1. Colossal
thisiscolossal.com
Art, Design, and Visual Culture.
2. Street Art News
streetartnews.net
The definitive guide to the street art scene.
3. 12oz Prophet
12ozprophet.com
Raising the bar for the graffiti world.
4. Wooster Collective
woostercollective.com
Celebrating art placed on streets in cities around the world.
Showing posts with label paint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paint. Show all posts
Monday, December 1, 2014
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Street Art- Manhattan
Street is a part of the Manhattan landscape. That means graffiti tags, wall decals, store fronts, and stickers.
Kips Bay, Manhattan
Nomad, Manhattan
Midtown, Manhattan
N Train, Union Square
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Learning the Language
The origins of the graffiti and street art world help make sense of the fever that fuels the movement. At the same time, a lot has changed since graffiti first started defining New York in the 70's. Bellow are three documentaries that speak to both of those realities:
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Exit Through The Gift Shop 2010
Exit Through the Gift Shop 2010
This is a Banksy film. Although Banksy himself would have been a fascinating focal point, the scenes follow the story of Thierry Guetta. Thierry is a French immigrant obsessed with following and filming street artists. This film features contemporary artists, and does not delve into the history of the movement.
Length 1 Hour 27 Minutes
Full Length- Available on Hulu Plus and Netflix
Style Wars 1983
Style Wars
"People look at a person, what you write on trains? Oh, you vandalism and all that. Yeah I vandalism alright, but still in general I know what I'm doin'. I did somethin' to make yo eyes open up. Right? So why is you talking bout it for?"
"The graffiti gave the impression at best that no one was in control of the system."
Style Wars explores the point of view of the graffiti artists, and New York City Mayor Edward Koch. This documentary focuses on early graffiti culture in NYC.
Length 1 hour 10 minutes
Bomb It 2007
Bomb It
"A common fallacy is the idea that graffiti started in New York City. It started in Philadelphia." New York quickly became the graffiti capital of the world, taking the title away from Philadelphia. This documentary gives a robust history of the writing movement that began in the 70's, and explores the dynamics between graffiti movements and "Quality of Life" laws, and the fight over control for public space. The documentary was filmed in five continents,
Length 1 Hour 33 Minutes
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Disappearing Paintings- Susan Farrell and Brett Webb
Collaborative, volunteer projects are the most effective way to document constantly disappearing paintings. Art Crimes collects interviews, articles, photographs, and shares information about events related to graffiti and street art.
Art Crimes, The Writing on the Wall
Purpose
In many places, painting graffiti is illegal. We don't advocate breaking the law, but we think art belongs in public spaces and that more legal walls should be made available for this fascinating art form. Because it is so hard to get books published and to keep photos and blackbooks from being seized and destroyed, the Internet may be the best way to publish and preserve this information. Please get involved in the effort to preserve your local graffiti history.
Our main goals are to provide cultural and scholarly information and resources and to help preserve and document the constantly disappearing paintings. We also want to spread the truth that this kind of graffiti, called "writing" is being done by artists who call themselves "writers," not by gangs.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
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