Super-Sized Urban Plant Tags Identify City-Specific Species
So ubiquitous they almost escape notice, the stuff of everyday streetscapes follows certain laws of man and nature alike. Pointing out the obvious, in this case, is far more unusual and ...
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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 ...
Painting Reality: Surprised Motorists Make Sudden Street Art
Ingredients: 500 liters of brightly-colored, eco-friendly, wash-away water-based paint, one elevated location with video camera and a whole mess of (2000) cars just waiting at an intersection to ...
3D Floating Graffiti: Interactive Alleyway Color Art Illusions
Our minds are addicted to making order out of chaos and finding patterns in noise. This stunning perspectival art project takes the wonderfully windy streets of São Paulo, Brazil and layers a ...
QR Hobo Codes: Secret-Symbol Stencils for Digital Nomads
This project tackles what is probably the last place anyone expect to find a digital-age intervention: the centuries-old tradition of the mobile and homeless communicating via shorthand markers, ...
Subway Parasite: Stealth Projector Lights Up Train Tunnels
Watching the city go by from an elevated or even ground-level rail system can be relaxing, but the transition to an underground section is at best boring, at worst jarring. ...
Liquid Street Art: Tricycle Deploys Calligraphic Water Poetry
Nicholas Hanna is a Canadian artist who has poured new life into a traditional art form, turning a tricycle into a means of rapidly deploying Chinese characters in liquid form. Like disappearing ...
Art Attack: Berlin Drivers Paint The Town Red (& Beyond)
Not only did they paint it red, but pink, purple, blue and yellow as well. Don't blame the drivers (and the odd pedestrian), and don't question their sobriety either – all were unasked, ...
Gratuitous Graffiti: Wild Robot Makes Random Wall Tags
Graffiti takes time whether you're an amateur or a seasoned expert. This crazy robot lets you sit back with a cold beer while it goes at the work of tagging an entire wall with your choice of ...
Ladies In Red: Osaka’s Street Statues Dressed To Excess
Citizens of Osaka, Japan, are a peaceful lot not generally accustomed to seeing red. All that changed on the morning of July 25th when pedestrians on “Midosuji Sculpture Street” were greeted by ...
