MetaFilter posts tagged with art and graffiti

Ça vous étonne / Mais c'est comme ça

creeky — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:56:54 -0800

5bis rue du Verneuil is the home of Serge Gainsbourg in Paris. This short film peels off the layers of graffiti left on the wall there.

EyeWriter Initiative

brundlefly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:32:53 -0800

"The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies." From the site:

Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes. The long-term goal is to create a professional/social network of software developers, hardware hackers, urban projection artists and ALS patients from around the world who are using local materials and open source research to creatively connect and make eye art.

COMBO - a collaborative animation

Matthias Rascher — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:17:32 -0800

COMBO - a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis. Made at Fame Festival 2009.

The art of Josh Keyes

tellurian — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:39:06 -0800

Animals isolated in dystopian tableaux.

Banksy Takes Bristol

shoesfullofdust — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:18:04 -0800

"This is the first show I've ever done where taxpayers' money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off."

bill stickers will be prosecuted.

logicpunk — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:06:33 -0800

On April 25th, 2009, over 50 artists and 26 whitewashers spread out over lower Manhattan as part Jordan Seiler's "New York Street Advertising Takeover". Over 120 illegal billboards were whitewashed, then turned into "personal pieces of art." One person was arrested. More pictures. via

Hijacking illegal billboards.

BuddhaInABucket — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:04:05 -0800

We Don't Want Ads, We Want Art!

Light Graffiti Artists and Photographers

homunculus — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:05:16 -0800

10 Amazing Light Graffiti Artists and Photographers: From Light Writing to Extreme Exposures. [Possibly NSFW]

Banksy uncovered?

Kattullus — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:03:59 -0800

English newspaper Mail on Sunday claims to have uncovered the identity of artist Banksy claiming his name is Robin Gunningham: "People who know Gunningham are now unable to say what has become of him. His father Peter, who lives in Kingsdown, Bristol, denied that the man in the photograph was his son, and his mother Pamela was surprised by the picture, then denied she even had a son, let alone one called Robin." More information in a report from CBC. If you don't know who Banksy is visit a Flickr pool with over 7000 pictures of his work in situ or check out previous MetaFilter posts about Banksy.

FillCell poster wall

Wolfdog — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:05:59 -0800

FillCell is a sort of graffiti wall of mini-posters drawn with very simple tools (to impressive effect, in some cases). Flash - drag the background to see more of the wall.

Reverse Graffiti

brain_drain — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:40:12 -0800

Reverse Graffiti. Alexandre Orion makes it for a cause and sometimes gets caught [YouTube]. "Moose" of Symbollix makes it for fun and profit. See also -- Early reverse grafitti. Dirty car art.

São Paolo sewer openings

mediareport — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:38:26 -0800

Sewer openings turned into street art by São Paolo duo 6emeia. [via FunForever]

Iran Graffiti and Urban Art Report

carsonb — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:42:24 -0800

Iran Graffiti and Urban Art Report

"I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough."

dead_ — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:32:26 -0800

Pinning down the elusive Banksy. "The art world is the biggest joke going," he has said. "It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak." Yet the stencilist/graffiti writer's pieces regularly sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds at places like Sotheby's--not bad for a man who still remains cloaked in complete anonymity. The New Yorker gets a rare e-mail interview. [Previously: 1, 2, 3]

We're Gonna Have A TV Party Tonight

fandango_matt — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:33:17 -0800

Light Criticism is the newest project by Graffiti Research Lab and the Anti-Advertising Agency.

I could give two spits.

landedjentry — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:37:07 -0800

Albert Reyes is an artist who saw a chicken in spilled water. He told the New York Times Magazine, "I could do that." The result? Spit art.

Look! God is in the details.

dobbs — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:40:11 -0800

Graffiti by Nobumasa Takahashi. Some shots of him working.{teefed from artdorks}

Streetsy graffiti

srboisvert — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:46:07 -0800

Streetsy

Banksy and barrier

srboisvert — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 05:27:17 -0800

Banksy and the barrier

Borf is a dork.

gsteff — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:14:54 -0800

Borf is dead. The masked mystery whose ubiquitious graffiti has confused Washington for months is revealed to be an 18-year-old anarchist. He had a good run, though, getting his work on dozens of locations in D.C., then going on tour through Raleigh, New York and San Francisco, inspiring an internet following in the process. And while his work wasn't brilliant enough to match the romantic counterculture image he tried to create, there's a truly sad story behind his pseudonym and icon: both belong to a friend who committed suicide two years ago. Of course, that's unlikely to arouse the sympathy of the various city officials spending (I would assume) hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove his work.

A gallery of walls with stuff written on

mediareport — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:40:34 -0800

Pictures of Walls. A gallery of interesting grime, complete with joy, paranoia, politics, good advice and the stupidest graffiti ever. Only one rule for submissions: "No 'proper' graffiti or nazi crap obviously." [via Bifurcated Rivets]

Banksy of the Hudson River

NinjaPirate — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:17:58 -0800

Iconic graffiti artist and cult hero, Banksy, has expanded his 'establishment' art resumé with exhibits in New York's most important art galleries.

Not very guerrilla of him.

Except that the galleries didn't know.
Naughty Banksy.

m-azing

Man O' Straw — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:23:23 -0800

What is m-city.org? Well, it’s part urban street-art movement, part online, interactive stencil and community gallery. It’s got interchangeable buildings and people (not to mention robots and monkeys!), but this isn't your father’s SimCity™. Unless maybe your father’s a Polish tagger.

RockDontWalk

srboisvert — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:25:54 -0800

Rock don't Walk by Thundercut

The Scrawls of War

Ufez Jones — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:13:55 -0800

The Scrawls of War. London graffiti artist Arofish takes a tour of Baghdad and Palestine and leaves his mark behind. The tales he has for each picture are quite interesting as well.