This is an attempt to expose others to the misunderstood allure of the street art world. Call it graffiti, call it vandalism...not all of it is pointless fluorescent names on a street corner mini-mart. Here is the art in street art. Here is the common citizen's risky output of ideas and imagination.
This graffiti phenomenon is spreading across the globe. "Invader" is the sole artist behind these works. Others have unofficially taken up his hobby, sending him pictures of invaders in cities that he has never visited. He models his street art off of the arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado. The artist invades various cities with his retro graffiti. The invaders are made of tiles, so to "cement them to walls and keep the ultra-pixelated appearance".
Invader's popularity originated as a graffiti movement, but he has moved on up to exhibitions, and interior design as well.
I found these pictures in my travels through the interweb's collection of street art photos.
This one's great, I love Jack Nicholson. This was taken in Berlin. I don't know who the artist is or how long it lasted, but hey...that doesn't mean it can't be appreciated. That's one of my favorite things about graffiti.
From Italy. Guess the Italians still got it.
Who you gonna call?
Norwegians: making crappy homes into masterpieces
Global warming outcry in London
Also, here's a really helpful tool. I took some trips around the world with this map. The only problem, is that I do not know how to set it to English...It was created by Street Art Utopia (a homepage collection of street art around the world).
A lot has been going on but I've had time to make plenty of discoveries.
Here's one of the best: Matt W. Moore
(Twitter)
This guy is a modern art genius. His style is a distinct psychedelic structural explosion of colors. He is not strictly a street artist but his roots in unique graffiti are evident in all of his work.
If he's working with these guys, he must be doing pretty well.
This is a video of him creating a Ray-ban advertisement. Awesome.
Okay, so I am inserting these photos thinking,
"Huh, this blog has really not been keeping up with it's name"
If you're thinking the same thing, think again,
That...is what I'm talking about.
His work is chaotically organized.
It's all simple shapes and flat colors, but they go crazy and POW!
I've never seen stuff like his. There are no messages or political outcries or iconic figures. Just pure wall excitement.
His studio is based in Portland Maine. He says that he models his work off his coined style "Vectorfunk" mmm Funky. A book, Vectorfunk,was published, and is filled with his collection of "abstract vector graphics".
The more I read about this guy, the more I like him.
I find Rorschach inkblot tests beautiful. And he has sections of the book devoted to his own interpretation of these designs. Beautifully funky.
All this funkiness reminds me...MWM (Matt W. Moore) looks like MMW (Medeski Martin and Wood). They're a very funky trio, and you should check them out if you haven't already.
