Artist From Montreal Makes Impressive Street Paintings When No One Sees
Street artist Peter Gibson, who goes by the nickname Roadsworth, creates cool art on the roads and sidewalks. It all started in 2001 when he anonymously created street art to point out the lack of bike lanes in Montreal. He was arrested in 2004 for vandalism but now he’s gone legit. Continue reading »
This New Zealand Street Is So Steep It Makes The Houses Look Like They’re Sinking
There are plenty of picture-perfect spots in New Zealand, but none quite as Instagram-worthy as Baldwin Street in Dunedin, also known as the steepest street in the world. The street is only 350 meters long, but for every 2.86 horizontal meters, there is a rise of one meter. In other words, though the street itself is less than a quarter mile long, for every ~9 horizontal feet you walk, you’re climbing about three feet. Photos of the street are mind bending, especially when you look at the houses that are built right into the hill. Continue reading »
Eco Street Murals By NEVERCREW Duo
NEVERCREW (previously) is a swiss based artists duo composed by Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni. They work together since 1996. In the recent years NEVERCREW undertook a research that doesn’t aim at forcedly channeling reflections in a precise stylistic and formal way, but rather to find a new language that allows to follow them, deepen them and share them; and especially that it’s also a practical and visible demonstration of that. Working together since almost twenty years, Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni developed the issue of the comparison (the confrontation between two persons, between ideas, between forces) and at the same time, interacting in the public space as street artists, they extended this confrontation outside in a direct way, making this perennial dual “discussion” one of the hubs of their work. Continue reading »
Street Artist’s “Celebrity Takeover” In Hosier Lane, Melbourne
What an interesting week it’s been for Melbourne street art. Soon after the snapchat fight between Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Taylor Swift, went viral, Melbourne artist LUSH whipped up the controversial memorial piece to Swift in Hosier lane, which was then updated with a character supposed to represent Harambe, and then yet again with Kanye’s face mysteriously appearing. Continue reading »
Street Artist Built A Wall Around Donald Trump’s Hollywood Star
Hollywood sight-seers on the famous walk of fame were confronted with an unusual edition to Trump’s Famous Star. Los Angeles artist Plastic Jesus built a 6″ tall grey concrete wall around it. Complete with “Keep out” signs and topped with razor wire. The unofficial addtion to the iconic star appeared early Tuesday afternoon, to the amusement of onlookers. Continue reading »
Kaleidoscopic Street-Art Creation By Douglas Hoekzem
When an artist has an ‘About’ section that starts with the words: “Time waits for no man” we know that we are going to encounter passion, if not a pure downright obsession for work he or she does. Here is the kaleidoscopic street-art creation by Douglas Hoekzema, currently living and working in Miami, otherwise from Boulder, Colorado who is partially doing artistic work, and partially exploring the philosophical dimension of time. Continue reading »
Girl Shares Pics Of Street Food From Around The World On Her Instagram Account
Melissa Hie posts pics of the delicious street food she discovers during her travels on her Girl Eat World Instragram account, where you can see everything from the amazing looking Hello Kitty donut from Japan to this plain but delicious puff she purchased in Myanmar. Continue reading »
Attractive Giant Stencil Portraits By The Portuguese Street Artist Daniel Eime
Daniel Eime is Portuguese artist whose stencil artworks always try to escape the general technique with static painting and spray texture. Black and white faces are the central bases that he uses until today, always with paint brush. With the street as their best space to paint, he already integrated work into various initiatives such as spaces decorations, promotional events, solo and group exhibitions, urban interventions, street art festivals and publications in magazines and books. Continue reading »
Ukrainian Banksy – Street Art By Sharik
He works anonymously, covered under the nickname of “Sharik”. He lives in Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea in southern Ukraine. Noone sees him, but he does. His graffiti is done in a stencil style and is devoted to a social topics: mass culture, love, politics, power and money. Ukrainian Banksy. Continue reading »
23 Striking And Surreptitious Photos Capture Street Scenes Of Pennsylvania In The 1970s
Mark Cohen is an American photographer best known for his innovative close-up street photography. For years, on the streets of his home city, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and surrounding working-class towns, Cohen shot quickly and assertively. He held his flash in one hand and his camera in the other and shot extremely close to his subjects, frequently focusing on a single body part or article of clothing. He never looked through his viewfinder to compose the frame. Here: People on Porch, 65, 63, 1977 Continue reading »
Why Is This Little House In The Middle Of The Street In New York?
