http://www.streetartblows.com/ Street Art Blows is an interesting Web site I found recently, originally published in 2005. Be sure to take a look at the FAQ, as I found it to provide a clearer explanation of the authors’ thinking.

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A lot can be said about Shepard Fairey. He is one of, if not the driving force in bringing graffiti and street art into the mainstream market place. He took an artform obsessed with spray paint and letters, and made stickers and wheatpasting the thing to talk about (not without help from REVS and COST of New York). He [...]

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To all you NYC animal lovers, furry companionship — a la Banksy — is only a Metro ride away. At 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street stands his newest project, The Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill, where you’ll find animatronic chicken nuggets sipping barbeque sauce and hot dogs basking beneath the [...]

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Peeped at ungt blod, designed by JuJu’s Delivery.

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Propaganda and pop artist Ron English unveiled his latest project, Abraham Obama, at the XIV Gallery on Thayer street in Boston last week. And it didn’t take long before his offsets popped up on Boston streets, prompting throngs of angry phone calls from enraged citizens — apparently, even the mayor’s office was fielding phone calls [...]

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Krink recently released two new markers, adding to their growing line of quality graffiti tools. The first is the K-63, a Dye-Based Marker. It’s similar in construction to the Krink Squeeze Bottle Mini-Mop, but with a new, dye-based ink, which has a nice translucent quality. With a large ink capacity, it’s available in green, blue, red, and purple. Its broad, [...]

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Shepard Fairey was in New York last week, slapping up wheatpaste posters of Barack Obama around Manhattan, specifically on the corner of Houston and Bowery. However, at this particular spot, knowingly or not, Mr. Fairey applied his poster directly over a fill-in by graffiti writer MARTY, of the Smart Crew. Thing is, MARTY has had [...]

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Sao Paulo, Brazil’s graffiti writers, known as ”Pichadores,” have completely redefined their city’s aesthetic, the letter form, and perhaps even what it means to be a graffiti writer. The new letter form, known as Pixacao, now completely covers the city of Sao Paulo. Writers in the city go to any length necessary to get their names up, [...]

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I was surprised to learn that the city of Philadelphia has a policy of confiscating newspaper boxes after they’ve been vandalized. I’d really like to know who’s job it is to walk a beat on the streets of Philly, examining Philadelphia Inquirer boxes, and determining if the dispensers have exceeded the city’s mystery level of [...]

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