Berlin: graffiti in the alley

lookie, feelie, doi

Wahllos
Random finding on the cafe-lined streets of Aachenerstraße in Köln.

“drink, be obedient”

The scene at the Dom on a Friday afternoon. “Liebe ist für alles” above a homeless man cradling his dog and “Drink, be obedient,” scrawled on the marble walls of a near-by shop.

real-cost pepsi detournement

Most likely one of the cutest detournements of the soda pop industry, by Lawrence Yang.

we [heart] torture

Maybe not the large majority of Americans who do not support the use of torture, but the Central Intelligence Agency and the US government (especially abroad) has used morally and tactically questionable means to abstract confessions and just plain scare  its captives long before the so-called War on Terror. A view from Cesar Chelala, published [...]

ad, graffiti… what’s the difference?

By Candice Novak
Answer: The difference is obviously whose paying for that space in the public eye. In lay terms, money. But in the last few weeks there has been a lot of push-back to renew the debate.
In the last few weeks there has been a flurry of activity around the question of advertising’s role in [...]

Top-10 anti-IraqWar streetART

Little covered in mainstream media is the huge attention the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are getting on the streets in the form of art. An aggregate of the best anti-Iraq war art, of which there is much. Check out the running numbers of American casualties. Here’s to looking at the art of the people instead [...]