One last post about Faile turn at the Bowery and Houston streets mural in NYC. Over the weekend, we posted Dani Mozeson’s photos of the duo finishing up the wall, but now that the wall has been finished, here are some photos and video of the final product by Matthew Kraus. His got a larger set of images over on flickr.
Photos and video by Matthew Kraus
This new video by Sweza, Selbstbetrachtung, plays with a CCTV camera. Sweza says, “I try to give the surveillance camera a whole new view on the world, open new perspectives by giving it a vice versa view.”
Check it out:
And if you’re not quite sure how Sweza managed to get the footage from that event for his own use, this video should explain things a bit more clearly…
Happy almost Halloween. It’s been a week of wasted energy, or so it seems. A potential legal wall that I was organizing has fallen through for the time being, but hopefully things are just delayed rather than cancelled. Here’s some of what I should have posted about this week:
Photo by Bust
Earlier this month the DMV (Da Mental Vaporz) Crew collaborated on this amazing wall for Crimes of Minds in Brest, France. The whole process was caught on camera and Awouell has just published this great ‘making of’ video…
This is an old video, but definitely a must-see. Ron English is one of the most intelligent and politically aware artists I can think of, and this video explains his billboard takeover activities perfectly. Thanks to Bomit for the reminder that this was out there.
Photo courtesy of Ron English
Earlier this year, in August to be precise, 72 artists descended on Bristol for See No Evil. Equipped with over 13,000 spray cans they set about transforming Nelson Street into a massive outdoor art gallery. Hurricane Media were on hand to film the whole event and this is the outcome, a fantastic documentary short on the event and the rise of the global street art movement.
Keith Schweitzer and Joyce Manalo organized getting these shipping containers painted for MaNY and Fourth Arts Block. Forth Arts Block got permission for the site, the like-up was solidified over a weekend and painting began almost immediately. It’s amazing how easily things come together sometimes. They brought in Infinity, Royce Bannon, El Celso and Quel Beast from New York, plus Reka from Australia while he was in New York for a bit. Since Skullphone already had a poster on the container, Infinity kept it and blended it into his own piece a bit (with Skullphone’s okay). Here’s a video of the process (Quel Beast’s piece was later changed after this video was filmed):
REKA x Quel Beast x Infinity – NYC from MaNY Project on Vimeo.
And here’s photos of all the finished work:
Photos by Quel Beast and Mike Pearce
Marcos Zotes’ project CCTV/Creative Control took place on October 1st in Greenpoint, Brooklyn as part of a Nuit Blanche celebration. He projected a video of an eye onto the underside of a 10-storey tall water tower, turning it into a massive Big Brother-esque eyeball. There a video of the intervention here, if these photos aren’t enough.
Photos by Marcos Zotes
I Art Soweto is the latest stop for the I Art SA project that Adidas and Ricky Lee Gordon’s A Word of Art have put together. Here’s a film by Rowan Pybus of Makhulu with some of the people of Soweto (a suburb of Johannesburg) and the murals that were made for the project:
The Zonk Vision collective of Australian artists (Danny Wild, Jace Galea and Greg Holden) who might be known to Vandalog readers for their videos where they collaborated with Lush. Recently, they and some friends found an abandoned site outside of Melbourne and painted and skated it to destruction. Check out the video:
