Guerilla marketing is often a risky business, skirting the edge of ethical (or even legal) acceptability. Some guerilla marketers who have crossed the line have caused everything from Olympic belly-flops to city-wide bomb scares and have been punished with anything from modest jail time to millions of dollars in fines. All the same, some of […]
Posted by Urbanist May 6th, 2008
Graffiti, Guerilla Marketing, Urban Art, Various
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Regular readers will remember the incredible abandoned mines and sunken cities as well as the catacombs and crypts of two previous collections of underground wonders. This set, however, focuses mainly on amazing underground wonders of the recent past - many of which are still in operation. From seed vault to military hideouts and diamond mines […]
Posted by Urbanist April 30th, 2008
Architecture, Environment, Graffiti, Urban Videos, Various
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What qualifies something as unusually geeky street graffiti? In some cases it is the content but in many instances it is the methods employed in its creation. Here are seven more geek graffiti projects that comment on and employ tools of the digital age to reinterpret traditional street art approaches or convey contemporary messages via […]
Posted by Urbanist February 17th, 2008
Architecture, Graffiti, Guerilla Action, Street Art, Urban
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Never underestimate the power of simple office supplies. Post-It Notes come in many vibrant colors and provide everything from a building block for engaging sculptures to a collection of blank slates for interactive community art projects. Here are 16 projects that involve covering, cladding, sculpting and decorating with simply sticky pieces of paper.
Posted by Urbanist January 24th, 2008
Graffiti, Urban Art, Urban Videos, Various
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(Above [Citation Needed] Wikipedia Graffiti from Flickr via Snarfd)
What makes great graffiti into geek graffiti? It can be the approach, using nifty computer equipment to generate graffiti (for example). It can also be the content, as in the case of pixelated, projected or or even “physically hyperlinked” street art. The following examples span the spectrum […]
Posted by Urbanist January 9th, 2008
Graffiti, Guerilla Action, Street Art, Urban, Urban Images, Urban Videos, Web 2.0
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