"One of the reasons the graffiti pioneers in the Bronx used to paint subway cars was so that they could send out their message (tag or acknowledgment of their presence) right across Manhattan. They knew people would be watching. Knonose does the same thing. He knows that people will be passing his work and will see it. In fact many many people now look out for new pieces on their journey from the East End to the center of town and back. For someone that is really quite unknown he is at the same time very much recognised in certain communities or groups of people." - Adam Martin
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Graffiti takes 3 parts. The message (literally the message), the medium (a sticker, a tag, a painting), and the transformed medium (that which is transformed by the act of graffiti. The wall. The sign.) Regardless of if its art, the act of transforming an existing space to display a message is graffiti. - Adam Martin
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"The STORKER PROJECT is a species propagation movement by STORKER seeking to incite select individuals from the public at large, perhaps you. If while passsing by one you feel strange sensations in your nipples or fingertips, adopt the infant, breast feed, and give it plenty of pTLC. It will gradually mature to a full size Tape Man or Woman to co-habitate with you and eventually take you to the Glazed Paradise (or possibly oust you from your home)." - Adam Martin
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streetartlocator.com is a community google map mashup mapping street art the world over. You can find all aspects of street art here from Graffiti to the Galleries that host lowbrow exhibitions and street art produced using more formal Painting styles. Stickers are everywhere and quick slick way to get up, many go unnoticed except to the keen observer. Banksy and Bek La rat are the kings of the Stencil, these guys are only the tip of the iceberg with so many stencil artists across the globe there are plenty more to be discovered. Sculpture is pure old school street and and wildly excepted but what about all the fantastic gorilla sculptures and installations. - Adam Martin
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Under A Red Sky: Group exhibition featuring Vitche (Brazil), Jana (Brazil), Vhils (Portugal), Word To Mother (UK), Shepard Fairey (USA), Andrew McAttee (UK) and Michael Leavitt (USA). - Adam Martin
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"On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death." - Adam Martin
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"Graffiti Research Lab’s goal is to get the tools of provocation and media subversion into as many hands as possible. To do this, founders James Powderly and Evan Roth have combined their backgrounds in robotics (Powderly once worked for a NASA contractor) and street art (Roth was valedictorian at Parsons the New School for Design in New York) to create the equivalent of virtual spray-paint cans." - Adam Martin
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"On the face of it, as a society, we seem to be a little mixed-up when it comes to "graffiti", as you call it if you work in the local council's cleansing department, or "street art" as you say if you're the chap – and they do mainly seem to be blokes – wielding the spray can." - Adam Martin
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"Gasp, horror! Banksy isn't a fictional character. His cover has been blown. He's an actual person who makes art. Worse than that, according to the Mail on Sunday, he went to public school. He's middle class! He lived in suburbia! What did people expect? That just because he started with graffiti and grew into street art that he was some council estate hoodie with a knife?" - Adam Martin
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It's in Japanese, except for the words 'Banksy', 'street art' and 'Keith Haring', oh and the phrase 'Urban Affairs 2008', I'm not sure what those are but I want to have one. - Adam Martin
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"RFID and barcode street art has the potential to turn the urban environment into a virtual minefield of information. While the potential for abuse by malicious hackers or marketing drones is there, the idea of being able to literally "tag" a place with multimedia information is an exciting one. Perhaps it's already being done." - Adam Martin
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"Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold up. For me, this process encourages a reexamination of surroundings and objects that are usually taken for granted, and injects a hint of the fantastical surreality that I have established in my other work.
Or, at the very least, I hope someone thinks these things are kind of funny." - Adam Martin
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"Modern street art has existed long enough for it to acquire a standard look. It’s easy to gloss over and ignore much of it when the subject matter and medium stagnate. There are the classics: stencils, stickers, wheat pasting. Thankfully, once in a while someone comes along and does something really different. Artist D. Billy is one of them. Taking a page from clowns and birthday parties, he’s creates balloon graffiti sculptures that visualize sounds and ideas in the urban environment. I’m sure D.Billy is loved by clean up crews for how easy these are to take down." - Adam Martin
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Here’s one instance of green-washing that we’re 100% behind. The Reverse Graffiti Project imbues the guerrilla tactics of street-art with an eco-friendly element, detourning the definition of graffiti by actually cutting through and cleaning up grit to leave a lasting impression. You may remember Paul Curtis aka “Moose” from our coverage of Reverse Graffiti in the UK last year; we’re excited to announce that the Reverse Graffiti team recently teamed up with the eco cleaner brand GreenWorks to create a clean, green, 140 foot mural on the walls of San Francisco’s Broadway tunnel. The artist scraped through the grit and grime of the tunnel walls to reveal a stunning portrait of a lusher San Francisco, transforming the dingy tunnel sidewalls into a flourishing forest of native plants, providing an inverse reflection of how the site may have looked 500 years ago. - Adam Martin
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"The Reverse Graffiti Project imbues the guerrilla tactics of street-art with an eco-friendly element, detourning the definition of graffiti by actually cutting through and cleaning up grit to leave a lasting impression. You may remember Paul Curtis aka “Moose” from our coverage of Reverse Graffiti in the UK last year; we’re excited to announce that the Reverse Graffiti team recently teamed up with the eco cleaner brand GreenWorks to create a clean, green, 140 foot mural on the walls of San Francisco’s Broadway tunnel. The artist scraped through the grit and grime of the tunnel walls to reveal a stunning portrait of a lusher San Francisco, transforming the dingy tunnel sidewalls into a flourishing forest of native plants, providing an inverse reflection of how the site may have looked 500 years ago." - Adam Martin
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New York Magazine goes behind the scenes with Joshua Allen Harris, creator of incredibly awesome garbage bag balloon art. - Adam Martin
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Second show from Brazilian twins at the Deitch Projects... The gallery has been transformed into a fantastical cityscape with houses, doors, and passageways, all brought to life with their signature style of imagery. Building upon a group of artworks created for the Museum Het Domein in the Netherlands, this show features new paintings, sculpture, and installation bringing all the magical moments of their work together in one tightly knit dream world of an exhibition. - Adam Martin
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