Toronto based artist Dan ‘Fauxreel’ Bergeron’s take on the ‘identity of the city’, integrating the “abrasive charm found in the distressed surfaces of modern cities with the intimate familiarity of the prominent features of the human face”.
We’re loving the ‘hair piece’.
A typically loaded tribute to Springfield by former Simpsons opening animation director Banksy, spotted in New Orleans.
German artist Tim Schneider knows this.
Hence his ongoing mission to anthropomorphise the world with an endless supply of styrofoam and ping-pong balls with cartoon pupils drawn on.
He calls this temporary public art project ‘They Live’
Interviewed recently by Turnstyle magazine Schneider said of his work:
The eyeballs explain something difficult like perception very easy. It changes the purpose of things: a trash bin can be the Cookie Monster. The world around suddenly isn’t something fixed anymore, it’s something you can change. People are realizing this very optimistic opinion with a smile on their faces, more than I ever could have asked for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNeukAmxJw
The World’s longest and largest 3D street art, created in London on Thursday by 3D Joe & Max. Sponsored by Reebok CrossFit, it took a week to complete and covers 1,160 square metres of the West India Quays at Canary Wharf.
Sarasota, Florida. ‘Free Ego’ designed by Leon Keer, inspired by Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Terracotta Army, turned out to be a tribute to the arrival of Ego Leonard, the 8 foot tall not-so-mini minifig art project that washed ashore at Siesta Key Village in Florida.
Now.
A version of the Monopoly board complete with accessories, a penniless Frank Moneybags, a series of transnational corporations in place of utilities and a shoutout to fellow tagger Tox – Banksy’s show of support for the OccupyLondon movement at St Paul’s Cathedral last night.
Spotted on Broome and West Broadway in SoHo, NYC.
