Better than retouching
Inspired by martial art movies Li Wei uses ropes to fix his subjects in their positions. On the photos only the ropes are retouched.
News from the Graffiti Research Lab!
Graffiti Analysis 2.0: Digital Blackbook by GRL co-founder Evan Roth written by Chris Sugrue. Get the iPhone application here. Or follow the tutorial and build your own studio to capture tags into the Graffiti Markup Language (GML). Awesome. Finally, here’s the database for all GML-archived tags so far. Contribute now!
it’s moving!
By Akiyoshi Kitaoka, who’s studying visual perception. He’d better also studied sickness care.
Jim Flora’s Illustrations
Now I know how where Parra draws some of his inspiration from – check Jim Flora’s signature and the white-orange-blue-black colorway from his classic album-cover art ’Mambo for cats’ (1955). “Dresseur d’animaux” by Francis Picabia seems to be influential, too.
Visual street performance
Images from the annual VSP show which this year had been centered in a semi-derelict school of Lisboa. Watch the greyscalish video by Bruno Canas. Artists included David Walker, Vhils, Chure, Monster…skateboarders, djs, b-boys, rose sellers and the police.
Bodies in Urban Spaces
Explore the relationship between body, space and architecture. Directed by Willi Dorner and photographed by Lisa Rastl.
