Culture Buzz Street artist Slinkachu uses nontoxic paint to decorate the shells of wild snails, pimping their rides. The London based street artist frees the snails after painting them and calls the project "Inner City Snail – a slow-moving street art project".
Culture Buzz Artist D.Billy creates graffiti from balloons. He chronicles the onomatopoeias of everyday life by adding words like 'floosh' next to a fire hydrant and 'rrring' next to a pay phone. He is joining ranks with other graffiti artists who explore alternative materials in street art like Reverse Grafitti (graffiti made by cleaning grime) Knitta Please(knit graffiti) and the Space Invaders mosaic graffiti.
Culture Buzz Urban gardeners take on abandoned patches of earth and make them bloom. Part political statement, part an act of pure cultivation, the guerrilla gardening movement is sprouting in cities everywhere.
Culture Buzz An enormous, animated wall-painting by the Argentinian street artist Blu. This is amazing; if you like it, check out the artist's site for more.
Movie Buzz A documentary celebrating the D.I.Y. spirit that unified a group of American artists who emerged from the underground worlds of skateboarding, graffiti, punk and hip hop like Spike Jonze, Mike Mills, and Harmony Korine. We can't wait to see all the early 90s footage. Maybe in some alt universe, they'll start re-running 120 Minutes on MTV.
Culture Buzz Famous NYC grafitti artist now has his own line of markers. He's responsible for that ubiquitous "drip" look. Now, with these markers and squeeze bottles, you can make anything you own look like a Lower East Side signpost.
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