A guy sees a random person’s name written about negatively in graffiti and tracks her down on Facebook to deliver the bad news. It’s a pretty hilarious exchange that’s worth the short read.
Two Ottawa Strangers on Facebook
(thanks Kurt)
Category Archives: streets
Street With a View
Street With a View is a project by Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley where they staged elaborately awesome scenes for the Google Street View cameras. The tiny one-way street Sampsonia Way was transformed into a place alive with energy, complete with marathon, marching band, and a 17th century sword fight. The results were captured by the Street View team (who worked with the artists to coordinate the shoot.) Explore the street for yourself:
Here’s a nice making of video:
Trick or Treat Dummy
ExFilms, a group of filmmakers in San Diego, sent us their awesome new prank:
Little Timmy is our four foot tall dummy all dressed up in his halloween costume holding a bag of candy. Armed with a couple of hidden cameras and a wireless microphone we set off to pull pranks in the neighborhood with our fake kid trick or treating.
Reminds us of The Golden Ass.
Drug Vending Machine
Imbue recently set up his controversial “Drug Vend” sculpture on Brighton Pier in the UK. Cocaine and Heroin for pocket change? What a deal! Don’t forget you can buy ideas from vending machines as well.
Shitty McCain Campaign Signs
Someone has been putting little tiny McCain campaign signs in the dog doo left on the streets of Venice, California. See the complete set of photos.
Reminds us of the Sprinkle Brigade:
(Sprinkle Brigade coverage starts at 1:19)
Urban Camouflage
Chinese artist Liu Bolin creates a sort of urban camouflage by painting people to blend in with their surroundings.
Art in Odd Places
There will be a steady stream of creativity on 14th Street in New York City for the entire month of October as Art in Odd Places presents Pedestrian:
In October 2008, the fourth annual AiOP will present Pedestrian on 14th Street, Manhattan – the great divider between uptown/downtown and highbrow/lowbrow. From the East River to the Hudson River, artists of all mediums will encourage the masses of daily pedestrians to rediscover this corridor of diverse commerce, including Union Square, historical site of social and political activism. Projects will explore connections between public spaces, pedestrian traffic, and ephemeral transient disruptions. Like a scavenger hunt, New Yorkers will use a map to discover art in unexpected places along this amazing street.
Check out the AiOP website for photos and descriptions of all the projects planned, including Yvette Helin’s “Pedestrian Project” pictured above.
8-Foot Tall Alien on CCTV
Sent in by Undercurrents:
To mark the 10th anniversary of CCTV cameras in UK, we sent an 8 foot alien onto the streets to fool the CCTV camera controller to send 3 police cars to respond to the scene in Bournemouth, UK.
Seating Cap
Street Artist Posterchild has been adding his “Seating Caps” to pipes around Chinatown in Toronto. He explains:
These pipes- as pokey, uncomfortable, and rough as they are- have long ago been reimagined as benches, repurposed as public seating on a street that has none.
I just made them more comfy!
I call it a “Seating Cap”!
Park(ing) Day
Today is Park(ing) Day 2008. Groups around the world will turn parking spaces into temporary public parks.
San Francisco art collective REBAR first created “PARK(ing)” in 2005 to re-imagine the potential of the metered parking space. In 2006, in collaboration with TPL, REBAR founded “PARK(ing) Day”: a global exploration of the creative potential of streets.
Here’s a video from Park(ing) Day NYC 2006: