Graffiti Through Foreign Eyes
As I read this article in the NY Daily News, I couldn't help but marvel at the beauty of the graffiti art created. This art, done by European graffiti artists, is interesting in the fact that they have decided to reinterpret an art form
A Few Questions and Answers about Visual Poetry
Not often, but my handwritten visual poems sometimes show a tenuous affinity to graffiti. In this country, graffiti art is fairly rigid in its presentation of text. There is little variety there, whereas I’m interested in giving text
The intertwined world of street art,graffiti, money and advertising
“Is street art graffiti?” is asked by many a “street style” magazines, They like their art to be seen as a form of rebellion or graffiti basically because So, graffiti is not necessarily street art yet a street artist could use
art opening, downtown
Well, it sounded awkward coming from her mouth, but there is something definitely "street" about the art featured here. It's all urban, graffiti-inspired and edgy. They even have a businessman special
Graffiti Research Lab
Graffiti Research Lab agents are currently working in the lab and in the field to develop and test a range of experimental technologies for the state-of-the-art graffiti writer’. Call in for a chat during public ‘office hours’ to check
Letdown
And then there were the even more surprising anti-graffiti rants. patterns of writing/street art are now becoming the domain of corporate advertising. At first, I had a predictable reaction to what I saw as a graffiti hater.
Angle View: Avalon Chrystie "Girl Photo" Paste-Up
And here's a view at an angle looking eastward down Houston Street and the new-ish Avalon Chrystie Place apartments/condos development in downtown New York City. Ivan Corsa Photo Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera On
Video: Barcelona Street Art Images
Alexa Jones spent a couple of weeks in Barcelona this past summer and began documenting street art around the Catalan capital. She put the images together in this video clip. Good stuff from arguably the most important city for
Wide View: "Times" Logo Graf, LES, NYC
Here's the contextual view of the "Times" logo graf on the parked truck in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC. Ivan Corsa Photo Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera On the iPod: Kanye West -
Shanty Town mural
I’m real big into art in public places and have been very into looking at graffiti and spray paint art since I was a little kid. I am not an artist myself, but me and Shaun (Thurston) pretty much grew up together, and him being the sick
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