News Tagged: Street-Art

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    London Calling: UK Experiments with Plant Bombing in Potholes

    Check out how London does plant bombing. We're not talking throwing a potted plant into any ugly corner of a street; the British create vignettes with mini living room furniture, tennis courts, garden tools, and more in combination with plants inside potholes...

    ©12ozProphet - Sunday February 05, 2012

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    Video: JR "The Wrinkles Of The City" in Los Angeles

    JR is a street artist from Paris, France who photographs members of communities and blows up their images to an architectural scale to paste up around the neighborhood. In his latest series of work, "The Wrinkles of the City," JR has been photographing older members of communities and superimposing their likeness onto the landscape.

    ©12ozProphet - Friday February 03, 2012

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    Photo: Retna x Metropolitan Hotel

    Retna painted the Metropolitan Hotel parking garage with his trademark calligraphic style. Scroll through the flicks (and check the captions to see what each wall says) after the jump...

    ©12ozProphet - Thursday February 02, 2012

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    Photo: NoseGo & Mad Decent in Philly

    Artists NoseGo and Mad Decent recently coated the side of the PhilaMOCA building in Philadelphia with a fresh collaboration piece. Nose Go, who has a piece in the current 'Rather Unique' exhibition at Woodward Gallery...

    ©12ozProphet - Friday January 27, 2012

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    Photo: Ben Eine in Mexico

    Maybe Mexico is becoming the next big street art hub? British artist Ben Eine recently visited Mexico leaving behind some fresh type-based murals with a bit of a political edge. Photos after the jump...

    ©12ozProphet - Friday January 27, 2012

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    Recap: Stuck-Up Opens in Chi-Town

    DB Burkeman created an installation from thousands of the stickers he collected in creating the book Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art. Martha Cooper was in Chicago last week for the opening of DB's Stuck-Up sticker show. Check out her recap after the jump!

    ©12ozProphet - Wednesday January 25, 2012

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    Artist Programs Fire Extinguisher to Paint Text On Walls

    And we thought it was innovative when graffiti writers started using fire extinguishers to catch tags. Dutch artist, Oliver Van Herpt, created Time Writer, a program that connects to a paint filled fire extinguisher that sprays type on a wall. Though crude in it's results, this concept is pretty sick...

    ©12ozProphet - Monday January 23, 2012

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    Video: Retna in Miami

    This past December Retna teamed up with Primary Flight to paint this huge wall in the Wynwood District in Miami. This piece brought his calligraphic style to a new scale, painting top-to-bottom style. This beautiful time-lapse video shows this mural come to life from projecting the image at night to using spray paint, roller, and brush to execute...

    ©12ozProphet - Sunday January 22, 2012

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    Video: Steve Duncan Explores Abandoned Subway Station in Brooklyn

    An art piece found on a wall underground reads "alone in the dark I made a mark that nobody would see." Clearly that's not the case in this new Undercity clip on Myblocknyc by Steve Duncan and filmmaker Andrew Wonder as they explore a 1930's abandoned G train line subway station in Brooklyn. The Folks at Myblocknyc are making an mini online series....

    ©12ozProphet - Wednesday January 18, 2012

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    Photo: Finok's Color and Imagination on Canvas

    Check out these flicks of some of Finok's latest paintings. The Sao Paulo graffiti writer and protege of Os Gemeos has certainly been maturing as an artists and coming into his own style. It's excited seeing his work develop and we're lucky to have one of his latest, and freshest, works adorning the walls of the 12ozProphet studio. More photos...

    ©12ozProphet - Tuesday January 17, 2012

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    Interview: Getting Up With Montreal-Based Artist Earth Crusher

    Our eyes and ears on the streets of Montreal recently got up with Montreal based artist Earth Crusher following the opening of his show at Sub V. For those of us state-side who are not up on his work, get familiar with a short Q&A, and a select number of his pieces after the jump!

    ©12ozProphet - Tuesday January 17, 2012

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    Mark Lyken's Art Channels Futura, Rammellzee, and Kandinsky

    Our friends at Graffuturism just turned us on to some really cool work by artist Mark Lyken. Graff heads will definitely see distinct references to Futura 2000 and Rammellzee whereas the more art historically inclined can just as easily see inspiration from Kandinsky.

    ©12ozProphet - Monday January 16, 2012