The Wooster Collective talks to Neozoon about their furry installations, and what they mean for how we view animals.

Neozoon’s work is both amusing and arresting. Seeing the playful animals in city centers and on monuments makes us smile. But the subsequent realization that these are actual animal pelts (made from discarded fur coats) creates a feeling of uneasiness.  For sure, their message does not go unnoticed.

WOOSTER: How do you choose the specific placements?

NEOZOON: Finding a place…

The true beauty of scientific and technological advancements are most evident when they reveal our humanity. Take Tony Quan, also known as street artist Tempt One. Quan is paralyzed, yet with the assistance of the EyeWriter, a custom eye-tracking software, he is still able to continue painting, simply by moving his eyes.

Video by Evan Roth. Via Swiss Miss (via Amrit).

The Wooster Collective talks to Bumblebee about narrative, bee-based street installations.

What is it about Bumblebee’s work that we find so interesting? First, he focuses on bees, the ever important—yet disappearing—insect that is so essential to human existence. Second, his “street furniture” of choice are the plastic newspaper boxes and abandoned phone booths once seen as important to our daily lives. Finally, he integrates the internet to add an online narrative to his work (the pictures…

The Rinpa Eshidan art crew takes a half pipe by storm and performance-paints the hell out of it in this awesome time lapse.

Via Pink Tentacle.

The curious case of the Toynebee Tiles and their continuing legacy

The most culturally revered street art is often wrapped in an element of intrigue: Banksy’s quasi-anonymity has garnered as much attention as his artwork. But what happens when that intrigue swells far beyond the bounds of mere mystery and consumes the very message of the art?

The biggest guerrilla art movement of our time is older than Banksy, more geographically promiscuous than JR, and has remained unsolved…

The Wooster Collective talks to Ji Lee about turning video billboards into glowing art pieces.

Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee’s day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,” where he placed empty speech bubbles on outdoor advertisements and allowed the city to fill them in. Here, we’re highlighting…

The Wooster Collective talks to Specter about his depictions of the New York City’s unheralded workers.

Specter is one of the few artists today who is putting up large hand-made pieces in New York. Focusing his art on those the city often ignores, his goal is to bring attention to the people who keep the city “alive.” We love the attention to detail Specter’s pieces have and how they often look so real that you look twice,…

Yesterday, Jordan Seiler (a GOOD 100 honoree) and a small army of artists took to New York’s streets to replace what they contend are illegal billboards with art. Unurth has a great series of photos. According to The New York Times the city isn’t providing much clarity about whether the billboards are, in fact, illegal, and some advertisers showed up to paste right over the art as soon as it went up. Hopefully the art prevails.

Posterchild, Planter Box, NYC – Street art blog: graffiti, stencils, pasteups – from around the world

Original article: Posterchild, Planter Box, NYC – unurth – street art

Elbow-Toe turns children’s literature into urban art.

Elbow-Toe is an active New York City street artist who places large linocuts across lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Often these pieces are one-of-a-kind works that draw from literary sources and interact with the environment in which they’re placed. Elbow-Toe walks the city identifying special places for his “people” to live, resulting in images that are powerful and as emotionally torn as their surrounding neighborhoods.

WOOSTER: Why did you choose the specific…

The Wooster Collective talks to Neozoon about their furry installations, and what they mean for how we view animals.

Neozoon’s work is both amusing and arresting. Seeing the playful animals in city centers and on monuments makes us smile. But the subsequent realization that these are actual animal pelts (made from discarded fur coats) creates a feeling of uneasiness.  For sure, their message does not go unnoticed.

WOOSTER: How do you choose the specific placements?

NEOZOON: Finding a place…

The Wooster Collective talks to Bumblebee about narrative, bee-based street installations.

What is it about Bumblebee’s work that we find so interesting? First, he focuses on bees, the ever important—yet disappearing—insect that is so essential to human existence. Second, his “street furniture” of choice are the plastic newspaper boxes and abandoned phone booths once seen as important to our daily lives. Finally, he integrates the internet to add an online narrative to his work (the pictures…

The Rinpa Eshidan art crew takes a half pipe by storm and performance-paints the hell out of it in this awesome time lapse.

Via Pink Tentacle.

The curious case of the Toynebee Tiles and their continuing legacy

The most culturally revered street art is often wrapped in an element of intrigue: Banksy’s quasi-anonymity has garnered as much attention as his artwork. But what happens when that intrigue swells far beyond the bounds of mere mystery and consumes the very message of the art?

The biggest guerrilla art movement of our time is older than Banksy, more geographically promiscuous than JR, and has remained unsolved…

The Wooster Collective talks to Ji Lee about turning video billboards into glowing art pieces.

Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee’s day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,” where he placed empty speech bubbles on outdoor advertisements and allowed the city to fill them in. Here, we’re highlighting…

The Wooster Collective talks to Specter about his depictions of the New York City’s unheralded workers.

Specter is one of the few artists today who is putting up large hand-made pieces in New York. Focusing his art on those the city often ignores, his goal is to bring attention to the people who keep the city “alive.” We love the attention to detail Specter’s pieces have and how they often look so real that you look twice,…

Yesterday, Jordan Seiler (a GOOD 100 honoree) and a small army of artists took to New York’s streets to replace what they contend are illegal billboards with art. Unurth has a great series of photos. According to The New York Times the city isn’t providing much clarity about whether the billboards are, in fact, illegal, and some advertisers showed up to paste right over the art as soon as it went up. Hopefully the art prevails.

Posterchild, Planter Box, NYC – Street art blog: graffiti, stencils, pasteups – from around the world

Original article: Posterchild, Planter Box, NYC – unurth – street art

Elbow-Toe turns children’s literature into urban art.

Elbow-Toe is an active New York City street artist who places large linocuts across lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Often these pieces are one-of-a-kind works that draw from literary sources and interact with the environment in which they’re placed. Elbow-Toe walks the city identifying special places for his “people” to live, resulting in images that are powerful and as emotionally torn as their surrounding neighborhoods.

WOOSTER: Why did you choose the specific…

The Wooster Collective talks to the New York-based street artist Martin Sobey about his work.

This is the first installment of a new weekly series in which our friends at the Wooster Collective will be bringing some of their favorite street art to GOOD, along with interviews with the artists behind the work. We hope you enjoy it.

About a year ago, we started to notice that the drab drain pipes and scaffolding poles were coming to…

Raising Profiles

Looking at one hillside favela outside Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 2008, you would have seen its residents staring back at you—their portraits covered dozens of its crumbling houses.

It was the work of a photographer and street artist known as JR, who, since 2004, has been waging a guerrilla campaign to raise the profiles of people living in some of the world’s most difficult places. For his public projects, which are often monumental…

There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity

Public space belongs to everyone: you, people you know, people you don’t know, and people you’ll never know. And that mystery is magical. Anything can happen because everyone is invited. Who are these people, why are they there, and what are they passionate about and good at? And how are they an integral part of your home, even if you’ve never met them before?

There are enough potential spectators and collaborators…