ROA has once again hit the walls, this time is Chicago and as always the pieces are awesome
Location: Chicago (The large wall is on the Hedrich Blessing architectural photography studio)
Pictures by Brock Brake via unurth
Brazilian street art takes on the football world cup
The 2014 edition of the football World Cup has now been on for almost a week and it has already been labelled as the better edition of the last 20 years.
While most of us have been enjoying great goals from the safety of our couch, brazilian street artists have taken their art to the city walls of Brazil, mainly Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paulo to remind us of the dark side of the Great game as they put it.
Artist: Paulo Ito
Where: Sao Paulo
The mural shows a starving, crying child with only a football on his dinner plate serves to highlight the vast expense of hosting the World Cup when the money for food, schools and hospitals is needed so much.
“There is so much wrong in Brazil that it is difficult to know where to start,” Ito said. It seems the beautiful game has a dark side.” says Paul Ito
FIFA is not the most welcome and loads of artists ask the football association to go. Cranio is one if them it would seem. One of his mural shows a suited man throwing a sack labelled “public money” down the toilet.
Artist: B.Shanti from the Captain Borderline crew
What: Anti Copa Mural Project organized by Colorrevolution and Amnesty International
Where: Rio de Jainero (Brazil)
Dedicated to all brasilians who lost their home during the brutal eviction.
But not everything is negative, take a look at this street view project from Google showing you panoramic views of (happy) street art from Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paulo amongst others.
> https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/brazils-painted-streets?gl=us
Alex Daw at Eight club by Hang-up
Be ready for what should be another good show by the folks at Hang-Up in Shoreditch. They are presenting again Alex Daw whose last year show sold out. This year the second solo entitled Proper-Gander in a rather unusual subterranean members club in the city called Eight in a show opening on the 6th December. Continue reading Alex Daw at Eight club by Hang-up
Bomk x PakOne x Wen2, Trash & L7M street art
Part of our 3 street art works series you should see today. Bom K x PAk One x Wen 2, Trash & L7m.
Bom K x PAk One
Trash – done during the Venice Art Walls event, California (USA)
L7m
7 Prince street art, graffiti & urban tributes to Prince
Last week saw pop icon, Prince, died at his Minnesota home on Thursday, and, as expected, tribute around the world have been pouring and will probably do so for a long time to come. He died suddenly aged 57, leaving behind a back catalogue spanning rock, pop, funk and jazz and millions of devoted admirers.
We included below 7 Prince street art, graffiti & urban tributes to Prince
Have you seen a piece you would like to share with us or know the name of the artists for the artworks below? Tell us in the Comments section below.
1 – Belfast Cathedral, artist unknown
2 – New York, artist unknown
3 – Cambridge (Massachusetts), artist unknown
4 – Turnpike Lane (London), by Pegasus
5 – Sydney (Australia) by Mr G
6 – Germany by Barbara
Pancakes & Booze London second edition almost on!
In short…
ART . PANCAKES . BOOZE . DJ . LIVE ART . EAST LONDON .
Live art & free pancakes
While talented DJs will be throwing tunes, we also have a few live art happenings on the night. We particularly look forward to see Mark Petty in action. Mark will produce screenprints on the night which will be up for sale.
And as always, there will be pancakes getting flipped over all night. Just queue and get your free pancakes.
Submit your application
There is still time to apply, we take artists submissions until the last day before the show so do not wait and fill out this form. We hope to have you with us for this edition
About
Pancake batter is sizzling, beer froth is flowing, and bare flesh is slathered in paint. Indie musicians and DJs break sound waves off the canvas-lined, graffiti-strewn walls, while revelers stuff their faces with endless amounts of free pancakes.
The Pancakes & Booze Art Show is an LA based artist movement that started in 2009 and has quickly spread to over 20+ cities throughout North America.
They currently organise some of the largest pop-up underground art showcases in the country, with the best local emerging artists, musicians, and performers each city has to offer.
You can read more about the Pancakes & Booze show
WHAT – The Pancakes & Booze Pop Up Art Show
WHERE – Studio Spaces E1
WHEN – 7th April 2016
Tasso, El Marian & Cranio
Part of our 3 street art works series you should see today. Tasso, El Marian & Cranio.
Tasso – located in Germany
El Marian – located in Bogota (Colombia)
Cranio – located in London (UK)
'Make It Up As We Go Along' a show by Dazed
This show looks closer at some of the magazine’s most iconic art coverage over the years
We all know what the Dazed and Confused folks are all about so expect heads turning and debates flowing in
Matters of controversy have never been an issue at Dazed, choosing rather to dare to divide than conform to the masses. This is nowhere as obvious than in our art coverage over the years. says Felicity Shaw
‘Make It Up As We Go Along’ is at the Somerset House until January 29, 2012.
> Read about this show on the Dazed website
> Find out more on the Sommerset House website
His name is #codefc
If you are keen on graffiti, you must have seen #codefc stuff on some walls, one of his latest and probably most seen is the Olympic runner with the message “Fuck 2012 – I am ready now ”
The man behind #codefc has been active as a graffiti artist for a long time, for about 22 yrs actually but he has been using #codefc for the last 12 years. #codefc references to a hexadecimal color code use in web technologies which coincidentally can be broken down into the word “code” and “fc”, the initials of our artist in question.
#codefc started to do graffiti in Rome where he got arrested doing a train carriage. Keen on using stencils, most of his stuff are location related, some of his projects are coDe-DAY in Normandy , stuDIED in Cambodia or viet-code in South Vietnam where fictive characters are invented and stencil on a surface.
Some of you will have notice the use of what looks like a filming camera. Talking to #codefc, we found out that he is also a keen film maker and that the camera depicted in his works is S8 cinecam which is also used as a logo.
#codefc paint as much as in London than abroad and some of of his works can be seen below.
2012Sprinter from #codefc on Vimeo.
This is how you look on drugs
Les Baker V’s INEBRI-NATION project is one of a kind. One may look at it as another purely photographic work while others a bold take on drug use and in some cases, abuse.
Meet Les Baker, a New Mexico-based photographer who has embarked on the most ludicrous, yet interesting in many aspects, projects taking portraits of people at the moment when the subjects reach the ‘high’ state on different drugs.
The idea behind it is to showcase just how diverse the effects can be, with many various transformations of individuals’ faces. And this is why we like the concept, because we believe the last thing a drug user wants is to face their face in such a state.
Another point worth highlighting is the array of people who took part in this project. You may have thought participants are all drug addicts or heavy users and perhaps from a disadvantaged background, but you could not be more wrong.
“The individuals featured in this series showcase the diversity of those who use mind altering substances. They include students, servers, doctors, soldiers, lawyers, politicians, mothers, fathers, artists, teachers, police officers, fire fighters, and judges,” .
The Creators Project spoke to him about his influences, his visions, and why he started the project in the first place, so head over to find out more about it.
In the meantime, we included some of these portraits below, notice the caption for them which tells you what drug these (brave) souls are on.
Would you be up for having your face which you may not feel but you probably like it <– some may have worked out the reference to this tune “Can’t feel my face” by The Weekend… fitting nicely uh? 🙂
