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A Fly On The Wall is a stop motion, timelapse, motion control in a circular canvas film made for Discovery Channel in South Africa. The theme was the environment and the artist’s responses to it. Numerous street artists, musicians, painters and animators contributed their talent and time for the cause over a non-stop 12 hour period to make the final 2 minute film. the film was conceptualized and directed by Bryan Little of Fly on the Wall.

Artists:

Bryan Devlin
Luis Tolosana
Warren Lewis
Ree Treweek
Daniel Ting Chong
Mike Morocco
Toyah Moon Humphreys
Paul Ressel
Josh Ginsburg

Source: Wooster Collective

Popularity: 11%

The newest issue of Mad Magazine has the Shepard Fairy designed campaign poster for Barack Obama, only this one has the image of the Mad character and instead of saying “Hope” it reads “Hopeless”. Shepard Fairy must be pretty excited to have his art parodied by Mad Magazine. It’s a pretty big compliment. Then again Family Guy has also made reference to Obey in one of there epidsodes.

Popularity: 16%

The street artist Imbue recently created a Drug Vending Machine and placed it on the Brighton Pier. The Drug Vending Machine offers cocaine and heroin available to purchase for just some of your loose pocket change.

Popularity: 10%

This is the second part to the Space Invader video that we posted a few days ago.

Popularity: 13%

“I was offended when Westminster said my painting was an advertisement. Advertising makes people feel inadequate and worthless. Graffiti doesn’t do that. Graffiti doesn’t emotionally blackmail you, graffiti doesn’t make you feel fat and graffiti doesn’t make you rush out and buy things, except maybe high strength cleaning products.”

The case of Westminster council versus Banksy (The Times, October 24th) raises an interesting legal precedent. Normally permission to paint a wall is only required from a local authority if the building is of listed historic value or the painting is commercial in nature, but now artistic judgement appears to come into it.

Westminster council first sought to remove Banksy’s painting ‘One nation under CCTV’ on Newman street in central London on the grounds it was an unlicensed commercial.

The owner of the property itself is apparently happy for the painting to remain in place so Westminster council has now sought consultation with local residents in order to prove the painting is having a detrimental affect on the area.

Referring to the adjacent Post Office building who have sought the paintings removal since it first appeared Banksy said “I don’t know what next door is complaining about — their building is so ugly the ‘No Trespassing’ sign reads like an insult.”

All of which leaves the possibility for what is believed to be the first recorded use of the 2003 Anti-social Behaviour act which for the first time gives councils the ability to enter private premises and force the removal of graffiti. A measure introduced by the (blind) MP David Blunkett and which Banksy attacked at the time in a series of paintings and statements.

Source: Time

Popularity: 12%

The street artist Space Invader talks about his latest art work. One of his newest pieces is a large QR Code piece. QR Code is also known as matrix code which is a two-dimensional bar code. The QR Code image is made up of a hidden message that can be decoded. One way the images can be decoded by taking a picture of the image with a cell phone. Space Invader shows an application on the iPhone that displays the hidden message in the piece. He’s come up with an interesting way to create digital street art.

Popularity: 14%

C215 just got back from a trip to India. C215 was able to get up a lot of his art and photographer, Romanywg documented the whole thing. Check out Romanywg’s Flickr for more photos. Show & Tell Gallery recently announced they will be the first gallery in Canada to display C215’s work.

Popularity: 13%

Everyone seems to know who Banksy is. Streetsy.com has put together a list of 40 street artists that you should know, besides Banksy. They felt that there are hundreds of international street artists that should be known and appriciated for their work. They brought the list down to 40 and managed show case some amazing artists. Streetsy.com displays a bit about the artist, as well as some photos of their work. Check out the list here.

Popularity: 10%