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Creative Sculpture With a Twist: 3 Extraordinary Ways to Carve Art Out of O
2007-12-30 02:19:00
Paintings normally require canvas and most theater takes a stage, but carvings can come out of almost any material - a fact which some talented artists have put to into practice in amazing ways. Most people are familiar with amazingly carved ice statues and perhaps even giant cheese sculptures, but what about eggs, pencils or ...
More About: Video , Creative , Sculpture , Extraordinary , Twist

Shopdropping aka Droplifting: Beginner?s Guide to the Subversive Art of Rev
2007-12-27 04:46:00
Shopdropping was probably the last kind of giving on most people’s minds as they shopped during the holiday season. Shopdropping, also known as droplifting, is the incredible act of reverse shoplifting: going into stores and putting things onto the shelves. Banksy is probably the best known shopdropper, famous for putting out his own subvertised versions ...
More About: Video , Urban , Beginner , Guide , Subvertising

Small, Strange and Surreal: 3 of the Most Bizarre Micronations in the World
2007-12-24 21:21:00
Have you ever wanted to rule your very own country? A micronation is an area of land claimed by one or more persons to be independent from any major recognized nation in the world. Some of these have incredible histories of war, triumph and independence and still survive today, while others have long since been ...
More About: Video , Travel , World , Bizarre , Small

The Graffiti Report Card: Controversy and Critique of an Unusual Urban Stre
2007-12-23 07:33:00
The subject of graffiti often brings out strongly polarized reactions from urban dwellers, who either support it as art or criticize it as vandalism. Brandon Baunach of DesignCrack has developed a project based on an idea of Drew Heffron that has amazingly drawn both fire and criticism from both sides: Graffiti Report Card stickers for ...
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7 of the Smallest Hotels and Hotel Rooms in the World: From Pipe Rooms to C
2007-12-20 23:45:00
Think your last apartment or hotel room was small? Believe it or not, there are a lot of contenders for the dubious title of smallest hotel on the planet. Some claim it by number of rooms, others by size and all are quick to defend their position. However, you can judge for yourself after taking ...
More About: Video , Travel , Architecture , World , Hotels

7 More Abandoned Wonders of the World: Amazing American Abandonments
2007-12-19 00:11:00
Ever see an impressive derelict structure and wonder just how a building so elegant, sizable or centrally located could be abandoned? There are amazing abandonments all over the world, but some may be closer than you think. Many are even located right in the heart of major cities like New York or Los Angeles and ...
More About: Travel , Architecture , World , Urban , American

Stitching Together History, Culture and Graffiti: A Look at Urban Art in Sa
2007-12-17 01:12:00
San Francisco has a rich history and culture that spans a diverse set of groups time periods. Today, San Francisco is known to be one of the most welcoming and liberal cities in the world. Some of the history behind this truth is sketched on the walls of the city. This history is at times dark ...
More About: Culture , History , Graffiti , Urban , Street Art

Stitching Together History, Culture and Graffiti: A Look at Urban Art in Sa
2007-12-17 01:12:00
San Francisco has a rich history and culture that spans a diverse set of groups time periods. Today, San Francisco is known to be one of the most welcoming and liberal cities in the world. Some of the history behind this truth is sketched on the walls of the city. This history is at times ...
More About: Culture , History , Graffiti , Urban , Street Art

The Ultimate Urban Camouflage Collection: 7 Strange Examples from Coke Suit
2007-12-14 01:41:00
Stuck on what to get that special urban someone this holiday season? Here is a selection of ideal urban camouflage perfect for blending into the city scenery and traveling around town unseen. Of course, some of these aren’t actually for sale and those that are might be very very hard to spot.
More About: Travel , Urban , Examples , Strange , Coke

8 Great Green Roofs: A Brief Pictoral History of Compelling Green Roofs and
2007-12-11 23:39:00
A green roof can be much more than just a lawn on a building, and the concept is much older than many people realize. Creative green roof designs date back to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the original ancient wonders of the world. As impressive as those were, however, some modern examples have ...
More About: History , Architecture , Urban , Green , Great

Satirical or Strangely True? The Secret and Subconscious Art of Graffiti Re
2007-12-10 02:00:00
From The Secret Art of Graffiti Removal group on Flickr Most would argue that graffiti removal is at best the elimination of vandalism or at worst the destruction of art, right? One award-winning film argues something quite different: that graffiti removal is the ultimate next step in the progression of modern art. Despite its semi-satirical intent, ...
More About: Video , Urban

