So this post is a little late but now that I’m a surfer all I feel is the wind and the waves so the last thing on my mind is blogging, alright? Anyway, check out the RAD fish board above and the other cool shit below all taken in the old part of Mazatlan in Mexico.
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Tagged art, grafitti, mazatlan, Mexico, skateboarding, street art, Travel
I’ve been travelling down the Pacific coast of Mexico for three weeks now and am constantly looking out for street art at the various towns and cities we’ve stopped at and finally I’ve found the place I’ve been looking for: San Jose Del Cabo on the Baja de California, Mexico. Check out this cactus tree decorated in Coca Cola cans like baubles on a Christmas tree!
There’s loads of Mexican art and Mexican street art in San Jose Del Cabo so look out for more posts on this blog.
Tagged america, art, Baja California, cactus, Coca-Cola, Mexico, san jose del cabo, street art, Travel
Rather than celebrating Halloween each year on the 31st October, the Mexicans celebrate the Day Of The Dead the following day on the 1st November. As a result, it appears that a lot of Mexican art, street art and even tourist gift shops are influenced by skull and skeleton like figures.
Here’s a couple of my favourite dead dudes, they remind me of the guys that come round to your table at al fresco restaurants – except with less flesh obviously.
Tagged art, Baja California, day of the dead, Mexico, skeleton, skull, street art, Travel
As I’ve mentioned before on this bloggy blog, San Jose Del Cabo in Baja California, Mexico seems to be the place to be (so far on this trip down the coast anyway) for art and street art.
Check out a selection of my favourite pieces and places above and below for your viewing pleasure – the one at the top is my favourite.
The one at below was included in the post for a friend because I think it looks like a certain obsession of hers.
Tagged art, Baja California, Mexico, san jose del cabo, street art, Travel
After arriving in San Jose Del Cabo the other day we asked a few locals what’s best to do here and second to top of the list (the top of the list was swimming with dolphins but it would have cost us $150 each) was to go and explore the town’s art district.
Our favourite of the many, many galleries was the one for Ivan Guaderrama where we were shown round by Mexican street artist Daniel Orozco who says he’ll be hitting London in the next few years – so keep an eye out for some of his stuff!
The gallery office above and a piece below that reminds me of London’s trendy hipster East London way of getting around!
One of a couple of the artist’s studios below, all open air to get the best lighting.
Tagged art, Baja California, daniel orozco, gallery, ivan guaderrama, Mexico, street art, Travel
If you live down south and haven’t started your Christmas shopping yet (or even if you are super efficient and fancy spending money on yourself) then head over to the Boutique Market currently running events in Portsmouth and Southsea areas.
A hubbub of unique stalls selling handmade craft, artists work, vintage clothes, retro items and more. All made or collected by local people and small businesses. The perfect place to pick up that little something that is unique and special and avoid all the mass produced and crowds of the usual shopping centers.
Tiny tea cup ring, among the many beautiful pieces of handmade jewellery available from Blanche and Lola by Amy Evans. (photo via Strong Island)
Reeeeeeaaaaally nice skull art pieces by Tom French as part of his Hidden Realisations series. I could look at these all day, I’d love to see a whole skeleton painted in this style with a whole narrative of different things happening throughout it.
Via Booooooom.com.
If you’ve been let loose near an Instagram app recently, you may already be familiar with applying a tilt shift focus to a photograph to create a 3D effect using Adobe Photoshop.
Well, as Serena Malyon demonstrates, the same can be done with paintings – including those of Vincent Van Gogh. Read the interview with her from the My Modern Met site below.
How did the idea come about to tilt-shift Van Gogh’s paintings?
The actual concept came from John Malyon (my father), the founder of Artcyclopedia. He was playing with software that could simulate the tilt-shift effect and had the idea to try it on a painting. Together we tried it with some paintings and it we realized that the tilt-shifting looked especially cool on Van Gogh’s work, so we gathered up a bunch of images of his paintings and I got to work.
Were you surprised by the reaction it received?
I was very surprised by the reaction it received. We just thought that people who knew Van Gogh’s work would find it interesting and somewhat amusing to see it transformed in this way.
Why did you choose Van Gogh’s paintings to tilt-shift?
I had already tested out a few paintings and Van Gogh’s really stood out. I think they work really well because his painting technique already has a lot of depth to it, the way he uses line describes form beautifully.
His work was also really interesting because his paintings include a number of interesting details that we could focus in on and make that the centerpiece of the painting.
Do you have plans to tilt-shift other paintings?
Yed, we’ve experimented with lots of different artists from different periods, we just haven’t published them yet.
Via Lost At E Minor and My Modern Met
Nice piece from Slinkachu street artist as part of the Little People Project using a bottle cap and shoe lace to look like nessy.
Posted in Art
Tagged art, little people project, Loch Ness, Monster, Scotland, Show Lace, Slinkachu, street art
A short stroll around Little Italy in San Diego lead me to a number of pieces of cool street art. The one above is by someone called Weiland (not sure on the spelling, let me know if I’m wrong) who does these pieces, mainly of whales and other sea life on ugly buildings that need a bit of colour on them. They’ve done loads of street art on buildings like this in Los Angeles too.
A couple more pieces on the side of a restaurant in Little Italy, San Diego.
A massive piece of street art on the side of a brick building, Ben-Hur Coffee.
One thing I’ve loved seeing all across San Diego is the huge number of ugly electrical boxes that have been transformed by street artists into stunning pieces dotted around the whole city.
Why can’t London encourage or commission something like this? It could be a test run before doing something like Dulux’s Let’s Colour Project or Public Art Spaces.
Tagged america, art, banksy, california, dulux, Let's Colour Project, Little Italy, painting, Public Art Spaces, San Diego, street art, Travel, USA, Weiland
