People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
— The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket (via lostinthesounds)
That interests photographer Gregg Segal. “I travel a lot on assignment for magazines and had been increasingly disturbed by the growing sameness of America,” he writes in an email. “Wherever I traveled, I’d see the same strip malls with the same Olive Gardens and Jamba Juices and Panera Breads, etc., and I wanted to say something about the erasure of the past and the homogenization of the landscape.”
Street Art of the World
“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.” -Bansky
I love art. It is an expression of life, love, hate, and the soul all at once. And better yet, it has a different meaning for everyone who views it, touching us all in our own way.
As a traveler I have seen art in museums across the world, in markets and on street corners. But my favorite art is not the art of long dead famous artists it is the art of the common people, left along the paths I travel. It is the art that becomes part of the city, the color of its soul. Street Art, Graffiti, Stencils, Murals, Legal, or Illegal all capture the essences of a city and put in on display for all to see.
I sadly have very little artistic ability in the medium of paining or drawing. However, I do enjoy photography and traveling which allows me to share with everyone some of the fantastic things along the way. The art that follows is not mine, but for the purposes of this post I have only included the pictures I have taken while traveling. There is a lot of great street art out in world and maybe ill find and share some of that later for now these pieces are things i have stumbled upon.
And lets start of with a few pictures of Bansky I took my self while traveling, because of course he is one of the best well know street artists (at the time of taking these pictures I had no idea they were banksy, i just thought they were awesome)
Bansky in Bristol
Bansky- Rowing the River Tames
Bansky-Bristol
BP Sucks-Portland
BP Sucks 2-Portland
Mural of the Northwest-Seattle
Epic Warrior- Seattle
Heart Shade-Portland KickAss Aid-Portland
Seak
Spirituality-Portland
This Thing-Portland
Two Faces
Jester-Portland
Guitar -Portland
Remember to Smile- Denver, CO
-Denmark-
Obey?-Amsterdam
-Amsterdam-
Global Warming-Amsterdam
Skulls-Amsterdam
Redlight District-
Italy
Banos-
Monsters in Quito
It seems I have quite a few more however this is already getting lengthy, maybe ill add some more later
“the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit…
the people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff….
any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you „ its yours to take, rearrange and re use.Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head..”
― Bansky
(Source: communityhostel.com)
And, when your eyes look down on another, just remember that he’s your own brother.
— Trevor Hall (via wethinkwedream)
(Source: purpleponytail, via leave-the-map-behind)
Texas-Switzerland Connection: Artist of the Week: Ai Weiwei →
Ai Weiwei is one of the greatest Chinese artists that China doesn’t want you to know about. He was wrongfully jailed and the Chinese government has been censoring his work for years. He has written books, was a lead architect in the Beijing Olympic stadium (The Bird’s Nest) and is known for his…
