Browsing July, 2012

Pump Pump Pump Pump me up !!!!

Posted on 27/07/2012 by MaZe

Czech this out! Czech artist David Cerny has turned a London bus into a robotic sculpture. Cerny bought the six tonne bus in Holland before attaching two gigantic electrical arms which lift the body of vehicle up and down.

london booster bus olympics

Powered by an electrical engine, each push-up is accompanied by a recording of sounds evoking tough physical effort and video projections on the bus’ windows.

london bootser bus

The Booster Bus will be on display outside what is usually the Business Design Centre in Islington, London, but is currently the Czech Olympic team’s HQ.

T-shirt design – Sketch Battle

Posted on 17/07/2012 by MaZe

Last month (June 2012) ISTHISTHEFUTURE sponsored a Sketch battle with GRAFFITI & STREET ART BLOG via their facebook page. The battle was to sketch the words ‘ISTHISTHEFUTURE’ and the winning design would be turned it to a T-shirt. We had over 75 entries from all across the world but finally we had to narrow this down and here are the winners and some best of the rest

1st PLACE! Stan One from Russia. (dope original wildstyle lettering & detail).

STAN ONE Graffiti sketch tshirt Russia

2nd PLACE! Mone78 from Hungary. (Clean & class lettering).

Mone78 Graffiti Hungary

3rd PLACE! Kint from Milan (Italy). (fat Character and great lettering styles for a tee).

Kint from Milan -Graffiti

STAN ONE’s winning sketch is now available as a Limited edition of 50- click image below if you’d like one – ONLY £9.99 + postage

Here are a few ot the others that made the short list…..

SANZ Graffiti Sketch

SANZ

Wiro Graffiti Sketch

WIRO

Skalp Svk Graffiti Sketch

SKALP SVK

Smoke98 Singapore Graffiti Sketch

SMOKE98 (Singapore)

Laer from Athens Graffiti Sketch

LAER (Athens, Greece)

Eolo from Italy Graffiti Sketch

EOLO (Italy)

Perts Graffiti Sketch

PERTS

Lil Spin Graffiti Sketch

LIL SPIN (France)

Esel Graffiti Sketch

ESEL

Check some of the entries over at GSA (Graffiti Street Art) on Facebook

Futura 2000 Vs Hennessy Cognac

Posted on 15/07/2012 by MaZe

FUTURA-Hennessy-Bottle

New York Graffiti pioneer Futura (2000) was recently invited by Hennessy, the world-leading cognac distillery to create a limited edition of their VS Bottle! Prior to starting the task he visited Hennessy’s headquarters in Cognac, France to see a glimpse of the process and procedures and learn of the history behind the world famous brand.

FUTURA2000-Limited-Edition-Bottle

The bottle features Futura’s signature ‘helix’ visuals in bright colorways on the front of the bottle and on the cap very and a limited number of bottles will be available in some select Hennessy / liquor shops in coming months.

FUTURA2000

FUTURA HennessyCognac--Bottle

As ISTHISTHEFUTURE does not promote/encourage the consumption of alcohol our advice is that if you do manage to get your hands on a bottle – lock it away somewhere for this WILL be a collectors item worth MUCH more unopened !!!!

All in all it’s just Bricks in a Wall !!!

Posted on 13/07/2012 by MaZe

German artist, Jan Vormann has for the last few years been visiting cities across the world restoring crumbling architecture with what he calls ‘dispatchwork’. Instead of plaster he mends cracks, holes and fissures in buildings with Lego blocks.

Lego streetart jan vormann

Lego streetart

Jan Vorman lego streetart

Jan Vormann lego streetart dispatchwork

This unique form of Lego street art brightens up thousands of people’s days with his brightly coloured plastic. Find out more about Jan’s Art at his website janvormann.com

2012 Olympics – Let the ‘Graffiti’ games begin

Posted on 05/07/2012 by MaZe

With just 21 days to go til the start of the 2012 London Olympics and all the controversy with the official clampdown on unofficial use of the Olympic logo/ rings we’ve decided to have a little trawl through the internet to bring you a selection of ‘sporting’ Olympic Graffiti and Street art images from artists with different perspectives on the ‘biggest show on earth.

olympic-graffiti-street-art-codeFC

Video & Image by CodeFC – Cyclist (check his vimeo for more olympic art)

olympic-rings-streetart-The Toasters

Olympic Rings – The Toaster Crew - Shoreditch

I'm loving it olympic graffiti Brighton

I’m loving it – Artist not known, Brighton (photo by Pogorita)

Banksy high jump olympics

’High Jump’ – Banksy c/o banksy.co.uk

olympics-graffiti-Crimial chalkist-bristol

’100 meter Dash’ – by Criminal Chalkist - Stokes croft Bristol 2011

Olympic pigeon graffiti street art

Olympic pigeon -Ronzo Fu (Photo by surreyblonde)

Illuminati london Olympics Graffiti

Illuminati Olympic- Mr Moustache - (photo by Maggie Jones)

Olympic graffiti Ronald McDonald

Olympic Corporate takeaway ! by Mau Mau (since removed)

Olympic Toilet dive graffiti (photo by Tim Callaghan )

CodeFC Olympic street art

Olympic Mural by CodeFC

Teddy-Baden Olympic street art Mandeville

Mandeville by Teddy-Baden

Olympic Street Art Concept by AndyMercer

Olympic Street Art Concept by AndyMercer

Street art david walker codefc

David Walker / CodeFC

Bansky nuclear Javelin olympics

’Javelin missle’ c/o banksy.co.uk

As for us, we’re ready … if only for the hope of seeing the Australian beach volleyball team in body paint !

Nike – Art Meets Innovation – Joanne Gair

Posted on 05/07/2012 by MaZe

When conceptualising Dynamic Fit, Nike’s team of researchers and designers referred to the breakthrough as ‘second skin‘. Enlisting the skills of Body paint and MUA artist Joanne Gair, Nike took the concept of second skin one step further; eliminating the space between foot and shoe by painting the Dynamic Fit-assisted Nike LunarEclipse+ 2 on to a model’s foot!

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