Some good optical illusion lettering from Boa Mistura in Sao Paulo: http://www.boamistura.com/#-1
Jake
- About Me: I'm a 33 year old amateur photographer living in New York City.
- Location: New York
- Interests: biking, cats, graffiti.
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"My name is Scot Borofsky and I was the most visible street artist in the East Village during the early 80's. I had around 30 large murals which were designed as outdoor site-specific installations. All were signed without a name, but with the same symbol, which was the equivalent of a "tag". And many were clustered together in an earth-work size experience between E.5th St. and E.6th St. to both sides of Ave. C, which was called "The Pattern Walk".
The Pattern walk, along with my other most prominent pieces are now connected as the first historical ... -
From Caterina Cesarini: "The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia partially sank on 13 January 2012 after hitting a reef off the Italian coast and running aground at Isola del Giglio. The captain, Francesco Schettino, was arrested on preliminary charges of multiple manslaughter, failure to assist passengers in need and abandonment of ship. Through this work of art we experience the definition of a visual icon to the cowardice of Mr. Schettino in everlasting warning for companies not to enroll such cowordly bastards in key positions. The sank cruise ship is depicted associated with the word “CODARDIA” - cowordice, title that plays ...
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I pulled another data set- this is GrafRank over the last 60 days for the entire world. You can see the effect of festivals in places like Miami and Groningen. The influence of Mr. Brainwash is still pervasive- he's literally seeing twice the attention of the next most popular artists, Banksy, MSK, Shepard, Invader, etc.
Cities:
nyc 100.0
losangeles 65.26
london 52.76
sanfrancisco 46.27
seattle 32.21
miami 30.78
sydney 25.98
paris 25.61
chicago 24.83
berlin 23.31
melbourne 21.73
brooklyn 19.11
oakland 16.74
toronto 15.92
amsterdam ... -
GrafRank will also work for individual cities. For instance, here are the most successful graffiti artists in NYC and LA over the last 30 days (again, the lists become noisier towards the bottom, in this case, below a GrafRank of about 10.)
NYC:
btm 100.0
espo 79.17
elc 77.08
stickman 45.83
stikman 45.83
msk 35.42
ghost 35.42
katsu 33.33
hert 33.33
adek 33.33
near 33.33
kuma 31.25
jaber 29.17
kennyscharf 27.08
free5 27.08
faust 27.08
pink 27.08
tc5 25.0
tfp 22.92 ... -
I changed the grafrank methodology slightly and reprocessed the last 30 days. The results don't change that much from the last run- still some noise below a rank of "5". Also, say what you want about Mr. Brainwash, but scientifically, he's the most famous graffiti artist in the world this month.
Cities:
nyc 100.0
losangeles 96.26
sanfrancisco 48.33
london 47.39
seattle 34.07
paris 26.21
chicago 25.25
melbourne 24.4
miami 23.73
berlin 22.35
sydney 21.89
brooklyn 21.45
oakland 15.96
amsterdam 15.65
toronto 13.32
victoria ... -
C215 in Baltimore with this fresh puppy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/c215/6727117235/ - shot by Gaia
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Nice monster Kuma throwie in NYC: http://www.flickr.com/photos/41887251@N05/6723353331
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Above did a nice reboot of his site- dig this huge piece in Miami: http://www.goabove.com/
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Great SpiderTag/Sr.X collabo in Gijon, France: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stencilsrx/6719263199/
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Sickeningly ill Never/Eras piece in Brooklyn: http://www.flickr.com/photos/96793586@N00/6714858317
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For Streetsy Version 3, I've been thinking about different ways to algorithmically track graffiti around the world. As a first step, I made a program that analyzed graffiti activity by artist and city, and then collected about a month of data. Each city and artist is assigned a rank (call it a "graf-rank"), based on their activity- it's scaled from 0 to 100. It's more accurate at the top of each list than at the bottom- but it does seem to agree with my gut instinct for which cities and artists are important in the scene right ...
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Dope Escif sequence in France: http://www.flickr.com/photos/escif/6672284211/
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Magnifique RIPO/C215 collabo in Paris- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ripo/6524897455/
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Some good Lister at the art shows in Miami. The best coverage of all the street stuff has been at http://arrestedmotion.com/tag/art-basel-week-miami-2011/
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Hey- Hope appears to have gone online- she's posting pix at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hopenot711/ (via Ray)
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This is cool- what happens if you put JR posters on windows: http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2011/11/13/images-of-the-week-11-13-11-jrs-inside-out-project-special/
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Nice Banksy tribute to Robbo- it's sad they never got to smoke a peace blunt together. http://arrestedmotion.com/2011/11/streets-banksy-new-mural-in-london/
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/type_hed_here_85kt...
Post has an exclusive about Neo, the graffiti cop. It's a fun read!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/who-made-spray-pa...
Good backgrounder on the invention of spray paint.
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Lush is doing an informative series of graffiti-related drawings: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mercyfulfate/
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Infinite is a project realiced in the Saharawis refugee camps in Tindouf. Is incredible the history of the Saharawi people who live since more than 36 years in exile. Fighting a peaceful way with projects as Artifariti. The Sahara, under hard conditions of life, living in the so called “the desert of the deserts” a land that has no end, where time doesn’t exist. This mystic culture, full of magic is in a political conflict whose solution isn´t appropriate for many countries, including mine.
The old Saharawi’s villages that are found in the Moroccan occupied Western Sahara ... -
Faile is taking over the JR piece at the Bowery wall- photo by Scott Lynch.
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Fresh Ripo piece on the side of a library in Barcelona during Open Walls: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ripo/6274452151/
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