Shanghai graffiti writers paint live at the Search for Creative City (寻城记) series.

Los Angeles police have arrested a senior citizen who has been plastering the metro in the city with the message “Who Is John Scott?”

Kanos and Reci Xelecce created the Poetically Correct crew and came together with the goal of adding artwork to the streets of Paris without vandalizing or compromising the existing landscape in any way.

Wellington, New Zealand is using urban spaces as canvases to provoke public opinions or promote young artists.

During Mitchell Heinrich’s artist residency in Vienna, he developed a new kind of “smell graffiti”.

Lisbon based creative studio Cabracega have shared some photos with us of their latest creation – “Project All City”.

The collaborative efforts of the Graffiti Research Lab, Free Art+ Technology, Open Frameworks, and The Ebeling Group- organizations specializing in various aspects of open source computing, creativity and production- created the EyeWriter – a low cost software/eye-tracking tool that allows those paralyzed from ALS to write using only their eyes.

German street art outfitter Oink Art Limited has released an interesting new tool for artists, street or otherwise. Their “Stealth Ink” is a virtually invisible ink that goes on clear, but dries dark in a few minutes. See it in action below.

[via Street Art Berlin Blog]

We spotted the renowned Brazilian twins that work under the name Os Gêmeos completing a large art piece on Houston in New York this morning. The piece replaces the Keith Haring reproduction of a famous outdoor work from the 80s.
For their work in New York, Os Gemeos bring their beautiful whimsical style to create a carnival dream emerging from New York’s subways.
When we asked, they told PSFK that it should be ready by tomorrow (Thursday). Get down there and check it out (corner of Bowery) – we’ll definitely be taking Cy along to check it out.

Using over 2,400 different graffiti tags from all over Paris as raw data, artist Evan Roth photographed, tagged and sorted each piece by letter, creating am archive cataloging the stylistic diversity found in the city. This fascinating study is now on display at Foundation Cartier’s Born in The Streets exhibition. Watch the video below to see an overview of the project.

Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, 2009 from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

[via Wooster Collective]

Red Bucket Films and notorious graffiti artist Katsu have joined forces to create their own version of the classic Eames film about scale, Powers of Ten. The short follows Katsu as he executes a series of his skull tags, which grow in size from  1/20 of an inch (on a grain of rice) to a massive 120 foot wide roof-top piece.
Watch the film, and the original that inspired it below.
 

 
[via Chunnel.tv]

Re-Surface, a Brooklyn-based design studio and factory, recently produced a series of D-Light Pillar Candles with urban art in mind (and a nod towards seven-day votives). The eleven unique designs take their names from Brooklyn streets, but it’s unclear whether the images were inspired by actual graffiti found at these locations. The interesting cylindrical glasses can easily be reused and the printed graphics would surely survive a repurposing. It’s an interesting twist on the usual market for candles and we applaud the unique approach.
[via Freshness Magazine]

Created by digital artist Lukasz Karluk, aka Holler and Sydney sculptor/painter Maddi Boyd (KissKiss), TimeBomb is an impressive marriage of street art and digital programing.  Held within Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, TimeBomb will see nine street / studio artists paint the space, one after the other, all documented by time-lapse photography.  The finished product will be two pieces; one the painted wall, the other an interactive projection, allowing viewers to reveal different layers of the wall via physical movement.
Karluk on the technical apects of the project;
The TimeBomb application is based on memo’s fluid dynamics library for openframeworks, ofxmsafluid. It’s [...]

The Wooster Collective were recently tapped to take part in a conversation at The White House about the role of the arts in our country. Following the discussion, they were given a fresh perspective on the work that they document on their website, seeing art “outside the walls” as symbolic of a necessary shift to remove the barriers in the ways our society currently operates. By redefining our government and institutions as truly public and “for the people”, everything from transportation to healthcare needs to change to meet our new expectations.
And in a more tangible sense, the art is still [...]

CoolHunting have a new video about Pixação graffiti in Brazil. The angular style that seems to cover the city of Sao Paulo was first used in the early 80s and was inspired by heavy metal typography which in turn was inspired by viking type-style. The narrator Joao Wainer says that the style isn’t exactly appreciated by the locals – but it is a unique street art style that has developed in Brazil.

Further video on Pixação by Joao Wainer