Guerrilla Art

Since Apple is bigger than Microsoft - Yes, it’s true! If you don’t believe, read the newspaper. - and not any longer the small, design-focused computer and software forge, Steve Jobs’ company becomes more and more disliked. In Berlin, recently some ads for Apple’s new flagship, the iPad, were busted. Steve Jobs offers iPad users freedom from porn. And yet the iPads’ measures will offer an unprecedented porn experience. An ad-busting from Berlin Mitte. (johannes-p-osterhoff.com) ...

Because of a handful of ghosts, the New York Public Library had to be cleaned by the Ghostbusters. Fortunately nobody of the present students and other intellectuals was injured - only one guy reported that one ghost tried to take possession of him… Yes, that’s a joke! That nice Ghostbusters intervention was planned and realized by the Improv Everywhere team which is also responsible for the No Pants subway ride… For our latest mission, we brought the movie Ghostbusters to life in the reading room of The New York Public Library at 42 Street. The 1984 movie begins with a scene in the very same room, so we figured it was time for the Ghostbusters to make an encore appearance. (Who You Gonna Call?) ...

Last year, I posted an article about Swedish interventional urban artist Glitsh and the parking space tape art. Today I found another great project by Glitsh: The Krink vs. Dior paint battle! It’s a relative easy and mean intervention, but really good as I think! Glitsh organized some red nail varnish by Dior and some red ink by Krink and decant the Krink into the nail varnish’s tank. Afterwards, the artist boxed the krinked nail varnish and an additional flyer into the original Dior box and placed the modified cosmetic utensil back in a Dior shop. ...

At the end of February, the second edition of the subcultural and urban Urban.Spacemag magazine was released, including info about Japanese tape artist Shuetsu Sato, Australian tape artist Buff Diss, and other articles corresponding to the magazines topic Gaffa-Urbanism. Now the third edition is in work and the crew behind the Spacemag calls for your contributions! This times topic is Copy & Paste. They are searching for statements and articles from the creative fields of architecture, urban planning and arts… ...

Famous urban artist Nomad, the self-proclaimed pink ninja, recently sent me some photos of his reservoir dam action on Grand Canary. Some days ago, he transformed one of the biggest dams into a wishing well by painting the slogan “Make A Wish” on its front. *It would have been more visible if he’d done it in black, but there is enough black surrounding our wishes. Let our wishes be pink and soft and playful. There was nothing aggressive in this intervention besides a militancy of attention that was absolutely necessary for a successful mission. ...

Yesterday a massive paint attack happened in the heart of Berlin! The Rosenthaler Platz, which is the center of one of Berlin’s creative areas (a lot of street art and nice galleries can be found around it!) was repainted. The whole action took only a few seconds: …bikers had poured paint from big boxes in front of cars that waited for green lights. So the cars and their wheels, if the driver wanted it or not, became the brush tool for this guerrilla public art piece. (dkomm.wordpress.com) ...

Although I often visit gallery openings and exhibitions, it’s not primary because of the artworks! I like a lot more to just meet nice people and good friends, talk about new projects and more or less unknown artists and drink some beer. For me, art is a lot more interesting, when it’s in public space and not guarded by galleries or other institutions. That’s one reason why I like street and urban art and its urban contexts… ...

Some days ago, I received an e-mail from French urban artist and adbuster Ox and I have to say, that I didn’t know him before, but really like his nice artworks! For years, Ox pastes great collages or minimalist shapes over billboards and in that way creates new, often colorful statements. His billboard takeovers - he calls it “Affichages” - could be found all over France and in other European cities like London. To cut a long story short and to show you his great doings, here are some photos… ...

Right after Ron English’s cover for the “Color Ink Book” reminded me of Nomad’s “Rainbowcoloured Tears of a Clown” art exhibition, I found out that Nomad updated his picture-blog! As an original street artist, Nomad developed his expressional variants conceptually and technically through interactive projects in interior and exterior spaces: combining writing and street art with poetry and classical painting. His recent project was the so called “Land Art” project, where Nomad transfers the ideas and intentions of street art into the wild nature… ...

The “Color Ink Book - The DIY Art Periodical” is - as I think - a very interesting piece of art magazines, because it showcases both, established artists as well as fresh faces. For four weeks, the sixth edition of the “Color Ink Book” is available, which includes artworks by and info about Project Detonate, El Gato Chimney, Andrew Council, Ron English, Vassilis Gogtzilas, Chuck Harrison, Jeff Lamm, Pat Moriarity, Kool Skull, McFaul Studio, Jon Vermilyea and Ben Walker. ...