Street Smart: Intelligent Motion-Activated Outdoor Lighting
While we are all familiar with motion-detection technology in controlled indoor environments, the technology problem is much more complex when you add stray animals, wind-blown trees, ...
Tag: Sidewalk
Fake Banksy: 40 Forgeries Sold in 1 Hour on Streets of NYC
Just last week, real Banksy art was offered for sale in Central Park to an uninterested crowd, with only a few passers by unwittingly picking up signed pieces worth thousands of dollars or more. ...
Micro-Cities: Tiny Buildings Fuel Miniature Urban Renewal
Electrical boxes beware - Evol is back to up to his old tricks, turning urban fixtures and unused walls into tiny cityscapes using a deceptively simple toolbox comprised of cardboard, stencils ...
Social Signage: Digital Street Sign Gives Dynamic Directions
The shape is a familiar classic - a central post pointing toward different destinations, sometimes near and other times a world away. This evolved version, however, replaces static locations and ...
Little & Local: Staircase Cinema & Sidewalk Library Projects
Public art used to be synonymous with huge and impersonal and location-agnostic sculptures made of metal and marble. Countering that classic Modernist trend are installations like this pair: a ...
Mirrored Street Facade Art Turns Pedestrians into Acrobats
At first: vertigo. You are moving along the sidewalk, when suddenly you see the front of a structure, only on its side, extruded from the ground below you. But then you look up, and realize you ...
3D Sell-Outs? 13 Street Ads You Can Step Into
What happens when the neighborhood kid who likes to draw in the sidewalk with chalk, grows up? That kid becomes an artist who gets paid mad money to illustrate awesome 3D advertisements on city ...
Groundbreaking Street Art Smashes Up Through Sidewalks
Oh yes, you read it right: breaking ground was meant in the literal sense - think Sandworms from Beetlejuice, chewing through asphalt on their way to attack and nature's own bright orange warning ...
Manhole Cover Street Art That Is Far From Pedestrian
Fine art manhole covers. What? Yes, some artists have chosen a medium only a Ninja Turtle could love. Manhole cover and storm drain art is actually a great way to spice up an otherwise mundane, ...
Amazing 3D Graffiti Artists: Sidewalk Chalk & Street Painting
(Check out our complete collection of 100+ Works of Creative and Geeky Art and Graffiti.) Most people tend to think of graffiti as subversive art spraypainted in the dead of night on urban walls. ...
