Here’s something from Mathieu Tremblin. It’s sort of similar to that famous Wild Style piece or that guy who painted the flickr logo on walls (sorry I can’t find a link), but I like this nonetheless. It’s called Tag Cloud, as in an online tag cloud of tags. As a computer geek, I can’t help but laugh.
Photos by Mathieu Tremblin
I’m guessing that with college only getting busier (although, as Stickboy pointed out on Twitter, freshman year isn’t exactly the busiest), I think I’ll finally have to resort to a semi-weekly link post. So Things to look at this weekend… will probably become a weekly feature on Vandalog (but maybe with more exciting name). So here’s what I’ve been reading recently:
This year’s BLK River Festival has officially begun with this crazy new wall from the master of huge walls, Blu. Of course, Blu isn’t the only artist who will be beautifying Vienna over the next few weeks. Other artists involved in the festival this year include John Fekner, DTAGNO, Know Hope, Ox, Sam3 and Brad Downey. I don’t know if I could put together a much better and more eclectic street art festival.
Photos by Scarygami
Dammit. Once again, Specter is messing with people’s heads in an awesome way. For his latest pieces, which he’s calling “sidebusts,” Specter has “collaborated” with various street artists in New York by adding on to work that they had already put up. In the case of the above sidebust of a Swoon poster, the top half of the piece was falling apart and had been partially written over, but Specter brought it back to a state that looks almost like new (in fact, I know at least one other blogger who thought that the work was entirely by Swoon). So far, Specter has done similar work on street art by Skewville, Bast and Faile. Here’s his sidebust of a Bast poster (Specter added the flag and matched it perfectly to a portion of the wheatpaste which had already been torn off):
Check out more examples of these sidebusts at The Street Spot.
Photos by Luna Park
Chris Stain sent over these images of two new walls that he painted recently in upstate New York. When he’s at the top of his game (as he definitely is in the above wall which is a collaboration with Billy Mode), Chris is one of my all-time favorite stencil artists.
Photos by Chris Stain
This stunning new piece is another by Faith47. It’s called The Hunted. Another one of Faith47’s latest walls can be found on Wooster Collective.
Photo by Faith47
Stick2Target recently had a great post that included an artist by the name of Oker putting up some posters in Porto, Portugal. I’d never heard of Oker before, so loved looking through his flickr at all the awesome pieces he’s done. Here are a few of my favorites:
Photos by Oker
It looks like Taschen is about to publish the first street art book to seriously compete with Cedar Lewisohn’s Street Art. Ignoring an irrelevant cover image, Cedar’s book provided an overview of street art’s history and considered the art with the same level of seriousness that you might see in a book on Renaissance art. Now, Carlo McCormick (arguably the world’s foremost street art expert) has teamed up with Marc and Sara Schiller of Wooster Collective to write Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art. The book brings together what they consider to be four generations of street artists (150 artists in total). That means Trespass will have to go back to the artists seen in Allan Schwartzman’s Street Art book from 1985 (also an essential book for fans of street art history) like Gordon Matta-Clark and Jenny Holzer and then tie that to the present with artists like Blu. This is the street art book that I’ve been waiting for. Oh, and the book has an introduction by Banksy, so that’s pretty unique.
You can already check out some of Trespass on Taschen’s website, including Banksy’s hilariously ironic introduction which disses marketing.
Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art will be available sometime in September (Wooster will be hosting a launch party in NYC on the 28th)
This coming Thursday, Galo Art Gallery will be opening The Italian Job, a solo show from The London Police. Galo Art Gallery is Galo‘s relatively new gallery space in Torino, Italy. For me, this is probably the most interesting show that Galo has hosted so far.
That’s right. Steve Powers’ latest project is a continuation of his A Love Letter For You project. This time, he’s painting in Syracuse. It looks like A Love Letter to Syracuse has just begun in the few days, and Steve’s crew will be painting a total of three train bridges with messages similar to those in A Love Letter For You. Unurth has more info and more photos of the bridges so far.
