Awesome idea, reverse graffiti is the technique of using stencils to clean urban walls creating fantastic street art without the spray paint.
Watch the documentary about the ‘professor of dirt’ Paul Curtis.
[via BoingBoing]
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
The work of Stewart Swan captures and exaggerates the odd expressions of everyday people in an unsettling manor, truly unique.
The enigma series by Drew Europeo, colourful, psychedelic and biological.
Stunning computational pattern makers by Jarad Tarbell; substrate combines perpendicular growth with a slight water-colour effect to create these wonderful random city-like images. There are other algorithms in the gallery, but so far substrate is the best I have seen.
[via phidelity.com]
Entertaining viral for the festival of speed, featuring Dougie Lampkin riding around Goodwood house, just down the road from where I work. The ‘blimey’ guy at 2:40 looks like the incredibly talented boss of the motor circuit (and most likely the person who made this all happen).
[via kottke]
In the Thirties London’s outdoor lidos were at the peak of their popularity.
Gradually tastes have changed, resulting in a drop in attendances,
leaving the pools uneconomical to run.
Many fell into decay and many were demolished.
Only a handful of pools remain today as a symbol of a bygone era.
If Hopper were a photographer he would compose photos like Levi Wedel.
Man drifting northwest at approximately 68 mph on U.S. Route 101 somewhere near Camarillo, California, one evening in 1989
Great portraits of people while driving by Andrew Bush.
[via swissmiss]
A stunning collection of bubbles photographed by Jason Tozer, with a truly planetary feel.
[via BoingBoing]
Innovative and well shot photography by Andy Barter.
A superb mix of animation styles go into this video description of procrastination.
Themes of development as a self-generating, self-replicating force that exists outside of nature are encoded in these photographs, which view Los Angeles as both a specific site and as a more generalized condition. The inversion of tonalities in these works is a simple act that defamiliarizes the images.
[via the New Shelton 'wet/dry]
Yep, pretty sensible…
[via Gizmodo]
Experimental, algorithmic artworks by David (Sanch) Dessens.