American artist Mark Reigelman II has created little house covers for the manholes in New York City. When thinking about what type of installation to create, he started looking around the city and noticed the plastic orange steam tubes, that are placed over manholes to release steam. Continue reading »
Restaurant Puts Fridge In Street So Hungry People Can Take Leftovers
When a restaurant owner in Kochi, India, saw a homeless woman eating from a trashcan, she knew she had to do something. So Minu Pauline came up with a brilliant idea. Realizing that her restaurant, Pappadavada, had a lot of leftover food, she decided to put a fridge outside so homeless people could help themselves. Continue reading »
“Our Street”: Artist Beautifully Illustrates Everyday Life In Small Russian Town
Vladimir Lubarov is a famous book graphic artist who has illustrated more that one hundred books among them there are Voltaire, Rabelais, Gogol, Strugatskie, and main artist of “Chemistry and life” journal and “Text” publishing house. Continue reading »
A Street Artist Creates Tragic Portraits Across The Abandoned Urban Areas In France
Meet La Rouille which translates to the rust, he is a French street artist that lives and works out of Rennes in France. Continue reading »
20 Powerful Pieces Of Street Art That’ll Make Your Heart Beat Faster
There are always two ways of doing anything: you can either give it your all, or slack off. The author’s attitude will always be reflected in the final result. Street art is no different in this respect: some works won’t catch anyone’s eye, whilst others will become true masterpieces that cleverly interact with their surroundings. Continue reading »
This Street Art Duo Show Their Concerns With Planet Earth
Staying true to their focal and ongoing analysis of the relationship between humankind and nature, NEVERCREW has illustrated their observations on walls and shipping containers in India, United States, and Europe. Concerned with climate change and the future of humanity, pieces like “Black Machine” and “Ablating Machine” depict whales and polar bears in artistic and thought-provoking ways. Continue reading »
This Building In Miami Has Art Painted On The Ceilings So It Can Only Be Seen By People On The Street
Located in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami, Florida, which is known for its public art, is this new building, designed by architectural firm DFA. The architects wanted the building to fit in with the neighborhood, so they included public artwork in the design. Each floor of the building has been painted by a variety of commissioned artists, so that the art can be enjoyed by anyone walking by on the street. Continue reading »
Wonderful Color Photographs Of Street Scenes From Between The 1950s And 1970s
Fred Herzog was born in Germany in 1930. Immigrating to Canada in 1952, he took odd jobs wherever he could find them. He rented a place at a rooming house, which is where he met Ferro Shelley Marincowitz, a South African who also happened to be a medical photographer. Herzog had an interest in photography; his camera was one of the few items he brought with him from Germany. Marincowitz encouraged that interest and soon they found a basement suite where they built a darkroom for both of them to share. Continue reading »
Amazing Street Art By HoodGraff
Snoop Dogg has released T-shirts and accessories featuring Belarusian embroidery patterns and professing the U.S. rapper’s “love” for Belarus. The items were designed by HoodGraff, a group of street artists from the Belarusian city of Vitebsk. The artists chose to relocate to Russia earlier this year after being fined $1,700, a substantial sum in Belarus. Their offense: attempting to paint a mural of the late, internationally acclaimed Belarusian writer Vasil Bykov, a vocal critic of Lukashenka, during a street-art festival in Minsk. Here’s a selection of some of HoodGraff’s work. Continue reading »
Street Art That Only Appears When It Rains
Most of us don’t really like rainy days, but Seattle-based artist Peregrine Church makes good use of the rain. Continue reading »
Thsi Artist Projects A Digital Street Art Safari Across Orlando Architecture
Following the wild popularity of his ‘urban safari’ in Paris, french artist Julien Nonnon continues the series the other side of the Atlantic, bringing digital street art to sunny Florida. During two nights in November, Nonnon projected new characters and creatures around downtown Orlando, allowing the collection of smartly-dressed figures to interact with the urban landscape, the architecture of the city and the night light. Continue reading »
World’s Largest Railway Model Is Now On Google “Mini” Street View
Google’s Street View, that lets you explore the world through the virtual eyes of street level cameras, has now shrunk itself to the size of a thumb, so that you can experience the world’s largest miniature model railway as if it has been blown to real size. Continue reading »
An Artist Creates A Fantastic Street Art Pieces Based On Popular Movies And TV Series Across The Streets Of Moscow
Russian street artist known under the pseudonym Zoom mostly depicts characters from the popular movies and TV series on the Moscow streets. Zoom calls his work “street art without vandalism”. For example, his Godfather’s portrait was made from packing tape. Visit his Instagram page to see more works. Continue reading »
20 Fantastic Works Of Street Art That Brightened Up Our Streets Last Year
Street art, just like any other form of art, is constantly evolving. Once, it consisted of only lonesome frescoes; nowadays, however, grandiose festivals are held where the soul of these otherwise hard-to-see artists is revealed to the world. Every single one of them has a distinctive style and captivates the viewer with something of their own: sometimes it’s the scale of the work, sometimes their humour; others captivate us with their superb use of the environment. Continue reading »
Fascinating Street Art in France Using 30,000 Origamis
Check out these colorful street art installations composed of 30,000 origami pieces created by French artist Mademoiselle Maurice with the help of hundreds of volunteers. As part of Maurice’s participation in the 2013 ARTAQ Festival in Angers, France, they created a rainbow portrait along the banks of the Maine river and colored the pathway leading to the Montée St-Maurice Cathedral. Continue reading »
