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Muralist Brian “TAZROC” Garcia has completed his latest public art installation, a mural depicting Marijuana activist Jack Herer, which can now be seen on the side of the Nile Collective building at 1501 Pacific Ave. Herer, known as the “Emperor of Hemp”, wrote “The Emperor wears no clothes” a book used in efforts to decriminalizeRead More …

French graffiti artists Sowat (DMV) and Lek, invited 40 urban artists to paint an abandoned supermarket in the north of Paris since they discovered the great, decayed building in summer 2011! Just to make it clear, imagine an old, four storey supermarket and dozens of talented graffiti artists who paint and paint an paint…and filmRead More …

Looks like the Soviets really built an UFO, or at least a building which looks like an RLV, a reusable launch vehicle… According to Timothy Allen the Communist UFO-shaped Buzludzha building (pronounced Buz’ol’ja) in the Balkan Mountains is Bulgaria’s largest ideological monument to Communism which was left to ruin after the revolution in 1989. Nowadays,Read More …

When Tarek Algorhani walked out of a Syrian prison in June 2011, he had no idea that a revolution had erupted in his country – or that it had ignited over a cause he had been thrown in jail nearly six years for championing: inalienable human rights. In November 2005, Tarek and eight other bloggersRead More …

Artist Nova Jiang scoured the sidewalks of her native New York (Brooklyn, to be precise) to extract moss samples to embed into the moving planters of her Landscape Abbreviated art installation. Jiang describes her creation as a “kinetic maze,” but the intention seems more to have been to delight and inspire than to confuse orRead More …

The uk’s largest permanent street art project. A huge outdoor gallery showcasing some of the world’s leading outdoor artists on nelson street, Bristol. The artists reinvent the street each using local buildings as their canvas. Artists so far have included graffiti pioneers Tats Cru from Brooklyn, New York and El Mac from L.A, as wellRead More …

Blu was recently in Spain where he painted this new mural for the Desordes Creativas festival in Ordes, a municipality of northwestern Spain in the province of A Coruña. The Italian artist painted this brilliant new mural which features a statement of his intententions and a plea to Vegetarianism. If you stop by Ordes, this oneRead More …

153 windows, 153 pixels. The front of the Green Building lit up in a colorful display of the popular puzzler Tetris. The 17×9 pixel screen spanned over 80 by 250 feet — making it the second largest screen in the nation. Appearing mysteriously, theTetris hack was the culmination of over four and a half yearsRead More …

Standing in front of one of the dirtiest tunnels of Leeds, England, Paul Curtis, called “Moose”, saw the signs left from the shoulders of wobbly drunks and the fingers of curious children and, with just a pair of socks as a tool the “Reverse Graffiti” was born. No paint, no defacement. Moose creates his artRead More …