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Artistically Enabled: 18 Weird & Creative Handicapped Parking Signs

Blue & white Handicapped Parking signs and stencils are one of urban life's most familiar icons... and then there are those that have been creatively hacked. There's a fine line ...

Bright Ideas for Dark Art: Murals by Skurk Play Tricks with Light & Night

The deep sea anglerfish is a disturbing monstrosity that uses lights to lure in its prey and is the featured backdrop of a recent work of graffiti best experienced at night. Existing wall ...

Appeals to Authorities: 16 Shots of a Year-Long Graffiti Sequence

What started with a single stenciled word ("RED") became a year-long interactive art experiment, as graffiti artist Mobstr tested the patience, limits, diligence and ingenuity of officials tasked ...

May The Art Be With You: Star Wars Stormtrooper Graffiti

White-armored stormtroopers of the Star Wars universe may be the true face of the franchise if their stenciled images on walls worldwide is any indication. ...

Guerrilla Grammarians Fix Street Graffiti Spelling & Punctuation

Calculated correctors, this team of vigilante street art fixers patrols for grammatical mistakes then regroups to decide on edits before hitting the streets of Quito, Ecuador, to deploy ...

Rainworks: Water-Activated Street Art & Games in Rainy Seattle

Rainworks are pieces of street art that only appear when wet, featuring messages, images and interactive games that work great for a city infamous for its frequent precipitation. The idea, in ...

Social Media + Street Graffiti = Stenciled Signs of Our Times

For better and worse, self-reflection and meta-art is an inevitable facet of the digital age - this artist recognizes the blurred lines between physical walls and their Facebook equivalents, ...

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 ...

Point & Click: Street Stencils Show Tourists Where to Shoot

Urban travelers love taking pictures, but ideal angles are not always obvious to visitors - many ultimately either stand in same hard-to-find spot or fail to take an interesting photograph ...

NeverWet Graffiti: Invisible-Ink Street Art Shows Up in Rain

NeverWet has been making headlines as the silicon-based spray that repels liquids from clothes and electronics, but this off-book use shows another fascinating application that may be even ...

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