street art

Super Mario 3D Art Melts My Feeble Brain.

I love 3D chalk art, mainly because my tiny, feeble brain cannot comprehend how they’re made, so it’s practically the same things as magic. It’s like showing a caveman fireworks. But when you combine 3D chalk art with video games? That’s cranking things up a notch. Combine that with a step by step video showing how said 3D is created. That’s pushing it into the stratosphere!


I Can’t Stop Staring This Amazing Pac-Man 3D Street Art

This street painting by artist Leon Herr like it’s floating off the street, just like an extremely awesome augmented reality demo. Even when your brain knows that it’s just lines on the street it still seems like it must be a projection from a giant lens lurking off to the side somewhere.


Float Like A Fireball, Sting Like A Dragon Punch

Take a look at this awesome graffiti found in the streets of Paris. A down and out Ryu from Street Fighter is added to that empowering image of Muhammad Ali’s quickly-won 1965 heavyweight championship rematch against Sonny Liston, which these days you may see more often on the walls of college students than of boxing aficionados.


I’d Like To Meet You In A Graffiti-Covered Alley

Vault Boy, from a Fallout perk icon, graces Central Square, Cambridge, Mass., right between Harvard and M.I.T. Image submitted by Gus Wezerek.


Mega Man’s Cups Runneth Over

Cup-in-the-fence tribute to Mega Man, on a bridge straddling an overpass, parts unknown. The makers (not the photographer), spray-painted the cups to make the mosaic. More detailed shots can be seen here.


A Big Burner, And I Don’t Mean The Cigar

Graffiti in London promoting Meeting Of Styles 2010, an annual graffiti artists’ get-together happening on August 21. As seen on World Graffiti Urban Art via Hot Blooded Gaming.


The Art Of Hello

Yesterday, a dump truck unloaded 4000 painted wooden letters in Tacoma, Washington’s Tollefson Plaza, creating a giant interactive public art display. Kotaku reader shereni happened by and sends this shout-out from T-Town.


In Protest, Chinese Artist Paints Self To OctoCamo Perfection

Chinese artist Liu Bolin took the streets after literally being made homeless by the Chinese government. Suojiacun, an artists’ village in northeastern Beijing was torn down during the Olympic redevelopment. An interview with WhiteHot Magazine can be found here.


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