stain gets up elsewhere
February 12, 2008
Justseeds member Chris Stain has been leavin his wares around. You can see more of what he’s up to over on his site at ChrisStain.com.
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Street Art & Graffiti
Many of us have done it, some continue to, and we all love seeing what people all over the world are posting on the street. Pay for Graffiti on the Apartheid Wall??
February 11, 2008
I had some serious questions about Banksy’s Santa’s Ghetto project in Bethlehem (like the point of Faile’s boxer piece, which flattens out the Palestine/Israel conflict to a simple equation of…
Portland Wheatpaste
January 30, 2008
A beautiful new poster from my favorite Portland wheatpaster, this one is up near Portland State University.
STOLPERSTEINE – intervention in germany
January 29, 2008
I found these engraved brass cobblestones on sidewalks throughout Cologne, Germany, when I lived there a few years ago. The stones are memorials to residents of buildings that were displaced…
Snow Graffitti
January 27, 2008
We discovered a free and easy way to make temporary graffitt. (It’s like henna tattoos). We had pieces of snowy ice that we drew on the street with. Fun!
Arizona Sticker Show
January 25, 2008
Just got a note from Mad One in Pheonix, AZ. He’s curating a street art sticker art show in Phoenix and is looking for stickers to be sent in from…
Call for Mural Show
January 25, 2008
This just came through the inbox from the Wouter Osterholt en Elke Uitentuis in the Netherlands, seems like a cool project: Speaking Through Walls We’re looking for people that can…
Amazing Detroit Window Art
January 24, 2008
Seeing Nicholas’ post of that Chicago project reminded me of this- one of my favorite street art projects in Detroit- or ever, really…. This is, I believe, the old United…
Folks I hope will rub off on me
January 14, 2008
I am blessed by a gigantic network of people that span the whole world, practically all continents included. There’s even the Anti-Santa from Antarctica that once subletted my ro- (I…
Memorial Bike RIde-update
January 8, 2008
Photo by Fred Askew The 3rd Annual Memorial Bike Ride went as planned on Sunday, January 5th. There were around 250-300 cyclists that attended the rides that eventually converged on…
Alternatives to Spray Paint: Try Mud Stencils!
December 29, 2007
Milwaukee-based artist Jesse Graves created a number of mud stencils that he recently put up on sidewalks and the sides of buildings. Below is his “how-to-guide” and a link to…
Making Our Own Art Histories
December 17, 2007
This just landed in our inbox: The Southern California Library, in South L.A. will be hosting Making Our Own Art Histories, a series of art exhibitions as an effort to…
A Response to OBEY Plagiarist
December 14, 2007
It’s taken me a long time to get this together, but I wanted to throw my ideas into the discussion around the artwork/plagiarism of Shepard Fairey that has been spinning…
Iranian Street Artist A1ONE
December 10, 2007
Good filckr and homepage with a wide variety of work stencils, stickers, throw ups, murals, canvas work, street art… Particularly awesome to see wildstyle in Farsi (?) I think… Check…
Borf Print to Support Daniel McGowan
December 6, 2007
Washington, DC troublemaker BORF is back, with a great 5 color silkscreen print to help support Daniel McGowan, one of the activists imprisoned in the recent US government round-up of…
Howling Mob Society Strikes Pittsburgh
December 2, 2007
Justseeds is having its first annual meeting and retreat in Pittsburgh this weekend! And while we’re here we ran into some amazing political street art. The Howling Mob Society has…
Art for a Democratic Society
November 13, 2007
Excited to see this in my inbox, the crew over at Not My Government are trying to put together a Bay Area project similar to the Street Art Workers: In…
Recent Journey-Argentina
November 12, 2007
I recently traveled to Argentina and Chile. My intention was to travel more in Chile and not Argentina, so I only spent 4 days in Buenos Aires before taking a…
SAW in the news
November 11, 2007
We live in a very, very strange world. The Street Art Workers have had a little blurb about them published in the Oct/Nov issue of the Indian edition of Elle…
Breakdown’s Nuclear Poster Series
November 9, 2007
Australian activist artists and designers extraordinaire Breakdown Press (Tom Civil & Lou Smith) have just released their 3rd political poster series, this one around nuclear power and waste. I was…