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Ever had an idea that someone else executes better than you imagined it? Well, here is one of those situations. The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal is one of my favorite short films. For years I have photographed the ephemeral state of street art as if it were an unconscious process of spontaneous creation. This [...]

Two videos featuring works from Banksy’s big show at the Bristol Museum (the top one is from his site). Banksy manages to channel Dada’s residual spirit by juxtaposing the history of Western art with the violence of the world from which it springs. I hope the museum produces a catalog because I’m particularly interested in [...]

This is one of the greatest culture jams of all time, made by artist Phil Patiris. I’m glad to finally see it on the net. This YouTube version is a little incomplete. I recommend seeing the complete version at the Internet Archive.

I’ve written before about Chris Jordan’s amazing hybrid info-graphics art that dramatically depicts the mass scale of our environmental impact on the world. His new piece, E. Pluribus Unum, is based on Paul Hawken’s Blessed Unrest. In it he takes the names of all the grassroots groups in the world working in some kind social [...]

Jacqueline Hassink explores sacred spaces of multinational capitalism: boardrooms of banks and corporations, and fitting rooms of haute couture. The above image is from Nestle’s boardroom. What strikes me about it is the far wall, which is the old Mercator map projection originally designed for shipping. In essence it’s a colonial map because of the obvious [...]

Papergirl #3 from Papergirl on Vimeo.
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Nice to see that protest art is making a comeback. The age of bling is over.
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Terrific little video about one of my fave NYC street artists, Posterboy.

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We don’t expect to win any Grammys for this one, but my friend and musical collaborator Barnmaster Scud and I have released our second music CD, Jambient Excursions. We play under the rubric, My Country of Illusion, and you can click to our Website and MySpace page to check out more about our high weirdness.

This [...]

Circular Painting from Fly on the Wall on Vimeo.

I’m super excited about this new kind of “grafimation” (hmm, I just made that up)– animated graf art. This piece in particular demonstrates a new kind of ecological art paradigm because as a hybrid of human technology and the natural process of eco-insired creativity, we discover insights [...]

I’m continually blown away by human creativity. Watch for exhibit A.
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Image from Romanyg’s photostream
Banksy helped organize the Cans Festival, an open source stencil art event that anyone can join. The AP has more.
Here is a link to Cans Festival photostream.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT*
This is an open event and coming with your own stencil is positively encouraged but please observe the following
- This is a stencil only [...]

Architecture and Design · Inversion Tunnel House | Looking Back:
Dan Havel and Dean Ruck called this tunnel “Inversion” and saw it as a celebration of the old space that had once housed art classes. Just before these houses were demolished to clear the site for a coffee house, they peeled off the exterior wood and [...]

I beautiful little documentary about a great artist who creates urban portraits in chalk.
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First of all, let me say that I hate Flash sites. With that said, you should most definitely check out the MOMA online exhibit, Design and the Elastic Mind.

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Some useful street therapy.
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Will someone please offer this child art classes?
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In the Information Age, the flow of IP (Internet Protocol) data between locations is nearly ubiquitous. Globe Encounters visualizes in real time the volumes of Internet data flowing between New York and cities around the world. The size of the glow on a particular city location corresponds to the amount of IP traffic flowing between [...]

One of the best things I like about watching this version of Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman’s “Television Delivers People” (1973) is the distortion of an old video tape from broadcast TV. This video inspired a show currently running at The Whitney:
Television Delivers People
on view December 12, 2007 – February 17, 2008
Television Delivers People [...]