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How much does a hipster weigh?

(bathroom graffiti - source unknown)

Paste augmented-reality video graffiti on the streets 

Technology being developed for annotating animated material at locations using augmented reality - via New Scientist:

Using the AR apps available for smartphones or tablets, anybody can overlay digital text, video and graphics onto the physical world for others to see later. Most major cities are teeming with these digital annotations. You just need to identify a tagged location using your smartphone’s map, and watch through the camera using an AR app. Hey presto, a video or animation will then be overlaid on the scene.

Yet if somebody wants to annotate a place with video that they’ve filmed themselves, today’s apps are constrained. They can only overlay a YouTube clip, say, in its original rectangular shape. Now Tobias Langlotz of Graz University of Technology, Austria, and colleagues have designed software that can cut a person or an object out of a video, so that they alone can be pasted as a digital overlay. The idea is to make virtual human guides that could offer city tours or how-to demos, as well as enhancing AR games.

Langlotz and colleagues used a computer-imaging technique called foreground-background segmentation to identify the required foreground object - usually a person. So a user would film a video, then simply point to the object they wanted to extract. The software would do the rest. In a demo, they filmed a skateboarder doing a jump, and showed how he could be pasted onto a street scene. When the app “sees” the environment, it can replay the person in the right place, skating along the ground, for example.

You can find out more and watch a video at New Scientist here

Blinking Cities by Instant Hutong 

Ongoing project uses urban geographic information as a creative colourful grammar and highlight the changing forms of these places:

Blinking City is a project investigating the inadequacy of traditional maps for city environments characterized by fast pace transformation and urban growth. As soon as the map is done, the city it describes has already gone. We transferredone of the Blinking City pattern, based on a collage of several Hutongneighbourhoods of Beijing, onto a wall of a dilapidated courtyard house inXianyukou district, located in the core of the city

Currently, there are three forms of this project, graffiti, lenticular animated disks, and an animation, embedded below:

BLINKING CITY [ animation ] from instanthutong on Vimeo.

You can find out more about the project here, here, and here.

PS - The Gifs above are not my own, and should be credited to the artist.

Space Invasion 

Graffiti artist Invader, launches balloon into space with a trademark ceramic pixel Space Invader logo.

Via Wooster Collective

Asia’s Tallest Mural by Hendrik Beikirch 

A portrait of a fisherman, 70 meters tall in affluent Busan, South Korea - via Public Delivery:

During the last week of August 2012, German painter Hendrik Beikirch, created not only a stunning work but an iconic piece that stretches over 70 meters (230 ft.) high and is yet to be considered as Asia’s tallest mural. Located in South Korea‘s second largest city, Busan, this piece showcases a monochromatic mural of a fisherman, set in contrast with the Haeundae I’Park building at the background, constructed by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind.

The Haeundae I’Park is a residential building and is also a symbol for the rapid development and accumulated wealth in Korea, a poor country not too long ago. The mural that depicts an image of a fisherman represents a significant portion of Korea‘s population that has not been affected by the economic growth and until now, lives under very different circumstances compared to their affluent neighbors.

Responsible for this project is Public Delivery, an organization who has made waves across Asia and Europe through the promotion of contemporary art.

The artwork will be on display for an indefinite period of time.

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Some photos I’ve taken from the See No Evil Block Party over the weekend, in Bristol, UK.

Some better photographs can be found at the BBC here

Water Light Graffiti 

Interactive outdoor installation features big wall of LEDs which light up in the presence of water. Put together by Antonin Fourneau for DigitalArti. Video embedded below:

Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau, created in the Digitalarti Artlab from Digitalarti on Vimeo.

The “Water Light Graffiti” is a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water. You can use a paintbrush, a water atomizer, your fingers or anything damp to sketch a brightness message or just to draw. Water Light Graffiti is a wall for ephemeral messages in the urban space without deterioration. A wall to communicate and share magically in the city.

More at Digitalarti here

Sunlight Graffiti 

Part of the Little Sun project by Olafur Eliasson currently running at the Tate Modern, where participators can create their own light graffiti and locate it online via an interactive sphere:

The Sunlight Graffiti sphere is by artist Olafur Eliasson, conceived as part of his larger Little Sun project. Little Sun, a work of art that works in life, is a solar-powered lamp that Eliasson has developed with the engineer Frederik Ottesen. The lantern is one element of the artwork, but the way it connects us and what it tells us about energy and energy access is all part of the art.

Currently, an interactive Sunlight Graffiti installation is set up at Tate Modern, London, on level 2 as part of the museum’s Poetry and Dream exhibition (28 July – 23 September 2012). Visitors are invited to do a work of art here by dancing, jumping, and writing out loud with a Little Sun in their hand. Their Sunlight Graffiti are captured and uploaded to this site and shown as part of the sphere.

Also presented at Tate Modern is Eliasson’s new artwork Your light movement, 2012, a video about physical movement, light, and life. Watch it here.

‘For this project at Tate Modern – the former power station turned into a museum – I have thought a lot about light as something that is more than just a means to illuminate something else. Light generates action. The Sunlight Graffiti project has been developed to foster human creativity and movement, driven by the power of light.

Little Sun responds to the situation we face today, where natural resources no longer abound. Energy shortage and unequal energy distribution make it necessary to reconsider how our life-sustaining systems function. I see Little Sun as the wedge to open up this urgent discussion from the perspective of art, to raise awareness about the need to improve energy access and the distribution of energy today.’

–Olafur Eliasson

You can look around the interactive light graffiti globe online here

Hackney Olympic Looting Team by Pure Evil 

[via @Visuelleuk]

Rhizome: Prosthtic Knowledge Picks - Digital Graffiti 

Featuring Invader, Free Art Technology, Sweza and more.

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Sweza 

Berlin-based street artist uses QR Codes in his work, such as his Graffyard project:

I am using QR Codes to preserve graffiti for posterity by photographing the graffiti before it is removed. After the graffiti has been cleaned off by the local authorities or building owners i place a QR Code in the exact location which resolves to an image of the original. In that way a mobile phone with a QR-Code Reader can be used to travel back in time.

Here is a short video, interviewing the artist:

You can find out more about the artist’s work at his website here

BONUS LEVEL: REVOK VS. GIANT 

Diego Bergia sent me an email, about a project involving arcade-style pixel art and graffiti artists:

Now that I’ve got two graffiti legends down with the project, I figured I’d create my version of the Street Fighter 2 car destruction bonus round. I’m working on a longer piece right now, but couldn’t resist getting this out in the meantime.
twitter: @whereislepos
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Here is the short video preview, a Streetfighter-style Bonus Stage between REVOK and GIANT: 

BONUS LEVEL: REVOK VS. GIANT from Diego Bergia on Vimeo.

Graffiti & Street Art Flowchart Timeline by Pantheon Projects

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Newcastle, UK (via illillill)

Time Writer 

Another mechanical hacked-together graffiti machine. A long handheld bar supports many spray nozzles, and works similar to a printer, except the person supplies the movement. A better understanding can be seen in the video demonstration below:

Created by Olivier van Herpt