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Stoned Hipsters: Ancient Greeks in Modern Hipster Attire

We've all seen hipsters in the wild, and even if we can't perfectly define what a hipster is, we know one when we see one. Parisian artist Léo Caillard does too, and he wondered what this modern ...

Orwellian Birthday: Party Hats Put on Public CCTV Cameras

To celebrate the 110th birthday of deceased British author George Orwell, famous for his dystopian visions of the future, Front404 roamed the streets of Utrecht adding colorful celebratory hats ...

Paper City Animation: “Rise & Fold” of a Fragile Metropolis

Unfolding like a pop-up book in real time, this incredible little built landscape of buildings and bridges, trees and mountains, lampposts and benches rises from nothing then fades back into the ...

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 ...

Unauthorized Installations: The Fine Art of Urban Subversion

Brad Downey is familiar with both sides of the art world, with a fine arts degree and gallery exhibitions, on the one hand, and run-ins with the authorities about his sometimes-unsanctioned ...

Cellograff: Wall-Free Graffiti Sprayed on Clear Cellophane

Tagging is typically considered an urban art. At the very least you need walls to write on, right? Not necessarily - some clever artists have started to stretch cellophane between any available ...

Windows of New York: Weekly Documentary Design Project

Fascination bleeds into fixation in this wonderful ongoing series of illustrations by a graphic designer who enjoys the nuances of fenestration in his favorite city. Each piece in the ...

Sideways Street Art: Muralist Makes Figures Walk on Walls

These layered creations are surprisingly realistic, even in black and white, thanks in part to their scale and reinforced by their shadows, but also due to the ordinary nature of the sidewalk ...

Constellation Portraits: Thread Wrapped Around Nails

A single, unbroken sewing thread is wrapped around a grid of carefully placed galvanized nails to bring human faces to life in stunningly intricate detail. Artist Kumi Yamashita, best known for ...

Not Photoshopped: New Optical Illusions by Felice Varini

As you approach a curve in a parking garage, suddenly a large abstract object seems to float in space just ahead, as if overlaid on top of a static image rather than a three-dimensional setting. ...

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