The Post in Lisbon
My old friend Chris from the 56A Infoshop in London recently sent me these great photos of a sticker intervention in Lisbon, Portugal. Like most of the rest of the…
My old friend Chris from the 56A Infoshop in London recently sent me these great photos of a sticker intervention in Lisbon, Portugal. Like most of the rest of the…
Image by LA-based artist Eddie Colla Colla has provided one of the best reviews of MOCA’s blockbuster show “Art in the Streets.” So far critical writing and reviews on the…
Strangely enough, there have been savage attacks on the picturesque streets of beautiful San Cristobal de las Casas. Chiapas. The perpetrators wheat pasted posters and images of old forgotten stories…
Photo: Graffiti artists collaboratively paint a wall in Santiago during the multi-day Planetta Graff festival Our buddy Andalusia just had this great article on the Planeta Rock hip hop fest…
Thanks to Jason Urban for giving what’s going on in Wisconsin more exposure over at Printeresting! Most of us are watching events unfold in Wisconsin from a great distance but…
Romantic love is dead, long live romantic love. DUMBO, Brooklyn. February 2010 I decided to visit this mural Chris & I painted last year, for No Longer Empty. I found…
The massive labor demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin have reached day six and some patterns have emerged that are as recognizable as they are unexpected. First and foremost, this is a…
Happy Valentines Day! Brooklyn, NY 2011 Why the media (and particularly Wiki leaks) is important Publishing improves transparency, and this transparency creates a better society for all people. Better scrutiny…
The folks at Occupied London have set up a site for some comrades in Cairo to post on-the-ground updates about what’s going on in Egypt. There are also a bunch…
I’m still following the Egyptian demonstrations with an incredible amount of excitement. Almost 2 million people demonstrating in Tahrir Square in Cairo, with hundreds of thousands of people in many…
Brooklyn, December 2010.
I recently completed and installed a mural of Carlos Cortez.
We received an envelope at the shipping office this past month with a couple of these stamped US$1 bills and this brief statement: The line between security & tyranny is…
Regular viewers of the Justseeds blog will remember Nicolas’ essay on the censorship of street artist Blu‘s mural, a short while back. Recently a group calling itself LA RAW have…
By Lush, from rebel:art. The above is a humorous piece about the commodification of street art. A handful of the work is clever, while other pieces can be easily critiqued,…
In February 2009, the Pentagon decided to lift the two-decade long ban on photographs of flag-draped coffins. Somewhere down the line the military brass reasoned (or was forced to admit)…
4th Avenue, NYC. Winter 2010. This is a terrible cellphone picture. I took it cos I like the interrogation and think it is incomplete and should end with “…the way…
I was visiting some of my old haunts in Nashville last week, and walked upon this old, weathered People’s History poster of Emma Goldman that I must have put up…
A friend just forwarded me this link to a design called Looptagger. Some folks figured out a really clever and quick way to spray stencils. Check their How-To on their…
Here’s part 2 of the Signs of Change sneek peek! Check out the book HERE.