Monday, February 11th, 2008...7:58 am
URBAN ART
By Josh
When people hear or think about Urban Art, they usually think about graffiti, which is a classic form of it, but Urban Art is so much deeper and more intricate. Urban Art is a great form of Art as it literally encompasses everyone around it. An amazing form of this, that is also really fun to do is called LED Throwies. This is a quick guerrilla form of Urban Art where you get an LED diode, a lithium battery, a rare earth magnate and tape it all together, forming a sticking glowing light of several colors. Now the fun part comes where you get a group of people together with around 500 of these throwies, you find a metal building or sign and everyone throws them on it, creating a wonderfully colorful giant piece of art.
Another great example of Urban Art gets its roots from old school spray paint graffiti except this style isn’t permanent, making it very appealing. This form is called projector bombing. You need a very strong projector, a computer with a free open source software and a giant building which will serve as a canvas. Here, in the video below, you can literally paint anything on to the side of any building or object, saying whatever you want in a stylized way. If you can manage to afford a 2500 lumen projector it is an incredibly fun project to do.
Videos of the LED Throwies and Projector Bombing after the jump.
The last thing I want to touch on to wrap up this delve into Urban Art is not an art form or style but a man. This man is named Banksy, he is considered the best at Urban Art and guerrilla forms. This man has never been photographed, videotaped and his identity is unknown to the public except by his sudo name and artwork he leaves all over the UK. He forms the most thought provoking Urban Graffiti art anyones ever seen. He leaves his mark on every street corner and even a few times in respected museums using what is called viral art. To learn more about Banksy which I could not cover completely in this short post you can head over to his website at http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html
5 Comments
February 11th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I had no idea there was such a thing called “urban art”. I knew about Graffiti but i never classified that as an art. The video was intresting and made me want to look more into urban art. I clicked the link you left about banksy and his work is cool but a little bit dirty. i dont know maybe its a little more forward.
February 11th, 2008 at 10:00 am
i think this is art too. it is just a little different. like for example its not really art on paper. it involves tech. and stuff which makes it really cool and it kinda shows where art is heading.
February 11th, 2008 at 10:05 am
the projector bombing thing sounds really cool, i didnt even know that existed.
the 2nd video was also interesting
and i think it is def. an art form
would you consider that to be art?
February 11th, 2008 at 10:22 am
This is so cool. That sounds like so much fun to be able to throw light magnets to a wall and have them stick a glow. how long do these glow things last?
February 11th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
This by far is one of the coolest art forms out there, at least that I have seen. It’s interesting how such amazing images can be projected on building walls etc., especially of the size! I think that this medium is truly one of the best.
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