A Furious Pipedream

I noticed some #Birdo #StreetArt on W. 11th next door to The Kiva.

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archiemcphee:

Ready for some more awesome street art? Luzinterruptus is a Madrid-based artist collective that takes high-concept street art to a new level with fully interactive pieces that highlight the problems in the given city they work in. Pharmacy Herbs deals with light pollution in Madrid.

Here’s a statement from the artists… 

Of all the environmental pollution that can be found in the city of Madrid, the most evident is light pollution, so much so that in our sky we can never see the Milky Way and hardly any stars. This overillumination is evident to the naked eye at a distance of more than 200 kms and produces a glow that can be seen with a medium-size telescope for more than 700 kms…

In addition to the obvious color change of the streets, the neighbors who live in the vicinity of 24 hour pharmacies, have watched impotently as every night their rooms become disturbing green places, in which life and the perception of what happens in them is altered, without being able to do anything to avoid it.

Without wanting to play down such a serious subject, but trying to approach it with a sense of humor, which never hurts, we carried out our installation Mutant weeds in which we recreated a not-too-distant future, in which a new and hardy species of photosensitive plant, grows in the asphalt around the pharmacies, nourished by the photosynthesis of its powerful “low” light.

To accomplish this mission, we acquired fluorescent sticks, which we gave the form of blades of grass and we placed them on the pavement, converting the reflections into small radioactive fields that produced a curious anticipation in the many citizens who walked the streets at those hours.

We chose 3 downtown locations and there we left our illuminated fields for a while, while, we talked with the curious pedestrians, after which, we picked everything up so as not to pollute.

Visit Juxtapoz to view many more photos of Pharmacy Herbs and Mutant Weeds by Luzinterruptus!

archiemcphee:

Przemek Blejzyk, aka Sainer, is a talented artist from Poland who works with a variety of media, but we’re particularly thrilled by his urban creations, large and small. These are just a few of the awesome pieces he executed on walls during 2012. If you like these, we recommend taking a moment to check out more on Przemek’s Behance page.

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archiemcphee:

This enormous supine beast is a wonderful sculpture created by Italian street artist Never2501. The massive, autumnal piece was constructed using dead trees and roots collected in the forest. No tools or nails were used in the creature’s assembly, all of the components were fit together organically.

Entitled In Cammino Per Trasformarsi Nell’istante Presente (“Moving to transform into the present”), this awesome sculpture can be found in the garden of the Museo Archeologico “Paolo Giovio” in Como, Italy.

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Cuddliest street art. (at Willamette St. at 11th Ave.)

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One of the many painted pink electrical boxes in Eugene. (Taken with Instagram at 11th & Oak)

archiemcphee:

We first posted about the awesome work of street artist Nikita Nomerz a few months ago. His wonderfully expressive pieces imbue otherwise inanimate structures with unique personalities. This sort of anthropomorphism is right up our alley. We love it. So we were delighted to see that Nomerz has been keeping busy lately creating more large-scale pieces.

[via Colossal]