Micro Metros: Abstract City Models Carved from Wooden Scraps
With the eye of an architect and hand of street artist, James McNabb blends urban inspiration with a fast-paced creation process to make these amazing sketch-like sculptures of all ...
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Banksy Not Arrested: How 1 Man’s Viral Hoax Duped Millions
By now you may know that the world's most famous street artist has indeed not been detained by police and his identity remains secret, but how much do you know about the prankster who perpetrated ...
7,000 LEDs to Cast Sistine Chapel Ceiling in Bright New Light
For 500 years, visitors were able to see Michelangelo's famous 6,000-square-foot painting bathed in natural light, but for the last 3 decades they have gotten a dismal view, the room shuttered ...
Radiotopia Fundraiser: Support 7 Story-Centric PRX Podcasts
Last year, Roman Mars of 99% Invisible and PRX broke records, raising $375,000 with a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign - this year, Radiotopia aims to collect $250,000 in contributions on ...
City Cinemagraphy: Animated Photographs of Urban Motion
With compelling attention to depth, detail and movement, French photographer Julien Douvier uses cinemagraphic techniques to capture everything from fleeting moments to frustrating routines that ...
365 Postcards for Ants: Impossibly Tiny Daily Illustrations
The most minuscule details of a floral bouquet, an old-fashioned camera, a jockey on a horse or a VW bus are rendered with incredibly fine paintbrushes to create paintings smaller than a quarter ...
Guerrilla Moss Graffiti: 8-Step DIY Guide to Green Wall Art
Seed bombs and shotgun shell sprouts are not the only weapons in a guerrilla war for urban gardens and green street art - moss is a great material that can be rapidly adapted and deployed to make ...
Paint Me White Again: Tunnel Type Graffiti Taunts Authorities
Well known for stenciling big block-lettered phrases on walls around his native Newscastle, Mobstr made this piece is unusually blunt (as well as hilarious) - it amounts to a multi-part ...
NO AD Augmented Reality App Replaces Billboards with Art
Subway commuters are inundated with advertisements on virtually every surface they come across along their daily journey, from the stairs leading to each platform to the passenger cars ...
Dress Down: Wild Women’s Dresses Made of Trash, Trees & More
State of Dress is part fashion, part art and part personal mission, an attempt to capture the essence of all fifty States in the US through a series of site-specific dress designs tailored to ...
