I like?

please, nobody say the sentence "the new banksy"

I like this. a lot.

found in park slope

I might be a little late to the game, but . . .

this is utterly amazing. made in buenos aires, this graffiti artist made a short animated film so it looks like his graffiti is moving across walls and in and out of buildings. my horrible explanation does nothing to help you understand how awesome this is, so just watch.


ps be on the lookout for the artist's love for bug/spider imagery.

pps my favorite part is 2:35 when the robot kicks the log off of the wall

Os Gemeos

whoaa


when I was looking at the bomb it (documentary mentioned below) site I saw some art that looked familiar. I came across this pic sometime last year and blogged about it but didn't know where it was from and then I saw the same style on the bomb it site so I kept looking and found out about these 2 motherfuckers.






Os Gemeos, Portugese for “the twins,” are Brazil’s most world renowned graffiti artists/muralists. The identical twins began painting in ’88 and today work on canvases, sculptures, graphic design, and outdoor walls, making the transition from street credibility to international art gallery phenoms. They are huge for doing pichaçao (tag) spontaneously on the street.

here is just a glimpse at some of their stuff:

they painted on a castle!

apparently they have a huge mural on coney island that I must check out. I love them and want prints of their work in my house asap.

Terrible T-Kid

There is this interview w/ terrible t-kid (a graffiti artist from the bronx that's been tagging since the 70s) that I haven't read yet but really want to. He ran w/ this crew the vamp squad (I want a crew!) that used to cause mayhem and ran around and robbed other writers.


here is a montage of his tags I found on youtube...I only looked at a couple minutes but I'm into it



he's interviewed in this new documentary about graffiti and street art called "bomb it" (click here to watch the trailer). it looks sweet b/c it's not just about old school graffiti but also this:

"While some believe the roots of graffiti can be traced back to pre-linguistic cave markings and the innate human need for self-expression, graffiti remains a highly controversial issue. Graffiti raises important questions that delve deep into our contemporary social structure such as: Who has the right to express themselves? What is a canvas? Where should art take place? If public space is a forum for discussion, which voices will be heard?"

I am so going to buy this shit.


Update: I read the interview, and I am super into what he says about politicians and gentrification:

"Yea, that’s bullshit man, these politicians with the “equality of life”. The bottom line is it’s all about money and that’s what they’re there for. I have yet to see a politician who’s kept his word and improved anybody’s life. Ok, to me, if you’re rich, you don’t need to improve your life any more. If you’re poor that’s when you need to improve your life. These politicians don’t look at it that way. They look at it like – look, let’s get these people who have the money and let’s clean everything up for them so they can be happy and they can feel good about themselves, let’s not worry so much about the run down areas in New York City – such as East New York, such as Brownsville, such as the South Bronx. They trying, they trying, but what are they trying? They trying to gentrify [the neighborhoods]. They not tying to clean up the place for the people, no, they trying to clean it up for the money."

new banksy -- played out?

I just came across an article that was like "guerilla artist banksy strikes again in islington!" and it talks about how the art is on the outside wall of a pharmacy and the owner's all "this is art, I would never cover it up, I know how much his works go for" and I was like ew.

over it?? not necessarily over banksy's work, but the whole "omg we love you that's so street and cool" reaction to it? isn't that kind of the antithesis to what he was going for?

headless wonders.

so there is a graffiti artist who bears the moniker 'the shoreditch slasher' and goes around my area removing the heads of people from posters on the street. observe: