Wall Textures

Texturizando.

Giving Without Wanting Anything Back

"Advertisements are playing with the minds of the people. People are obeying the power of different companies. Companies that are manipulating the minds of the people.

Graffiti don't do that. Compared to advertisements, graffiti is giving the city something, without wanting something back. There is a healthy disorder."

Alone (graffiti artist)

So Much Punch

"It was cheap, it was fast and it was fun. The eyeballs that mattered -- on the street, the train, at the record store, the club -- they got it loud and clear. So much punch for such a small and inaudible format. If it was a new artist, maybe just their name. Especially if they had a great name. Arouse some curiosity, let people know you were comin'. In turn, spreading love, deputizing friends and fam, the gift that keeps on giving."

Monica Lynch

Whispered Sticker

"Stickers can be quick and because of their smallness they are intimate. It's a cute thing to be whispered to by a sticker when all around you are screaming ads going on about fuck knows what."

Stanley Donwood

Submitting To The Impermanence

 

"In making art at all, to me at least, there's some element of fighting against how impermanent life is. Yet on the street, it's all about completely submitting to the impermanence."

Shepard Fairey

As 7 horas de uma semana de 7 anos

Houve comoção no reencontro com esta parede, por constatarmos que, volvidos mais de 7 anos, a tinta ali permanece, visível da rua. Os pigmentos vão se cansando, já são muitos anos a receber abraços do sol, mas continuam colados à fachada. Este mural guarda histórias e recordações. Chegou a servir de inspiração para um outro realizado na Galeria de Arte Contemporânea António Prates. E as suas cores, ainda vívidas, chegaram a aparecer no minuto 2:59 deste pequeno vídeo. 
Obrigado Amigos do Estoril, pela aceitação deste quadro no design de interiores do bairro ;) abraços a todos!

Conversation (a sort of) ;)

Overether Says:
"It is not a healthy disorder and it is making people a certain way -- uncomfortable. I tag to fuck certain people, not to deface wildly. It should be an art form to express emotion, directed, not uncontrolled and chaotic. This shit -- wild tagging, is what makes cities look like slums. Not a single fucker wants to live in a slum..."

Chef Vortivask responds:
"It's not wild tagging its finding a spot where it can be seen and the closest to busy areas are the best coz they get more views and are more red hot to pull off and there fore gain u more respect. u ignorant mother of fuck."

Overether concluded:
"Get BACK in your hole you hood rat! Nobody asked you and nobody cares. End of story."

;p

The Wrong Beauty

"Graffiti is in-between something beautiful and something that is completely wrong."

Alone (swedish graffiti artist)

O Povo-Irmão reelege Dilma

Precisamente hoje, no segundo turno da eleição presidencial, foi reeleita no Brasil a presidenta Dilma Rousseff do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT). Depois de Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, do mesmo partido, ter estado na presidência de 2002 a 2006 e de 2006 a 2010, agora também Dilma Rousseff alcança o seu segundo mandato consecutivo. 

Aécio Neves (Partido Social Democrata do Brasil) ainda recebeu 51.040.588 (48,36%), contra os 54.498.042 (51,64%) de Dilma. 

Para ilustrar esta notícia, muito oportuna é esta fotografia. Nela vemos uma figura, inteligentemente colocada à direita da nossa peça, da autoria de Tikone, um excelente Street Artist brasileiro! Com um estilo único e inconfundível, Tikone brindou Portugal com a presença generosa e ainda viva de várias das suas intervenções. 

Obrigado Tikone! Obrigado Grande Nação Brasileira! Abraços por sobre o Atlântico!

A Kind of Spirituality

"My work is about what I see when I close my eyes. It is about spirituality and the unknown. [...] I call it what I do when I'm not eating."

Kelsey Brookes

Advertisement For The Ego

"A tag is a small advertisement for an artist — a logo for the ego."

Tristan Manco