Alexandre Farto’s continues to add his stunning murals chipped into the exterior walls of buildings in Rio, Lisbon and Paris
Toronto animator (Pizza and Pixels) Aiden Glenn turns stuff out of doors into what he calls "toon bombs", googly-eyed character faces.
via Colossal http://5thin.gs/Kyvd9Z
Anamorphic Paintings French street artists Ella and Pitr that assemble into nearly 3D images when viewed from the right vantage.
Banksy, despite all the hype, is still worth covering.
JR, who made his way onto the world stage with his TED Prize in 2011. has been adding his large format photographic murals to the cityscapes around the world.
And his Wrinkles in LA, and apparently Havana, are some of my favorites.
Eric Firestone and Carlo McCormick, created The Bone Yard Project inviting renowned artists and street artists to use the decommissioned military planes at the Pima Air & Space Museum as canvas and muse.
Blu has made a name for himself making some truly gorgeous graffiti projects that play with time and location. Here is one of the ones that introduced me to him.
Here too is a collaboration with JR.
Montreal artist Roadsworth uses the actual asphalt as his canvas for these witty and gorgeous animals, funny visual puns and more on the streets of Montreal.
Joe Mangrum uses colored sand, spending up to 8 hours meticulously dropping it into these stunning, and temporary, figures on the streets of New York, San Francisco, Chicago and more.
This guest post is from world traveller Orion Kraus.
He can't seem to stop traveling, or perhaps he just is too excited about what's next. One of his amazing journey, a journey down through Central America by horse is documented on his blog 2 Horses Southbound.
These gorgeous murals are often hundreds of feet wide. DALeast was born in China, but lives in South Africa. His work can be found in cities all around the world.
http://www.facebook.com/cidadecinzasp Sinopse: Nas ruas de uma das maiores e mais desorganizadas metrópolis do mundo nasceu uma nova forma de graffiti, na qual o hip hop americano foi substituído pela cultura regional brasileira. Rapidamente, as obras d'Osgemeos, Nunca e Nina se espalharam pelas ruas de São Paulo e depois pelas galerias do mundo.
Shot over 6 years Grey City is about the back and forth between Sao Paulo’s street art community and the city government.
There are English captions, so make sure those are turned on if you don't understand Portuguese.
Johannesburg-based street artist R1 creates beauty using found materials: tape, cans, plastic.
R1 says:
"My installations subtly changes the city streets to create a dialogue and interactions between the environment and our experience of it. The artworks take ownership and manipulate city spaces, opening new relationships with daily familiarity. The end result carries conversations, becoming a fragment of the ever changing city’s history."
As the shadow of night falls across the American West a lone man begins his work. Far from the confines, calamity, and culture of society, multimedia artist and storyteller Jeff Frost sifts through the visual dregs of places and people who once were. Combining still and time-lapse photography with motion, music, and art, Frost reveals a world rarely seen. Rooted in science and the exploration of space, Frost’s work explodes with light, fire, and sound, utilizing 2D and 3D perspective, leading the viewer on a unique visual journey through worlds both real and imagined. - written by the amazing photographer and human being, Daniel Milnor Knockout Quotes from the free eBook: store.blurb.com/ebooks/327392-flawed-symmetry-of-prediction "Frost's video footage of the desert and abandoned houses in the American Southwest is certainly stunning in its own right, but it was his incorporation of three perspective-bending optical illusions — and his use of time-lapse as a medium to expose the reality behind those illusions — that really sold us." - io9.com "...a glimpse of a world without limits." - Brooklyn Street Art, Steven P. Harrington "[Flawed Symmetry of Prediction] is a monumental thing." - Jeff Dunas, Palm Springs Photo Festival co-founder "Impressive." - Vandalog.com "Very creative and sick." - Tom Lowe, Astronomy Photographer of the Year "Jeff Frost shows us the future of the 21st century book in his audio and visual feast, "Flawed Symmetry." - Eileen Gittins, Blurb Books CEO "Jeff Frost is the author of this new video made frame called Flawed Prediction of Symmetry. She asked him several months of work plans, and melds contemplative and discrete graphics interventions." - allcityblog.fr, translated from French by Google "A breathtaking combination of time lapse and 3D optical illusion." - Coilhouse Magazine + Blog "Go away!" - Allison Nazzareno, Hater
I don't know what this is or how to explain it. Its effect however is mesmerizing. Expressive, engaging, gorgeous and visually stunning.
Flawed Symmetry of Prediction is an outstanding short film by filmmaker Jeff Frost:
"I roam the deserts of California and Utah looking for abandoned structures. When I find a room that I like, I paint large scale optical illusions on the inside of it. I record this process with time lapse photography. It took me over half a year and more than 40,000 high resolution still images to produce this film on my Canon 60D. Aside from painting supplies, the only other equipment I used was a borrowed tripod, and some pretty unconventional lighting. As post production goes, no graphics or CGI was used whatsoever."
More Art
www.joannalurie.com La vie de deux personnages, qui se suivent au delà des murs. The life of two characters who follow each other beyond the walls.
Created by the talented Joanne Lurie, in a street-animation style reminiscent of the legendary film Muto by Blu. joannalurie.com.
Truly outstanding, each frame has the same characters, in a different moment, on a different wall about Paris.
Parisian artist Above "ironically" is using social media to tell us we are too connected to social media. Very meta.
People look at me like I’m from another planet when I tell them I don’t have social media like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. In the eyes of social media I’m severely outdated, lost and not ‘connected’. Not partaking in the aforementioned social media makes me an outsider looking in on how hyper frequent society uses its sacred social media. I can’t help but observe the people around me who appear to be consumed and addicted to trying to keep up to speed on their social media pages. You check your Facebook page while driving. Tweet a message that you ‘just took a shower’. Instagram a photo of your double soy macchiato with extra foam and so it continues ad infinitum. I have more questions than I do answers with social media. We live in a ridiculously hyper fast pace life where information is exchanged so rapidly that it makes us feel inadequate and drains our attention span. This painting was executed at the GALORE festival (http://werket.dk/galore/) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The painting is a time-lapse composed of over 9,000 photos and painted over a 5-day period. As irony has it this video will be reblogged and seen on social media outlets the world over. Please join in and reblog on your facebook and twitter accounts. Enjoy and try to keep up.
