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Inside Out Project

Posted 2013-04-28 19:48:59 | Views: 995
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INSIDE OUT PROJECT
THE PEOPLE'S ART PROJECT
ABOUT: On March 2, 2011, JR won the TED prize at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and called for the creation of a global participatory art project with the potential to change the world. This project is called INSIDE OUT.

Inspired by JR’s large‐format street "pastings", INSIDE OUT gives everyone the opportunity to share their portrait and make a statement for what they stand for. It is a global platform for people to share their untold stories and transform messages of personal identity into works of public art.

Each INSIDE OUT group action around the world is documented, archived and exhibited online. Over 120,000 posters have been sent to more than 108 countries since March 2011.

The INSIDE OUT project has traveled from Ecuador to Nepal, from Mexico to Palestine, inspiring group actions on varied themes such as hope, diversity, gender-based violence, climate change... Discover the extent of the project through some selected actions.


a New JR x Jose Parla Mural in NYC

Posted 2013-04-28 18:57:28 | Views: 1,476
JR  x  José Parlá
new mural in New York City, on 24th st. and 10th ave.           4/29/2013

Welcome To My World

Posted 2013-04-28 15:06:14 | Views: 1,305
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CLANDESTINE CUTURE :
"CLANDESTINE CULTURE: Between Street Art and Social Activism"

 His first solo show at   Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art  2239 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, 33127 




Ben Eine

Posted 2013-04-28 13:25:10 | Views: 1,324
BEN EINE

 street artist 

in San Francisco,  image via:
Ben Eine (UK) has been a graffiti artist for nearly 20 years. His bold words and phrases literally and figuratively transform their environment. In 2010, an original canvas was given to President Barack Obama as a gift from UK Prime Minister David Cameron and  and now Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic plans to sell his work to its 'upper-class' passengers.
via: vergin.com (Feb. 2013)
image via: sabotagetimes.com ('10)

Yoshimasa TSUCHIYA: sculptor

Posted 2012-12-04 19:37:30 | Views: 8,962

CRYPTIK movement

Posted 2012-11-24 07:43:34 | Views: 7,931

 

is a public art campaign dedicated to helping humanity evolve towards greater awareness and understanding through the use of compelling, iconic imagery that demands both scrutiny and reverie.

 

The purpose of this organization is to facilitate the development of a deeper, more meaningful philosophy of life. Our main objective is to challenge people to think of other possibilities and to see a different reality; one that encompasses many ideologies, philosophies, and belief systems in order to help us better understand our place in the universe.

 

The organization is entirely free of any religious or political agendas and, therefore, serves only to provoke wonder and inspire thought. The goal of this organization is to serve as a catalyst for a change in consciousness on a global scale. At this very critical juncture in human history, either we evolve or DIE!! Join the Movement! The “Great Awakening” is upon us.                                      via: zeropluspublishing.com

images via : design wars


Calligraffiti

Posted 2012-11-19 21:43:00 | Views: 8,820

 

WHAT IS CALLIGRAFFITI?

 

THE SIMPLE ANSWER:

 

Calligraffiti is a combination of calligraphy and graffiti. Calligraphy is about the art of writing and can have many forms. Whether it be Japanese ancient brush characters, Arabic pictorial scripts, illuminated mediaeval books or swirly quill writing… all calligraphy.  via: Calligraffiti

 

 

 

 

This is the Artist:

Niels Shoe Meulman  

from Amsterdam

 


JOSH KEYES

Posted 2012-03-26 14:42:11 | Views: 9,890

josh  keyes

Sirens (40"x30", acrylic on panel, 2012)

Scorch I  (18"x24", acrylic on panel, 2009)

Stampede  (60"x120", acrylic on canvas, 2011)

Tangled II (30"x40", acrylic on panel, 2011)

Descent (24"x20", acrylic on panel, 2011)

Waking (40"x30", acrylic on panel, 2011)

-Josh Keyes' work is a hybrid of

eco-surrealism and dystopian folktales that express a concern for our time and the Earth's future.-

-American contemporary artist-

via: biography page in



They Live

Posted 2012-03-26 09:43:38 | Views: 10,170

from the movie "They Live" -1988

The Movie "They Live"-1988 

If you wear this pair of sunglasses, you will wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the earth.

