500m – Vandalog – A Street Art Blog

August 31, 2014

Mathieu Connery’s sidewalks for MURAL festival 2014

photo 4_01 — “Mikado nest”. photo by Mathieu Connery

From May to mid-July, Mathieu Connery aka 500M painted several murals on sidewalks for the second MURAL festival edition. To the frequency of 1 per week, he did 10 abstract murals on the Main, the Saint-Laurent Boulevard, official location of the festival. Guess the organizers really liked the 3 sidewalks murals he painted last year for the first edition of MURAL, as they asked him to enlarge his project this year. The Montreal based artist is well known in the city for his minimalist abstract pieces, “I try to make most of my interventions interact in different ways with the environment, to inspire appropriation of the public space in any other way. It also applies in the streets with concrete, tags that were there before,etc…” I just hope that one day he will get a real wall rather than always sidewalks in Montreal!

photo 1_01 — 3rd. photo by Mathieu Connery

photo 2_01 — 6th. Photo by Mathieu Connery

photo 5_01.1 — “Is rasberry rock”. Photo by Mathieu Connery

photo 5_01 — 8th. Photo by Mathieu Connery

photo_01 — “Faceblob”. Photo by Mathieu Connery

DSC_4503_01 — 7th. Photo by Aline Mairet

DSC_3864_01 — 5th. Photo by Aline Mairet

And for my own pleasure, a street art piece found this summer, and then a tag of Gawd Mathieu Connery appropriated. Thanks Mister 500M !

DSC_4208_01 — 500M. photo by Aline Mairet

10603044_10152203776255443_1036949469_n_01 — Gawd- Mathieu Connery. Photo by Connery

Photos by Mathieu Connery and Aline Mairet

January 11, 2014January 10, 2014

Montreal street art, Winter’s break

DSC_7417_01 — Artist unknown. Photo by Aline Mairet.

Artists in Montreal these days are stuck working in their studios or homes, since the last few weeks have been incredibly cold! So, what follows bellow were mostly done in the fall and early winter. Nearly too cold to paint on walls, Labrona and 500M managed to get outside for a few hours to paint a fresh piece, their first of 2014. Produkt also was very productive on the streets this fall, upping his street art game. And also works by HoarKor, Nixon (old piece, but great location) Gawd, FLN, Waxhead and Cryote. Stay warm.

DIFFUSER 5411_01 — Produkt. Photo by Space27.

DIFFUSER 5414_01 — Produkt. Photo by Space27.

DIFFUSER 5250_01 — Produkt, Waxhead and Cryote. Photo by Space27.

DIFFUSER 5365_01 — Produkt. Photo by Space27.

DSC_8779_01 — HoarKor, “Make toys, not war!”. Photo by Aline Mairet

DSC_8877_01 — Nixon. Photo by Aline Mairet.

DSC_0075_3 2_01 — Gawd. Photo by Aline Mairet.

DSC_0649_01 — FLN aka Futur Lasor Now. Photo by Aline Mairet.

Photos by Aline Mairet, Space27, Labrona, 500M

July 20, 2013July 19, 2013

Street Art in Montréal, Canada, Summer

Here we are, in the middle of an hot, sweat and incredible summer in Montreal. The perfect place to walk in the back alleys and abandoned areas, looking for fresh air and street art. “The perfect day to be outside” for a street art photographer ! Street art works by Garbage Beauty, Chris Dyer, QBNYC, Produkt, Waxhead, Cryote, Gawd, Labrona, Troy lovegates aka Other, Mathieu Connery aka 500M, Lilyluciole, Mathieu Bories, WIA.

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March 5, 2013March 3, 2013

Mathieu Connery aka 500m

8411927453_6e56b4458b_z — Photo courtesy of Mathieu Connery

As usual, Labrona knows what’s up in Canada and now he’s introduced me to yet another interesting Canadian street artist: Mathieu Connery aka 500m. Continue reading “Mathieu Connery aka 500m”