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The world’s biggest street art idea

INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project from the french artist JR that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Upload a portrait. Receive a poster. Paste it for the world to see. More…

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JR Launches the Biggest Global Street Art Project “For the project which JR is calling INSIDE OUT, and which he launched on Wednesday at TED2011, he’s seeking collaborators from all across the world. He is asking people everywhere to supply him with photos, which he will then return, blown up to billboard-sized prints.” More… Source: guardian.co.uk    Photo: yoyolabellut

JR Launches the Biggest Global Street Art Project

“For the project which JR is calling INSIDE OUT, and which he launched on Wednesday at TED2011, he’s seeking collaborators from all across the world. He is asking people everywhere to supply him with photos, which he will then return, blown up to billboard-sized prints.” More…

Source: guardian.co.uk    Photo: yoyolabellut

No boss, no master! Many people come down here to party, some people to paint, some people to destroy or to create or to explore. We do what we want here. We don’t have rules. At the surface…

To be happy, stay hidden!

Yopi, a cataphile about the Paris Underground

Paris´ Underground

Paris, City of Light, really is a tale of two cities. One of them is above ground, with its beloved Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. That’s the city the world sees. And then there’s the city very few us will ever see — an underground Paris, the “souterrain”. NPR’s Jacki Lyden and National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez teamed up to see what lies below. More …

Photos: Stephen Alvarez/National Geographic     Video: npr.org

Paris Catacombs

Photos: girolame

Under Paris - Entree des Catcombes Getting There: It involves manholes and endless ladders. What to Wear: Miner’s helmets are good. What to do: Work, party, paint—or just explore the dark web of tunnels. More … Via: Neil Shea/Stephen Alvarez National Geographic  Photo: adotmanda    Link: Interactive Map

Under Paris - Entree des Catcombes

Getting There: It involves manholes and endless ladders. What to Wear: Miner’s helmets are good. What to do: Work, party, paint—or just explore the dark web of tunnels. More …

Via: Neil Shea/Stephen Alvarez National Geographic 

Photo: adotmanda    Link: Interactive Map

“The Wave” from the French Graffiti Artist Pyscos The Painting is located in an area of the Paris Catacombs nicknamed the “Beach Room”. Photo: girolame

“The Wave” from the French Graffiti Artist Pyscos

The Painting is located in an area of the Paris Catacombs nicknamed the “Beach Room”.

Photo: girolame

Space Invader - Pont National, Paris (France) Photo: yoyolabellut

Space Invader - Pont National, Paris (France)

Photo: yoyolabellut

Street Art Photobooths Street artists are an elusive group; put a can of paint in their hand, and they’ll mural-ize a wall without making a peep or leaving a trace. Not so with French photobooth street artist Fabian David. He ditched the dark alleyways and cleverly misspelled monikers for a more open approach: he decorated the streets of Lyon, France (*Perffusion 2010_Evénement) with a live street art photobooth! More … Via: Photojojo - Lisbeth    Photo: biphop

Street Art Photobooths

Street artists are an elusive group; put a can of paint in their hand, and they’ll mural-ize a wall without making a peep or leaving a trace.

Not so with French photobooth street artist Fabian David.

He ditched the dark alleyways and cleverly misspelled monikers for a more open approach: he decorated the streets of Lyon, France (*Perffusion 2010_Evénement) with a live street art photobooth! More …

Via: Photojojo - Lisbeth    Photo: biphop

JR turns global streets into one major gallery‎

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Placing huge photo collages in places as diverse as Kenyan slums, Brazilian shanty towns, a bus in Sierra Leone, and the Israeli separation wall, the French artist JR makes the street into one big gallery. 

JR spoke with ARTINFO about his work, his travels, and the meaning of street art. More …

Via: Business Daily Africa    Photo: Miguell77

street art - lille (france) photo: street-zinema

street art - lille (france)

photo: street-zinema

street art - paris (france) photo: gillesklein

street art - paris (france)

photo: gillesklein