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Everyone these days jumps straight to thinking about ‘guerrilla marketing’ when anyone mentions ‘guerrilla’ in general, but it is important to remember that this modifier can be applied to all kinds of amazing and subversive practices, to the strange public-planting phenomena known as guerrilla gardening to other unique forms of subcultural expression ranging from custom sports to spontaneous public performance art.

Dispatchwork: Patching WWII Damage with Legos

German artist Jan Vormann patches bullet holes, cracks and other damage from World War II with plastic building blocks in a project called 'Dispatchwork'.

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Guerilla Marketing: 22 Ads from Bizarre to Brilliant

Guerilla marketing is about using a small budget for big results. Here are guerilla marketing campaigns, 22 ads from bizarre to brilliant.

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Cellophane City? Plastic Arts Change Urban Landscape

Cellophane, the plastic stuff that keeps your sandwiches fresh, isn't a conventional art tool. But these two projects use it to temporarily spruce up cities.

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40 Fantastic to Freaky Merry Christmas Greetings in Graffiti!

The debate rages on if graffiti is art or vandalism. Whether freaky or fantastic, writers spread holiday cheer with these 40 Merry Christmas graffiti greetings.

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Look Before You Leap: Crazy Parkour Building Jump

Parkour is an extremely challenging urban sport that involves big jumps, impressive acrobatics, and a lot of guts. This group captured all that in a crazy jump.

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Truly Geeky Gadgets: 15 USB Weapons From FAIL To Fantastic

Some USB guns are fun, but some are used to strike fear in your cubicle-neighbor's heart. Here are 17 USB "weapons" made by geeks for geeks, from FAIL to fantastic.

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Mod Body Extremes: 10 Male & Female Meta-Modifications

Body modification covers anything from ear piercings to circumcisions, but there's a niche that involves the most extreme manipulation of the human body.

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Off the Wall Graffiti: 11 Artists Making Odd Marks

By now, we're all so used to seeing graffiti that we ignore it. But would you be able to ignore graffiti using a medium or a method you'd never seen before?

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Upcycled Dumpsters: Urban Guerrilla Eco-Art

How many different ways can you upcycle an old dumpster? The Skip Conversions project turns them into swimming pools, skate ramps and more.

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15 Cool Urban Art Projects and Dreamy Product Designs

Chilean artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz creates fantastical designs and urban art. His product designs and guerrilla art are original and amazing.

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Graffiti Designs + Styles: Tagging, Bombing, Painting

Graffiti comes in all shapes, sizes and styles. Most of us have seen different styles of graffiti, but how often do we really pay attention to the composition?

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Crazy Contortions: Bodies in Urban Spaces

Performance art at its best is when the performers, their environment and the audience all interact. This amazing urban dance project accomplishes that and more.

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Clonehenges: 20 Creative Recreations of Stonehenge

While no one is sure why or how Stonehenge was built, our fascination with it is long-lasting. These replicas all pay homage to the original English enigma.

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20 Subversive Works of Urban Guerrilla Street Art

Whether using the streets as a blank canvas or masterminding 'interventions', these street artists help change the public perception of everyday urban life.

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Pretty Persuasion: Pumped Up Propaganda of the Past

Propaganda, presented graphically as posters, pamphlets and pictorial artwork, aims to influence the attitudes of people to serve the purposes of the propagandists. Here are 13 examples of propaganda showing it at its best, worst and purest.

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