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Odeith: 3D Graffiti

Odeith: 3D Graffiti

Portuguese muralist Odeith loves to make what he calls “sombre 3D” – graffiti that looks like it’s popping out of the wall. He’s so great at emulating shadows and often extends his paintings to the floor to enhance the effect.

Hanksy’s Surplus Candy

Hanksy’s Surplus Candy

(NSFW: Language) Parody street artist Hanksy puts his notoriety and knowledge of street art to good use in The Hundreds‘ documentary series Surplus Candy, where he takes us on a tour of the graffiti scene in various cities.

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Clean Graffiti

Clean Graffiti

Street artist Moose creates “reverse graffiti” using a power washer to selectively remove urban grime. To further highlight the anti-pollution message of his clean art, he powered his latest work using a zero emission Nissan LEAF EV.

D.E.P. Spray

D.E.P. Spray
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While it looks like ordinary spraypaint, D.E.P. works just like dry-erase markers, letting you create temporary graffiti on whiteboards or windows. It erases easily with a paper towel. Too bad it’s only available in black at this point.

Google Street Art Project

Google Street Art Project

Part of the Google Cultural Institute – yeah, we didn’t know that existed either – the Street Art Project is a curated collection of over 5,000 images and 100 exhibits, including those that have already been taken down.

Banksy: Artist in Residence

Banksy: Artist in Residence

In lieu of an acceptance speech for winning the 2014 Webby Awards Person of the Year, graffiti and urban artist Banksy made this video summarizing the spectacle that won him the award, his “residency” in New York.

Major Lazer & Pharrell: Aerosol Can

Major Lazer & Pharrell: Aerosol Can

(NSFW: Language) The music video for Aerosol Can features an ill typographic time-lapse, achieved with the help of graffiti and tattoo artist Mike Giant and creative studio Abel14. The song is from Major Lazer’s latest EP Apocalypse Soon.

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Street Eraser

Street Eraser

Guus Ter Beek and Tayfun Sarier are out to make London look like a digital image, or at least a fake one. The duo make stickers that look like the Eraser tool from Photoshop and plaster it over ads, street signs and graffiti.

OMG Who Stole My Ads?

OMG Who Stole My Ads?

Wouldn’t it be awesome if we had beautiful paintings in urban areas instead of ads? That’s exactly what Etienne Lavie did. The street artist covered advertisements in Paris with prints of classical paintings.

Etam Cru

Etam Cru

Artists Sainer and Bezt teamed up under the name Etam Cru. They make amazing large-scale murals, usually on the sides of multiple story buildings or long segments of walls. You can get a print of the Moonshine mural from Art Whino.

Sofles: Limitless

Sofles: Limitless

As we already know, an abandoned building, graffiti artist Sofles and videographer Selina Miles make for an awesome time-lapse video. Also featuring artists Fintan Magee, Treas and Quench. The songs are by DJ Butcher.

SUUMO Street Art Wall Murals

SUUMO Street Art Wall Murals
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Bring street art into your home or office without having to inhale nasty spray paint vapors. SUUMO makes graffiti murals ranging from 2×3 to 10×7. Hi-resolution printed on matte fabric with a reusable, repositionable adhesive backing.

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Branded Street Art

Branded Street Art

Artist Dorota Pankowska aka Dori the Giant contributed some street art to Brampton, Ontario. While you might find it odd that she tagged with brand logos, what’s amusing is that she used the actual products instead of paint.

NeverWet Street Art

NeverWet Street Art

Taking advantage of the hydrophobic properties of NeverWet waterproofing spray, artist Nathan Sharratt discovered he could spray stenciled street art that only appears when it rains or gets wet. Instructional video here.

Stealth Graffiti Briefcase

Stealth Graffiti Briefcase

Whether graffiti is public art or a public nuisance will always be a hotly-debated topic, but there’s no question that Bob Partington’s portable James Bond-quality street painting machine is an awesome bit of kit. (Thanks Dave!)

Graffiti 737

Graffiti 737

UK creative group HangFire were given access to an out of use Boeing 737 airliner, and turned loose graffiti artists Sat One and Roids to work their spray paint magic on the plane. We wish all airplanes looked this awesome.

Sofles: Infinite

Sofles: Infinite

Graffiti artist Sofles lets loose in an abandoned and dilapidated building as the equally talented Selina Miles of Unity Sound & Visual documents his work in progress. One of the most creative time-lapse videos we’ve ever seen.

MTO

MTO

MTO is a street artist who specializes in using spray paint to create large portraits of celebrities, always with a touch of red as his mark. You can see more of his work here and here.

Water Light Graffiti

Water Light Graffiti

A wall of LEDs that light up whenever they come into contact with water. It was made by Antonin Fourneau and his colleagues at the Digitalarti Artlab and was displayed in Poitiers, France.

In Praise of Rust

In Praise of Rust

Paintings of old vans and trucks in New York by Kevin Cyr. The vehicles are peppered with graffiti, dents and other signs of wear and tear, tangible metaphors of obsolescence.

Cardboard Apartments

Cardboard Apartments

German artist EVOL creates unbelievably realistic illustrations of apartment buildings using cardboard, spray paint and complex stencils. Check out more of his work on his website.

In Bed with Invader

In Bed with Invader

Raphael Haddad spent a night with street artist Invader in the winter of 2011, filming the urban artist as he plastered his trademark pixel art all over Paris. Music by ToBy Screamer.

Spraycan Bags

Spraycan Bags
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Sprayground not only has a bag that specially designed to carry spraycans, it also sells a backpack and a duffle bag that look like spraycans. Both are made of water-resistant polyester fabric.

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