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Paint the Town: Massive Mural Transforms Mexican Neighborhood

31 Jul

[ By Steph in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

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Waves of rainbow color cascade down a hillside neighborhood in Mexico’s drug capital as a street art collective paints over 200 houses. ‘German Crew’ enlisted the help of youth living in Las Palmitas to transform the town, brightening the facades of almost every single building in continuous swoops of fuchsia, orange, yellow, green and blue.

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The muralists covered 20,000 square meters (225,280 square feet) with powerful pops of color. Commissioned by the Las Palmitas municipality, the project is five months in the making, and these photos only show completion of the first stage. The aim is to revitalize the town, which is located in the state of Sinaloa, where most of the country’s drug cartels are based.

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According to the German Crew Nuevo Muralismos of Mexico, the project involved the participation of 452 families, or 1,808 people living in the neighborhood. Keeping kids and teenagers busy painting all of those houses nearly eradicated violence among youths while it was in progress. Lots more photos can be found on the crew’s Facebook page and Instagram.

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Previously, street art duo Haas & Hahn transformed 34 buildings in a Rio de Janeiro favela (above), with the similar effect of creating jobs, bringing the community together and making a place that’s often feared by outsiders feel more welcoming. These large-scale mural projects can bring attention to under-served neighborhoods and help boost residents’ sense of pride.

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Rise of Robotic Graffiti: Drone Vandal Sprays Paint in Midair

06 May

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

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In what appears to be the first recorded work of public aerial drone vandalism, this off-the-shelf quadcopter was hacked to hold and use a can of spray paint, forever transforming the landscape of potential graffiti targets (image above by Arthur Holland Michel).

Attacking a giant Calvin Klein ad in the heart of New York City, this modified Phantom drone sprayed red paint on the face of model Kendall Jenner, able to fly up to and hover around the area of application much faster (then escape much easier) than a human ever could, finished in under a minute. Robot-made murals and computer-generated street art are nothing new, but putting them in the sky could change everything.

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The artist behind this intervention, KATSU, has been exprimenting with drone-mounted spray cans for some time now in controlled indoor environments, but wanted to show the potential for his work to reach places inaccessible to humans.

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More proof of concept than finished piece, this particular work of graffiti was difficult to accomplish, with a great deal of effort put into stabilizing the aerial robot – creating a tag with any kind of precision using this method would be effectively impossible.

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Per Wired, though, the implications are bigger than this test: “Given the enduring privacy, safety, and legal concerns around the technology, conceptually it makes a certain amount of sense that it would find uses at the peripheries of what most people (let alone the law) would consider acceptable. KATSU’s scribble high above SoHo might not look like much, but it represents the potential that drones have to transform graffiti forever.”

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Light Footed: Smart Shoes Paint with Light As You Dance

27 Mar

[ By Steph in Design & Products & Packaging. ]

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Paint with light in real-time with a pair of shoes that not only have 100 LED lights embedded into the sole, but are also fitted with advanced motion tracking sensors to put on a dazzling show matched to your movements. Orphan by Japanese startup No New Folk Studio is a programmable performance shoe that can be set to blink and change color according to the speed and orientation of the dancer’s movements.

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“The 9-axis sensors embedded in each sole pick up the movements of each shoe in real time. This data can then be used to wirelessly control various external devices, allowing the shoes to function as musical instruments, video game controllers, foot switches, etc.”

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Each shoe contains a small circuitboard with an ARM Cortex-M3 microprocessor, a tracking device, a wireless module and a charging circuit as well as the LED light strip. The project is

The Orphe shoes are essentially an artistic medium, bringing technology, dance and light painting together in a highly customizable experience. Users can either use the accompanying app to communicate with the shoes via Bluetooth, or pre-program their own effects. But the functionality goes beyond personal expression. “The 9-axis sensors embedded in each sole pick up the movements of each shoe in real time. This data can then be used to wirelessly control various external devices, allowing the shoes to function as musical instruments, video game controllers, foot switches, etc.” Each shoe contains a small circuitboard with an ARM Cortex-M3 microprocessor, a tracking device, a wireless module and a charging circuit as well as the LED light strip. The project is currently seeking funding on IndieGoGo, with backers snagging their own pair for $ 270 as a reward.”>currently seeking funding on IndieGoGo, with backers snagging their own pair for $ 270 as a reward.

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Beware of Colour: Activists Highlight Decay with Pink Paint

11 Jan

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

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Splashed with bright buckets of paint from roofs and windows, the colorfully defaced buildings of downtown Johannesburg have evoked different reactions from supports and detractors who variously see this work as an act of protest or crime of vandalism. Before we delve too deep into the sides represented, keep in mind that Beware of Colour employed water-soluble paint in these interventions.

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Colombian-American Yazmany Arboleda and the other artists behind the work note that all of the buildings targeted have been abandoned for decades despite a housing crisis – a fifth of the region’s population needs a place to live, currently dwelling in shanties or on the streets. Historic preservationists, meanwhile, decry the defacement and suggest that other methods could be used to raise public awareness of civic problems.

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The case is more complicated, though, than either single viewpoint might suggest and the case for preservation is nuanced. As CityLab’s Ryan Lenora Brown points out, “appealing to history in contemporary South Africa is hardly a straightforward matter. Buildings like Shakespeare House were originally built for the exclusive use of whites, back when Johannesburg’s inner city was the center of one of the modern world’s most infamous projects of racial segregation …. The slumped and broken building has become a symbol for a different Johannesburg, one blighted by decades of white flight and municipal neglect.”

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Arborleda was eventually caught with a crew of people and arrested for “malicious destruction of property” after being spotted entering one of the buildings on their list. This has, for now, put an end to this particular vintage of urban activism in South Africa.

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Most of the structures the 30-some artists threw paint upon are either owned by the city or by Urban Ocean, a development group with a significant number of centrally-located and historical holdings. It remains to be seen whether this project will make a difference in the course of the city’s development, or become just another piece in the area’s persistently puzzling blight.

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17, October, 2014 – I Wish I Knew How To Paint

25 Oct

Sometimes it is good to slow it down and reflect on our photography. In his last article Frank Sauer showed us how much we could find to photograph in our own backyard. Today we share Frank Sauer’s newest essay I Wish I Knew How To Paint. I hope you enjoy this essay and take some time this weekend to explore the world around you and try some photography like Frank describes.

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Paint Me White Again: Tunnel Type Graffiti Taunts Authorities

28 Sep

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

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Well known for stenciling big block-lettered phrases on walls around his native Newscastle, this piece is unusually blunt (as well as hilarious), amounting to a multi-part conversation between the artist and the city.

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Even better than the original ‘COME ON AND PAINT ME WHITE AGAIN’ dare is the later response after the municipality indeed whitewashed the first work: ‘BOOORING’, using his same signature typography in black paint.

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While not all of his work is quite so meta-minded as this series, this sequence remains a great illustration of how graffiti is generally temporary as well as contextual, and can have elements of humor and self-reflection beyond simple tagging. Some of his works are best seen in video form rather than via photographs, hence a few fun short films below.

A self-described minimalist, Mobstr explains the origins of his nom de plume, which are none too surprising: “It is a play on the term mobster which is someone who deals in organised crime. Most of my work is illegal however a lot of organisation goes into it. So as a joke I use the idea of it being organised (art) crime.” Also, he had a lobster named mobster.

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How To Paint With Light using Rainbow Flash Filters

15 Sep

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Hey you! Yes, hue!

Color your world one photograph at a time by painting with light.

Our guide will show you how to amp up your photos with color in a flash, without any fancy equipment or software.

Follow the light, friends. A whole chroma of possibilities await.

Learn How To Light Paint With Rainbow Photo Filters

WHY IT’S COOL

You’ve always wanted to take these photos but didn’t have the know how – ’til now. Also, color rules! Beige drools.

INGREDIENTS

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Colorful Flash Filters (like these, or any see-through colored plastic)
Camera or Phone Camera
Tripod
Flashlight
External Flash
A room that is nice and dark

GET SET

To give yourself enough time for these effects, set your camera’s shutter speed to around 5 seconds (5″) and adjust the aperture and ISO accordingly. You can either do this on your camera’s Manual (M) mode (you set the aperture), or Time Value (TV) mode (it’ll choose aperture for you).

To make sure your image is sharp, mount your camera on a tripod or put onto a flat surface. Using the self timer option is also a good idea, to avoid shaking your camera when you press the shutter button.

COLOR CAMERA ACTION

before Press that button and get ready. When the shutter opens, you’ve got 5 seconds to work!

Fire the flash to the left of your subject with your first colored filter, then (QUICKLY!) switch filters and fire a second flash to the right of your subject. Experiment with even more flashes in different part of the scene for an even more psychedelic result.

If you don’t have an external flash, don’t despair. You can use a bright flashlight by turning it on and off quickly.

DRAW SOME ATTENTION

before Time to get your drawing on, Da Vinci.

