Moving Canvas

Guerilla art. I like it a lot. No, I’m not talking about Koko doing finger paintings, though that is admittedly pretty sweet too. I’m talking about artists reclaiming public space and making it interesting.

There was BORF here in DC tagging buildings for a while, till he got busted. We can have a discussion about the morality of graffiti some other time. I rather enjoyed the scavenger hunt, looking for what he tagged. Like Highlights magazine for adults.
Then there’s the bubble people guy (Mark Jenkins) here in DC. I saw one once, and felt like I’d spotted Waldo.

Well, now I’m really looking forward to seeing the following project happen on a Metro car near me. These dudes are attaching projection screens to the sides of subway cars and making movies play on the subterranean walls. Granted, it freaks me out a bit that there’s strangers hooking up briefcases to the sides of trains with suction-cups, but this is really an amazing conceptual piece. They’ve turned the commute in to cinema. Bravo.

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