The Happier the Hotelier, The Happier the Guest
Two years ago I took this photo when I visited the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of the 2005 Istanbul Biennial. The following photos made me remember it.
Mark Jenkins in Washington, DC.
Mark Jenkins in Royan, France.
I didn’t take notes when I took the first photo. Therefore I’m not sure the installation had something to do with the Street Art of Mark Jenkins, but there are similarities. Mark has a canny eye to create situations that take you off guard.
Luzinterruptus.com is a Spanish collective of artists specialized in Interventions. This time they draw attention to public urinating. By installing “public toilets” in places they chose by their noses, easy to find places where the smell tells, they hope to remind people to abstain from this anti social behavior. I second!
What annoys us is seeing how during the day and nigh people urinate anywhere in the streets without any embarrassment. They just walk along, turn round, zip down and, even in crowded places, seen by passers-by, let go.
Along San Ildefonso square and surrounding side streets in Madrid, Spain they installed 80 male urine containers, the ones used in hospitals, filled then with yellow water and added a little light. A powerful poetic protest I would say.
Photographs from Gustavo Sanabria who also maintains a Flickr Luzinterruptus set
Via a wonderful site unurth – street art which specializes in street art from all over the world. Definitely worth a look!
Street Painting: Illusionary Car
I wouldn’t have thought that so soon after my post The Future: Back to the Past – Knitting, I would find more examples of this trend: Deputy Dog has a nice and informative post Urban Knitting: The most inoffensive Graffiti about the various forms of guerrilla knitting. I agree. It is the most inoffensive form of graffiti.
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Guerrilla Knitting brings us a smile in these dark times after Black Monday.
Do you have more examples?
I was reviewing something else, but couldn’t leave this street art topic out: Pimp my Drainpipe.
The above modified pipes can be found in seattle and were created by Buster Simpson as part of the ‘growing vine street’ project.
This installation can be found in the Kunsthof Passage, Dresden, Germany
So simple and so poetic!
More examples?
Via Deputy Dog | pimp my drainpipe
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As per the comment of Joshua Smit (Thank You!):
Update April 2010:
As per the comment of Lefrancophone (thanks!):
