Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Monday, April 19, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Exit through the Gift Shop
banksy has always been an ill artist but is truly the man in my eyes after seeing this film. solid dude for sure.
much respect..
p.s. brainwash = wack
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
BRIDGE THE DIVIDE from ABOVE on Vimeo.
from the site...
New site specific works from Berlin, Germany on the BERLIN WALL. This year marks the 20 year anniversary of the BERLIN WALL falling! Enjoy the symbolism, irony, and gesture of unity from the extending arm reaching through the hole in the wall offering flowers to the other side "Bridging The Divide" between the East and West side of Berlin.
goabove.com
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Sunday, April 6, 2008
On Radar
As of late I've been consulting with New Design High School in the LES, a design school with a holistic focus dedicated to the education of urban youth. Basic core education is taught with emphasis on design in addition to programs including music and graffiti.
In an effort to save school programming due to massive budget cuts, New Design has recently launched its rooftop as an event space and set its sight on a fundraising goal of $50,000.
The NDHS roof top space is a city block long and located on the corner of Grand and Essex. (Perfect for Summer Time Events!) The site also currently contains the “Rooftop Legends,” where legends of urban art come together to create an outdoor museum space to celebrate various mediums of art and popular culture.
Peep the videos' that will drop via The New Pop today. Thanks to Tone and Trev for coming through on this for me! Guaranteed to be the on radar for summer events!! Stay tuned for more things to drop soon ....
Part 1:
Part 2:
For Roof Top Views
http://newdesignrooftop.blogspot.com/
Bookings:
Make an appointment to visit the site before applying. Contact Sarah Baltazar at info@newdesignhigh.com or 212.475.4148 to schedule a visit.
To Make Donations:
www.newdesignhigh.com
(NDHS is a non-profit 501c3 status)
ABOUT THE SCHOOL:
New Design High School (NDHS) is a small academic high school with a focus on design, located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the Seward Park Campus. The school uses the concept of design to assist in meeting the holistic needs of adolescents, including the academic, intellectual, social, emotional and artistic sides of students. The school opened five years, graduating its founding class in June, 2007, as part of the small school movement for NYC public schools.
NDHS is committed to working with urban youth, often disfranchised, and exposing them to a vigorous educational environment. Close to 50% of the student population are placed into the school through a lottery system. Generally, these students come to the school with low test scores, lower attendance rates and lower scholarship rates. Over 70% of the NDHS student population is below the poverty level and 75% enter the school behind grade level in math and literacy based on city and state testing.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Former graffiti artist makes his mark
Source
LONDON - At a white-walled gallery in one of London's priciest quarters, a small army of stenciled rats and smiley faced storm troopers is awaiting an invasion.
The chic Andipa Gallery is expecting a stampede of art buyers to its latest exhibition of works by Banksy, the pseudonymous "guerrilla artist" whose satirical images have gone from street-corner graffiti to coveted artworks that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Gallery owner Acoris Andipa says Banksy's rise from hip outsider to art-world star has been rapid, as he discovered when he held a preview in the exclusive Swiss resort of Gstaad.
"Last year, we were having to explain who Banksy was and why his canvases were 30,000 or 40,000 pounds ($60,000 to $80,000)," Andipa said. "This year, every single person - including clients who'd come in their Lear jets - walked in and said, 'Wow, Banksy - and it's only 150,000 pounds ($300,000).' "
Such prices are no longer exceptional. Last year, a Banksy went for almost $600,000 at a London auction. Earlier this month, "Keep It Spotless" - a Banksy stencil over a polka-dot painting by British artist Damien Hirst - sold for $1.8 million in New York.
The 60 works in the Andipa show range from $15,000 for limited-edition prints to $900,000 for a painting of sharks circling supermarket trolleys full of bright orange fish.
Banksy's opinion of all this can only be guessed. Andipa does not know or represent him. The works in the show - on wood, canvas, fragments of wall, and pieces of metal - were bought from collectors around the world.
