Street Art

When we think of street art, mostly we think spay cans and marker pens.  However there are some street artists that take a thinking outside of the box approach to street art.  This post is just to show that there are alternatives to the ugly graffiti done by people who are not trying to make the street look better, but just purely damaging property.

"Yarn Bombing" may look like a Granny gone bad with her knitting needles, but actually it has now become a form of street art.

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While Banksy uses stencils to speed up the time it takes to put up his work and Shepard Fairey uses pre-printed posters to plaster up on walls, Max Zorn makes semi transparent pictures using brown packaging tape and then takes the pre-prepared images out on the street to stick them up as a sticker.  The video below shows the process of making the art.

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Check out more at http://www.maxzorn.com/

Another street art project I like is the Favela painting project which not only makes art, but creates jobs and helps the community.

If all street art was this positive, there would never be complaints or any painting over/destroying.  Growing up in Bristol where there is a strong street art scene I have been lucky to see some excellent painting from Bristol based artists and regularly visit the Weapon of Choice gallery for street art.

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