Screenhead : Art Crime

Bone rolling

Previously mentioned site Iran graffiti art site Kolah Studio is back on its wheels after a break. The artists involved with Kolah Studio have been at the forefront of getting the graffiti art movement going in Tehran, and they get the site rolling again with a quick and interesting rundown of the death's head in contemporary art.

sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!

Here's a currently hot demonstration video for software that basically works like a very powerful vocoder, only with video clips; you can cross modulate one bit of complex media with another. The video makes clear what the thing does if you're not familiar with vocoders, much more interesting is the question raised by the process of where "intellectual property" fits in if something isn't so much sampled as it becomes a carrier wave or pattern. First watch the video, then go to the sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! website

Basquiat + How To Go Big

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Over at the mighty Wooster Collective Dr. Feral imparts the big secret to going large with the stencil graffiti : eBay'd overhead projectors. Read the damn nifty instructions here. While at Wooster, watch some fine YouTube with recovered old footage of street art savant Basquiat (Or "that dead Bisquick motherfucker" when our pal Diz is not feeling up to pronouncing funny names that day.) Also catch that dead Bisquick motherfucker quickly in Blondie's video for Rapture.

Satan's Bed

Yoko Ono before she was known for being Yoko Ono in a movie staring Yoko Ono. That should tell you all you need to know, but if it doesn't, watch the trailer at Bedazzled. No, don't watch the trailer. We changed our minds, just avoid it. Seriously, forget we brought it u- why are you still reading this? Go away.

Satan's Bed
via Bedazzled

Make drinks and influence people

Over at Wooster Collective, Lepos explains how to get together one o' them ever so trendy Viral Marketing Campaigns the kids are all getting so fat on nowadays. A nice soul - leveling cup of mate is also explained.

"Wooster's How To..." #9 - Lepos' How To Plan A Viral Marketing Campaign [Wooster Collective]

Graffiti with a purpose

Abandoned structures, discreetly allowed to rot for decades with a faint "D" in chalk marking their derelict status while nothing happens to them are getting a fresh coat of paint from an an anonymous group calling themselves the DDD (Detroit, Demolition, Disneyland) Project-- "Tiggeriffic Orange" paint specifically, a color from the Mickey Mouse series, basically running a highlighter marker over the bits of Detroit left to urban decay.

"Each of these houses serves within the greater visual and social landscape of the city. If the city doesn't rebuild, will it be better to have nothing there rather than an abandoned house? In addition, each of these houses served as a shelter for the homeless at some point in time. Now there are, at least, two less houses for them. Why didn't the city simply choose to renovate? "

Via The Detroiter by way of We make Money Not Art

LED Throwies

Magnets + LED lights = Blade Runner graffiti.

See it in action here [graffiti research lab]
Make them here [instructables]
Via Metafilter

Censored street poetry

Wooster Collective mentions a little selective whitewashing on the streets of Oxford.

"A group of local artist in Oxford, England were invited to paint a series of murals on a wall on Cowley Road that is owned by a local estate agent. They decided to illustrate a poem about thrid world debtwritten by a local poet named Nyarai Humba. To their surprise they discovered that it had been painted out by censors the day after it had been finished. "

Check out larger images of the mural pre and post censorshit, as well as Nyarai Humba's poem The Myth of Third World Debt at the Wooster Collective.

Censored on the Streets of Oxford [Wooster Collective ]

Knitta, please

Knitted Graffiti- 100 year old Texan yarn-slinger Knitta leaves colorful knitted bits about in public instead of aerosol paint. We want to goof on this for being just so adorably EMO in concept, but it's frankly too neato.

Knitted Graffiti [Knittaplease/ Myspace]

Animated Singing Santa Hack

The site subtitle tells it all: "How to customize a Wal*Mart Santa (by Gemmy) with your own routines." The Gemmy Santa being a 5 foot tall Claus that sings and dances to holiday music and makes you wish you lived in a time or place when the creation of such things would constitute witchcraft and would be discouraged by drownings or stonings or something. Anyway, here's Josh McCormick's guide to alleviating the suffering by getting Santa to rock out to Dio or whatever for the holidays

The Animated Singing Santa Hack

Related: Is Santa Claus, Satan? [Landover Baptist Church]

Google will Eat Itself

UBERMORGEN.COM's circuitous plan to culturejam Google:

"We generate money by serving Google text advertisements on our hidden web-sites and our show-case site GWEI.org. With this money we automatically buy Google shares via our Swiss e-banking account. We buy Google via their own advertisement! Google eats itself - but in the end we will own it! By establishing this model we deconstruct the new global advertisement mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model. We inject a social virus ("let's share their shares") into their commercial body hidden under a polite and friendly graphic surface. "

Did you follow that? We didn't really follow that.

Google Will Eat Itself

Gothamist vs Fony graffiti

Gothamist has errected a petition to "send the Sony Corporation a strong message that they should reconsider their graffiti campaign."
The Sony graffiti campaign being the stenciled bits of false street art popping up in various metro locations in which little druggie looking waifs are seen groping their PSPs lovingly.

Gothamist's efforts are a more organized reaction to Sony's lame ads, the ones found out in the wild are much funnier.

Sony Getting Nailed for Corporate Graffiti [Gothamist]

Make Toynbee Tiles

Here's a site describing the technique used to create the "Toynbee Tiles", the near permament Kubrickian mosaic street art that started popping up in Washington, D.C and then, presumably through copycat artists, spread to major cities and countries.

Asphalt Mosaics [sometemple.com]

Toynbee Tiles [wikipedia]

Dude, you're on the internet!

A haunting series of photos best explained with a simple scenario:

"Apparently M3 dude was sleeping with ex-wife of psycho dude. Psycho dude goes to ex's house and takes out aggression on M3 dude's new M3."

We wonder what a nine year old was doing married. What we do know is that this thing will fetch way more on eBay than the insurance policy is likely to pay out.

posted by DongDong (no relation) in the Club4AG Forums]
Thanks to Gorf

Blackmail Boxes

"It's a pretty weird feeling when you come across them unsuspecting."
Colorado Springs mailboxes receive a threatening makeover in the name of one hell of pun thanks to the artists of Chaos Studios. Here is Edwin Gore's flickr set of the boxes.

Edwin Gore's photos - Blackmail Boxes [flickr]

Via Boing Boing