spray paint, oil, paint marker on canvas paper

thnx

spray paint and paint markers

spray paint and paint marker

more oil on velum

experimenting with oils on velum

one of the many many stickers i made while at school

school assignment

this is my desk when i was at school

im just gonna leave some stuff from this year here

this is a poster i did for a street art show in tel aviv

At 6/14/09 01:08 PM, LaserKarl wrote: How about some colors?

I don't know what im doing anymore.

this is beautiful. the textures are sick

buuump let's see more stuff

At 4/19/09 11:20 PM, El-Presidente wrote:

At 4/19/09 07:21 PM, mynamewontfitin wrote: awesome man! Congrats!

Thanks :D. Here's another one I took on that same trip. I'll post some more up when I have time.

It's two Chambered Nautilus (Nautili?). Should've probably cropped a bit more from the bottom...

no way. it's more interesting with the negative space at the bottom. nice photo

looking great man.

At 4/17/09 09:20 PM, El-Presidente wrote: Heh, the picture I posted back on page 42 just won 2nd in a professional photo contest to yarg. For some reason when I posted it the colors were all fucked up, so here's a miniature picture with the color adjustment taken from the site itself.

awesome man! Congrats!

hahaha love the snail.

balls

nice mood in those last two. love the sky in the second

At 4/11/09 07:13 PM, Fleshlight wrote: I was thinking of writing about thoughts of graffiti, is it art or plain vandalism. I'm not sure if this is a very good topic since I'm already leaning towards the art side and only have a few counter arguments.

so can't you just vouch for the side you agree with? make your thesis statement out to support graffiti as an art and provide the evidence to prove it in your paper. Make the goal of your paper to persuade the reader that graffiti/street art is a legitimate form of art that is often misunderstood.

@mindchamber: i will definitely put the paper up online somewhere when it's finished

At 4/11/09 01:23 PM, Fleshlight wrote: why don't you two continue arguing with PMs? No one wants to see a thread full of two people constantly flaming each other.

anyway, I have a research paper that I have to write, and I'm thinking about doing it on graffiti. I have a choice of writing 10 pages, or 5 pages with a video, so I was thinking of doing some interviews and showing clips of me painting in my garage or something as transitions. I use spray paint occasionally, but mostly just for coloring 3d stuff, so I'm a little concerned about getting it all done in 3 weeks

any thoughts on this?

For my senior year project in high school i wrote a paper and created a magazine on the history of graffiti starting from prehistoric cave paintings as a visual means of communication then skipping to the early hiphop years in new york city during the early 70's up til the crossover of street culture and gallery arts that we see growing stronger every day. i also made a video of myself doing a stupid little throwup on a wall in my area that can be seen on my profile page that i haven't updated in ages haha. anyway i learned a lot from that project and i enjoyed it so much, im continuing off of it for my Modern/contemporary art final paper/presentation that will focus on what street art is becoming today, how a new movement of street art strays even further from traditional graffiti and why public opinion is changing, etc.

oooooh this thread is getting interesting. these sort of debates are what shapes movements.

mraw: that piece looks hot.

i can't post my newer work in here (for some very good reasons!) but I'll have some stuff i can show pretty soon.

At 4/7/09 10:04 PM, Chakra-X wrote: Had to rely on my cell phone camera for this cool reflection of Philadelphia's city hall after a rainy day.

nice one!

check out Blek le Rat and you will see why cultured street artists don't see anything special about banksy. this guy was doin the same thing over 20 years ago. i think the reason why people acknowledge banksy more as a legitimate artist is because he dumbs down the message he is conveying for an ignorant public to appreciate. i'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. they just have different motives and target audiences.

yo i like that speech bubble idea cptn. really creative, i'd like to see the results of that.

At 2/20/09 07:02 AM, Shreddy wrote: cant decide if i like this one, shame about how light it is in the middle, but i didnt have my lens hood with me :(

that's a pretty sick location. you should go back and try again sometime. definitely potential there

Nice work Austin. Makes me want to get back in the darkroom

At 3/3/09 04:48 PM, HandsomeJake wrote: The site isn't actually focused on people submitting their OWN stuff (which I'm sure you could do, though), but actually just bookmarking images. They just store them on their server for nerds (like myself) to browse through.

yeah i get a shitton of my inspiration from ffffound. it's like crack for your imagination

ive been lookin for an invite for a whiiiiile. theyre really hard to come by :/

At 3/2/09 09:51 PM, Techno wrote: Dude i love you, i just got 200 of them.

I can't believe they are free :D

<3 <3 <3

yeah because technically they are property of the usps so if they find out you are using them for a purpose other than their intended use, they can fuck you up the ass if they'd like. usually doesn't happen, but it can.

duuude...sick, were trading soon. get a flickr account and pm me your link