some street art

A cre­ative way to mark the emer­gency exit — found in Montréal’s Chinatown.

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Inspired by this work I would like to share some more street art I encoun­tered dur­ing my stay in the States this year. The first piece (my favorite), I tripped over late night in a far-off alley some­where in New Orleans’ French Quar­ter. The other pieces  can be watched in New York City.

Barrel Monster

RALEIGH, N.C. — When Joseph Carnevale chopped up three stolen orange and white traf­fic bar­rels from a con­struc­tion site to cre­ate a mas­sive sculp­ture of a road­side mon­ster thumb­ing a ride, the North Car­olina col­lege stu­dent said he saw it as a form of street art.

Raleigh, N.C., police just saw vandalism.

They dis­man­tled the 10-foot “bar­rel mon­ster” and arrested Carnevale. Hun­dreds of online sup­port­ers want the charges dropped and the pub­lic­ity has turned the his­tory major and part-time con­struc­tion worker into a local celebrity.

Even the con­struc­tion com­pany has become a fan, and wants the 21-year-old to cre­ate a replica of the fig­ure that led to his arrest on June 10.

Read more at msnbc.
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El Tiburon by Blu

Giant shark painted by Blu on a wall in Barcelona. The shark is made of 100 dol­lar notes, eat­ing some com­mu­nists slo­gans.
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Interview with Street Artist Buff Diss

If you decide to civilly dis­obey, then how far do you take it? Walk­ing through the city and you see a con­struc­tion site and scaf­fold­ing, it’s more of an invi­ta­tion, as opposed to…architectural progress.

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Stunning street art

Ger­man Dr. Web Blog col­lected some great exam­ples of street art.