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Sweza’s lightbox

Sweza, probably best known for his Graffyard project, recently installed one of his latest pieces with Just there to take photos. Solarlichtraum is a small wooden box with an LED backlit piece of graffiti on the inside. During the day, the solar cell on top of the box charges the LED, and when the solar cell is covered (or the sun sets), the LED turns out and you can look inside the box to see Sweza’s mini graffiti-style piece.

Solarlichtraum was installed on the streets of Berlin.

What you see when you look inside the box

Just also accompanied Sweza while installing another piece in Berlin.

Photos by Just (except the last one which is by Sweza)

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More from Os Gêmeos at PS 11

As I mentioned earlier this week, Os Gêmeos and Futura were working on a massive wall at PS 11 in NYC. Today, I’ve got a few more photos of the wall in progress to share. The wall was finished on Thursday or Friday and you can check out photos of the finished piece on Unurth, but I’m waiting to see if I can get some more of these really high quality photos of the finished piece, so expect to see some of those on Vandalog in the next few days.

And how did this massive wall come about? It was organized by 12ozProphet and AKANYC, a creative agency that had worked with Deitch Projects (the organizers of the twins’ last mural in New York).

Photos courtesy of AKANYC

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Some new and some old things from MOMO

MOMO recently painted the above wall in Brooklyn where Anthony Lister had painted a few pieces previously. After seeing this new piece, Luna Park has put together a post on The Street Spot with some of her favorite works from MOMO over the last few years. Definitely something worth reading. And last month MOMO was part of NOVA, an art festival in Brazil. He collaborated on a huge piece with KR and Mulheres Barbadas. You can see photos of that work on MOMO’s blog.

Photo by Luna Park

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Shooting things with TrustoCorp

Last month, I met up with TrustoCorp at their headquarters. While there, I got to see some of their customized Trusto products and of course some signs. The highlight of the visit was something unexpected though. Just as it started pouring rain, we went to the roof of TrustoCorp’s building and played a game of TrustoShootout. We didn’t have the fancy setup from their solo show, but we did have a pellet gun and some posters.

In the past, I’ve been critical of TrustoCorp working indoors. Their signs work so well because they show up unexpectedly and in the perfect environment and a show full of signs would be kind of boring, but I think this game might be exactly the sort of thing that TrustoCorp can do to liven up gallery shows and consequently make their signs more interesting indoors. Like their signs, it’s fun. Unlike the signs, they environment isn’t so essential. If anything, the perfect environment for shooting illustrations of “arrogant rappers” is at a gallery opening after a couple of beers!

Now if only they could design a “pretentious blogger” target…

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Freight train and a lithograph from Know Hope

Following in the tradition of street artists like Other, Labrona and Margaret Kilgallen, Know Hope recently drew on a few freight trains in Croatia. The above drawing is my favorite.

And Know Hope has also just released a new lithograph. “Humbled Memory Mumbles Melody” (image below) was produced at Edition Copenhagen, the same place that Barry McGee and Todd James recently produced some prints. Know Hope’s lithograph measures 56 x 76 cm, is an edition of 100 and is available for $280. To purchase “Humbled Memory Mumbles Melody,” just email raz.thisislimbo@gmail.com.

Photos by Know Hope

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Dozens of artists in Beacon, NY for Electric Windows

Last weekend, residents of Beacon, NY were treated to live painting by a couple of dozen artists, including some of street art’s finest. The artists were their for Electric Windows. Steph mentioned the event last month, but here’s the short version: artists paint panels which then go on display in the windows of a former electric blanket factory. An interesting idea, but I still think the best part of this event was the chance for members of the public to wait such talented artists work. Papermonster has over 100 photos from Electric Windows on his blog. Here are some of my favorite pieces from the event:

Papermonster
Elbow-toe
Gaia
Chris Stain, one of a few artists at the event who worked directly on walls
Ron English

Photos by Papermonster’s friend Ren, except Elbowt-toe’s piece which was photographed by the artist