Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Monday, November 28, 2011
A ''GRAFFaki'' walk :)
Chrysafaki has constantly indicated a strong love for urban culture and street art. Therefore, you can find attached some snap shots that I created while walking around in the streets, while chasing after the air of the city, while witnessing the grandeur of athenian street art. I love illustrations, I love colors, I love design, I love painting and mixing colors as well as sounds :) Chrysafaki illustrates its indicative and representative ''GRAFFaki'' pics below. GRAFFaki < GRAFFITI + Faki... my nickname!N*joy...
Michael Jackson's graffiti on a store rolling wall at Ifaistou Street, Monastiraki area
''ino'' 's teargas mask...at Psirri area. Linkin Park (and not only) would love that graffiti!
Wonderful GRAFFITI area at the end of Ermou St., opposite the Technopolis spot at Gazi! So many memories, so many pics there...the graffities across Piraeus Ave. are awesome as well!
OBEY graff nearby Karaiskaki Sq. Peace & Victory signs ... so cool!
I met Mr. Obama with his gorilla look-alike pet while wandering around Plaka :D
A For Athens....does not only have a view to the Acropolis :)check out the rare view!
Well, it's not the real BANKSY , but my beloved Nouvelle Vague Bar at Kolonaki, Skoufa st., has a strong taste for deco...apart from the unique cocktails ;) Delicious cocktails, expressive walls!
TIME ...to walk across Kriezotou Street, Syntagma - Athens downtown :)
The following ''graffotos'' were captured on 31st March 2012 while talking a walk on the Gazi side, Athens area again... n*joy
--> reminding a lil bit of Banksy's BALLOON GIRL...
Magritte may have loved this half-remake ;) of ''The Son of Man''
--> Beautifying ugly yards ;))))
Entrance stairs : arrow to UPstairs
I promise to be carrying my photo camera from now on so as to come up with loads of new GRAFFaki pics!
SOON...
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
The REVERSE GRAFFITI project
For some it may be something innovating, cool and new, but it is rooted back in 2008 in San Francisco when the British artist Paul Curtis mainly known as ''Moose'' thought about combining graffiti art to environment and reversing its role. The Reverse Graffiti project has been initially powered by Green Works, plant-based cleaners. However, to put a parenthesis, graffiti in my opinion is not something to combine with dirt and damage as long as art is performed for art's sake and does not intrude on private property. Of course, writing words, slogans and demonstrating by damaging the private property is a violation of art; turning grey, dull, dirty walls in art masterpieces, colorful patterns and beautiful artworks though is something to admire and why not encourage? Adding color and happy images to the miserable, concrete city is not a sin. Anyway, the REVERSE GRAFFITI project is based of dirt. Dirty, sooty surfaces are scrubbed up till clean ''graffiti'' images are produced. The means used by the artists are high-pressure sprays, cleaning products, stencil like boards and heavy-duty clothes. In this way, the artist uses the ''power to removal'' to produce his/her ''clean illustrations''. As Moose successfully comments ''Pollution is my medium'' and we do indeed live in an era where environmental consciousness needs to be a MUST. N-joy some Reverse Graffiti project images below ;)
Being influenced and motivated by the Reverse Graffiti project, we nowadays come across innovating street marketing cases where stencil methods and not only, are applied on walls/roads so as to create similar ''clean illustration'' images carrying a message and strengthening brand awareness. The effective Smart mhd OOH below comprises the Reverse Graffiti philosophy and is implemented via the stencil technique. Thumbs up! N-joy ;)
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