Mates since school, local talent Cinzah Merkens and Karl Sheridan are making a doco. Check the teaser.
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Local Teaser
Germany Street Art vs NZ Street Art
Street Art has a rich history. There is a primo article on smashingmag about the development of street art in Berlin. The image below was taken by us while visiting mates in a student town in Germany. The council understands culture.
Check the recent over size “unlike” facebook hands in response to a grey’d wall near K’road in Auckland.
“Graffiti Fine Art” teaser
This new documentary about graffiti artists gets the industry talking about what is “fine art”. We have never really understood the term “fine art” either. Who gets to say if art is “fine” or not. Maybe the price tag decides, surely not as Banksy destroyed that myth. It’s a theme that probably wont stop being debated.
In our books it’s all art. You can choose yourself if it’s “fine” or “tight as” or “off the hook” or “epic” or “mega fine as”. That should be the only rule about art, call it what you want. Just like whisky.
Homemade Signage in Wellington
For Wellington locals this is a notorious intersection by the Mt Vic tunnel. Somebody obviously decided enough was enough. One of the finest executions of meaningful “road art” we’ve seen in a while. Props to the maker, whoever you are.
No More Grey Walls Petition
Get behind this petition. Head over to sideroom.com and fill out the quick form to show your support for unleashing New Zealand’s creative culture for real.
Take a squiz back in time at all the posts we have done on nz street art to get a quick example of what our community could be like.
drypnz at large in Wellington
The long dry days of Summer usually brings about some amazing street art. And a quick squiz at Street Arse (NZ’s word on the Street Art scene in Aotearoa) proves there have been some mammoth efforts in Wellington by drypnz.
Rainbow Machine
Everything about this video is so awesome. Simple but immensely technical. Check out some of mudlevels other crazy videos too.
robo-rainbow from mudlevel on Vimeo.
Street Monkey
Street Monkey spotted in AKL. We like the splatter & drip style.
