more street activism/vandalism

In the spirit of Bansky Stained Glass Post-Pixelators is an anonymous attempt to use street art against the consumerism of North America. Another New yorker, he has decided to create stencils that have thin white paper with images, which he puts up in front of the advertising screen Tvs that are located on the streets. The light from the screen is see-through the white paper, creating a stained-glass effect. This video below shows the different New York sunsets he has put on top of the commercials:

New York Sunsets
envoyé par posterchild. - Films courts et animations.

Here's another previous project where the stencil shows a picture of Jesus:




Needless to say, he'd get into a lot of trouble if found. Fun, fun 'vandalism'.

mom & popism

Mom & Popism is inspired by a fairly recent book called Storefront: The disappearing face of new york. This exhibition was crated by various contributing artists and it is a take on the mom&pop shops that are slowly disappearing due to the large, ambitious but impoersonal corporations that reign in this harsh economic weather.





Each artist leaves his or her own style in each fabricated storefront, just like these mom&pop shops left their mark on each citizen of new york. It seems like grafitti artists and mom&pop shops hold the same outcome: to connect with the citizens surrounding them, creating a sense of a collective community and a more familial urban landscape.

more blu

Here's another stop-motion animation video by street artists BLU(read post "MUTO") and with the help of David Ellis. This time they chose to remain inside an abandoned building.

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

sidewalk cracks

Subtle yet original by photographer and street artist Martin Sobey.





The New York based artist works for a street art collective called Wooster Collective. His style is subtle and his work blends in with the city thus making it a part of it. It is colorful and non-threatening which is probably why 99 percent of people who see it support it.

edgar mueller

Most of you have probably seen these pictures as the first things that show up on a Google image search of "street art". These fun optical illusions are made by German street artist Edgar Mueller. He has street painted all over Eastern and Western Europe, and also in Canada, for different festivals and events.

He uses a trompe de l'oeil style that at first glance confuses passerbys, but then entertains them as the street becomes a playground whith which they can interact creating their own illusions.



They can only be seen from one perspective, which makes the work much harder to plan and successfully create while also demanding an effort from the viewer to fully appreaciate the picture rather than just simply presenting it on the asphalt. Here's two perspectives of one he made for Jaw Moose in Canada:



+ time-transition video:


Montreal should definitely think about inviting him for a summer.

new bookeh

Awesome book, and it'S now MINE :D :



It doesn't only have artists' profiles, it has interviews with the most prominent and even has section for the different styles of street art. Best book I've ever bought.

MUTO

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

As the artists from BLU choose to use stop-motion animation, they decide that they will erase every drawing after it's snapshotted. It is temporary street art, thus making it something we can only experience fully online, once it has already been edited and posted: Its whole reason of existence is to be viewed once it has disappeared.

Made in Argentina, this new aesthetic style of the hand-drawn bizarre can be seen all over like in the art of Chad Van Gallen:



Enjoy.