Connection

In the popular book series "Harry Potter", there is a fictional game by the name "Quidditch". In that there is a "Seeker", a person who is supposed to catch the snitch a Golden ball that spins and runs like the wind in mid-air, with the blink of an eye it disappears. Blink, is the name of a book written by Malcolm Gladwell, in which he mentions that it just takes one fleeting second to know that there is something, it could be wrong or it could be a point of similarity or difference.
For this post, I am the Seeker, the artwork is the golden snitch and the "Blink" moment is the similarity that I notice, I don't know about you guys. You'll have to see it to belive it.
What happens when two different people, from different places have similar ideas?
What if a third person, sitting in an entirely different place far from them notices it? They don't know, what I know.
Interesting?

Well, you're about to see is more interesting than that.

One is a Street Artist, whose work I recently came across. The other one is an Illustrator and designer based in Phillipines who occasionally does wall art too.

By Seth
Location - Mostly Paris

By Rommel

Location - Phillipines

The Dreamer

Story's End

The Sleeper

Let's pretend everything's okay!

The Secret

Picture Credits
Seth - Street Art Utopia
Rommel - Strange Skins (Blog)

RhinoSaveRos

"Save the Rhino"

 A fantastic initiative taken up by Yantr the Street Artist from India on account of 22nd September being "World Rhino Day". Creating awareness regarding the diminishing One Horned Rhino in Assam. Did you know that they are killed for their horns?

Credits : https://www.facebook.com/yantr.india

PS: He is the same artist who painted the Masked Buddha 

*Quick Fact : He is one of the few artists especially in India who is into Earthworks. More coming soon!

CollabArt

 Collaboration + Art

Since time immemorial we have been seeing multiple types of collaborations, but off late we are seeing them in the most unique situations. One of the recent one's on which I stumbled upon was "Street Art" and "Home Design"
Yes, you read that right!
Somewhere in southern Tel Aviv, industrial designers and street artists are joining hands to come up with the most creative collaborations of all time. The interior designers went to the most active street art hubs in the city and placed a blank canvas here and there. Left them for a couple of days and the let the magic do the trick.

At first, they were disappointed because the canvas was left blank with no action.

But soon, there were some pencil sketches and like I mentioned, magic started taking place. What followed left me speechless.

Firstly, the collaboration itself excited me because the possibilities are infinite and yet to be explored. Secondly, when the designers did what they did with the artwork was simply fantastic.

Prepare to be amazed!

Behold the one-of-a-kind furniture called "Street Capture"

 

Credits - Slate.com

Artists - Ariel Zuckerman and Eran Shimshovitz 

Street Artists - Anonymous

Masked Buddha : New Delhi | India

By Yantr (instrument)

Long before I had a phone or camera I used to cross this particular village in New Delhi, named Khirki. It led to one of the top-notch malls in the city. There was something about this that made me stare at it without realizing where the time went. I've been seeing way before people even started noticing street art in Delhi. Thanks to my friends house being close to this place, the day I got the first chance, I went about clicking this piece from every angle I could. 

"From every angle it's perfect and not just the art work but the message hidden behind that mask."

Irony is, it's painted right in front of a garbage dump. 

Next time you visit Delhi, be sure to walk across the village to see some great work by Daku (Indian Banksy) and Yantra 

Yantra named himself perfectly and even works towards it. Truly and instrument to change the world. What better way than art itself. 

Correction - What I perceived the mural to be was not the actual though behind it. 

Street artist Yantr shows Buddha in a mask. The graffiti in Khirki extension aims to spread awareness and discourse on Operation Smiling Buddha, India’s first nuclear weapon explosion that took place on 18th May, 1974. (IBNLIVE)

Historical Sightings : India

This post in particular is for Graffiti, especially in India. Graffiti, Street Art, murals etc are not some modern terms you hear, just because Banksy made something controversial on the walls you get to know what Graffiti is. Well, it has been happening for a long time now. Especially in India, where woman decorate their houses by applying a base coat of Red (Geru) and then painting over them with white, typically known as Worli art. There are several other styles and designs from various other places which I will be sharing in subsequent posts. I share this one right now because I happened to stumble upon something incredible. India's wall art gets featured on Brain Pickings . Go on check it out!!
The post is actually talking about someone who has released a book (Nurturing Walls) with the early designs that were made on the wall, especially animal designs.

Here's a quick look!

Credits - BrainPickings

Street Art & Google

Google - Street Art Project

What happens when a search engine giant finds unique artists and their artwork from around the world, maps them and allows everyone to have dekko?

Well, we have some magic floating around, we need to look clearly. Here is a quick look. You may go to the link above as well. The pictures are pretty much the same.

Vhils using the texture of the wall as a canvas

One amazing thing that Google has done with this project is that they have made the inaccessible artwork available to the world. With the help of the StreetView you can go and see the places that actually had artwork but are now maybe off the walls or demolished. 

Street Art 101

All the differences one would want to know!

via Memrise