A video created by the Graffiti Research Lab, hits on an issue that has always irked me. If you paint a train with graffiti and get caught you can kiss much of your life goodbye. You will likely be jailed, fined and otherwise punished by the government. Yet, if you pay a large sum, your graffiti is allowed. That is, graffiti in the form of advertising.
As the video shows, the Graffiti Research Lab, with their ever-brilliant ingenuity, took cut outs and pasted them over advertisements found on television monitors at subway stops in NYC. Two of the signs read, “NYC’s true graffiti problem” and “Advertising = graffiti.”
Why is it that Americans tolerate advertising in their faces all day, but are vehemently opposed to graffiti art? I’ll choose art over marketing any day.
In the age of new gadgets and technology I am consistently amazed by people taking graffiti into the next dimension. This is so much more than what most people would think of when they think of graffiti. It doesn’t use spray paint, it’s not permanent, it’s not even on a wall — but it is graffiti nonetheless.
Using any light source and time lapsed photography this artist creates what is known as light graffiti.
“Tagged in Motion” is a project by Hamburg-based graffiti artist DAIM that creates real-time graffiti in 3D — or a virtual world of graffiti art seen through 3D glasses.
The graffiti is captured by utilizing a three-camera scheme. The artist is able to smear the virtual paint across the empty gallery space using an ARToolKIT (or Augmented Reality Toolkit), which captures the artists exact motion as he or she paints.
This is big news is the techno-gadget/virtual graffiti world – as the graffiti artists search for ways to perform their art legally. Bloggers weigh in here and here.
