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Street Art View Catalogues The Art That’s Not In Museums

Not to be mistaken with Google’s recent effort to catalogue indoor art, the new Street Art View project lets you tour the street art of the world as captured in Google Maps. And really who’s seen more streets than the Google Street View car?

February 8, 2011
Geek Out

The Most You’ll Ever Anticipate A Rainbow

The first two minutes are all foreplay: six spray paint cans being snapped into place; batteries being plugged in; and the grey Robo-Rainbow machine being hitched to the back of a bicycle. Then, finally, sweet rainbow payoff. Yes.

January 6, 2011
Geek Out

Street Artists Project Laser Graffiti After Anti-War Mural Censored

Another head-scratching moment from authorities, this time from LA’s MOCA museum, which commissioned street artist Blu for an anti-war mural in December… only to whitewash it over worries it was “offensive”. Two nights ago, street artists got their own back.

December 30, 2010
Entertainment

Watch Graphic Violence Get Real Literal

Man versus man. Man versus graffiti. Graffiti versus graffiti. Graffiti versus man. It may not be the circle of life, but this short is at least a circle of cartoonish, explosive fun. I’ll take it!

October 25, 2010
Software

Augmented Reality Graffiti Hits Foursquare In ARstreets iPhone App

The idea behind this app is that instead of tagging actual buildings, you’re tagging virtual buildings. Whether this will reduce crime (or actually encourage it) is undecided, but the app has a neat augmented reality Foursquare tie-in.

August 17, 2010

Geek Love Poems Are The Best Love Poems

On the side of the road, somewhere deep in the heart of California, this love poem has been scrawled on a partition. I hope whoever it’s meant for has a fondness for web design and memes.

January 12, 2010
Software

How To Tag Any Building With Your iPhone

You know what that building across the street from you needs? A graffiti tag, from your iPhone. Here’s how you do it.

October 22, 2009

The Magic Paint Roller

I have seen some pretty cool electronic graffiti techniques in the past, but multimedia performers Sweatshoppe’s method—which uses a paint roller to draw video straight on walls—beats them all.

October 13, 2009

Urban Renewal, OS 9 Edition

Spotted by a reader outside of Providence, Rhode Island (what isn’t “outside of Providence” in RI, anyway?), some charming little OS-9-themed graffiti on an abandoned nightclub. Wallpaper-sized shots after the jump.

April 11, 2009
Geek Out

Fire Tagging Makes Graffiti a Bit More Dangerous

Graffiti is cool, I guess. But graffiti that’s been lit on fire before the paint drys? OK, now you have my attention.

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