Traceable Bubble Letters 2010. Via : Printable Bubble Letters
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Amazing Graffiti Alphabet Deem
PROMENADE DES TAGS ET FRESQUES DE BRUXELLES
Compte-rendu de la visite des tags et fresques de Bruxelles (fichier PPT) proposée par le Centre Culturel de Tubize et Lézarts Urbains. Au programme Neerpede, les Marolles et de Wand.
Source : C-Paje - 2 octobre 2010
Source : C-Paje - 2 octobre 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Waste Land Almega Projects
Filmed over nearly three years,
'WASTE LAND' follows renowned artist Vik Muniz
as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn
to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump,
Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
There he photographs an eclectic band of
"catadores" - or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials.
Muniz's initial objective was to "paint"
the catadores with garbage.
However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters
as they recreate photographic images of themselves
out of garbage reveals both dignity and despair
as the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives.
Walker ('DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND', 'BLINDSIGHT')
has great access to the entire process and, in the end,
offers stirring evidence of the transformative
power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.
Stream or download it here
WRITE ON AFRICA
Whilst much has been written recently on the Wide Open Walls project in the Gambia we thought our readers would be interested to hear about the following ongoing project. Whilst WoW is without doubt loaded with well intentions, I must say we're still a little ambivalent about what "exporting" this culture to far off places means. It's a sensitive area and one that Write On Africa seems to have handled really well.
WRITE ON AFRICA
In 2008 five artists set out on a 9 day road trip to the Transkei stopping off in communities along the way and painting art for the unsuspecting public.
Medium : “street art”.
6 communities in nine days. Huts, shacks, abandoned buildings, shabbeen walls and nursery schools.
Ricky Lee Gordon from Write on Africa, and Cal Burns from Matchboxology, the creative activists behind this initiative, are both passionate about this project growing and reaching more people,
Ricky wants to continue to travel and paint for the unsuspecting communities taking new artists along for the experience everyone time as he believes it is possible to paint sensitive social but positive messages to even those who are in remote places.
“As an artist it just makes so much sense to me to interact with an audience. I care about the issues we face here in Africa and there is a lot of work to be done. Next year we are planning to travel and paint for unsuspecting communities with new artists coming along for the ride at different parts of the trip.
Our journey was an incredible experience for us as people and impact-full on each of us as artists not to mention the many communities we left with color.
This trip wasn’t a crusade to change the world but rather a cultural experiment. We engaged with people we wouldn’t usually interact with,and our art allowed us to do this,our motivation was also art for arts sake,as we left with some amassing documentation of our work on these new landscapes.”
Artists
Freddy Sam, Faith47, Hac one, Rowan Pybus (film/photography), Jessie Doucha (Driver friend/chef/photography /happy thoughts).
More on the project here
Supported by:
The Scrutinize HIV campaign
http://www.scrutinize.org.za
Scrutinize is a national campaign being undertaken by USAID/Johns Hopkins University/JHU Program in South Africa in partnership with the popular youth brand Levis, other South African partners with creative incubation by Matchboxology.
Many experts have joined in providing Victor with the ammunition to give to you so that we can eliminate the element of the HIV surprise.
Mat©hboxology
http://www.matchboxology.com
Mat©hboxology guides senior management to see social needs as market needs - aligning organisational growth and social growth as intertwined. The revolution of Marketing 2.0 is embracing that consumers and communities want to change the world for the better with their favourite brands and organizations.
Word Of Art -Creative Art Agency.
http://www.word-of-art.co.za
Word Of Art is a stronghold of creative talent that creates opportunities, provides insight, and represents artists in many sectors of the creative industry.
As agents, curators, managers and producers of art, we offer tailored services and implement a range of beneficial pioneer projects for our clients, from concept to fruition.
Through our not for profit writeonafrica initiative we continue to try add to the creative growth of South Africa.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Parkour dog
TreT - american staffordshire terrier, 4,6years, 33kg from Ukraine
Parkour
Le Parkour, primarily considered a philosophy, includes the physical practice of traversing elements in both urban and rural settings. The goal is to move from one point to another as quickly and efficiently as possible. This discipline was created in France, Sarcelles, in Smooth and Evry by David Belle, Sébastien Foucan, and the founding members of the Yamakasi. It is inspired by "the natural method of physical education" by Georges Hébert. It was then spread worldwide by films, television reports, and amateur videos on the Internet.
The term freerunning is sometimes used interchangeably with parkour. While parkour aims to enable the practitioner to be able to move quickly and efficiently past obstacles, freerunning has a greater emphasis on self-expression within the environment. Freerunning includes tricking moves such as aerial rotations and spins, while the purist definition of parkour founder David Belle would not consider these part of parkour because the moves are merely showy, not efficient, and do not help the participant to get from place to place. Although Sébastien Foucan co-founded parkour, his philosophy differed and so he is generally associated with freerunning (see below).
A practitioner of parkour is called a traceur if male, or traceuse if female (from the French for bullet).
VIA
Wikipedia
and
BetongLiv
More parkour dogs on youtube
BEN EINE GOES PRO
Nice all round interview that covers the recent explosion of interest in Eine's work. Eine, Word to Mother and DFace created a crazy trackside collab piece for us back in 2008, will try and dig out the images and post up.
Eine
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
SAVE THE ROA RABBIT
Following on from our recent local campaign to save the Logan Hicks Nuart mural, we've just been informed of another of Nuart 2010s artists work being at threat of removal, this time in London.
It's an interesting development to see an artform that was pretty much born of the internet, using the same medium to mobilize an international fan base to try and save key works, often in communities far away from their own.
