To promote the upcoming exhibit, The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks at MoCADA, street artist Specter spent two months creating a series of hand-painted posters that can now be seen in various spots around BK. Check out the other three below. [Courtesy of Wooster Collective]
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Los Angeles-based artist, Ramon Coronado, is in the midst of a twelve-week project that deals with “reclaiming an ordinary, everyday object and transforming it into something with a completely different purpose.” His first effort, titled Mercado Negro (Black Market), takes the ubiquitous shopping cart and turns it into usable pieces of furniture and playground equiptment. [...]

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This time last year I was in Park City, Utah, checking out a bunch of flicks at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. For anyone who likes watching movies, and/or wants to see random celebs fraternizing with Mormons, Sundance is pretty much the place to be. In a strange twist, this year’s event has been invaded [...]

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French artist Michel de Broin built a massive disco ball that measures 23.6-feet in diameter and contains a whopping 1,000 individual mirrors. Then he attached the sphere to a crane 165-feet in the air and suspended it in the Jardin du Luxembourg during the Nuit Blanche event in Paris. After directing spotlights at it from [...]

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Remember the environmental-edged Banksy series we wrote about last week? Of course you do. Even if you didn’t see it here, the rest of the blogosphere covered it ad nauseum, so it surely popped onto your computer screen at some point. If Banksy shit in the woods, everyone would not only write about it, but [...]

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The most beautiful Christmas tree we’ve ever seen made out of 1,000 full Heineken beer bottles. The tree is being displayed on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China. [Courtesy of Inhabitat via Recyclart]
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Bergeron (aka Fauxreel) says this about his ‘Face of the City’ project:
“A series of site-specific, portrait-based works that combines the abrasive charm found in the distressed surfaces of modern cities with the intimate familiarity of the prominent features of the human face. As the walls and surfaces of the city define its physical character and [...]

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It has really been awhile since we last heard from Banksy. He was busy this summer with an exhibit in Bristol and a number of street pieces, but for whatever reason he’s somewhat tapered off  since. Anyway, it’s a nice surprise to see that he’s put up a new work. The series of four stencils [...]

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See those oddly-shaped pink blobs in the lower part of the photo above? Well, those are called monster’s footprints. They consist of 120 square feet of pink rubber that was sunken into the ground. Pretty cool, huh. They serve as a playground of sorts for people in the city center. A couple more detailed shots [...]

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Kansas City-based fashion photog, Brian James, took a bunch of local folks and photographed them in public spaces holding signs–à la the homeless–for his “I’ll Say It For You” expose. Check out more of the series and a quote about the project below.
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