Don’t Call it Knitting: Olek’s Crazy Crocheted World
A genderless figure in head-to-toe crochet camouflage lounges on a crochet-covered chair atop a crochet rug, surrounded by crochet wall hangings that say things like “Wake up and play with ...
Tag: urban street art
Under the City’s Skin: Street Art Peels Back Urban Layers
Urban environments are crowded with all kinds of sights that are so common they often just seem to fade into the background. Signs, buildings, cars, the odd package waiting on a doorstep - they ...
Dutch Duo Turns Rio Slum into Rainbow of Painted Color
It's no surprise that Brazil's favelas, or slums, can be bleak places to live. In one neighborhood, a sign on a wall ridden with bullet holes reads, 'Attention neighbors. In days of war, avoid ...
Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game
It's happening all around the world: people are taking pictures of their friends awkwardly lying face-down in all sorts of unlikely places. On top of statues, in the middle of roads, in front of ...
The Underbelly Project: Illegal Secret Subway Art in NYC
It's “an elusive pirate treasure of contemporary art” - an abandoned subway chamber under Manhattan that was illegally opened for a year starting in 2009 to allow 103 select artists to paint ...
Make-Believe Miniatures: 15 Amazing Tilt-Shift City Photos
It's a case of life imitating art: photographs of full-sized objects or scenes that look like tiny, perfectly constructed models. Tilt-shift photography, whether using a real tilt-shift lens or ...
Kiev Street Artists Paint Interesting Fairy Tales
Against the stark, pale background of Post-Soviet Ukraine, the vivid colors and fanciful images painted on brick, plaster, stone and wood are as jarring as they are cheerful, an unexpected jolt ...
Stairs to Nowhere: 15 Works of Surreal Staircase Sculpture
They might not get you from one floor of a building to another; in fact, you might not even be able to step on them without sliding off or getting vertigo. But these 15 spectacular floating ...
Geekfiti: 15 (More!) Unusually Geeky Graffiti Projects
Geeks may rule the internet, but do they rule the world? To take a look at some modern graffiti, one might think so. Plenty of street art has begun to take on a tech-inspired flavor, whether it's ...
Street Art War: Banksy vs. The Gray Ghost in New Orleans
(image via: howieluvzus) When Banksy visited New Orleans in 2008, the renowned graffiti artist wasn't just leaving behind his particular brand of social and political commentary on Hurricane ...
