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...firmado como Tavar Zawacki.
It took nearly 7+ months searching the streets at night for a fixed shadow that was positioned perfectly against a wall.
The break dancer stencil comes to life at night. I am attracted to the concept that the stencil and it's context can change literally from day to night.
Timing is everything!
Shoreditch, London: 2013
#socialmedia from ABOVE on Vimeo.
Thanks Above for the news.
Higgs Boson Mural: Artist Josef Kristofoletti from josef Kristofoletti on Vimeo.
...en inglés:
This video documents the making of an art project commissioned by the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The three story tall mural was painted by international artist Josef Kristofoletti on the side of the ATLAS control room directly above the detector, near the Swiss-French border outside of Geneva.
This project was inspired by the same questions that the physicists at CERN are trying to answer; where did we come from, what does it mean to be human, and what is our place in the universe.
The artist worked closely on location with physicists at CERN over the course of a year to create the mural. It depicts the artist's interpretation of what the Higgs boson might look like.
BLOOD DIAMOND from ABOVE on Vimeo.
...directamente desde los HQ de Above. Gracias viejo!
Africa has had a devastating history of blood diamond wars. Blood diamond refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and then sold to finance an invading army's war efforts, usually in Africa where more than two-thirds of the worlds diamonds are extracted.
This site specific social / political word play was painted on the exterior wall of Johannesburg's largest diamond trader Jewel City.
Jewel City is a six-block mega-precinct that serves as a base for some 300 diamond traders as well as South Africa's Diamond Board and State Traders Association.
Jewel City is the largest diamond exporter in the southern hemisphere with over R7-Billion worth of Diamonds being exported every year.
I was able to get away with this diamond wall heist because I told the owners I would paint in big letters "Diamonds are a woman's best friend" on the exterior of their building. The owners loved the idea and all quickly agreed.
The next day I had started painting but what the owners didn't know is that I lied to them and was hijacking their wall. Like any premeditated robbery, situations are not what they seem and shit can flip from best friends to worst enemies in a few moments.
I assume the owners were too busy trading diamonds inside the mega centre they never took the time to come out and see I was painting a controversial word play about the diamond trade and how it's fueled so much bloodshed in wars making it one of man's worst enemies.
Wynwood Gallery Arts District en Miami durante el mega evento de arte urbano ART BASEL en Miami, USA
White Walls x Miami 2011 from Colin M Day on Vimeo.
White Walls will be hosting four booths at SCOPE, situated in the center of Miami's Wynwood Gallery Arts District, featuring a MTN Colors Group show with APEX, Neon, Estria, Vogue, Blek le Rat, HUSH, Kofie and Chor Boogie, a White Walls Group show with Casey Gray, Ben Eine and Greg Gossel, and solo shows for both ABOVE and ROA. White Walls will be showing with SCOPE for the full duration of the fair as well as leading multiple projects throughout the city of Miami, bringing the work of our renowned participating artists to the streets of Miami.
directamente desde feel desain:
"It's almost impossible to comprehend the scale of these historic photographs by Englishman Arthur S Mole and his American colleague John D Thomas, who were commissioned by the US government to take the pictures as a way to raise morale among the troops and raise money by selling the shots to the public during WWI.
In the photo above, "there are 18,000 men: 12,000 of them in the torch alone, but just 17 at the base. The men at the top of the picture are actually half a mile away from the men at the bottom," explains Arthur's great nephew Joseph Mole, 70.
Mole and Thomas were the first to use a unique technique to beat the problem of perspective after they devised a clever way of getting so many soldiers in the pictures. Joseph explains: "Arthur was able to get the image by actually drawing an outline on the lens, he then had the troops place flags in certain positions while he looked through the camera. It would take a week to get all the outlines right, but just 30 minutes to move all the men into position to take the shot. It must have been amazing to watch."
What's makes the story even more fascinating is that instead of profiting from the sale of the images produced, the photographers donated the entire income derived to the families of the returning soldiers and to this country's efforts to re-build their lives as a part of the re-entry process."
GIVE A WALL STREET BANKER... from ABOVE on Vimeo.
"GIVE A WALL ST. BANKER ENOUGH ROPE AND HE WILL HANG HIMSELF."
255 foot / 75 metre long word play painting in Miami, Florida. This controversial piece was aired nationally on CBS, NBC, and FOX nightly news. Click these media links to see their responses to the artwork.
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