Tag: London
Despite the popularity of graffiti in London, authorities usually do a good job of keeping the outlaw art form off the trains and out of the public’s view. But similar to New York, some spray painted subway cars manage to slip through the cracks and even after they’re bombed, continue to run, like these two […]
Guus Ter Beek and Tayfun Serier’s “Street Eraser” project makes public spaces look like they’ve been photoshopped. The pair use what look like vinyl-cut stickers to emblazon the checkered pattern associated with Adobe’s image-editing software on street art and advertising, adding a bit of whimsy to the urban environment. That both men are advertising creatives […]
Photographer Derek Ridgers never felt like a part of the crowd he made a name photographing. He was in his 20s, but he felt “too old” already. “I was working in an advertising agency and I’d just gone down to a few gigs and started photographing the bands,” he tells The Telegraph. “Then the people in […]
It’s hard to believe that H.R. Giger’s horrifically terrifying ‘Alien’ has been haunting our collective conscious for over three decades now and yet still finds new ways to penetrate our brains. The latest iteration of the cult classic comes by way of a mural teeming with the hard to kill creatures and other oddities in […]
Ziferblat is the buzziest brand new café in London, landing in the Guardian and Time Out yesterday. It’s the first pay-per-minute in the UK — just being there costs 3 pence (5 cents) per minute and the rest is free. Just pick up one of the old fashioned alarm clocks and for about three bucks and […]
Earlier this year, the Shortest Video Art Ever Sold! project at the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair in New York made a few headlines with the world’s first Vine sale (Shout out Angela Washko!) Ok, so there was a hacking of Vine involved, but the exciting part in the long-run is the ongoing conversation of a micro-collecting community and the work that artists […]
It didn’t take long for graffiti to spread across the pond. The underground art form that was birthed in the train yards and streets of NYC in the late 1960s and flourished in the early 1980s quickly made its way to London. “Everything that takes off in New York, comes here about a year or […]
King Krule is offering a preview of his new album 6 Feet Beneath the Moon in a distinctly London, distinctly 2013 manner: streaming it on an endless loop online, accompanied by a livestream from a few of the many, many surveillance cameras throughout the UK capital city. It’s a little creepy, but perfectly of a piece […]
During the day, this London piece by international street artist Above is an unassuming Banksy-like knockoff–a stenciled man, floating upside-down on a wall, one of his arms outstretched. At night, its true nature comes out. A streetlight illuminates the wall, casting the shadow of a nearby sign just under the man’s hand. He’s a breakdancer, […]
These lovely devilish clowns faces were brought to you by Paul Insect and Sweet Toof, two well respected street artists out of the UK, but through the magic of stop animation, you never actually get to see them in action. “A quick thing made on a hot day in London 2013,” reads the video’s pithy […]
