Here’s a short video interview with Brooklyn street art duo FAILE talking about why they’re kind of obsessed with the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, but you’d be too if you watched it ka-boom live as a kid in elementary school. Read more »
If graffiti writers are going put out a video about destroying street art, shouldn’t they, um, destroy said street art? Read more »
Complete FAILE at Bowery Wall
Yesterday afternoon, we showed you FAILE’s wallpapering of the Bowery Wall in progress and here’s what appears to be the finished piece. A security guard was hired to keep watch, for at least the first night, due to previous acts of vandalism against Shepard Fairey and Kenny Scharf. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
On the Bowery Wall, Some Things Never FAILE
FAILE, the Brooklyn-based art collective and maker of street art prayer wheels, has begun breathing some life back into the Bowery Wall on Houston Street, after JR’s decidedly flat piece that really only looked interesting when there was a hurricane in town. Their piece is still not complete, but it’s getting close. (Photo: 12ozProphet)
It was only a matter of time before this happened and two worlds collided: street art and planking. Even more amazing, this FAILE prayer wheel is still standing and hasn’t been vandalized or ripped out of the ground and put on Craigslist like previous ones. (Photo: Sleepboy/Arrested Motion)
Brooklyn collective FAILE has created a series of Puzzle Boxes. Each puzzle box comes with 88 wooden blocks of six-sided art, inspired by vintage toys. Turn out and shuffle FAILE’s signature femme kisses and pseudo-native imagery, olde school style! The puzzles are available for virtual play, so click away. Oh, fun. There goes your productivity.
The street art scavenger who stole a FAILE prayer wheel back in April of 2009 is having a hard time selling the piece, but is still quite determined to do so. After a few unsuccessful attempts last year, the wooden sculpture is being offered on Craigslist for “$9999 or best offer CA$H.” It’s also “Garanteed [sic] authentic from the streets of brooklyn.”
Here’s an even closer look at FAILE‘s Temple in Lisbon and a video with a beat and everything.
FAILE Build a Crazy Temple in Lisbon
Brooklyn duo FAILE erected a Temple in a public square in Lisbon for Portugal Arte 10. It’s like an alternate-future cult-chapel half-vaporized by alien invaders… or something. See confused tourists wander around the classical sculpture/pop art hybrid in a video by VernissageTV below. Read more »
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