JR Turns Times Square "Inside Out"

The French street artist known as JR wants to display your face in Times Square next week. For his project "Inside Out New York City," he plans to install a photo booth truck in the bustling tourist trap, creating poster-sized self-portraits that will be pasted on the ground in Duffy Square.

JR's Times Square decorations are part of his global project, Inside Out, which he launched after he won the TEDPrize in March 2011. In his latest installation in Times Square the first set of black-and-white images -- snapped ahead of time in the roaming photo booth truck -- come from neighborhoods affected by Hurricane Sandy. Next week, anyone will be able to put their faces on the concrete.

"The subjects of JR’s work don’t serve his personal statement or message, but represent themselves," Neil Callender writes in Tokyo Arts Beat. "In his use of the photo booth and his readiness to let others make the images, JR renounces the idea of himself as artist. Instead he has become like a curator; and the world is his gallery."

On April 20, a documentary film about the artist's global project called "Inside Out: The People's Art Project" appeared in the Tribeca Film Festival. Be sure to snap your own photo in Times Square from April 22 - May 10 and be a part of the project!

LOWER EAST SIDE: CES X REVOK

From Diego Bergia:

"Whenever I'm in New York my home base is the Lower East Side, so for this next little teaser I chose the iconic Arlene's Grocery as a backdrop. More importantly though, this clip introduces the one and only Bronx King CES to the LEPOS arcade project. Along with REVOK and GIANT, I've got three legendary motherfuckers down with this. BIG shoutout to them. Thank you!"

TheWheatpaste.Doc by MaicknucleaR

From MaicknucleaR:


The Wheatpaste.Doc is a Brazilian documentary about wheat paste. By Interviewing some of the Brazilians artists we slowly build the scene of this very unique branch of the street art in Brazil that is the wheatpasting. We follow them around town recordin their actions in the fourth largest city in the world. From the girlie zen works to the spirit of war and protest. This is an awsome documentry about these street Artists.

Credits:

Direction, edition and camera by MaicknucleaR
Time: 20 min. PT-BR (english subtitles). HD.

With: Laura Guimarães, Miurrauze, Thiago Império, Sickera, Mozart Fernandes, Gosh, ANIC, Svop, Luiz Lend, Radical Sem Dó Crew, Nakedz Crew and others.
Soundtrack of Fronteira Hits; Zamba.
Recorded in december of 2012 in São Paulo

Thanks. 

NYorkers Presents: Steve Powers (ESPO)

From NYorkers: 
                         
 I’ve known Steve Powers for years and he never fails to impress or surprise. I told him that we wanted to do a New Yorkers feature on him and he told me to come to a new address in Brooklyn that I've never been to. When I arrived, I was surprised to see that he had set up shop in a 5000 square foot space in downtown Brooklyn. Even more intriguing, but in character for Steve, was that he had somehow convinced some community board to provide this space to him for free. Like the title of his book, Steve is a master of “The Art of Getting Over”.

UTAH & ETHER Hit the streets of Taipei, Taiwan

Montana Video Diaries II - Paris, Malmö & Amsterdam

From MTN World: 

                               "Three years after the 1st movie, The MTN Diaries saga is back. Graffiti is still on the menu, but no halls of fame and no galleries this time… Nothing but sweat, rails, chases and raw action. One word says it all: Hardcore. Part 1 takes you on a journey through Paris (France), Malmö (Sweden) and Amsterdam (Holland). Part 2 will come at the end of the year 2012 to complete the full movie. This movie is the final result; a tribute to those who experience graffiti with every fiber of their being, as an outlet or escape from daily humiliations of a society corrupt to the bone. A society in which they don’t hesitate to break the rules, in order to feel a bit more… alive." 

Water Light Graffiti By Antonin Fourneau

The "Water Light Graffiti" is a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water. You can use a paintbrush, a water atomizer, your fingers or anything damp to sketch a brightness message or just to draw. Water Light Graffiti is a wall for ephemeral messages in the urban space without deterioration. A wall to communicate and share magically in the city.
More pictures and details on Digitalarti : digitalarti.com/wlg

Water Light Graffiti is a project of Antonin Fourneau (atocorp.free.fr/)
Engineer : Jordan McRae

Soulful Creative X Judge Dredd

From Mark Crowther; Founder & Creative Director:

                                       www.soulfulcreative.co.uk

Just wanted to share our latest project – a huge Judge Dredd is greeting travellers as they fly into land at Heathrow airport. The 5m high lawman with his catch phrase 'I AM THE LAW' covers 60sq. metres of an old warehouse unit directly under the flight path, which has been created as a tribute to the great British comic character. (A film showing a massive graffiti art mural tribute of Judge Dredd by Soulful Creative on the side of a warehouse near Heathrow airport, London. Soulful Creative artists Koze and Onion have created their own 'little' tribute to the great man himself and the 2000AD artist Simon Bisley, by painting a 60 sqm graffiti art piece designed around a graphic novel page spread. We hope that we have done them justice!)

DAME X Palladium Boots in Los Angeles

From Palladium Boots: 

Palladium Boots partners with famed Los Angeles-based graffiti artist DAME (of the 7^th Letter crew) on a new mural which has just been completed and is now up at one of L.A.'s most iconic street art canvases on Melrose. The mural showcases Palladium's iconic Baggy boots, directing locals to popular footwear retailer Sportie LA to check out the store’s new Palladium shop-in-shop. The wall the mural now covers is a known spot to check out new street art in Los Angeles. To highlight the culture and tradition of the space, Palladium opted to forgo standard billboard advertising and recruited Dame to tag a unique graffiti-inspired mural.

Peep pics x video below!

Artists' Spotlight: Soulful Creative

Soulful Creative are a UK based group of street artists. The idea behind their business is to turn make something positive and creative out of street artists in London. It brings together street artists of all kinds and genres from traditional writers to abstract artists and those who mesh them together with photorealistic pieces of art. While Soulful Creative’s business is not a new idea, in the 21st century obtaining the services of talented street artists has been a priority for a number of businesses and institutions. The success of the company is down to the artistic quality of its pieces. 
Peep some of their work below: 

(Post: E. Pearce for SW)

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