They Live is a 1988 science fiction/horror film directed by John Carpenter. Part science fiction horror and part dark comedy. the film echoed contemporary fears of a declining economy, within a culture of greed and conspicuous consumption common among Americans. In They Live, the ruling class within the moneyed elite are in fact aliens managing human social affairs through the use of a signal on top of the TV broadcast that is concealing their appearance and subliminal messages in mass media.- wiki

(brilliant concept!)


Banksy On Advertising

Posted 2012-03-11 12:36:44 | Views: 14,685

"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear.

They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it.

They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."

– Banksy
 

Banksy paints LA photo via: photoblog

(The passage is from Banksy's 2004 book Cut It Out)


The Truffle House

Posted 2012-03-06 00:03:19 | Views: 9,396

The Truffle House by Ensamble Studio

Laxe, Spain

for more: inthralld.com


Ai Weiwei's new exhibition in Paris

Posted 2012-02-27 13:35:54 | Views: 9,668

ai weiwei

AI WEIWEI -a conceptual artist

"Interlacing" is the first major exhibition of photographs and videos by the Chinese artist, it foregrounds Ai Weiwei as the communicator: the documenting, analyzing, interweaving artist who communicates via many channels.
In "Interlacing", Ai Weiwei deliberately confronts social conditions in China and in the world, he is a generalist, a conceptual, socially critical artist dedicated to creating friction with, and forming reality. As an architect, conceptual artist, sculptor, photographer, blogger, Twitterer, interview artist, and cultural critic, he is a sensitive observer of current topics and social problems:,

  Detained on April 3rd 2011 by the Chinese authorities because of his political activities, released on bail June 22nd 2011, he is still, today, banned from leaving the country.  the show " Interlacing" runs until April 29th in Paris.

new exhibition in Paris "Interlacing"

(1983-93) spent in New York, Lower east side


Fernando Carpaneda Sculpture

Posted 2012-02-21 16:38:52 | Views: 10,065

"My sculptures are connected directly to my lifestyle and my position as an artist within gay culture and within the punk movement. My sculptures are a public diary, where I represent the way I live, and the people that I have met at some moment of my life"-Fernando Carpaneda

BOOK

Autobiography

Fernando Carpaneda

 

"PISS IN THE FACE

OF CONVENTION! 

 A life of paint,

sex and rock `n` roll"

the art of

fernando carpaneda

Brazilian born sculptor Fernando Carpandeda, based in NYC, is one of the first Brazilian visual artists to divulge and exhibit systematically homoerotic works. What amazed me is that each man has own its charactor with highly detailed work (make-up, hair, tattoo, outfits...etc)  from a mixture of gay art with the punk movement and street culture he discribes as underground scene, which are somehow attractive subject to me.  His miniature men are photogenic in all angles to look from. Fernando is a talented artist who is not afraid of challenging the boundaries of artistic practice and confronting viewers with the issues of stigma and division in modern society. source

-clay sculptor-

-NYC


KIDULT- the infamous tagger

Posted 2012-02-20 13:09:39 | Views: 10,945

showing himself with his signature tagging tool -fire extinguisher

KIDULT

 

THE TAGGER

the tagger


NY, PARIS 

<wikipedia- a word "KIDULT">

kidult is a "grown-up" person who enjoys being a part of youth culture and doing things that are usually thought as more suitable for children

KIDULT recently attacked the Supreme's ad of Kate Moss - Feb 2012

KIDULT tagged Supreme's store front NYC -May 2011

the past tagging BY KIDULt

KIDULT x Christian Louboutin 

KIDULT x Louis Vuitton 

KIDULT x HERMES PARIS


KIDULT x KENZO

KIDULT x Christian Dior

KIDULT x Agnes B 

KIDULT video 'ILLEGALWORLD"

I've been trying to avoid the KIDULT topic, because he is already very famous from super-tagging some of the most famous label shop windows around the globe, and instantly getting the video on the web. And on top of that, I have a tendency to avoid giving more attention to the obvious attention seeker in general, but what about him? Do I love it or hate it? my answer is "I don't know".  But I've been noticing that as an ex- fashion designer, I no longer have any urge to consume products from those fashion brand empires, like the stores that were attacked by KIDULT ( see below). I'd rather consume products made locally to me in the USA: and support small production runs with an eco-conscious strategy and cruelty free. Some people think that Capitalism faces collapse on a global scale and I'm not so sure about that.  But what's obvious to me is that it doesn't work as we once hoped in 80's. 

  KIDULT reminds us what direct action graffiti is about : protest and expressing yourself in a creative way, even if for most people its vandalism… 

original Supreme's ad