Check it out. Two recent murals from Hyuro in Spain.
Photos by Hyuro
Exit Through The Gift Shop gets Oscar nomination
UPDATE: Exit Through The Gift Shop did not win the Oscar. It went to Inside Job.
It’s just been announced that Banksy’s film Exit Through The Gift Shop did in fact make it from the Oscar short list to getting a nomination for this year’s Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards. So that’s kind of cool. Interesting that The Academy a. doesn’t seem to have concerns about the authenticity of the film and b. doesn’t seem to mind that Banksy won’t be able to accept the award himself, both concerns that some people thought could keep Exit from getting nominated. Also nominated are Gasland, Inside Job, Restrepo and Waste Land. While a lot of people would note that I’m not the biggest Banksy fanboy in the world, I’m definitely hoping that Exit wins this award.
Photo by jvoves
Hours: Photography by the Clock
This may not be “street art” per say, but I am taking creative license and writing about it because it they are “artistic pictures of the street.” Plus, one of the editors is a street artist, so I’m allowing it.
In the latest craze of “bring back the physical written word,” people are looking for any excuse to print some type of zine. I tend to look past 99% of them and stick to online ventures (what can I say, I’m biased and maybe a pseudo-environmentalist). Albeit, a new zine recently grabbed my attention as fast as a guy in skinny jeans and Buddy Holly glasses would. Hours is a monthly zine that documents one person’s 24 hour use of a disposable camera. All of the pictures are unedited and printed as they come out. Below are images from the first issue:
The editors, Molly Rourke and Matthew Shearer, sent me this bit to expand upon the magazine’s mission:
One artist/photographer/creative thinker is chosen each month and have 24 hours to fill the camera they are given, and the photos are then turned into a publication. The person chosen is done so at random (literally pulled out of a hat), with anyone able to submit, from anywhere, each month.
In an age where digital photography is king, and photos can be uploaded to Facebook instantly, Hours invites the camera holder to take a journey, to take a risk, to feel excited about seeing photographs again, and being unable to delete, to edit or discard any – to savor and consider each and every frame. Even the photographer of each issue will not see their own photographs until the zine is launched.
The official launch party of the zine was last night in Cardiff, but contact the guys on their Tumblr and you can subscribe for 1 pound an issue.
Seimiek
I noticed his work a couple of years ago and I became a fan immediately. He is not only from the same country that i am from ( Peru) but he is also doing street art and is in fact really good!
I used to only hear about street artists from the other countries in South America, except Peru, and to discover Seimiek and his crew (the multidisciplinary art collective Fumakaka) made me realize the wonderful street art scene that is growing in South America, not just in Brazil but everywhere on the continent…
These are some new pieces by Seimiek:
Photos by Seimiek
Roa in NYC
Roa just sent over some photos of work he did last year in New York. I’m loving the below piece over a Cash4 (not because it’s over Cash4, but because it’s two great writers next to each other in a cool spot).
Unurth has some more photos from this trip.
Photos by Roa
New DAIN in NYC
Dain has been quite busy in NYC lately. I am loving the new works found on BSA yesterday, not just because they are colorful collage and I wish I could walk by them every day, but the images are so rich in art history that it boggles my mind. Maybe it is jsut because I am sitting in Sotheby’s being lectured at about Documenta X and seeing slide after slide of artists, but DAIN’s work (as well as Judith Supine) really remind me of Hannah Hoch, a German collage artist known best for her feminist and political works in the DADA movement in the early 1900’s. Understanding that street artists come from so many backgrounds, I find it fascinating that the ones that don’t have any art history background are actually repeating pieces from the art canon and putting their own modern spin on it without even knowing it. Possible dissertation piece maybe?
I could be completely wrong, and maybe the striking similarities are not just purely coincidental, but influenced by Hoch and John Heartfield, and other participants from around the world (not just Berlin). We all know that artists are influenced by others in order to find their voice, and some are blatant copycats, but the inclusion of established art history in street, whether intentional or not, furthers the notion that street art does have a place alongside fine artists.
All Photos by Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art
Above in Brisbane
Just got this note from Above. This is one of my favorite pieces from him in a while…
I just returned this morning from being in the flood ravished city of Brisbane, Australia. With the international attention around the floods I decided to immediately fly from Sydney to Brisbane to make this site specific stencil. Unfortunately I had another stencil that Friday night I got arrested for right in the middle of painting! oughf! I spent 10 hours in jail, had a court appearance and got a decent fine so this piece is the only 1 I can submit and offer for you. I tried my best not to make fun at this drastic and horrific situation but instead to empathize and portray just how serious and large the scale of these floods had been with the relative depiction of “NOAH’s” ark being sunk due to the floods.
Photo by Above
Ola Bad’s dreamcatchers in Atlanta
In a city with very little street art like Atlanta, Ola Bad is making a big impact with his dreamcatcher project.
Check out his flickr for more info about the project.
This picture was taken right before Christmas:
This is the first in a series about empathy and homelessness. The idea is to draw dreamcatchers and put them up where homeless people sleep and go back at night to photograph them sleeping under it. My goal is in atlanta for the symbol of the dreamcatcher to become synonymous with empathy and gratitude. To see one outside even when noone is sleeping under it is to hopefully become thankful for what you have.
I got to talk to phil in the middle of putting this piece up. Hes been here for a long time and let me know that when the sun goes down thats where i can find him. We discussed the issue of homelessness and why atlanta is spending money on things other than a solution to housing them. I gave him a bottle of rum, canned food , some baked goods, and cigs. He insisted on shaking my hand even though it was covered in wheatpaste.
The next day when i was walking i saw him and he introduced me to his friend, gave me the biggest hug, and told me he loved me. Thats what its about. I could care less on how many views this gets my goal is already accomplished on a personal level. My hopes are to get a show built around a series of these and donate half of what i make to the specific person in the photo.
Have a great holiday and be thankful you arent out in the cold.
Love Ola
and this one right after the snowstorm that hit Atlanta last week:
Photos by Ola Bad
Posters from Morley in LA
Check out these posters from Morley. He’s been putting them up in LA. Very fun stuff.
And this last one has a bit of a story:
Apparently, the poster originally just said “If we never speak again just assume I became famous” and the other text was added later by someone random.
Photos courtesy of Morley
C215 video interview
You may have seen this video interview with C215 for Savoirchanger.com around the blogs a couple of weeks ago, but it’s in French, and this version finally has some English subtitles:
C215, Transformations – French with English subtitles from laureline amanieux on Vimeo.