Grab your flashlight (or your phone’s flashlight mode) and cover it with a color filter (we used 2 flashlights with different color filters simultaneously to get this effect).

While the shutter is open, do a dance and move your arms around like crazy. Or write a message, or draw a love heart. Either or.

GHOST FACES

before Ever thought your photos need more of you? We’ve got your back. Or front.

Starting from one side of the scene, fire the filter covered flash (or flashlight) around your subject’s face, then ask them to move sideways. Repeat with different colors until you run out of time and/or space.

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TAKING IT FURTHER

Combine flash to light up your face and flashlight to draw at the same time
This app for your phone can be used in the same way as a flashlight + filter. Use it to draw or hold it still over the part of the scene you want to illuminate in color
Flash filters aren’t just reserved for your flash or flashlight. For a super quick and easy effect, just slip a filter right in front of your lens

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Urban Camo: Body Paint Blends Humans into City Backdrops

14 Aug

[ By Steph in Art & Drawing & Digital. ]

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Human figures blend into iconic New York City scenes, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Guggenheim Museum, in artist Trina Merry‘s tromp l’eoil urban camouflage works. Each subject is carefully posed against a backdrop and painted in place to virtually disappear.

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The work is reminiscent of that of Liu Bolin, the Beijing-based artist known as the ‘Invisible Man,’ who spends hours studying his chosen locations and painting himself and other subjects. It’s also another amazing example of surreal and sometimes mind-bending works of art that use human bodies as canvas.

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“My surface is living, breathing human beings making this a highly relevant & immediate medium,” says Merry. “The painting is temporary, like a Tibetan sand painting, beginning to change into another work as soon as I stop painting, changing texture & color.”

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“For this reason highly intentional photography has become an important part of documenting my work… likewise, I work with y human canvases on poses, creating new opportunities for line & Form. My work is sometimes experienced live as an installation, for example, at museums, or preserved through photographs as limited edition fine art prints.”

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Cargo Canvases: 6 Street Artists Paint 22 Stacked Containers

31 Jul

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

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Towers constructed from shipping container modules formed the blank basis behind this series of incredible giant-sized, site-specific artworks using spray paint and pole brushes.

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For the North West Walls Street Art Festival in Belgium, curated by Arne Quinze, each contributor was encouraged to compose something on one side of each of three unique and random-seeming stacks.

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Famous graffiti artists Pichi & Avo added an array of Greek gods to their chosen canvas, framing the brilliantly-rendered figures in contemporary style, using warm-colored graffiti to create a stark contrast around them.

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A play on the artist’s name and implicit commentary on creatures in captive zoo conditions, Roa’s Ark features a series of caged and chained animals each contained in one of the cargo units, the effectively black-and-white composition intentionally devoid of bright colors.

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Other contributors included Jen Zie and Martin Ron, adding further colorful and abstract creations to the mix. Together, the finished works represent a wonderful array of approaches, some playing on history, references and culture and others on visual effects, depth and perception.

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The Power of Paint: Mini Spruce-Ups Act as Advertisements

13 Mar

[ By Steph in Design & Guerilla Ads & Marketing. ]

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Billboard-sized paint jobs on buildings that have seen better days give passersby a glimpse of how much fresher and brighter the structure could look with a little care – the ideal advertisement for paint company OBI. They may be promoting a product, but these miniature renovations get their message across by proving what the product can do rather than just plastering photos of it on ugly billboards.

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The campaign by Hamburg-based agency Jung Von Matt came about as a result of price wars between independent stores in Germany, causing a sudden increase in unsightly billboards all over the country. OBI, the largest DIY store in Germany, asked “Why do people advertise products that are supposed to make our homes look nicer using adverts that make everything look uglier?”

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It’s a refreshing twist on the usual public advertisement, using the old show-don’t-tell method. In some cases, just half a window is included in the re-paint, making it glaringly obvious how much newer and more cheerful the building would look if the whole thing received the same treatment.

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These days, as we collectively develop blinders that make conventional ads in public spaces virtually invisible, marketers have to get a lot more creative to be noticed. Check out 300+ shocking, brilliant and unmissable ad campaigns that force us to sit up and pay attention.

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Posts Tagged ‘Paint’

Paint the Town: Massive Mural Transforms Mexican Neighborhood

Rise of Robotic Graffiti: Drone Vandal Sprays Paint in Midair

Light Footed: Smart Shoes Paint with Light As You Dance

Beware of Colour: Activists Highlight Decay with Pink Paint

17, October, 2014 – I Wish I Knew How To Paint

Paint Me White Again: Tunnel Type Graffiti Taunts Authorities