Category Archives: Art

8 bit post-it art

More Images: Office Supplies blog
See also: Post-It art part 1
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The art of Ronzo

The art of Ronzo
(via Notes From Somewhere Bizarre)

Coilhouse: Daily Mail Posts Striking Images, Condescending Text

More photos and images: Coilhouse
Daily Mail

Shanghai Eyes

More Photos: MoCo LoCo
(via Grinding)

Rotterdam graffiti

From Wooster

Urban Safaris: Graffiti Sites Considered for Heritage Protection

Australia’s National Trust and Heritage Victoria are both supporting a move to protect the city’s graffiti, but some local council groups say this would just give a green light to vandals.
With the idea of graffiti as an art form in its own right gaining momentum locally and abroad, the National Trust has been considering its […]

6 Questions for Boris Groys

Today’s cities are mostly accessible. One can even say that there is only one global city, with some parts of this city (for example, Berlin or Paris) only reachable from other parts (New York, São Paulo or Deli) by plane. Thus, the global city structure remains u-topian because communication between its individual parts takes place […]

Russian elephant art

More pics: English Russia

Graffiti in Shanghai

(via Wooster Collective)

Short documentary about “reverse graffiti” artist Moose

(via Wooster Collective)
Previously

The art of Andy Council

The art of Andy Council
(Thanks Ian!)

Two new ones from Wooster

From Wooster Collective

The art of kozyndan

The art of kozyndan
(Thanks Mark!)

Wii spray can

a couple of Media Art and Design students are working on a Wii-Controller turned Spraycan. Wiispray is a prototype, currently under heavy development as part of a final-thesis design work by Martin Lihs at Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany.
Wiispray aims to give sprayers all the tools of a real-life spraycan with a digital extension. This neat […]

Obama street art photo pool on Flickr

Obama street art Flickr photo pool
(via Tomorrow Museum)

The New Normal: surveillance society art show

The New Normal is an art show in Germany on the subject of privacy in the post 9/11 world. Above:
Submitting oneself to security measures can be turned upside down by adopting what Hassan Elahi calls an “aggressive compliance.” Elahi daily points a mocking finger to absurd security measures with the real-time self-tracking website he set […]

The photography of Gretchen Drew

Gretchen Drew Photography

Santa digging through trash and other photos from Russia

More photos from the English Russian

Slovenia: The Erased

On the February 26, 1992, six months after Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia, the Ministry of the Interior erased 18,305 legal inhabitants from the Permanent Population Register. With a stroke of the pen, 18,305 individuals became stateless “residents without status,” unable to work legally, losing their drivers licenses, passports and other legal papers. Many were […]

Japanese highway interchange photos

Flickr photoset
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