Wooster Collective posted these two nice examples of street art.
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I love the tape babies by Mark Jenkins of the Wooster Collective. My daughter found a tape baby attached to a one-wheeled bicycle chained to a post in DC, and adopted it (Mark said it was okay). It's labelled Drop #12, dated 5/05, in his photo gallery of tape babies: http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/storker.html
She named her baby Hector and he now lives in her dorm room in Pittsburgh.
Street Art At It Is Best
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Since the Wooster Collective is really just a blog that posts images of street art, I don't know if it's really appropriate to describe Mark Jenkins as being a member, Travelina. His tape works on the DC streets are definitely great, though ... I keep hoping I'll come across one for the first time in person rather than just in his pictures.
I love the way that UFO doodle lines up so perfectly with the triangle of light ... the best kind of street art, for me, is the kind that integrates itself into and takes advantage of its unique setting and context.
Actually, the first image is not a stencil, it is a painting (the whole thing, boy included). Although, that stencil would be great. it's been on my wallpaper a while back, but i can't remember the sourece either.
@#2: LAWL
Thank you.
The best street art I've ever seen may not have been intended as such. There's a graffito on a signpost in the Boston area which says something to the effect of: "PAUL DONT TALK BILL IS DYING". (Misquoting from memory, but that's close enough for illustration.) It's been there for years now, and it still brings me to a full stop every time I see it.
You *HAVE* to stand there pondering what inspired someone to write this. Don't talk about what? Wasn't there a better way to get the message to Paul than to post it in public? Is this to protect Bill, to incriminate him, to protect or incriminate someone else?
Heck of a mystery in six small words. I wish I could write something half that powerful.
(Of course this _might_ be deliberate street art. If so, I'm impressed and would love to know who to credit.)
Actually all Wooster Collective does is post nice examples of street art.
If the art is artsy enough that is....
ITS best, ITS BEST AAARGH.
"Street Art At It's Best"...grammar at its worst.
Glad this bugs at least two of us...
Yes, I noticed that too but left it as it was a quote from their post.
Can anyone confirm or refute the earlier comment about the boy looking at the UFO graffiti actually being a single painting, not a photo at all? Seems like it's either street art, or a photorealistic painting OF street art, but that it can't really be both . . .
Oh, drat, I'll have to reinstate the error. I just corrected it in passing.
@CRUNCHIBIRD (#12), Mark F. and I looked at it more closely and it does seem like a single painting to us. Still, it is art depicting the street so maybe we can still call it "street art." ; ) Either way, I love it.
Can I just register my enormous disappointment that the first one isn't some crazy solstice-aligning graffiti? Although it's still a pretty cool painting.
Agreed, Joanna ... I wasn't trying to play "street art police," and it's definitely a cool painting ... it was just cooler when I thought it was a photograph, that's all.
Awesome. I love finding stuff like this out and about. I take LOTS of pictures, but now I'll have to keep my eye out for more of this type of cleverness!
Hello. This is actually a photograph by Joe Baran.
www.joebaran.net