Argentine street artist Blu made huge waves on the net a while ago with his incredible street art/stop motion vido “Muto.”
His latest is a collaborative piece with David Ellis. It looks like this would take forever. Even if it’s not your aesthetic, you can’t help but be blown away by the intensity of the process…
Via @MarcDSchiller
UK street artist Slinkachu is a full-blown all-out genius, and his on-going outdoor mini-art series, “Little People“, is one of the best things that’s ever happened in the history of stuff. It’s that fucking cool.
Right now there’s almost more Slinkachu-based excitement than I can handle. There are times I curse the universe that I haven’t for some reason magically woken up living in London, and this is one of those times.
First off, in a world that loves to make a heavy coffee table art book out of subjects far less worthy, finally the stars have aligned and the first book documenting the “Little People” project, “Little People In The City“, is being released around the world on September 5.
Appropriately, the book itself is little enough to fit in your hand…
If you’re (lucky enough to live) in London, then Slinkachu is hosting a book launch and London-wide treasure hunt on August 31. The man himself will be placing 4 installations around the city, and the first person to find all four gets a signed print from Slinkachu’s first ever solo show, “Ground Zero“, opening TONIGHT at Cosh Gallery in London’s Soho. Even if you don’t win the print, just by singing up and being there you’ll have the chance to nab the book almost a week before everyone else, and that’s prize enough.
On top of all that, Slinkachu’s official site is currently offline promising a re-opening at the end of August (which could be to coincide with the opening of his solo show, the book launch in London, or the general book launch… sweet jebus, the possibilies…) and I can’t wait to see what the site resurfaces like.
So much Slinkachu in so little time. Not that you needed any further proof, but check out the levels of brilliance that “Little People” is evolving into with one of Slinkachu’s latest installations, “Life As We Know It”:
UK designer Anna Garforth has gone above and beyond green-washing to create a truly biodegradable and all natural graffiti. With “Mossenger” she’s created living, breathing, and sustainable outdoor art. Fashioned from a common moss that thrives on brick walls, she took a quote from poet Eleanor Stevens, carved the moss, and glued it to the wall with a mix of totally biodegradable ingredients.
As the moss grows it will begin to spread out and the words themselves will literally spread themselves, in all their green glory, across the wall and melt into a field of green. Part of an on-going project experimenting with public space and street art, I’m majorly interested to see what Garforth will be up to next. Perhaps the next lines of the poem will strategically find themselves on walls across the city?
Via It’s Nice That
One of my fave street artists in the galaxy is London’s mind-blowing Slinkachu. His on-going miniature street art project “Little People” is easily one of the greatest fucking things ever.
In his latest project, he takes small to a whole new level with “Inner City Snail”. Using non-toxic paints (“no snails were harmed in the making of this street art”) he graffs their shells and draws the snails into the world he’s created with “Little People”. They’re almost like little pimped-out rides.
My personal fave is one of the little people tagging the snail. It’s ridiculously awesome…
If I were you, I’d bookmark his site. All his projects are on-going, and you never know when the next mini-masterworks are gonna’ take to the street. Bookmark. Now.
Via Stimulant
I shudder to think of how long it took to make this. Shudddddder.
Well known Bologna-based street artist Blu is well-known for his cutting edge public art. To me it’s got a subtle fine art influence, with a Picasso meets Keith Haring-esque vibe and a bit of imagery from Dante’s Inferno thrown in for good measure. In his new video “Muto”, which he calls “an ambiguous animation painted on public walls”, he takes combines the realms of graffiti, street art, animation, and film… and in doing so take them to a whole new level. A ridiculously, amazingly, labour-intensive, respect-inducing, how-long-did-that-take, holy fuck kinda level. Check it out:
(Animation and Editing: Blu. Assistant: Sibe. Production: Mercurio Film. Music: Andrew Martignoni.)
Here is just a sampling of the dozens of public works Blu’s laid down…
All images © Blu.
Big thank to Clay (hxfour) for sending this my way.
Last week these pictures popped up on the absolutely kick ass street art blog Wooster Collective. The then-unidentified artist took used plastic bags to create animals lying over subway grates. When the trains rushed by the air would inflate the animals and make it look like it was moving. Even with just the picture, you could see how unexpectedly cool the project is. Imagine walking down the street at the exact moment a plastic bag bear popped up and started shimmying around in front of you. It’s almost unspeakably brilliant in it’s simplicity.
Now, thanks to the art gods at Wooster, the artist has been identified as Joshua Allen Harris. Even better, he’s released a video of his “Air Bear” street sculpture in action. Basically, it’s just really fucking cool:
shape+colour 
