With all the property damage, arrests and rioting that went down in Toronto during this weekend’s G-20 Summit, some locals aren’t happy about the media’s lack of coverage. Anarchists in Canada apparently aren’t as newsworthy as the World Cup. Of course not, there’s no vuvuzelas! Put down your drums hippies. More carnage here.
Of all the said Banksys popping up nationwide lately, Banksy has confirmed a few, including the Battleship Potemkin stroller in Chicago, “I remember when all this was trees” in Detroit, the sunbathing Osama in San Francisco and “You concrete me.” A few more pieces were spotted in Detroit and Toronto. See the recent confirmed and yet-to-be confirmed Banksys below. Read more »
Peaches just starred in ‘Ivory Tower,’ an indie flick filmed in Toronto with a bunch of fellow Canadian musicians. The electroclasher/nether-bits-waver is Marsha — the tip of a love triangle between two chess players, played by Tiga and Chilly Gonzales (that one invents “jazz chess.”) Musician Chilly Gonzales, who previously worked with Gainsbourg, will help Adam Traynor direct. Peaches’ former roommate Feist also stars. Sounds circlejerkey.
After gardening illegal ads into “Poster Pocket Plants,” artist Sean Martindale continues creating public art, albeit with permission. The Toronto-based artist recently spent 24-hours threading a “Free” installation in the city’s Grange Park, sanctioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Read more »
I assume the homeless in Toronto are treated a lot like they are in New York City: Unless they’re willing to sing, tell a joke, or perform some other act of public embarrassment, they’re virtually nonexistent—except if the Satoralist finds then fashionably relevant. But not everyone is talented, so street artist Fauxreel launched a guerrilla PR campaign to humanize these poor Canadian vagabonds as part of his “Unaddressed” series. Some samples above and the full set here.
Photos by Fauxreel
Combining guerilla gardening and illegal ad takeovers, two Toronto artists cut and fold billboard and flyer ads into planters.
Photo by Spacing Magazine
After planting some trashed newspaper dispensers with flowers and herbs, Posterchild is looking at what the city of Toronto is sowing. Instead of foliage, weeds, trash, even more trash, banana peels and “nada” are filling the city planters that Posterchild carefully cataloged. With the small signs, the guerilla gardening street artist hopes to inspire others to claim these misused spaces and at the minimum “discourage people from planting anymore garbage trees.” |Blade Diary|
Photo via Blade Diary
With the installation of an eighth flower planter in a trashed newspaper dispenser, Posterchild finished his latest project. But it’s not over. The Toronto-based street artist posted photo-illustrated instructions for creating the foliage filled dispensers in your own city. |Blade Diary|
In addition to sanctifying subway advertising, Toronto-based street artist Posterchild does guerrilla gardening too. He posted some new photos of his latest project: flower planters built inside trashed and mostly unused distribution boxes for crappy free papers no one wants. Sadly, the flowers don’t last long. Read more »
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