inspired by the film metropolis by Fritz Lang my concept was to paint a hole in the roof of these tunnels underneath waterloo station as if a utopian pleasure garden has caved into this dark space where workers toil for the aristocracy above them. I knew the rest of this show was going to be very dark and scary so it was important that i kept my work light and airy i wanted to reveal golden bricks beneath the layers of dust and dirt on the walls. I  liked the rusty corrugated iron that had been put onto the roof i wanted to keep that to make it seem as if they were trying g to block out the light making the mural a site specific ultra advanced cave painting. I suggested putting bricks on the floor and real turf around the sculptures below the mural to emphasize the idea that the sculptures were once part of the utopian dream but now they are the property of the working class.

I began work on this along with my friend BUSK two days after returning from the bright sunshine of Mexico, my suntan quickly faded while i spent many hours in the darkness under ground painting the roof above me as it crumbled , at one point i actually felt the wall wobbling i then realised i was only 5 feet away from the railway tracks directly above my head that was terrifying painting underneath a train, i was also inhaling all the dust that had gathered over the past 100 years on these crumbling bricks and whilst i was doing all this a new strain of flu from swine in Mexico where i was only the week before was about to wipe out the whole human race i was inundated with calls from worried friends and family and then i learned that these tunnels were i had been working were once used as a mortuary for the last flu pandemic after ww2.

i have never felt better . well i have a hang over .

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If you’ve ever heard Sara and I talk, then you know how much we love projects like EPOS 257’s paintball splattered billboards in Prague.

We love a short phrase in his artist statement in which he calls his work – “a gesture expressing an opinion”.

Because Street Art is ephemeral. And because the artist is always risking arrest. Every piece of street art is to us – “a gesture expressing an opinion”

From EPOS 257:

“Shooting into the white surface of vacant billboards with a paintball gun – blank canvasses in an urban environment, a gesture expressing an opinion and at the same time abstract painting in a urban environmemt.”

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Masterpiece 2.0, a social media art project by Baschz and Selfcontrolfreak.

Masterpiece 2.0 is the latest project from and Selfcontrolfreak and Baschz (who if you’ve been following the Wooster site for a while, was formerly known as Betamaxxx)

While we’d love to explain the project to you ourselves, but it’s so complex (and in our minds, brilliant) that perhaps we should just share the artist’s statement:

“It’s the first ever canvas being made with a Web 2.0 approach. The canvas interacts with its visitors who can affect the process and final outcome of this masterpiece.

Through actions like Introduce Object, Shirt ‘Em and Cameo Appearance you can interact with Selfcontrolfreak, right on the canvas! This will add new animation to the time-lapse movie and get you a one-off hi-res image of one of your animation’s frames, created and signed by Baschz.

You can follow the whole process LIVE through the webcam and Twitter feeds.

The final multilayered canvas and documentation of the project are being auctioned, so you can become the owner of this unique painting!”

Confused? Don’t worry. Click here and to check out the site.

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Here’s some graffiti covered cars for you!  vroummm vroummm

By Ador

Unknow artist

by Lastplak in Rotterdam

By Plasmaslug

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there is something going on down there deep underneath spewtopia.

lot has been going on behind your back under your feet

Seek and you will Find TUNNEL 288 reserve your time slot keep your ear on the ground

DONT MISS OUT ON THIS 15 days only!!!!!!!!!

a bit of hard work never hurt anyone did it ?

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Death of Erotica (44" x 55") by Paul Baines is the tenth limited edition print in the Indoor Street Art series available here. Life has accelerated exponentially, the world is crowded with a virus of 6.5 billion thinking, feeling, actualising creatures of a dominant species Gratification of every kind is bartered and delivered instantly, love has been designated a place of inconsequential comfort alongside confectionery and social integration, life is not as our forefathers knew it or would have ever imagined. Mankind’s relationship with the human body through the progresses in science, technology, mass entertainment and cultural adaptation has been objectified, codified, classified in a series of sub-genres, romance, fetishism, voyeurism all catered for by both the corporate adult entertainment industries as well as the mainstream.

Humans are near immune to the psychological traps of the advertisers, everything from chocolate bars to cars to beauty products have been sexualized in order to engage the consumer. Sexual exhibition and contact is delivered on request, bartered on an open market of webcam delivery, legalised brothels and the "adult entertainment industry".

"In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred" – August Rodin

The mysteries of the human body have been explored, exploited and displayed as objectified truisms by the faiths of anatomical, biological and behavioural sciences. The consumer has more and more choices in which to surgically enhance their natural attributes in order to compete with the media’s idea of biological perfection, manipulated by technology, artists around the world work hard to prop up this unrealistic ideal, an objectified vision of beauty by the corporate state.

The process of revealing, the mystique and wonder of eroticism once caged by the traditions and discretions of former cultural inhibitions, the mystery of desire, the longing for beauty, all this has been brushed aside as science and technology have paved the way towards a generic objectivity of our physical existence upon the earth, Now only one truth lays hidden, untouched by the grasping hands of theoreticians, and that is death.

The rich continue to hunt down the secret to eternal youth and beauty, employing all manner of services, however ineffective, to maintain their standing in society, one which primarily is fixated on outward appearances, a cult of anatomical perfection unheard of in the past. The fear which drives this obsession is fuelled by that very same knowledge, the objectified existence of an end time, a day, an hour, a second in which the world comes crashing down for each and everyone of us. The personal apocalypse of death, or rather the trepidation of that moment feeds and fuels everything in society. With over 6.5 billion on the planet surely natural instincts would call into question any notion of mass breeding yet another generation. Yet still we hanker for some slight reminisce for our individual existence, some sign genetic or otherwise that will mark our place in time on this planet, the home to billions, all competing for natural resources of every kind. Air, water, food, heat, land, shelter, power. Yet more so for a place in the hearts of others, a place in the minds of generations to come.

No accolade, no facet of outward appearance, no surgical procedure, no word, image or idea can escape the mysterious end of the road we all must follow. Mortality is a bitch. 

Death of Erotica (44" x 55") by Paul Baines is now available as a limited edition print. To purchase this work please click the button below.

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Chris Johansen

ESPO

Our friends over at Paper Magazine recently invited an amazing group of “visual communicators” to create original advertising concepts that would redefine America’s image. The full set can be found in the latest issue of the magazine as well as online here. They’re terrific.

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More from Prefab77 here.

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