Reykjavík Culture Night 30 August 2010
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IrishStreetArt.com was invited to Iceland for the Reykjavík Culture Night 2010 to enjoy the city’s art installations. A big thanks to Willie and Maggi for playing host. Reykjavik Culture Night involves thousands of people wandering through the streets of the downtown district with a backdrop of amazing artist and music performances. As you stroll with the crowds the air is filled with eclectic sounds ranging from Opera and Trad to Death Metal and Techno from side streets, balconies and pubs. It really has to be seen to be believed.
The street art on show in Iceland’s capital is so accessible and seems to be a big part of everyday life of young Icelanders. For such a small population, Iceland punches well above its wait when it comes to graffiti writers with tight and unique style. The photos below were all taken in the downtown district and all within a kilometer of each other. Iceland in general is an amazing place.
Just a heads up though, if you go there don’t eat the Whale! Its crazy in this day and age but whaling is legal in Iceland even though only 1% of the islanders eat whale meet. This means that the Whaling is almost exclusively for the island’s tourists.
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Above Hollywood 15 July 2010
Posted by IrishStreetArt in International Street Art.Tags: Above, Hollywood, Video
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Having just flown back to Portland from Los Angeles yesterday night Above told IrishStreetArt.com ‘I worked all day on getting the recent “Above Hollywood” video finished from the recent street works hung in Los Angeles.’ Above spent the last 12 days down in Los Angeles hanging his newly themed “Movie star arrow mobiles” site specifically in Hollywood where all of the movie magic is created. There were 50 of each male and female (100 arrows hung total) movie stars as the topic and face of each arrow mobile. Above explained ‘I enjoyed giving back to Hollywood a large dose of what it is infatuated and consumed with, that being movie’s and the actors that make the movies.’
Hollywood was the kick off city of Above‘s four month long summer tour around the USA and Europe. including New York City, Paris. London, San Francisco, and Berlin. Above leaves Portland for New York city tomorrow night for an intense thirty day street project in Manhattan… Living the Dream!
Stencil Timelapse: Age Face 8 June 2010
Posted by IrishStreetArt in International Street Art.Tags: Barcelona, Kevin McGloughlin, Sligo
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This timelapse piece, ‘Age Face’, comes from Sligo man, Kevin McGloughlin and shows us just what you can achieve with a craft knife, cutting mat and a nice idea. The Barcelona influenced street artist tells us ‘I dont generally work with stencils, but here is one I made recently. It’s a reproduction of a free hand piece I painted. I photographed it and redrew it. I then pretty much duplicated one side to make it more symmetrical, but it still has a bit of variety as apposed to a mirrored image.’
Nice stencil, great final piece!
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A Love Letter For You – ESPO 29 March 2010
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In 1984 Steve Powers started climbing rooftops in his neighborhood and painting his alias ESPO as a dues paying member of the ICY graffiti club. 25 years later he returned home to Philadelphia in the summer of 2009 to write a love letter across the same rooftops facing the Market-Frankford line. The letter, meant for one, with meaning for all, encompasses 50 walls on a 20 block stretch of market street. Drawing input, inspiration, and work from the community ESPO created a letter to and from west Philly. This unprecedented public art project was a collaboration of Powers, The Mural Arts Program, and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. It required 1200 cans of spray paint, 800 gallons of bucket paint, and the skilled hands of 20 of the finest spray painters in America, who Powers put into the legendary ICY club.
“A Love Letter For You – Brick Valentines On The Philly Skyline” documents the art and the neighborhood that inspired this ambitious public art project.
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Banksy Movie 23 March 2010
Posted by IrishStreetArt in International Street Art.Tags: Banksy, Rhys Ifans, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, Video
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With a cast including Shepard Fairey, Rhys Ifans, Space Invader, Banksy’s new film, ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop‘ should not be missed. “An often hilarious blend of fact and hoax, solemnity and farce, plastic art and projector art, directed by and starring – but who can be sure?” – Banksy
Now showing at the Lighthouse Cinema, Smithfield, Dublin.
Outstanding Time Lapse Street Art Footage 14 March 2010
Posted by IrishStreetArt in International Street Art.Tags: CIA, Claudio Ethos, Graffiti6, Pilpeled, Pirates, Spring69, Stereofarm, time lapse, Video
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Here is IrishStreetArt.com‘s pick of the timelapse videos on offer over the past few months. The footage below includes the to the vibrant collaberation, that is ‘We Like Colour’, the giant wheatpasting by the established Pilpeled and intricate work by Claudio Ethos in Sao Paulo.
‘We Like Colour’ a Collaboration by Pirates, CIA, Stereofarm, Graffiti6 and Spring69
Pilpeled at the “rafsoda” t.l.v port opening fabuary 1st 2010.
Claudio Ethos,the Brazilian graffiti artist, was hired to paint a large mural inside Casa Das Caldeiras in Sao Paulo. The project was for Experimenta.
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Above Haiti – Help Thy Neighbor 17 February 2010
Posted by IrishStreetArt in International Street Art.Tags: Above, Cuba, Haiti, Video
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World renowned street artist, Above told IrishStreetArt.com “I just recently got back from Cuba where I made a very important and special site specific stencil commenting and drawing more awareness to the crisis in Haiti!”
Help thy neighbor
Cuba is less than 90 miles away from Haiti making them very close neighbors. The young and courageous neighbor is embarking to Haiti to help out those who have fallen victim. The recent earthquakes in Haiti has taken over 230,000 innocent lives, wounded 300,000 and made 1,200,000 people homeless.
Please GET INVOLVED and help donate to send aid and resources to the people of Haiti.
5 Years, Countless Layers 23 November 2009
Posted by IrishStreetArt in International Street Art.Tags: france, Gainsbourg, Ronan Casey
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Gainsbourg brings us a five year record of the graffiti on the walls of rue de Verneuil.
Props to Ronan Casey for the heads up!
Friday’s Time Lapse 13 November 2009
Posted by IrishStreetArt in International Street Art.Tags: Above, Ceke, D*Face, Forget
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This week irishstreetart.com brings you the latest stop motion pieces the internet has to offer. Enjoy!
Stop motion video of D*Face creating a piece in downtown LA. Corner of 7th st and Matteo. Part of the LA freewall project, a collaboration between Lahoda fine arts and Jet-Set Graffiti.
Stop motion video documenting D*Face painting an illegal street mural in the Meat Packing district in New York city to coincide with his Ludovico Aversion Therapy/All your dreams belong to us show at the Jonathan Levine
A wall piece made in stockholm, kungsholmen october 2009 by Ceke and Forget in colaboration with Kollektivet livet
There are two sides to every coin, and we all know two wrongs don’t make a right but somehow when it comes to filming a video in reverse then reversing it, it makes total sense? Confused? Watch the video to get a better idea. If you still don’t understand, I can only suggest to try and watch it in reverse?! Go above!
The reverse side also has a reverse side. -Japanese proverb.
