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Guerrilla Moss Graffiti: 8-Step DIY Guide to Green Wall Art

30 Sep

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

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Seed bombs and shotgun shell sprouts are not the only weapons in a guerrilla war for urban gardens and green street art – moss is a great material that can be rapidly adapted and deployed to make statements on city surfaces as well.

moss wall art making

Indeed, using mosses allows artists to go above and beyond the ground, shifting from horizontal to vertical spans for a different look and added visibility. And, as it turns out, creating moss wall art is not as difficult as you might guess – do-it-yourself directions are shown in detail below.

moss art recipe process

First, you have to gather some moss, naturally, which you can then mix with water-retention gardening gel and some buttermilk then blend together for a few minutes to form a gelatinous substance.

moss graffiti guide steps

Shift your creation into a portable container then select and paint it onto a surface of choice – if the area will not be exposed to moisture, you may want to come back by and spray on some water from time to time.

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Remember, too, that there are many ways to take this process further and create additional kinds of green artwork, mossy or otherwise.

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Meanwhile, if you find a surface already mossed over thanks to time and nature, selectively erasing sections of growth can be a fun form of expression as well.

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Head Light: Popup Wall Lamp Has Horns that Glow in Shadows

18 Jul

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Fixtures & Interiors. ]

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A classy alternative to hanging animal parts, this deer head wall lamp started as a design concept, went viral as a prototype and has just been funded for full production via a successful crowdfunding campaign.

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peacock lamp pop up

This particular popup lighting design is the first in a series of pieces that combine abstracted animals (including an owl and a peacock) and minimalist home lighting design – a sort of modern (and less morbid) take on faux taxidermy.

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Chen Bikovski is a Tel Aviv-based designer exploring the relation of light and space. “Since I was a child, I was fascinated by Pop-up books…The excitement before turning a page, a simple pull that uncovers a whole new world. I loved how the story came to life, how the books created a fantasy world that flew off the page. The magic, the excitement, the naiveté…”

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dear head light in room

Named ‘Promising Young Designer of 2012,’ Chen’s work is presented in prominent galleries and featured in leading design publications. “The idea behind Popup Lighting was to create a permanent light fixture that would bring a magical ambiance to any space. A multi-dimensional light that would inspire the senses and ignite the imagination.”

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Getty Images now lets you hang iconic photos on your wall

28 Apr

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In March, stock photography house Getty Images rocked the industry when it announced it would allow people to embed images for free on websites and other electronic uses. Clearly looking to monetize the vast collection of images currently gathering digital dust in its archives, it has launched Photos.com by Getty Images to sell prints directly to customers. Learn more

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Off the Wall: 14 3D Graffiti Sculptures, Furniture & More

20 Feb

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

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Flat paint on two-dimensional surfaces springs to life in surprising ways in these 14 graffiti-inspired projects ranging from sand sculptures to entire apartment buildings. Street art’s impact on visual culture expands into furniture design, architecture, art installations, 3D printed works and fantastical digital animations that envision graffiti moving through space like living organisms.

The Hive Apartment by ITN Architects

3D graffiti the hive building

Built for an architect and street artist, the facade of this Melbourne house fittingly includes built-in graffiti made from precast, four-meter-tall concrete letters spelling out ‘The Hive.’ The lettering is a load-bearing part of the building, making for a striking transition between the modern house and its old brick tailor shop neighbor.

Large-Scale Graffiti Sculptures by Zeus

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London-based graffiti artist Zeus brings his art into three dimensions with a variety of large-scale sculptural works including tags that protrude from walls and cars.

Graffurniture

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Street graffiti moves into the living room with coffee tables, side tables and chairs marrying tag style with baroque furniture traditions. Designer Luis Alicandu is a former tagger who has since turned his creative urges into a passion for industrial design.

Digital 3D Graffiti Animations

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These 3D graffiti creations by ‘Graffiti Technica’ are totally digital, but watch the videos to see incredible animations that bring street art to life in a novel way, cruising through the air like alien organisms.

Graffiti Analysis Series by Evan Roth

3D graffiti analysis

Here’s a totally different way of looking at making graffiti three-dimensional: a sculpture that captures a tagger’s movements as they work. Designer Evan Roth created this piece, CAP, algorithmically by motion-capturing the writing of street artist CAP in the 1983 documentary Style Wars. The piece is made of chrome-dipped ABS thermoplastic.

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12-County Coalition: Building the Great Green Wall of Africa

26 Jan

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The clock is ticking for the collaborative creation of a living green wall to span nearly 5,000 miles across the African continent, designed to slow or even stop the relentless spread of desertification. The scope of this unique organic building project is unprecedented, as is its urgency.

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China took over 1,000 years to construct their Great Wall, but scientists believe Africa may only have a few decades before the Sahara Desert engulfs more than two thirds of its arable land. Hence the Great Green Wall of the Sahara, set to stretch from coast to coast, west to east.

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The cooperation of the twelve contiguous African countries involved is as impressive as their challenge is daunting – participating nations include: Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti.

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The idea to create a ‘green front’ to protect Africa is almost half a century old, but the plan began to be taken more seriously starting just over ten years ago. Since being ratified by participating countries, the program has raised billions of dollars in pledges from international organizations.

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From AtlasObscura: “Leaders point out that the Great Green Wall is about more than just protection from windblown sand. The project will bring thousands of jobs to impoverished communities, and has already transformed otherwise unusable land into gardens scattered with tree nurseries. The influx of tourists, scientists, and medical professionals has also brought attention and resources to a neglected region in which aid is scarce and doctors are not readily available to needy populations.”

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High Security: 150 Creepy Cameras Installed on 1 Blank Wall

03 Jan

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

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If you ever get that feeling you are being watched, well, for once it really is just your imagination – this fleet of surveillance cams is inactive but still startling to anyone caught by surprise. All they are missing is some George Orwell birthday party hats.

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Street artist SpY, known for large and thought-provoking interventions, really lives up to his nom de plume in this installation set alongside a side street in Madrid, Spain.

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Catching passers by off their guard, the neatly-arranged series features one hundred and fifty security cameras all pointed in roughly the same direction, all causing a cumulative sense of distinct unease that is only slightly irrational upon reflection.

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While the prop cams are both inactive in practice and redundant in theory (since they all appear to be looking at the same spot), the effect of feeling watched by many eyes is still disproportionately unsettling.

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The construction process was painstaking, involving a crane and the manual attachment and alignment of each camera along a carefully-planned grid.

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Aside from their uniform focus, the consistent color and style of each unit adds another level of discomfort to the mix, like a marching army of emotionless robotic agents in some dystopian science fiction film.

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Parasite Tent Pods: Vertical Urban Wall Homes for Homeless

22 Dec

[ By Delana in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ]

parasitic homeless tent community

In cities around the world, people are feeling the effects of a weak global economy and homeless populations continue to rise. Taking shelter in cardboard boxes or in isolated tents can be dangerous – not only due to inclement weather, but also for the fear of robbery or violence.

hanging tents for homeless population

The A-Kamp47 project from Malka Architecture gives the homeless a safe place to sleep. Using a blank vertical expanse of wall, they installed 23 small tent pods. The pods are “parasitic” structures, meaning that they rely on another structure to provide them a place to sit.

suspended camp for homeless people

Each tent provides a private space for the city’s homeless. The grouping of tents embodies the old adage “safety in numbers.” Residents can enter their tents via the scaffolding between the wall and the tend pods.

a-kamp 47 homeless tent colony

The project is not without controversy; the wall used by the architects exists in a grey area between private and public space. They hope, however, that their efforts will lead to increased awareness of the homeless problem and encourage people to get involved in the cause.

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Parasite Tent Pods: Vertical Urban Wall Homes for Homeless

11 Dec

[ By Delana in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ]

parasitic homeless tent community

In cities around the world, people are feeling the effects of a weak global economy and homeless populations continue to rise. Taking shelter in cardboard boxes or in isolated tents can be dangerous – not only due to inclement weather, but also for the fear of robbery or violence.

hanging tents for homeless population

The A-Kamp47 project from Malka Architecture gives the homeless a safe place to sleep. Using a blank vertical expanse of wall, they installed 23 small tent pods. The pods are “parasitic” structures, meaning that they rely on another structure to provide them a place to sit.

suspended camp for homeless people

Each tent provides a private space for the city’s homeless. The grouping of tents embodies the old adage “safety in numbers.” Residents can enter their tents via the scaffolding between the wall and the tend pods.

a-kamp 47 homeless tent colony

The project is not without controversy; the wall used by the architects exists in a grey area between private and public space. They hope, however, that their efforts will lead to increased awareness of the homeless problem and encourage people to get involved in the cause.

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Climbing Wall Treadmill: Exercise Machine Rocks Your House

02 Dec

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Far more exciting than a walking treadmill or elliptical machine, this infinite rock wall brings the challenges (and hard exercise) of scaling sheer cliffs right into your local gym or living room.

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The Climbstation can be rotated between a slope of 15 degrees and negative 49 degrees, simulating everything from relatively generous slopes or dizzying upside-down climbing experiences.

rock wall climber demo

The device can also rotate through different slopes, speeds and durations on demand, in response to programmatic difficulty levels or in a pre-selected sequence. As in typical bouldering rooms at climbing wall centers, a mat placed below the device will cushion any fall.

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rock wall example treadmill

Between climbs, users can swap out 90 holds that come with each machine between 600 potential positions, dynamically changing the landscape from one session to the next to keep things interesting and challenging.

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rock wall gym version

The mid-five-figure price tag will be enough to put off casual users, but could also be sufficiently low for these to start showing up not just at the homes of the rich and famous but also at regional fitness centers – a great way for recreational climbers or professionals located far from mountains to train or simply stay in shape.

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Buchrezension: Wall

26 Nov

Der neue Fotoband „Wall: Israeli and Palestinian Landscapes“ des tschechischen Fotojournalisten und Magnum-Fotografen Josef Koudelka ist in vielfacher Hinsicht ein echtes Schwergewicht: Das Thema, die Bilder, das Format – nichts an diesem Buch ist einfach zu konsumieren. Aber gerade deswegen lohnt sich die Auseinandersetzung damit sehr.

In den Jahren von 2008 bis 2012 machte Josef Koudelka großformatige Panorama-Aufnahmen entlang der Grenze zwischen Israel und Palästina. Er fotografierte die 750 Kilometer lange „Wall“, verschiedene Grenzanlagen in Ost-Jerusalem, Hebron, Ramallah, Betlehem und in mehreren israelischen Siedlungen im Grenzbereich zu Palästina.

© Josef Koudelka

„Wall: Israeli and Palestinian Landscapes“ bündelt auf 120 Seiten eine Auswahl von 54 Fotografien aus diesen vier Jahren, die sich jeweils in hochkontrastigem Schwarzweiß über eine Doppelseite von 70 x 26 cm erstrecken.

Man sieht eingezäunte Straßen, massive Betonmauern, Stacheldraht, Militäranlagen, elektrische Zäune. Die Kette eines Panzer schlängelt sich über den Sandboden, Graffiti erzählen von Gewalt, Betonpfeiler stehen wie Denkmäler vor einer Hügelkette.

© Josef Koudelka

Überall sehen die Grenzanlagen anders aus, aber eines ist ihnen immer gemein: Sie wirken bedrückend, groß, massiv, abschreckend, vor allem die Mauer selbst, die sich in bis zu acht Metern Höhe durch die Landschaft schlängelt.

Die apokalyptischen Bilder einer fremdartigen, bedrohlichen Landschaft stellen Fragen nach dem Sinn von menschlichen Bauwerken im Allgemeinen, Fragen nach dem Umgang der Menschen miteinander, aber auch mit der Natur.

© Josef Koudelka

Kouldelkas Fotografien sind neutral, soweit das bei so einem Thema möglich ist, auf der Oberfläche scheinen sie nur dokumentarisch, aber es sind keine schönen Bilder. Er geht an die Grenze in ihren vielen Erscheinungsformen heran wie ein Journalist, aber es gelingt ihm durch das Breitbildformat und durch die Abbildung in schwarzweiß auch, eine ungeheuere Emotionalität und künstlerische Wucht in die Bilder zu legen, ohne dass Menschen auf ihnen zu sehen sind.

Man sucht als Betrachter nach Hinweisen von Leben in diesen Bildern, als wären sie Aufnahmen von einem fremden Planeten. Aber man findet neben den gewaltigen Bauwerken der Abgrenzung nur ein paar dürre Bäume und das an eine der Mauern gesprühte Bild eines jungen Mannes mit einer Maschinenpistole.

© Josef Koudelka

Eine Chronologie der geschichtlichen Ereignisse der Region ist vorangestellt, ein Glossar am Ende schließt das Buch ab und erklärt die politischen Kontexte und Zusammenhänge. Wenn man „Wall“ in Ruhe durchgesehen hat, fühlt man sich plötzlich sehr nah dran am Konflikt zwischen Israel und Palästina.

Fazit: „Wall“ ist ein hochpolitisches, ein emotionales, beeindruckendes, sehr empfehlenswertes Buch, das definitiv nicht nur für an politischem Fotojournalismus interessierte Menschen eine Besonderheit ist.

„Wall“ von Josef Koudelka* ist als Hardcover-Ausgabe beim Verlag Prestel erschienen und umfasst 128 Seiten.

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