oakoak – Vandalog – A Street Art Blog

April 28, 2015June 3, 2019

How many street artists can Hyundai rip off in 30 seconds?

Major hat tip to Ian Cox for coming across this one, as well as Caroline Caldwell for alerting me to Ian’s find and for research help.

A car commercial currently airing on UK television for the Hyundai i20 appears to steal the work of at least half a dozen street artists in just 30 seconds. Here’s the ad:

I guess this just goes to show you what advertising executives mean by “inspiration”.

How many stolen pieces can you spot? Spoilers after the jump.

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July 12, 2013July 15, 2017

Safari in the urban jungle with The Wa, OaKoAk and fra.biancoshock

The Wa, OaKoAk and fra.biancoshock recently teamed up on a project across cities where all three of them made work on the theme of a “safari in the urban jungle.” The work was made in Milan, Berlin, Dusseldorf and St. Etienne. The three artists agreed on a theme, but beyond that each of them had no idea what the other two were making for their contributions to the project.

Photos courtesy of The Wa

January 6, 2013January 30, 2013

Weekend link-o-rama

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Okay Christmas and new years are over. Let’s get back to real life.

Blanco uses water to freeze a poster to a wall in Mongolia.
Some great new tiny work by oaKoaK and Slinkachu.
NoseGo has a show at Slingluff Gallery’s new Honesdale, Pennsylvania location.
If you’ve never seen Evan Roth give a talk before, here’s a good one to start with.
Aakash Nihalani has a show coming up in NYC at Jonathan Levine Gallery.
Looks like the Living Walls team had a good time in Miami.
A show with two members of DRUGS Crew (Panda Sex and Mark Cross) just opened at New Image Art in LA. Sounds really interesting.

Photo by Jake Dobkin

March 18, 2011October 1, 2012

Weekend link-o-rama

So much going on behind the scenes this week for a couple of upcoming events. Can’t wait to say more. Hopefully next week I’ll be able to write about one of them. Here’s what I didn’t have a chance to post about this week:

Sick burner by Jume.
I wish I could have seen Mark Jenkins’ installation at Carmichael Gallery’s Volta booth in the flesh.
OaKoAk: A french street artist who is kind of awesome.
Some shots from Vhils‘ latest solo show in Portugal.
Someone is placing “hipster traps” around NYC.
Shepard Fairey’s Revolutions show looks pretty cool.
Check out Contra Projects’ booth and murals from Scope NYC.
The LA Police are trying to interfere with a graffiti writer’s art career by not allowing him to use his name (Smear) with anything relating to his artwork. And then they arrested him.
Just rediscovered this piece from last year by WorldWarWon where he “graffiti-ed” an iceberg.
Tika has a show coming up in Berlin.
Galo, 2051 and Ottograph have a show opening soon in San Fransisco at Lower Haters Gallery.

Photo by Galo