Steve Locatelli: Street Art of the day

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Open Air - A Street Art Documentary

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Art at Bay Station

Next time you take a subway ride, try and hop off at Bay Station [Bellair exit]. There's an awesome exhibit of paintings that are part of City on the Move, a program put on by the City of Toronto to encourage urban arts and culture.

For more on City on the Move, click here.

Gualicho

It’s one thing to paint on a wall. It’s another thing to translate the spirits that live within the walls into viewable masterworks. Graffiti, street art: these are just keywords. The works you see in this post are among the newest paintings made by Gualicho, painter and animator from Buenos Aires. He’s lived there all his life, but travels to paint.

,These paintings are in Costa Rica and Cuba.

The works I’d like you to pay the most attention to are above and below, large format. If you’d like to look at the rest of the gallery, I wont stop you. Those paintings are all made in 2009 also, and also in Costa Rica and Cuba.

He [Gualicho] defines his style as post or neo-graffiti, though he also works vastly on canvas, paper and other materials. Since 2001 he co-manages Barfuss, an animation studio, where he has created pieces for several international companies

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Shadow Street Art

New York artist Ellis Gallagher combines chalk and shadows to create his street art. View more here.

Street art by ROA

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Street Installations: Mark Jenkins

This man fully understands the potential of a mannequin.
More here.

Have you seen this girl?

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Escif in Valencia and Barcelona

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What to do with your wall of stank

With the City of Toronto finally reaching an agreement on the four week, 36 day garbage strike, as of next week Torontonians can kick it to the curbside once more.

Unfortunately, rumors are that part of the agreement is for households to only put out one garbage bin at a time, so additional recycling goods and garbage stores that have already become a treasured part of your Stank Family across the last month could still remain a house guest for at least another 3 weeks, yippee!

The question is what to do with your wall of stank...

Lucky for us we have Paris resident and sculpteur du papier extraordinaire JUNIOR JACQUET, who likes to transform left over toilet paper rolls into sculptures of faces:



Perhaps one could create a porch full of angry toilet paper roll faces for when the eventual collection does occur??
Just sayin'...

More on Junior Jacquet here.

Judith Supine

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The London Police

Here is a fantastic mural done by The London Police in Amsterdam. And as the story seems to go every time, city council is threatening to take the piece down even though the artists have permission from the owner of the building. Buzz kill.

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Friday Graffiti Selection Game

I came across a blog with some great pieces of graffiti. Unfortunately none of which were credited. If you know which artist each piece belongs to, leave your answers in the comment box.

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Seen On The Streets Of Skala Eressos in Lesvos

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Swoon

If you don't want to watch the entire 10 minutes, watch the last 2 minutes.

Ikkeno

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Fresh Stuff From Jim Darling in Beacon, NY

"The area that I've been spending time in has multiple abandon buildings, which are amazing. Unfortunately it also has a ton of trash scattered between the buildings. I decided to clean up the area by dragging all the junk into one location and making something out of it. With a little help I pulled four beds, six tires, and a large amount of scrap into one consolidated area... The trash that was scattered everywhere, was transformed into one giant character who found a great place to relax."

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Artist: Judith Supine

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Here's also a short video of Judith Supine's process. (and creepy magazine face)

Re-imagining public spaces

It doesn't take too much thought or effort to turn a public space from forgettable to memorable. One such example is the open underground tunnels of Tel Aviv. Artists altered the lighting to make the spaces much more interesting.

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For this example, artists Bar&Shay said their street art muse was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.

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Street Art

Some new Jeff Soto pieces recently put up in the streets of London.



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