This site specific work appeared on the streets of Florence, Italy. I really like street art that interacts with its environment. The modified statue is actually shooting the ‘victim’ painted on the wall across the way. via Wooster

A while back small mosaics of Space Invader characters started popping up on buildings and other structures across the world. These were installed by the street artist Invader, now he is upping his game with these portraits made from Rubik’s Cubes on display at Laz.inc. via Wooster

I have got to get down to Brazil, the streets are full of incredible art. Artist Dalata has been transforming crumbling structures into points of interest with these amazing murals. I wish this would start happening where I live, but right now people can only think about sticking advertising for surf shops and taco joints on the backs of stop signs.

Dalata via Wooster
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Then these guys are Super Villains. 6emeia, a project created by Sao Paulo artists SAO! and Delafuent is busy transforming the sewers of the city into whimsical works of art. With people like these guys and Roadsworth creating art in the public space, it will be harder for detractors to call it vandalism. Regular Janes and Joes are sure to have their day brightened by this sort of street art, it is totally ‘people’s choice’.

Check out 6emeia via Wooster Collective

Roadsworth brings a whole new meaning to the term ’street art’. He transforms crosswalks and dividing lines in the streets of Montreal into giant foot prints, zippers and other humorous things.

Unfortunately he got caught.
from Spacing.ca

The pieces were “very simple, open-ended, ambiguous,” says Gibson. “They were also somewhat integrated with the environment — the street, the road markings — giving them an almost subliminal quality.” Gibson adds, “I think my intention was to create a language that would function as a form of satire, accentuating the absurdity inherent to certain aspects of urban living, urban space, [and] public policy.” But evidently something got lost in translation: Montreal police arrested Gibson on November 29 last year and charged him with 51 counts of mischief, the charges carrying maximum penalties ranging from $200 to $5,000.

Gibson defends his works, claiming that they create free dialogue within the city’s commercial monologue. An economic, anti-ecological imperative holds the city hostage, Gibson says, and this deference to industry is symptomatic of the hypocritical way laws are applied in the city setting. As Gibson notes, “We aggressively pursue graffiti writers for scrawling their names on a wall across from a massive backlit billboard advertising Big Macs.”

For more Roadsworth, check out his Myspace page. Who would have thought graffiti writers would have Myspace pages?