So there was this famous, striking billboard in Toronto that sits outside a church on College Street. The church had let it stay in a lovely state of decay for years, but recently decided to black it all out! I don’t know if they plan to eventually put up something new, but I decided that we should help them along. I thought that the congregation might actually like it, but I’ve been told that it’s already down…
David Pray’s short video about reverse graffiti artist Paul “Moose” Curtis’s San Francisco’s Broadway Tunnel project. Curtis creates his work using stencils and a pressure washer to create images in pollution, grime, and filth. The effect is stunning; making for a beautiful work of art while at the same time making a pointed statement about man’s impact on the environment.
BLU’s Muto: animation on a public wall. Beautiful surely, but I couldn’t help but think about all the artwork he covered up to make it (I know, it’s a public wall, it comes with the territory.) Thanks to Ry-Tron and everyone else who sent this in!
Don’t you fucking dare post knitting patterns for Dr. Who characters. So sayeth the BBC, though most likely it was worded in a far more politely threatening manner filled with words contain superfluous “u”s. Thanks, August Moon!
The city of Santa Ana wants to know if your child is a filthy tagger and they’re providing you with a number of telltale signs, complete with diagram, in order to help you figure it out. Signs that your child may be a paint splattered hooligan include frequently wearing baggy pants, carrying a backpack or being in possession of an inordinate number of “Hello My Name Is” stickers. More obvious signs are carrying around cans of spray paint, tagging things, or suspicious behavior such as leaving the house and saying, “Bye mom, I’m going over to Jimmy’s and we’re going to hook up with the rest of the crew and bomb the community center.”
Seriously though, parents need to be on the lookout for this sort of thing. No one wants their child to be a tagger. Those people never amount to anything.
Making a social statement via graffiti is nothing new, people have been scribbling on walls to express their views since man first realized he could make his mark. However, the popularity of the medium has decreased the frequency of pieces that are both thoughtful and artfully executed. Enter The Decapitator, an artist in London who is applying his own fiendish take on advertising, replacing the heads of the ad’s subjects with decapitated stumps. Each piece of subvertionist art is carefully crafted, and blends perfectly with the original advert making them seem like the work of a renegade marketing peon, bent on bringing down his corporate overlords.
Angel Ceballos sends this iPhone snap of an adorable c-pod scuttling along some Seattlite concrete. “Found this by the lobo,” she writes. I have no idea what she means, but does it really matter? Thanks, lady.
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