3 Kinds of Urban Light Art: From Dorm Room Tetris to Architectural Light Gr
2007-12-06 22:39:00
Architectural light graffiti comes in many forms that all share one common feature: the effects are there one second and gone the next. The only record of these curious performance arts comes in the form of photographs and videos. Here’s a look at three types of urban light art: dorm room tetris, lightstick air animation ...
More About: Video , Graffiti , Tetris , Urban , Light

7 Urban Wonders of the World: Amazing and Record-Setting City Roads and Str
2007-12-04 01:01:00
Everyone hates traffic, but how about trying to wind around 8 switchbacks in one city block, crossing 12 lanes at a single intersection or parking on a 38 degree incline? The latest in the ever-popular 7 Wonders Series, here are the scariest, steepest, longest, widest, narrowest, most confusing and most crooked urban streets in the ...
More About: Video , Travel , World , Urban , Amazing

WebUrbanist Update: The Past, Present and Future of Your Favorite Urban Web
2007-12-02 02:45:00
More extreme urban sports, skateboardable signage c/o Christof Damian Regular readers know by now that there isn’t much self-conscious metablogging on WebUrban ist. The site is mostly about producing quality content related urban cultures, engaging designs and alternative arts. However, as with anything in urban life, it is worth pausing once in a while to take ...
More About: Web 2 , Future , Update , Past

Painting the Town in Vivid Colors: 3 (More) Types of Unusually Legal Urban
2007-11-30 00:51:00
Does illegal street art amuse or annoy you? Graffiti on walls is appealing to some and an eyesore to others, but it is hard to find legal art on the street like this to be anything but impressive. Here are three examples of strangely legal urban street art from artistic Japanese manhole covers and creatively ...
More About: Painting , Urban , Legal , Colors

Urban Adventure Playgrounds: The Coolest Places You Probably Never Played a
2007-11-27 12:44:00
Where was your absolutely favorite place to play as a kid? Chances are, it was a pillow fort, a tree house or anywhere but a traditional playground. Moreover, studies have now shown that when children’s play has an element of danger it is strangely more healthy than safe play.
More About: Architecture , Adventure , Urban , Places , Guerilla

For the Adventurous Urbanist: 6 Incredible Ocean-Going Hotels from Around t
2007-11-24 08:39:00
It is Thanksgiving Weekend in the United States, and many urban travelers have made their ways to remote parts of the country, though likely not to places nearly as strange as these. For your next vacation, why not look into a floating lodge in the Canadian wilderness, a submerged resort in Florida or even ...
More About: Video , Travel , Architecture , Hotels , Ocean

From Abandonments to Non-Photographs: 10 Top Sites for Alternative Urban Ph
2007-11-20 22:45:00
What do look for when it comes to urban photography? Urban photography doesn’t have to mean perfectly framed parks and stoic skyscrapers. Some of the best urban photos feature bizarre abandonments or even subversive and illegal subjects. Here are ten sites that span the spectrum and that anyone who loves urban photographs should know and ...
More About: Architecture , Graffiti , Web 2 , Alternative

Strange Urban Animals of the World: From Thieving Monkeys to Camping City C
2007-11-18 03:35:00
While you’re unlikely to see El Chupacabra, the Jersey Devil or the Windigo in real life, you might be surprised by what animals are increasingly lurking in cities. Monkeys seem to be slowly taking over New Delhi, Coyotes have been found in suburbs and even on trains, and there has been a great deal of ...
More About: World , Animals , Urban , Camping , City

Incredible Art in Motion: From Freeze Frame Urban Photography to Kinetic Sc
2007-11-14 23:20:00
What could be stranger than a person twisted and frozen in time inches above a street? How about a wind-powered automaton bred to be the perfect perpetual motion machine? The following three artists all approach motion in different ways - through photography, sculpture and video - but the results are awe-inspiring in each case.
More About: Video , Photography , Urban , Motion , Freeze

Extreme Urban Retro: 10 Creative Steampunk Designs, Modifications and Inven
2007-11-11 23:45:00
Steampunk is a kind of speculative fiction that usually takes place in urban settings where the future meets the past: Victorian era inventions clash with often dark alternate realities. However, what started as a literary genre has since evolved into an art form with incredible real-life inventions, modifications and redesigns. The following is an introduction ...
More About: Video , Creative , Extreme , Urban , Retro

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