mcchris + streetart   15

send.a.message
For thirty euro, this service will spray-paint your message on a wall separating Palestinians from Israeli settlers.
streetart  israel  activism 
january 2008 by McChris
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Mark Vallen argues that Shepard Fairey reliance on appropriation makes him a plagiarist, rather than an artist.
sampling  art  streetart  intellectualproperty 
december 2007 by McChris
Open City: Tools for Public Action
Eyebeam's "glimpse into the current media and tactics of artists who take their practices into the street" looks awesome, although it seems like it could benefit from a grounding in historical street-level praxis.
art  activism  streetart  NYC 
february 2007 by McChris
Wooster Collective: Salvation Army Campaign in Brasil
This cool advertising campaign promotes The Salvation Army by posting refuse cardboard to walls.
advertising  streetart  bricolage  design  Brazil 
february 2007 by McChris
Man held after ad campaign triggers Boston bomb scare
This story is all over the news media, but I want to chime in and say that to me it's more a case of incompetent law enforcement than any "hoax."
stupid  lawenforcement  advertising  streetart  animation 
february 2007 by McChris
Banksy: Shop
Street artist Banksy offers hi-res images of his work for free download. I think I may have an 8x10 made of the surveillance camera piece.
streetart  copyright  art  awesome 
january 2007 by McChris
TPMCafe: Goode's Office Vandalized With Graffiti: "BIGOT"
Goode is the congressman who is protesting Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison's swearing in on Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Quran.
streetart  islam  awesome 
january 2007 by McChris
Eyeteeth: Pac-Man: Graffiti or social engineering?
This cool street, um, highway art reminds drivers to keep a safe follow distance.
transportation  streetart  awesome  gaming 
december 2006 by McChris
Banksy: Films
Videos reveal how street artist Banksy conducted his pranks, such as dropping Guantanamo "detainee" dummy behind a fence at Disneyland.
streetart  prank  awesome  video 
november 2006 by McChris
theANTI: Legal Graf Walls
This site is working to geotag "permission walls" or sites where the owner permits grafitti artists to do their work. It's too bad Mojo's is no more, since it's the only one I knew of in Austin.
streetart  Web2.0  googlemaps  map 
october 2006 by McChris
The Miss Rockaway Armada
Since I mentioned this at a party last night, I thought I would post this street art project here. The Miss Rockaway Armada are sailing a biodiesel raft made from salvaged parts down the Mississippi from Minneapolis to St. Louis.
art  streetart  transportation  sustainability  DIY  recycling  awesome 
august 2006 by McChris
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make LED Throwies
This has been posted everywhere, but making LED Throwies seems like a good time.
streetart  geek  DIY  hack  toys 
april 2006 by McChris
Wooster Collective: adidas gets it right with adicolor
clever effort by Adidas to integrate grafiti into their marketing campaign
streetart  co-optation  commodification  business 
march 2006 by McChris

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