Poster Boy choppin it up

The man behind the razor ad mutilation (or, as he prefers to call it, "sign remixing") is nyc guerilla artist Poster Boy. In a recent NYMag interview Poster Boy explained his artistic goals and ideologies. “No copyright, no authorship," he says, alluding to his hope of derailing the stigmas associated with recycling imagery. Poster Boy hopes his art is "a social thing, as opposed to being an artist making things for bored rich people to hang above their couch.” Poster Boy began remixing signs after working as a poster boy for a Chelsea gallery. Like many great NYC street artists before him (Keith Haring comes to mind), Poster Boy realized that he cold use the subway as a tool to reach the masses. “Unless we were clever enough to get it on the international news, we weren’t gonna broaden our audience," he explains. His choice to remix pop images also catches the eye. How postmodernist...or is that post-postmodernism?

Gross Girl

Mossy Tiles 2

Macdose the World

Ad-Waiting

Watch a short documentary on Poster Boy and watch the him in action below. The film was written and directed by Keith Haskel.

For more information on Poster Boy refer to:

• Poster Boy's YouTube Channel
• NYMag article on Poster Boy "Slice and Dice: How Poster Boy Turns Subway Ads into Political Art"
• Poster Boy's Flickr Photostream (updated sporatically)

Posted by Madame Lamb on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 6:02 AM 3 comments

D. Billy | Smart Graffiti

Seems like everybody's bitin' comic books these days... Some interesting stuff, some terrible. But if anybody's doing it the right way (besides Chris Nolan, yeah yeah...), it's D. Billy, a talented, young DC- based artist whose onomatopoeic street graffiti recalls comic captions with a fanciful twist: most of his working materials can be found at your local birthday party!

Who knew streamers and balloons could be so fun? Besides this guy...


rrring (payphone) by d.billy


fooosh (hydrant) by d.billy


narnia by d.billy


crackle (speaker) by d.billy

d.billy's flickr set

(via DesignBoom)

Posted by Pan Tostado on Monday, July 14, 2008 at 3:20 PM 1 comments

Moose Reverse Graffiti Art

Moose is a reverse graffiti artist who, rather than applying paint to walls, cleans the dirt off walls in patterns to create marvelous designs. Watch his video here:

Posted by Madame Lamb on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 9:20 AM 0 comments

Mad Trippy

(via Preik)

Posted by Pan Tostado on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 10:34 AM 0 comments

Crate Man

(via Wooster Collective) Spotted along the Newport Railway line in Melbourne.

(Photo by John Evans)

Posted by Pan Tostado on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 8:13 AM 0 comments

The Most Brilliant Thing

Blu is a street artist. His latest wall painting animation was shot in Buenos Aires & Baden; it's one of the greatest things I've seen on the web. Soundtrack by Andrea Martignoni, produced by Mercurio Film:

Buy his stuff here & here. Read his blog, too.




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Posted by Pan Tostado on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 8:23 AM 0 comments

Nessy

More from Joshua Allen Harris.

Posted by Pan Tostado on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 8:26 AM 0 comments

Aeolian

Joshua Allen Harris has created some some brilliant prankster art in NYC. His ferocious animal creatures are fashioned out of plastic bags and other rando basura. They lay in wait on subway grates, and when a train roars below, a gust stirs their britches and rouses them to life--

Posted by Pan Tostado on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 2:04 PM 3 comments