Hanksy – The Tom Hanks Banksy
America has produced its own graffiti homage to Banksy – Hanksy. Hanksy is a street artist who has been parodying Banksy’s work on the walls of New York by reinterpreting Banksy’s work with a Tom Hanks motif. And like the great actor himself, these punny witty homages seem to be intent on spreading a feel-good [...]
Fantastic Pointless Flyers
Blank Mag salutes the unknown boys and girls who have made living in a city just that little bit more fun for taking the time to stick up these hilarious pointless flyers and street posters. Tweet This Post
Heartbreaking Grafitti
Who is she? Who is he? Heartbreaking, thoughtful emotional. Urban art at its most powerful. Tweet This Post
The invisible urban artist
Chinese artist Liu Bolin manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how difficult they might be. Liu works on a single photo for up to 10 hours at a time, to make sure he gets it just right, but he achieves the right effect: sometimes passers-by don’t even realize he is there until he [...]
Banksy Simpsons Intro
UK graffiti artist Banksy has created a controversial title sequence for The Simpsons. The animated intro, closes with a minute-long sequence showing dozens of sweatshop workers in a warehouse painting cartoon cells and making Simpsons merchandise. The sequence was apparently inspired by reports the show outsources the bulk of their animation to a company in [...]
Zevs – Urban Artist
In Blank Mag’s series on urban art today we salute the work of French street artist Zevs who is infamous for his Visual Kidnapping and Liquidated Logos work. In his Liquidated Logos work he drips paint from logos, giving them an appearance of dissolving. “Of course, there is a graffiti aesthetic to my art but [...]
Knit Graffiti
Knitting is the latest addition to the urban art scene. Yarn bombers use wool and knitting needles to instead of spray-paint. They knit at home then when they have completed their pattern, then display it somewhere prominent. Improving urban landscape one stitch at a time. for more info check out www.yarnbombing.com Tweet This Post
