Lopolis

I was rather disappointed when I saw this faded ColdK ghost last weekend. It was on a brick wall of a beautiful old building on Capitol Hill, around 10th and Roy. I’m sure any more aggressive cleaning of the tag would begin to damage the brick. Some street art can be [...]

In my last post I mentioend the popular street artist turned fashion designer, Shepard Fairey, in a sell-out sort of context (I’ve always hated calling creative people sell-outs, regardless of their actions. I’ll have to return to this thought in another post). Well, checking out the trailer for the upcoming film, Walk the [...]

The UK’s artist, Banksy just finished a trip to Palestine, where he tackled the blank canvas that is the West Bank barrier between Israel and Palestine. Wooster Collective has a gallery of photos of some of his work. Truly striking. The Guardian has a brief article about his trip, and a gallery [...]

After two morbid posts in a row, I thought I’d go a little more light-hearted in this one…
Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, for the Return of the King DVD
Banksy installs paintings in NY City museums (posted by Wooster Collective, and disseminated by kottke)
Stereogum posts the hilarious Ashton Kutcher as Kevin Federline [...]

This is one of the newest street art sticker memes hitting Capitol Hill in Seattle, and I really like it. It isn’t as omnipresent as the bald man or the coldkillr ghost (I’ll rant on why I dislike the ghost soon), but the monkey stickers are spreading fast around the neighborhood and their variety [...]

I’ve spotted quite a few more of these kid heads around the city (mostly Capitol Hill). The only commonality in all of the locations is that they’re very hard to reach. Highway overpasses, thrown over power lines, top edges of buildings, and second story windows…

I added a new category for street art, since I’ve been taking more and more photos of the stuff I find around the city. Here’s the roundup of what I’ve seen in the past few months…

A while back I posted a couple entries wondering about this painted girl that I'd been seeing around, and it turns out it's not a girl afterall. Two weeks ago, the Stranger had this cover image where I immediately recognized the style of the kids. It's a local artist Parskid (the big headed [...]

I took more than 300 photos while I was in Spain, so I'll be posting a lot as I get done sorting them.
First up is the collection of photos of street art that I took. Almost every free wall or alley-way in Barcelona had some sort of tag, grafitti, stencil, poster, or elaborate mural [...]

A few more sightings of the painted girl that I spotted on a neighborhood dumpster the other day…

LEFT: Barrier on an overpass. RIGHT: Shot of the sign across the street.

Painted-over wall near work. This is why she seemed so familiar. Before she was painted over, I'd see her clearly every day on [...]

I remember seeing the original Andre the Giant stickers all over Providence for some time, before I finally heard it was a RISD kid down the street who started it all. Having seen a huge number of the “Obey” Giant stickers around, I decided to do a little research into it, and lo and [...]