Banksy's website says the artist does not endorse gallery shows of his work and disapproves of auction houses selling his street art because "it's undemocratic, it glorifies greed, and I never see any of the money."
His publicist, Jo Brooks, said the artist had no connection with the Andipa show.
"It's absolutely nothing to do with him, and there is no comment," she said.
It's a classic Banksy contradiction that he is famously publicity shy, but also employs a publicist. He's an expert at blending an outsider image with commercial savvy. He almost never gives interviews, avoids being photographed, and has not even confirmed his real name.
Most agree his name is Robert - or possibly Robin - Banks, he is in his early 30s, and he comes from Bristol in southwest England, where he began his graffiti career in the 1980s and 1990s.
Using spray paint and cardboard stencils to tag walls, bridges, and street signs, Banksy evolved a cheekily subversive style. His most famous images include two police officers kissing, armed riot police with yellow smiley faces, and a chimpanzee with a sign bearing the words, "Laugh now, but one day I'll be in charge."
In various corners of London, he stenciled rats holding placards saying, "You Lose" and "Get out while you can."
Several of the rats are in the new show, as are Vladimir Lenin on roller skates, a masked rioter preparing to hurl a bouquet of flowers, a military helicopter topped with a jaunty pink bow, and a group of well-heeled lawn bowlers tossing bombs.
Andipa said that Banksy has a knack for "boiling satirical points down to a simple, single image."
"Everybody gets it. It's so accessible," he said.
That accessibility does not impress everyone. Art critic Matthew Collings wrote recently in The Times newspaper that Banksy's ideas "only have the value of a joke."
Owning his work "would make you modern and clever - or stupid. It's a fine line."
Banksy's reputation has been boosted by a series of attention-grabbing art pranks.
In 2005, he hung an image of a spear-toting ancient human pushing a shopping cart in the British Museum. The next year he smuggled a life-size figure of a Guantanamo Bay detainee into Disneyland.
For a 2006 exhibition in Los Angeles, he spray painted an elephant red and gold and placed it in a living room with matching wallpaper. People lined up around the block outside the warehouse where the show was held. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were among those who bought work.
As his fame and reputation grow, it's becoming increasingly hard to see Banksy's work in its original setting - the streets. At first, the main threat was local authorities removing it. In recent years, building owners have sold entire walls, or covered up Banksy stencils to preserve them.
Lately someone has been painting over Banksy works in London, leaving the stenciled words "all the best" beside them. Some say the vandal is a rival street artist. Others say it is Banksy himself. We may never know.
More of this work ...
"A work by controversial British artist known as Banksy, entitled 'Di-faced Notes', which shows the face of Diana, Princess of Wales on what at first glance seems to be a conventional English bank note."
1 hour in the life of Banksy
1 hour in the life of Banksy
"This is Banksys latest street work on the Essex Road, London N1. The spot was filmed for 1 hour on 6th March 2008. It was interesting to note the diverse cross section of the local community that were interested in his work. Unfortunately it is now covered with perspex to stop it being vandalised. See for yourself. Now covered up unfortunately."
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Monday, July 23, 2007
Day 6: Barcelona
We woke up and grabbed some breakfast and hit the streets with our peeps. This area reminded me of Times Square in NYC. The block is lined with people in extravagent painted costumes to make money. The guys on the right were smart. They blind you with a mirror every time you try and take a picture until you give them money. Only then can you snap a proper photo. 
Doesnt this guy remind you of that movie Big Trouble in Little China?
We popped over to the Trust Nobody Store and found Julio had put Scott to
work ;-)
we bounced out and started wandering into vintage shops and misc. stores around the city. I snapped a ton of graffiti shots along the way ...
the picture on the right was a glass wall connec
ted to the MACBA 
we made a quick stop into the museum of xocolata (aka museum of chocolate) and I snapped a few of the custom chocolates 
...
This was a sweet looking vespa I saw outside of the museum. 
The camper hotel entrance ... you cant actually gain access to the rest of the hotel unless you are a guest apparently.
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