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India’s Paradise of Street Graphics

I found a Flickr account today that had my eyes going like a pinball machine. It’s called the Meanest Indian and the photographs remind me of the legendary Steve McCurry’s work in India. Meena Kadri is the lady behind the camera, who lives in New Zealand where she runs a graphic design company but frequently returns…

The Enduring Urban Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

Imagine literally stumbling across a colorful tile in the road with some version of the bizarre inscription “Toynbee idea in movie 2001 resurrect dead on planet Jupiter.” This seemingly incomprehensible mambo-jumbo has flummoxed lovers of urban legends for decades, since they first started appearing in the late 1980s in Philadelphia, spreading to other North American…

Ever wondered what Edible Graffiti looks like?

Street artist Shelley Miller doesn’t tag with graffiti. She prefers to tag with sugar and cake icing. And although her materials might be sweet, you won’t find this Canadian-based artist drawing any cupcakes on the walls. Her intricate edible designs often subtly confront the darker side of history and culture. For example, this mural Miller…

Space Invader strikes again in Paris

If you’ve lived in Paris at any point during the last decade, it would’ve been impossible not to notice the pixelated mosaics of little aliens popping up all around the city. Elusive French urban artist known only as Invader is the man behind the most globally recognisable street art since Banksy, with his 1970s video…

The Grandmothers Graffiti Gang

So you think your grandparents aren’t “street” enough?  Too set in their ways to get down with the kids? Meet the granny graffiti gang of Lisbon, Portugal, pioneered by an unusual initiative giving graffiti workshops to senior citizens. LATA 65 (lata means “can” in Portuguese) is an urban art workshop that teaches the basics of street…

One Village, 150 Street Artists: A Sleepy Tunisian Town turned Vibrant Open Air Museum

Everywhere you turn in Er-Riadh, there’s art. It’s everywhere. The ancient village on the Tunisian island of Djerba, has spent the last several months of high summer being slowly transformed from a sleepy, traditional little corner of North Africa that has never heard of street art, into a world stage for one of the most vibrant and ambitious…

The Mysterious Trophy Room Found under a Boston Bridge

Past the construction signs on the Cambridge side of the Longfellow Bridge, a Boston landmark over the Charles River, an unexpected suprise awaits. A few perplexed passersby have snapped the display and posted it on the web, asking for more information about it… (c) City Owls Upon stumbling upon it, you might imagine a story of a…
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