In the United States it might still be vandalism to paint on buildings, but Bristol sees it differently. Top street artists convene to paint the town red (and just about every other color too).

"If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission."

Showing: Ai Weiwei – “absent” @ Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Part II) | Arrested Motion.

There are over 100,000 toothpicks and a whole lot of Elmer's glue holding this piece of wonderfulness together, but it is Scott Weaver's creativity, passion, attention to detail, patience and love for San Francisco that make this a thing of beauty and one of the most amazing pieces of art I've seen.

Who does this on a Wednesday night? Go out with a Hasselblad camera and a note-pad to write a story about Hyperrealism.

by Andrew Michael Sullivan Down in the Big Easy, designer, urban planner, and public installation artist Cindy Chang reimagines the use of sticker art with her I Wish This Was project. Working in the most ephemeral of all American cities, currently reveling in the madness of Mardi Gras celebrations, Chang’s project not only gives voice [...]

Last week I learned about the work of Parisian street artist and photographer JR. I can’t believe I just found out about this guy. Not since Banksy has a street artist moved me like this. JR won the TED “wish” grant for $100,000 in March which he used to launch his global participatory vision called [...]

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, acts differently –they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is. Henry Ford Thanks to Dustin for contributing this March 1976 New Yorker cover image to our Funny Accurate World View From SF [...]

Happy MMXI! Each year about this time I love getting the images, sounds and smiles from various celebrations all over the world. It gives me a feeling that we’re all in this together, like how Louis Armstrong sings “Oh What a Wonderful World.” The following work inspires the same spirit. The Simulatnia Project by Los [...]

Do you remember meticulously making those mix-tapes from your personal collection, for good measure dubbing in some tunes from your local college radio station onto a Maxelle or TDK cassette tape? Did you ever try overlapping and recording two or even three songs at once – essentially creating a new song – if only for [...]

We caught up with Emory Douglas at one of our favorite book stores (Babylon Falling) discussing his involvement as illustrator and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 70s. February 19, 2009 @ Babylon Falling bookstore, San Francisco, CA www.sparkjam.net Share