10. Eyecandy: Street Art

Jul-09-2010 | Comments (0)

Bird’s-Eye: We’ve featured some graffiti animation before, but BLU is an amazing 9 minutes that covers a city with a magical dystopian story whose beauty almost transcends its warning. Really, you must watch it! Webdesigner brings 40 examples of traditional street art, and we conclude with a flickr sampling of the work of celebrated street artist C215

* New BLU Cityscape Animation Blows All the Others Away Urlesque

BLU, the artists behind the wallscape stop-motion videos MUTO and COMBO, have published a new short film that just lays its predecessors to waste. I usually watch these kinds of artsy vids halfway through and give up. A few seconds into this one, I went fullscreen and watched it while doing nothing else…

* 40 Striking Examples of Graffiti Art Webdesigner Depot

* C215′s Photostream

Street Art gets a refreshing new face with the work of French Artist, C215. His brightly colored graffiti works can be seen in cities all over the world. Healing the streets and dedicating his work to his daughter, C215 stands out among our notion of what graffiti can do.







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