MAKE | Wooster Collective


I am your father.

Posted by Spiraltwist on December 25th, 2008

Via imgfave.com.


Water Park Illusion

Posted by Spiraltwist on October 28th, 2008

From scaryideas.com.