Every day I hear about another exciting project that will be at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place this weekend, May 22nd and 23rd, at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. One project I can’t wait to see and play with is the Tangible Graffiti Wall, brought from Vancouver by Tangible Interaction‘s Alex Biem. The […]
I love a good juxtaposition of traditional and modern. And I love dishes. This exhibition of all star graffiti artists and their take on tea sets is yet another chance for me to love both at the same time. Within the graffiti context, All City intends to re-interpret some of the most classical Portuguese porcelain […]
Flickr user DROP HPC-ANC is responsible for this fantastic mural featuring a Lego version of The Grim Reaper. Sir or madam, whoever you are, wherever you are, I’d very much like to shake your hand.
I recently ordered some refillable paint pens from Art Primo, and this was in the box as a freebie. It’s the exact size, shape, and color as a cigarette, and among a dozen real cigarettes in a pack it’d likely pass any search completely unnoticed. It took me a minute to figure out its nefarious purpose: If you get caught in the vicinity of a fresh tag, after all, it’s best not to be found with a marker on your person. They’re manufactured by Germany’s On The Run, but you won’t find them on their website. The one I got was gold; the silver ones below were photographed by Flickr user $30,000.
I’m not cool enough to be a huge fan of graffiti, but I like Jesse Grave’s this technique of using mud stencils to temporary ‘graffiti’.
When I read the review Goli posted of the new book Yarn Bombing, I remembered that I found some yarn-fitti in Seattle. I was in town for the Urban Craft Uprising, and there was some great mural art near our hotel.
When I first picked up a copy of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti (Arsenal Pulp Press), I thought it was going to be a pretty coffee table book filled with colorful images of clever street artists of the yarn persuasion. Being a fan of the subtle but calculated subversiveness of yarn […]
