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Mind Where You Walk

"Artists that make a walk down the street that bit more interesting."

They say that 2010 will be the year of 3D.  There are however those that have long since been at the forefront of this creative revolution (creative skills we recognised and showcased in in our first SUSO film.)  Using a projection called anamorphosis to create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle, here is some of the genius of 4 of the best 3D street artists around.

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Categories Art Tags Design culture Graffiti General

By Juan on 9/12/09

SUSO_BIKELANE_MAIN

Lane Campaign

City cyclists across the world lack protection. Check out these innovative ideas for ad hoc bike lanes.

Conceived as part of the Power to the Pedal Competition, the Contrail - a name inspired by the condensation trail left by aircraft - gives cyclists the chance to re-write the city to their own specification. A series of chalk trails create a record of their travels and remind drivers that cyclists have just as much right to the road as they do.

The high tech version is just as exciting, although less of an artistic experiment and more focused on a genuine solution. By projecting a lane from under the bike seat via a set of lasers, the motorist can easily become aware of the cyclists and gauge how much room to give. Very clever.

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Categories Art Culture Design Sport Politics Graffiti Tags Cycling Graffiti

By on 5/3/09

SUSO_Mc_Main

Saturated

Witness the tranquil destruction of a cultural icon as McDonalds becomes submerged.

“Flooded McDonald's is a film work by Superflex in which a convincing life-size replica of the interior of a McDonald's burger bar, without any customers or staff present, gradually floods with water. Furniture is lifted up by the water, trays of food and drinks start to float around, electrics short circuit and eventually the space becomes completely submerged.”

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Categories Art Film Tags Film Graffiti

By on 5/2/09

Christina Street Art

Blog/ Poor Christina

An artistic assault on celebrity perfection on Berlin’s underground.

Poor Photoshop. Poor Christina. Working together to expose advertising in its role of a disconnecting agent, a relatively anonymous German street art collective has stuck unambiguously named Photoshop layer menus and brush palettes on six-sheets, thus brutally ‘framing’ the ads and exposing their origins and motivations.

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Categories Art Graffiti Media Tags Graffiti Art Berlin

By on 16/1/09

CAT IN THE GARDEN

Cat In The Garden

WHATEVER YOU'RE HAPPY MAKING, MAKE THAT. Broken Crow.

This is such a great little story. It was sent to the Wooster Collective by a girl called Jody from London:

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Categories Art Fun Graffiti Tags Art Broken Crow Design Graffiti

By on 20/6/08

BLU BERLIN

Blu Berlin

A friend returned from Berlin today bearing pictures of works by esteemed Italian artist Blu. They kind of speak for themselves.

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Categories Art Tags Art Berlin Graffiti

By on 29/4/08

RIGHT YOU ARE

Right You Are

Someone once asked OS GÊMEOS, the identical twin brothers and original pioneers of Brazilian graffiti, what makes them want to write. Why do what you do, was the question, and this their response:

“Hate and love, living in a country where you have to survive, the simple look of a child asking for money in the street, living in a country where the government doesn't care about you, where there are no laws, where people are paid miserable salaries and are still smiling, waking up sometimes and realising it was only a dream. Idolatry, lack of union, vanity, ego, jealousy, people who need others to be somebody, people who use the others. Love. We are proud to be Brazilians from São Paulo, to know that what we believe in exists, to write incorrectly in Portuguese, to live some moments that seem eternal, to use firecrackers in the street, to build fires in those streets, to tell lies to the police, to know that our family loves us, to do things without thinking, using latex and rollers, to paint in the street with out clothes dirty from the paint, to go up on a ladder without a shirt, to be from South America, to use the city, ugly things, to know we fly in the fog, and to float paper boats in the rain.”

Good enough for us.

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Categories Art Graffiti Tags Brazil Graffiti Os Gemeos

By on 19/3/08

CAPTURING BANKSY

Capturing Banksy

You could write a thesis on the influence and significance of street art. But why not use film to tell the story. Better than that, documentary film in its purest form - a locked-off camera edited into a time-lapse piece. For over an hour, Jeremy Gibbs stood across the street from fresh work by Banksy on Essex Road, London, and filmed people who stopped to look and take photos.

The great thing about the film is that it captures the diversity of the audience. This isn’t about grubby kids vandalising for its own sake. It's about a blank canvas, and an artist with the determination to make his voice heard. The not so great thing about the film - the music. Sorry about that.

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Categories Art Film Tags Art banksy creativity determination Graffiti Street Art

By on 12/3/08

EXCLUSIVELY FOR EVERYONE

Exclusively For Everyone

“The whole point of street art is that it should be affordable.”

So says Mike Snelle of East London art dealer Black Rat Press. But affordable to who exactly? Judging by the £1 million worth of fees accumulated during last week’s Bonhams ‘Urban Art’ auction, affordable to a minority, that’s who. Nick Walker (see below), a British artist, sold Moona Lisa, a spray-paint-on-canvas piece from 2006, for £54,000, more than ten times its upper estimate. Other lesser known artists sold pieces for similarly inflated prices. And no prizes for guessing who’s work sold for the highest . Yep, Banksy’s Laugh Now, a chimpanzee with a sandwich board over his shoulders, fetched £228,000. An upcoming exhibition of Banksy’s work at the Andipa Gallery, London, prices Banksy’s Bombing MIddle England at £300,000.

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Categories Art Tags Art Graffiti

By on 13/2/08

SANTA'S GHETTO

Santa's Ghetto

For those of you not in the know, Santas Ghetto is a yearly event where a group of street artists are brought together to showcase their talents providing a contrast to the avaricious consumerism of Christmas in the 21st century.

Last year they were appropriately positioned in the manic shopping mayhem of Oxford street, but this year they have gone a step further and taken the event to the one place people generally don’t think about in the run up to Dec 25th.. Bethlehem. In a former chicken shop opposite the church of nativity, in a town now dominated by poverty and conflict rather than celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, the work of more than 30 artists is being displayed. Bringing together artists from Ramallah, Gaza and Bethlehem's Dehaisha refugee camp plus others from as far afield as Washington DC, Madrid and East Sussex, it is 3 floors of creative anarchy.

 

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Categories Art Tags Art Graffiti

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