Spray-Painting Graffiti Drone Not Nearly as Effective as You’d Think

Robots may be taking our jobs throughout agriculture and industry, but the the duty of defacing architecture is likely to remain in the hands of humans for the immediate future if this semi-autonomous spray-paint drone is any evidence.

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Star Wars Gets the Street Art Treatment

Animated character designer Phil Postma created this series of imaginary Star Wars action figures cards after he saw an image of an R2-D2 action figure that looked like a tiny spray can.

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I love the graffiti art style of the images, and think it would be awesome if they actually made a Star Wars animated series with this look.

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I’d also like Phil to come to my neighborhood and spray this on one of the buildings:

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Be sure to head over to Phil’s blog to check out more images from his Star Wars street art series – and lots of other awesome art.

If a Graffiti Printer Writes With Sand Is It Still Really Vandalism?

If a Graffiti Printer Writes With Sand Is It Still Really Vandalism?

Gijs van Bon’s Skryf machine is far from the world’s first automatic graffiti machine. But it could be the first that won’t have law enforcement ready to throw the cuffs on him. That’s because the self-propelled device uses a modified CNC milling machine to ‘print’ messages on the ground using nothing but harmless sand.

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Tour a Secret Art Show Inside a Condemned NYC Apartment Building

Tour a Secret Art Show Inside a Condemned NYC Apartment Building

Last week, as New York City suffered through blistering cold temperatures, 43 street artists were secretly painting three entire floors of a soon-to-be-demolished apartment building. We got to visit during an exclusive, two-hour show on Friday night.

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An emergency clean-up crew was dispatched to a full-size replica of the Space Shuttle Independence i

An emergency clean-up crew was dispatched to a full-size replica of the Space Shuttle Independence in Houston earlier this morning after some miscreants covered it in graffiti. "Houston We ARE the Problem" is almost a political statement, sure—but vandalizing a national treasure with racial slurs? That’s a serious problem. [KHOU]

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Watch what happens when graffiti artists are given a giant blank room

Watch what happens when graffiti artists are given a giant blank room

When you give graffiti artists a giant empty warehouse with blank walls, what do you get? So much good stuff. It’s like opening up an incredible Pandora’s box of visual delight that makes you believe in magic and makes you wonder why don’t we give artists more space to spray. The art was created by Sofles, Fintan Magee, Treas and Quench. The video is by Selina Miles for Ironlak films. I can watch it forever.

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Here’s the Second Hidden Piece In Banksy’s “Secret” NYC Street Show

Here's the Second Hidden Piece In Banksy's "Secret" NYC Street Show

Banksy, the mysterious (er, kind of mysterious) British street artist who popularized stencils in the 2000s, is in New York this month to stage a 30-day exhibit that takes place entirely on the streets. His first piece, yesterday, has already been painted over. But we were able to locate today’s feature, which is hidden below the High Line.

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This Innocuous Briefcase Lets You Stealthily Graffiti City Streets

Nothing builds up your street cred like some strategically placed graffiti. The problem is, unless you’re out tagging in the middle of the night, you’re at risk of getting caught in the act. And for an artist like Bob Partington, who works in the medium of spray paint and public property, that’s a problem—so he created this incognito graffiti briefcase that lets him leave tags without anyone realizing it.

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7 Street Art Stencils That Interact With Their Surroundings

7 Street Art Stencils That Interact With Their Surroundings

Paris-based street artist ABOVE is known for weaving stencil paintings into the surrounding streetscape to create images that border on optical illusions. Traveling the world to make art that comments on social and political issues, ABOVE keeps an eye out for situations where real world and painted image can interact, with results that are playful, head-scratching and haunting.

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Watch These Graffiti Masters Turn a Boeing 737 Into Airborne Art

Any Boeing 737 is a marvel of industrial achievement, but this one in particular is also a work of art. UK creative group HangFire recently completely transformed one of the giant flying machines with some amazing graffiti.

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