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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Who Made This Bike Art?

I've been admiring this fairly recent addition to the public-art-laden northwest corner of Spadina and Dupont, between the Dupont TTC entrance and the railway bridge. What fascinates me most is that, if you carefully examine the upper part of the front right wheel, you can see that the random pattern of the background precisely matches the pattern of the concrete a few inches away. In other words, the picture was taken at this exact place. Who did this nice thing? Are there others? (Some of my students at George Brown inform me that there's a movement about this kind of photo-transfer-onto-walls art, especially in Britain, but I don't know anything about it.) I desire to be better informed!

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At 11:30 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

that is really gorgeous!
-Sally

 
At 9:33 PM, Anonymous cavit8 said...

Though it's not exactly as detailed, check out this portolio at stencilrevolution.com
http://tinyurl.com/ycnmvv

I'm not sure if it's the same technique as the detail on the street art seems a little higher.

 
At 3:27 PM, Blogger SarahBHood said...

Wow!

 
At 2:38 AM, Anonymous Danielle said...

It reminds me of some of the digital media art that I saw at the moma this summer, thats quite a fantastic job they've done there.

 
At 10:02 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

check out www.woostercollective.com

 

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