The Premises Studio in Hackney are currently the proud owners/hosts of one of Roa's key Rabbit works. The work was painted with their full knowledge on the side of their wall. (Their premises - not a council owned wall.)
They've just been served a 14-day removal order, failure to remove it will result in Hackney Council removing it themselves and billing the Premises for the time, and you know that ain't going to be cheap.
A save the Rabbit petition has been started on the link below. Hopefully fans of Roa's work for Nuart can spare the 20 seconds it takes to sign the petition.
http://www.petitiononline.com/PremROA/petition-sign.html
Graffiti Tag Styles - Plain Tags
Alphabet graffiti style with plain tags. Graffiti Tag Styles - Plain Tags.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Graffitispuiter
Diezelfde zaterdag, 23 oktober 2010, trof de Spoorwegpolitie Antwerpen tijdens een controle op een trein tussen Antwerpen en Gent een man aan die zenuwachtig reageerde op het zien van de Spoorwegpolitie. De man had verfspatten op zijn kledij en schoenen.
Bij een verdere controle werden een aantal spuitbussen aangetroffen, alsook een zak met 75 gram marihuana. Op het fototoestel van de betrokkene werden verschillende foto’s aangetroffen van graffiti op treinen.
De man bekende dat er in de nacht van 22 op 23 oktober 2010 graffiti werd gespoten op een stilstaande trein te Dendermonde. Bij controle door de Spoorwegpolitie zijn er minstens 6 treinen bespoten met graffiti met ongeveer een oppervlakte van 70 m².
De betrokkene wordt voorgeleid voor het parket van Brugge in verband met de verdovende middelen en het parket van Dendermonde zal een apart onderzoek voeren naar de graffiti.
Dave Doms - Adjunct Postchef
Spoorwegpolitie Antwerpen
Source : www.polfed-fedpol.be
Bij een verdere controle werden een aantal spuitbussen aangetroffen, alsook een zak met 75 gram marihuana. Op het fototoestel van de betrokkene werden verschillende foto’s aangetroffen van graffiti op treinen.
De man bekende dat er in de nacht van 22 op 23 oktober 2010 graffiti werd gespoten op een stilstaande trein te Dendermonde. Bij controle door de Spoorwegpolitie zijn er minstens 6 treinen bespoten met graffiti met ongeveer een oppervlakte van 70 m².
De betrokkene wordt voorgeleid voor het parket van Brugge in verband met de verdovende middelen en het parket van Dendermonde zal een apart onderzoek voeren naar de graffiti.
Dave Doms - Adjunct Postchef
Spoorwegpolitie Antwerpen
Source : www.polfed-fedpol.be
HERAKUT AT MONIKER
Took these a couple of weeks back when at Moniker artfair in London, still can't get over just how good Herakut's work is. Piece is titled "It's not always good to be Golden" which put me in mind of the Hirst piece from 2008.
Timelapse from Babelgum
This alongside the Espo were absolute highlights of the event.
Images from the opening here
Herakut website here
Monday, October 25, 2010
ALEXANDROS VASMOULAKIS
Greek painter, Nuart 2010 artist, muralist, and installation artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis’ collaborated with Athens-based graphic designer Paris Koutsikos to complete a ‘Perfect’ mural in Berlin, Germany. It is their biggest wall thus far.
We received these a couple of weeks ago from Alexandros Vasmoulakis but they were left hanging in the drafts folder. Interesting to read the thoughts behind his work as "pseudo-advertising", places the work he did for Nuart in a different light.
"Perfect. A piece of "pseudo-advertisement" that neglects beauty and offers a ''product'', which is broken and wild. It can be neither sold nor bought; it smiles, screaming its perfection out loud. The magnificent world of advertisements, smiling faces, beautiful bodies, heavenly vacations, give their place to two crumpled girls who, ultimately happy, praise imperfection".
Saturday, October 23, 2010
MAKING OF BANKSY'S "EXIT THROUGH"
Great video interview with producer Jaimie D Cruz and editor Chris King on the making of Banksy's film "Exit through the Giftshop".
Putting together a documentary with a director who doesn't show his face in public, 100s of cassettes of footage that is not catalogued, and an unpredictable charater at the center of it. But these guys did it and discuss it with DP/30's David Poland
Source
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
PRISONER OF THE ROAD
PRISONER OF THE ROAD
It's rare that we post anything that isn't directly related to art on here, but as most of you know we also run the Numusic Festival alongside Nuart, this would normally be posted on the music site. However, not only is it probably the best track I've heard all year, it's also raising money for a cause that we hold dear to. As it's a Norwegian track and charity we thought we'd give it some exposure and share it with our international readers.
The track is by ex Madrugada vocalist Sivert Høyem, it's entitled "Prisoner of the Road" and was made to raise awareness and promote the work of The Norwegian Refugee Council who are this year’s recipient of the Norwegian National Charity Telethon on Sunday 24th of October.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent, humanitarian non-governmental organisation which provides assistance, protection and durable solutions to refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide.
You can buy the single from itunes, here
More Info ; www.nrc.no
Donate Here
Tv Aksjon (Norwegian Only)
NEW FROM SWOON
Swoon jumps into the Detroit project, carefully pasting her portraits and lace-like paper pieces onto the interior of an ailing Detroit home.
Juxtapoz, along with Power House Productions out of Detroit, teamed up to purchase homes in the community which artists Swoon, Ben Wolf, Monica Canilao, RETNA, Rene Almanza, and Richard Colman will be beautifying over the coming days and weeks to help build a sustainable community.
The funds to purchase these Detroit homes were raised through the Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Art Auction in November 2009.
More on the project at Juxtapoz
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