Photo par d.rogers

Bon aujourd’hui parlons cinéma… ou marketing … ou street art? comics ? alors … bon on va faire un mix de tout pour parler comme toujours des murs de nos villes, qui se couvrent de diverse peinture en rapport avec la sortie du film The Watchmen, tiré bien entendu du comics éponyme. Attention, il se pourrait que via cette article je relais lâchement un concept marketing imaginé entre deux orgie dans une agence de communication quelconque, en pleine période de sortie de film!

Mais qu’importe les motifs pour lesquels ces murs se sont trouvé décoré, le résultat n’en est pas moins là : New York, Toronto et d’autre ville se sont trouvé orné du slogan “Who watches the watchmen” en référence don à notre fameux film. Alors qui est dans le coup? les gens du marketing, un illustre fan de comics, le Watchmen en personne?

Photo par andrewdkeller

Photo par Kellan

Les premier on l’air identique, même couleur, même typo … peut-être la fameux coup de marketing. Puis on commence à trouver différentes variantes :

Photo par Artelisa

Photo par artelisa

La situation serait-elle hors de contrôle, le buzz aurais finalement pris (raaah saleté de pub, ils nous ont encore eu). Puis finalement on arrive a des mix avec les camera de Banksi (le thème s’y prêtait bien …) :

Image par Skonen Blades

Photo par squirmywormy

Alors n’oubliez pas, on vous à l’oeil ! (mouhahahahaaaa)

How could I not love Tai Po (大埔) district in Hong Kong? It is less densely populated than Kowloon or Hong Kong Island. It boasts the largest park managed by Leisure and Cultural Services Department as well as a rapidly expanding science park. True to the Hong Kong spirit, both “parks” are located on land reclaimed from sea. Speaking of sea, Tai Po also has the world’s first “reservoir in the ocean”, Plover Cove, which has the longest dam in Hong Kong measuring 2km.

Road warning signs are fair game for graffiti artists. Of course there are equivalents in every country in the world, but here are some gems from my turf.

nü ren (女人): femme / woman

as seen in Beijing.

Dessins devant une boutique à Shanghai, Chine.

as seen in Instituto Cervantes de Pékin’s Fiesta de Arte Urbano: Graffiti y música hip-hop in December 2008. It was a rendition by artist from suso33.com.

ice hands by glasco54

Yes it is almost Valentine’s day, the cheesy, romantic, greeting-card holiday that people love or hate. Either way, if you send a message with CitySPK this Valentine’s, you’ll be sure to impress.

Alternately you can graffiti it, or maybe look around your city at what’s already there. I found some beautiful deaf graffiti last week. It’s true, a lot can be said without any words. Happy Valentine’s day.

I’m from a pretty small city in Australia, even if it is the capital. It’s nice to see some evolving wall animation from right outside my sister’s old workplace. Also a good surprise to find out our friend Leon did the music. It’s a novel way to advertise your store- itrip iskip and Unit Concepts are next door to each other. Good to see business’ getting along. Georgina Edwards - a design student, did the week long stop-motion in a part of town that’s getting more and more well known for supporting local talent.

Continuing but twisting the theme on Valentine started here, whoever sketched this piece “我愛北角” (wo ai bei jiao) inside a metro station, loves North Point (北角), a neighbourhood in the Northeastern part of Hong Kong Island.

ai (愛): verb or noun, meaning like or love.

I’ve read about Slinkachu all over the place lately, the New Zealand Review, Asphalt magazine from Germany, he was even in the London Financial Times, strangely. He is a Londoner, whose work is becoming ever popular. Spreading smaller words than most, but in a highly effective manner…

maybe this time

they're not pets susan

Click on any of the images to visit numerous blogs about Slinkachu’s different works.

And Happy New Year…