quite possibly the coolest graffiti project i have ever seen. absolutely amazing animation considering all of it was done in public as painted graffiti on walls & sidewalks. wow. i’m talking about muto: an ambiguos animation painted on public walls, done in buenos aires and baden. wow. double wow. the amount of planning and time this must have taken boggles the mind. please watch it. it should amaze you. be sure to also check out blu’s other amazing animations & videos when you can.
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it’s friday and let’s celebrate billboards. first, there’s the fantastic AT&T and the National Security Agency billboard re-interpretation done by the marvelous billboard liberation front (BLF) around san francisco. awesome! thanks BLF! (& here’s more detailed photos of the AT&T & NSA billboard and the billboard liberation front’s photostream on flickr). if you don’t know what the connection is between AT&T and the NSA, there is plenty to read online about domestic spying.
and although it has nothing to do with the NSA, there’s is the equally powerful king of jews - king of beers billboard masterpiece done near hoston, texas back in 2006. i’ve always looked at billboards as public space and am glad to see these magnificent uses of those public spaces. more please!
very cool time-lapsed video clip of what is called an automatic graffiti robot. the art is created using a spray can attached to cables running on a X / Y axis. the cables control or press the nozzle on the spray can at precise moments. the cable are moved & controlled by a computer program. it reminds me of a giant plotter printer. very cool idea! the clip is from 2006 but i haven’t been able to find any other info on this artist other that the video. anyway, enjoy!
the brilliant minds at graffiti research lab (GRL) have come up with another cool way to tag. going beyond their very simple & cool LED throwies (which have gone beyond simple), GRL has made what looks like a laser-tagging/writing system using high end projectors. the system projects laser light onto the sides of buildings in a repeated pattern which spells out words. in the picture, the phrase ‘free berd’ is a word play on the lynyrd skynyrd song and also applies to ‘free berdovsky’, an appeal for the arrest of the 27 year old artist behind the aqua team hunger force LED signs that gave boston reason to descend into madness.
note: about the GRL laser tagging system, it looks like the projectors GRL uses are the very pro yet pricey panasonic PT-D5600’s (please feel free to correct me on that - i recognized the projectors immediately from the pic). these projectors come in at around $6,500+ each. outfitted with a lens, that’s an additional $2,000+ per projector. that would make the complete 2 projector laser tagging system cost around $15,000+ each. the economics of graffiti are definitely changing. AV nerds are taking over! had to happen. link via boingboing.
oh, social commentary via rad graffiti artists! so nice! i’m really liking the banksy VS paris hilton prank. the best post i’ve seen on it is via dork magazine, titled banksy versus paris, complete with youtube video of banksy creating his custom paris hilton CDs. really really great. thanks banksy!
there’s a great flickr photo set by funkandjazz featuring no less than 1,604 photos on san francisco graffiti. always good to document that stuff ’cause it’s ever-changing. lots of good color and lovely mural and tag pics. thanks funkandjazz! but there’s more! check out some of funkandjazz’s other photo sets, such as east bay graffiti (547 photos), los angeles graffiti ‘05 (49 photos), and graffiti from other places (95 photos). good stuff! get to browsing!
some lovely and accurate billboard re-interpretation of a mcdonalds ‘mcgriddles’ ad in sacramento. thanks via one of the best sites around - wooster collective.
thought i’d repost this since 2 of the 4 people who read this blog asked for it. anyway, here’s the lil’ website i made of the barry mcgee / twist mural featuring some lovely paintings he did back in 1997 or 1998. the mural was up in SF for a short while before it got fairly defaced. anyway, enjoy.