The Street Art Thread
Anyone do street art here on Polycount or has an interest in it? I know Polycount is all about art and such and wondered if we should have our very own Street Art thread.
I'll start off with some my work.
I'll start off with some my work.
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http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/04/robert-banksy-street-graffiti-artist.html
but, I make stuff and put em in random places
i'm out of these at the moment.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html
I havent done anything like this in almost a year, but here's some of the stickers I made when I was living in seattle.
here's some more from me, on cardboard.
There is a difference between Vandalism and wheat paste or gluing art to walls. Wheat pasting deteriorates the art eventually while vandalism stays forever. What I do is legal. Vandalism isn't the best means for art.
I can only see street artist doing vandal street art if they have gained some reputation.
Right after I watched that I went out and did some tagging. It was very freeing.
lol, I think i remember seeing that one. I live right down the street from there.
100% legal in every state?
10x extra awesome that another polycounter saw it, wonder how long it stayed up for?
love the rainbow color dude in your last pic daphz
I like being able to spot an artists piece, especially if I havn't seen it before, and I think big colourful graffiti improves areas. Like alot of people (I imagine!) I always wanted to have a go, so I did. I made a stencil of a guy riding a t-rex based off a joke me and my friends had and went out on one of my last nights in hall's and stuck it about. It was fun and a little thrilling - my small taste of street art, haha.
Anyway I had it as my avatar on a bunch of forums, only changed my polycount avatar the other day. I'll have to find the original picture!
Edit: Everyone in this thread should read NAWLZ! It's like if Phillip K Dick wrote a comic about Graffiti!
Yea it ain't permanent. If they really don't like it they can take it down with ease.
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Street/Guerilla Art is definitely something I've been dying to get my hands on!
Exit through the gift shop looks killer, gonna have to get that one.
She really should just cycle around it. Dumb broad....geez
I used to *slap stickers around college in hard to reach places, back in the day. Fun times. Last time I was there a few still survive. 5years later!
*Slap or slapping, being the "street" terminology for "bombing" stickers. Thats right. I'm "down" with the kidz.
Wow, simply wow.
Gave it a read through now and it's really trippy, and to a degree thought provoking. Really like the manner it's presented and the interactivity in it. Great style as well.
NAWLZ! is pretty cool. Also nice stencil art!
I just use paper and wallpaper glue.
Yea you can use anything. The wallpaper glue wont hurt the paper as long as it is thick enough not to bleed.
Can't wait to see what you got for the streets!
might not be the same guy, but I came across Julian Beever's work a while ago... he does a lot of that type of stuff
http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm
(scroll down to anamorphic illusions)
in other news, I've made like 4 stickers already, just gotta grab a friend whos phone has internet connection
I made some stuff I was ready to paste up a few years ago but never got around to it. I should make it happen one of these days. I live across the street from the most populated mall in the province and there's so many bare walls...
I kind of like the idea of just using paper and wallpaper glue. That's how I did my tests before and it worked great. I don't think it's that much slower than stickers either. I wonder how well spray adhesive would work.
"Slapping" stickers is illegal and you could end up being fined a huge amount of cash.
I caught a bit of a TV show here in UK called "The Peoples supermarket". Something about a community run supermarket with people volunteering to work there as such. (sounds like a dumb idea to me)
The manager tried to do some cheap advertising so he came up with the idea of making sticker arrows pointing the way to the store (no planning permission). He stuck 88 arrows about town from the nearest Tesco all the way to the store.
Guess what, Suprise! Next morning 2 environment agents knocked on the door and told the dumbass manager he was going to be fined £2500 PER STICKER! (£220000) I don't see how it costs that much to take a sticker off.
I think he offered (got ordered) to scrub them all off himself and he got a slapped wrist.
Anyway. Just a warning. Don't make arrow stickers that point to your house and dont get caught.
I think it's probably a bit different for people posting up art individually and anonymously. Unless you're caught in the act there's not a lot of accountability and you're not as official as a business.
That said I just checked and apparently there's a 500$ minimum fine for anyone caught putting up grafitti here. The best locations are within a block of a police station. :S
I find the blank toys a really cool idea. For people who don't know, blank toys are basically toy SDK's, like the blank meshes on this forum. You paint them up how you like, and some of them are freaking amazing.
hope I'm not hurting this thread with this. If I am, sorry....
@Jeremy-S - i'm gonna look into that! i've printed out some blank papercraft type stuff and drawn on it. not plastic toys though.
here's some more thangs I made today. and a blank hat I painted on
From your work here, I think you'd make some really cool art on a Dunny (blank toy). Here's a link with examples http://sites.kidrobot.com/dunny/ You'll see they're all the same toy, but VERY different paint jobs. They can get pretty big, and there are different styles as well.