Illustrator Jim Darling had been spending time outdoors exploring an area filled with abandoned buildings. He decided to clean up all the trash that filled the lots in-between, and ended up creating an impressive junk-man out of the collected refuse – complete with a gold fire hydrant necklace. Nice work.
[via Wooster Collective]

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 [...]

Last Thursday we attended the Anti-Advertising Salon at MEET hosted by Marc and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective. The evening served as a thought provoking expose on “billboard liberations” and the motivations of their creators. The discussion featured Jordan Seiler of the Public Ad Campaign, who most recently orchestrated the NY Street Advertising Takeover; and Steve Lambert of the Anti-Advertising Agency, which is perhaps best known for its collaboration with eyebeam (Firefox plugin Add-Art) and the Graffiti Research Lab (an ad-jamming campaign entitled Light Criticism).
Marc and Sara started off the evening sharing their motivations on the event, expressing their [...]

At PSFK Conference NYC Marc and Sara Schiller from Wooster Collective and Meet at the Apartment gave a rousing talk about their love of street art. They began by explaining how, at first, they simply began noticing and photographing art in their immediate neighborhood. Then, after posting thousands of photos on a website they shared with friends, traffic boomed, and Wooster Collective was born. Marc and Sara go on to speak about different aspects of their nine year involvement as web-currators of the world-wide street art scene, and share a slide show packed with amazing pieces.
You can watch the entire [...]

We’re excited to have Marc Schiller, co-founder of the Wooster Collective, CEO of Electric Artists and co-founder of MEET At The Apartment speak at PSFK Conference New York on April 2. He will be joining his wife and co-founder of the Wooster Collective and MEET At The Apartment in a discussion on art and commerce. They will explore the fine line between art and commerce and describe how, with consideration, they can be respectfully blended to create new ideas.
First, who are you and what do you do?
Myself and my wife Sara are founders of the Wooster Collective. Since 2001 we [...]

We’re excited to have Sara Schiller, co-founder of the Wooster Collective as well as MEET at the Apartment speak at PSFK Conference New York on April 2. She will be joining Marc Schiller, co-founder of both Wooster and MEET (and her husband) in a discussion on art and commerce. They will explore the fine line between art and commerce and describe how, with consideration, the two can be respectfully blended to create new ideas.
First, who are you and what do you do?
I consider myself a change agent, always looking for opportunities to do things that have never been done before [...]

Our friends over at Wooster Collective have discovered some of Banksy’s latest works on the streets of London… Wonder what’s to come.
[via Wooster Collective]

Make magazine has linked to a nice piece of adbusting / street art found in Berlin. A crew of artists (Mr. Tailon, Baveux Prod., Kone & Epoxy) have done up a slick pop music advertisement with a Photoshop makeover. Typical Photoshop windows have been wheatpasted over the faces of three ubiquitous top 40 music stars, perhaps commenting on all the behind the scenes image making that goes on in that world. For more images, head over to Ekosystem. This also reminded us of another real world / digital world mashup we noticed last year.
[via Make & Wooster Collective]

A new work appears in Brooklyn.