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Urban Intervention Re-Imagines CCTV in Lisbon
If there are two things I love, it’s serendipity and clever urban interventions. As I was working on my Urban Guide for Alternate Use today the two came together when Collective CC in Lisbon sent me some images of their latest intervention, Senioritas. As most who live in or visit Lisbon and most southern European [...]
Urban Play Focus 03: Poland’s Truthtag
Today’s preview of an Urban Play artist brings Poland’s Truthtag into focus. As is the case with putting together any show, there is an ebb and flow to the list of artists as work progresses, but within the Urban Play roster, Truthtag has always had a core position in the show and its larger concept [...]
Urban Play Focus 02: Madrid’s SpY
Today’s preview of an Urban Play artist brings Madrid’s SpY into the light. The thing I’ve always liked about SpY is the width and breadth of his work and media. From anchoring glow sticks into the pavement to turn a traffic arrow into a firing spaceship (above), to simply attaching a Pac-Man shape onto a [...]
Joshua Allen Harris inflatable sculptures in stop global warming ad
There’s been a buzz on the internet today about Joshua Allen Harris’s inflatable sculptures being featured in an upcoming ad for the Environmental Defense Fund and their stop global warming campaign. I’m always on guard for seeing street artists’ work being ripped off by The Man advertising agencies without due credit, so I’m very pleased [...]
Mark Jenkins in Barcelona: the story
photo by Mark Jenkins Needless to say, I’m a huge fan of Mark Jenkins‘ work. What always impresses me about his body of work is not only the quality of the finished pieces, but the way in which he integrates them into the urban fabric. His storkers can often be found playing with and in [...]
Lisbon Street Art Tribute to Pessoa
Photo Credit: Joao Pina for The New York Times The New York Times just published a fine article about the dilemma facing Portugal that a collection of the famed Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa’s papers might be sold and leave the country. What drew me to the article was the fact that it was on Pessoa, [...]
New Work From CutUp
Last night CutUp installed their latest batch of work throughout London. For those of you not (yet) familiar with CutUp, they specialise in physically remixing the urban visual, taking down billboards, cutting them up into pixels, and re-installing them to create new images out of the original source material. While my personal favourite medium of [...]
Mark Jenkins article for DAMn Magazine
DAMn magazine asked me to do a piece on artist Mark Jenkins, and I obliged, as I love Mark’s work and writing about it is always a pleasure. The issue has just hit the stands, so check it out. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fscottburnham.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fmark-jenkins-article-for-damn-magazine%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Mark+Jenkins+article+for+DAMn+Magazine’; addthis_pub = ‘scottburnham’;
Santiago Stencil
In Santiago de Compostela, Galicia (Spain) talking to people about the City of Culture currently under construction there and also checking out the vibe of the city. For me of course, the ultimate barometer of a city’s character is the street art scene, and I’ve gotta say that Santiago represents. The image here hits two [...]
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