GLOBAL GRAPHICA: STREET ART PHOTOS + VIDEOS + MORE

Super Happy Friends

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:50:06 -0500

The Super Happy Friends stencil in central Reykjavik, Icleand. Who are these guys? We've heard the SHF are responsible for a lot of street art and graffiti in the cool island capital. This picture was snapped in summer 2008, when we were in town for the Bjork and Sigur Ros concert for Nattura.

Meeting Point

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:02:56 -0500

We love this sign at Reykjavik's Keflavik International Airport. We love the fact that somebody thought about setting aside a space for people to find each other and explicitly labeling that space with a sign. We also love the choice of color, font and positioning, as well as the light. The airport is one of the best designed and modern we've seen anywhere in the world. The immigration passport-control and customs area has a spare aesthetic elegance and feels warms and soothing for the foreign visitor.

Crosby Skull

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:59:33 -0500

Exquisite skull-themed illustration wheat-paste street art on Crosby Street in SoHo, New York City.

Street Art Pets

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:11:21 -0500

Athens, like many Greek urban areas, is a city full of stray dogs and cats, so it's fitting that we stumble upon street art images of dogs, as well as some other cute, pet-like (but unidentifiable) creatures in old historical center of the capital.

Tsisa

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:15:47 -0500

Dope graff by Tsisa on a narrow side street in the Plaka neighborhood, directly below the south face of the Acropolis, in Athens.

LIFO Athens

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:09:36 -0500

We recently returned from Athens, Greece, where we surprised at how vibrant the street art scene in the Greek capital. From our informal survey walking the streets of the city, it can be argued that Athens' street art rivals Barcelona, Spain, itself one of the most exciting cities in the world for street art. IN the series of images below, there's a wonderfully colorful graffiti painting for LIFO on the side of a building near Monastiraki, a major shopping, cultural and lifestyle crossroads near the famed Acropolis. LIFO is the moniker of the artist and the name of a local weekly magazine a la Time Out.

Zimi in Psyri

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:25:31 -0500

Street art on a roller-shutter in the action-packed Psyri neighborhood of central Athens, Greece. There are heaps and heaps of street art in this nabe, as well as in the adjacent Gazi and Kerameikos districts of the ancient Greek capital..

Group

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:09:42 -0500

Wicked street art in Athens, Greece, mate.

Greece is the Word

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:53:35 -0500

Global Graphica was a little quiet for the better part of a couple of weeks while we were in Greece for vacation and "field research." We had an awesome time in the Greek islands and Athens. We took in the culture, history, architecture and art. We enjoyed the beaches, food and drink. We were pleasantly surprised at how much street art there was in the capital (and beyond) and the quality of scene, which is attracting well-known artists (like Os Gemeos) from around the world to put up major artwork in Gazi / Technopolis and Kerameikos. We came back with tons of images, many of which we'll be posting here on Global Graphica in the coming weeks and months ahead.

Oyvey Bloomberg

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:28:39 -0500

This example of sticker street art on Delancey Street, in New York City's Lower East Side / SoHo area, does double duty as both political-cultural commentary on New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg and as homage-rip to artist Shepard Fairey and his iconic "Giant Has a Posse" image. The Yiddish "Oyvey" substitutes the usual "Obey" on Fairey's famous stickers. Bloomberg's high-contrast image is in place of wrestler Andre the Giant's face. Brilliant, cheeky and well-executed.

DUMBO Dain

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:31:35 -0500

More awesome wheat-paste street art posters by the artist Dain next to Pedro's Mexican restaurant near York St. Station in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), in Brooklyn, New York City. Dain is among our favorite artists creating artwork on the streets of NYC and one of the most prolific in downtown Manhattan in the past year. We this creators use of repeated classic black-and-white photo-imagery with dashes of colors. The technique is not original by an means, But the look is distinct and fresh.

Old Lady DUMBO

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:51:20 -0500

Detailed street art paint-up in DUMBO, Brooklyn, of an old lady right next to Pedro's Mexican restaurant on York Street. The lady depicted in this image has an "ethnic" look reminiscent of images of immigrants to New York as seen in archival footage from the early part of the 20th century. But the woman's appearance is ambiguous enough that she could be perceived as from any one of a number of different cultures and and countries: Is she Eastern European, Latin American, Middle Eastern, Greek, Tunisian, Portuguese, Moroccan, Italian? Maybe, quite possibly, she's American.

Couch the Slouch

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:36:18 -0500

Red-and-gold "Couch the Slouch" bird posting on Broome Street, Lower East Side, NYC. We heart the color combination and flat graphical style of the bird.

Brtiney Spears Street Art

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:18:31 -0500

Artist Haculla strikes Broome Street with a pair of wheat-paste street art posters, one of which does the mash-up of illustration and hyperbolic supermarket tabloid with screaming headline "My Twisted Night with Brit" (Brit, of course, being controversial pop-music star and regular gossip-press fodder Britney Spears). Love the lines "Lies4Sale Ha!"

Haculla has been one of the most visible and prolific creators putting fresh artwork up in downtown Manhattan, New York City, in the past year. We love this stuff! This artwork is on a building on the northwest corner of Broome and Bowery streets next to the recently posted Ahn San Suu Kyi piece by Shepard Fairey.

Tokyo Bullet-Train View Video

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:27:09 -0500

Mesmerizing, hypnotic clip of Tokyo urban scenery and architecture speeding by as seen and captured on HD Flip-cam video by our own Supercore from the seat of a bullet train (shinkansen) departing the Japanese capital bound for Kyoto and Osaka. Enjoy ...