All Blog Posts Tagged 'Graffiti' (32)

Andy Hemingway, a self-taught photographer, plays with red lights and long shutter speeds to create beautifully vivid light painting effects. The photographs are the second installment to his light painting series, which were taken at the EZ7 Skatepark and feature multiple subjects such as a skateboarder and rollerblader. The great thing about these wickedly cool photos is…

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Light graffiti is the art of combining long-exposure photographs with high-intensity light sources waved around in thin air to create an image when the shutter closes. While most people use light graffiti to create really random images, Marc Cameron and Mark Brown of Se7en Magazine skillfully used it to create…

What is it about graffiti that separate it from all other art forms? First, it's done outside. The element of danger adds to the piece, making us appreciate the elusive artist's work even more. Next, it's usually done in a specific place - carefully selected, so that the context becomes just as relevant as the piece. Finally, when you add in an illusion, it takes on a three…

Apparently, everything you get from IKEA is cheap - even the graffiti art. In Banksy's latest piece, we see a punk kid looking at directions while attempting to assemble a "large graffiti slogan" he got from the Swedish retail store.



If you look a little bit closer at the photo below, you can see the twin towers of IKEA's Croydon branch with their distinctive…

Residents of Manhattan may have passed by this giant spray-painted mural by Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who call themselves Os Gêmeos. Filled with a flurry of colors, the epic mural is about 17 feet high, 51 feet long and went up at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery on July 17th.



While the onslaught of figures and…