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From 3D graffiti to light art, these works reflect the cutting edge of contemporary urban street art and design. These graffiti and street artists employee the latest techniques, creative materials, and unusual strategies to challenge the conventional stencil-and-spray-paint approach that most people think of when it comes to public drawing and wall graffiti the world over.

Wonderful and Artistically Graffitied Cars

Graffiti has always been an urban expressionist art form. These cars are a mobile tribute to the art form.

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12 Long-Exposure & Time-Lapse Photographers

Time-lapse and long-exposure photography capture a series of moments rather than a single split second, portraying action and movement.

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7 Urban Wonders of the Modern World

Unbelievable as it may sound, there are those who track urban wonders of all kinds - from the narrowest to the most windy streets of the world and more.

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Humorously Offbeat Money-Soliciting Signs

Sometimes they are thought-provoking but many times they are merely funny - here are some signs you may see on the side of the road - and that might be side-splitting.

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Ultimate Banksy Art & Graffiti Gallery

While necessarily incomplete, this collection gathers over 100 essential pieces that tell key stories about his aims, personality and history.

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Temporary, Reverse and Other Geek Graffiti

As graffiti and technology evolve, more and more innovative street artists are mixing media to create radical hybrids of graffiti art, design and technology.

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12 Examples of Playing Card Art and Sculpture

12 examples of precariously balanced houses of cards, collages made of playing cards and paintings inspired by playing card imagery.

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16 3D Graffiti Artists and Street Painters

These amazing artists produce three-dimensional works that trick our sense of perspective and seem 3D despite being painted, drawn or chalked onto flat 2D surfaces.

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20 Light Graffiti Artists & Photographers

Light graffiti is uniquely ephemeral and inextricably intertwined with the art of photography, sometimes even invisible to the naked eye and apparent only on film.

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20 Architectural and Graphic Optical Illusions

Seeing is believing... or is it? These architectural optical illusions constitute very public ways to fool the eye, please the mind and satisfy the soul.

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Light Art and Photography of MRI

With tons of energy, some fresh ideas and a willingness to play around and be goofy, the photography duo MRI creates graceful portraits of light in motion.

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Literal 'Street Art' of Pedestrian Crosswalks

The utilitarianism of zebra crossing designs hasn't not stopped people from creative experimentation in the form of quite literal pedestrian street art.

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Abandoned Theaters, Parks, Schools & Pools

Some of the most haunting abandonments are those that were once used to entertain and educate - filled with vast once-vibrant gathering and learning spaces.

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Motion-Blur and Time-Lapse Photography

Most photographs only freeze a moment in time. Long exposures can create an image that encompasses several moments; time lapse photography can even span years.

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Banksy Art and Graffiti: The Ultimate Guide

The internet has long been abuzz with Banksy, the world’s most infamous street artist. But what is the big deal, where can you find his work and more information?

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