I thought seeing as Ghassan did a sweet Australian post this week I would switch it up and do a North American one.

Over 120 illegal billboards throughout New York City were white washed by dozens of volunteers for Jordan Seiler’s ambitious “New York Street Advertising Takeover”.

NYSAT was organised as a reaction to the hundreds of billboards that are not registered with the city, and therefore are illegal. While illegal, these violations are not being prosecuted by the City of New York, allowing the billboard companies to garner huge profits by cluttering our outdoor space with intrusive and unsightly ads.

After the illegal spots were white washed, over eighty artists transformed these spaces into personal pieces of art.

The journal of urtban Typography

Aujourd’hui je vous invite à aller voir le The journal of urtban Typography qui référence une grosse base de photos de texte urbain en tout genre. Le site ne propose pas de fonctionnalité fabuleuse, mais possède une enorme base de contenus ! Simple et efficace

The first Google Maps alphabet, featuring all 26 letters, has been created from satellite images of natural features and buildings by Rhett Dashwood, a graphic designer from Australia.

What? on the streets of Shanghai in 2009? No, we did not resurrect Andy to do a replica. This is just another mélange of art + commercialism + globalisation, as seen in a touristy area.

Quoi? On a ressuscité Andy Warhol pour peindre un portrait à nouveau de Mao à Shanghai en 2009? Non, C’est purement un autre exemple de l’art + le commerce + la mondialisation, montré ici dans un coin fréquenté par les touristes.

Holiday graff paintings from Aussie Brad Gill of the giggling corpse.

Happy Easter.

Voila mes amis. This is the video for 2007 Polaris Prize winning Montrealer Patrick Watson’s song the Great Escape. Like the man says — Doo do dooo da da wa (repeatx10), Bad day looking for the great escape. Words to live by i suppose by Mr. Watson…

The startling beauty of the pencil drawn animated piece is from fellow Mtl people and urban artists Alex Produkt (see photo above) and Kathleen Weldon. Doo do dooo da da wa (and again repeat 10X)

from martyr on flickr (click on photo for account)

This series of photos from Matt Siber is inspired by the proliferation of very tall signs in the American Mid-West and spreading to highways around the world. Floating Logos seeks to draw attention to this form of advertising by making the signs look completely surreal. Matt Siber is an artist from Chicago. Most of his work revolves around urban signs and photography.

Tapeography par Lagoutte (capture de vidéo)

Allé aujourd’hui je vous propose de découvrir une nouvelle technique la Tapeography ! Visiblement lancé par un street artiste parisien répondant au doux nom de Lagoutte, ça consiste à créer des motifs à l’aide de bande de scotch ! Hahaha vous l’aviez pas encore vue celle là
Bref, une fois de plus on nous montre qu’on peut faire de l’art dans à la rue avec à peut près tout ce qui nous tombe sous la main, et tant mieux, parce que c’est bien le but!

Voyez par vous même en regardant ces deux vidéos de notre amis Lagoutte

http://www.vimeo.com/1656331

http://www.vimeo.com/2155462

Un site semble être en préparation: http://tapeographic.free.fr/ donc maintenant j’attend de voir la suite !

www.theartofasbestos.com

video by king adz

FROM THE MOUTH OF ASBESTOS (on the boxing club project):

I was introduced to Ligoniel Amateur Boxing Club by the guys who run the Safehouse Gallery and on my way to Belfast on the train that day, the usual images and preconceptions of ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland came to mind. But I wasn’t interested in adding to a landscape of film, painting and literature that couldn’t escape the images of violence and division from the past. It was my intention to create a body of work focusing on people who’re making a difference in their community despite all the shit that goes on around them.

I got to know the guys from the club, each had a story, each had a reason to be drawn to boxing and the small club that was a home and a safe family. I came away from that club with a head full of stories and a meaningful idea for an exhibition in Belfast. My initial fear was that these guys would treat me with suspicion, but each was open and honest, happy to talk while I photographed.

The following day, I scoured the streets in different parts of Belfast for the signature yellow Ace Bates skips (he’s the king of the Belfast skip world). I hoped that they might contain the detritus of the city; wood, metal and any other objects that told the cities history for me to paint on. I pulled pieces from skips in the Holy Land, the Shankill Road, the Lisburn Road and the Falls, then I hauled them home to the studio in Dublin to paint.