World-renowned entomologist and “Bug Man of Hollywood” Steven Kutcher creates critically acclaimed paintings using insects as “living brushes.”

We just received this email from Above, explaining his latest project : “I lied and hijacked this wall from the owners, right underneath their own eyes and painted this 100+ metre long wall..”

Read the text to understand:

Africa has had a devastating history of blood diamond wars. Blood diamond refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and then sold to finance an invading army’s war efforts, usually in Africa where more than two-thirds of the worlds diamonds are extracted. This site specific social / political word play was painted on the exterior wall of Johannesburg’s largest diamond trader Jewel City.  Jewel City is a six-block mega-precinct that serves as a base for some 300 diamond traders as well as South Africa’s Diamond Board and State Traders Association. Jewel City is the largest diamond exporter in the southern hemisphere with over R7-Billion worth of Diamonds being exported every year.

I was able to get away with this diamond wall heist because I told the owners I would paint in big letters “Diamonds are a woman’s best friend” on the exterior of their building.  The owners loved the idea and all quickly agreed. The next day I had started painting but what the owners didn’t know is that I lied to them and was hijacking their wall. Like any premeditated robbery, situations are not what they seem and shit can flip from best friends to worst enemies in a few moments.

I assume the owners were too busy trading diamonds inside the mega centre they never took the time to come out and see I was painting a controversial word play about the diamond trade and how it’s fueled so much bloodshed in wars making it one of man’s worst enemies.

New space invader movie showing how it´s done!

Evan Roth is an artist and researcher based in Paris who explores the intersection of free culture and popular culture, making work simultaneously for the contemporary art world and the “bored at work” network. His notable pieces include L.A.S.E.R. Tag and LED Throwies (Graffiti Research Lab), White Glove Tracking, EyeWriter, Graffiti Analysis and much more.

“Propulsion Paintings” is a new series for his upcoming Welcome to Detroit exhibition, which opens this Wednesday.

This weekend´s giant ass graffiti from Boris Hoppek, Villas and Antonio Bokel

Sam 3 about Spanish crises…

MrPete is a fun experiment, a non-profit project started in March 2012 in London´s subways.

During one month, 2000 MrPetes will be commuting to The city with you.
The idea is to use magnets as a playful way of commenting on the routine of London commuters. The aim is to bring some humour to our boring journey without damaging the space.

Peter Peterson, aka MrPete, is the character that embodies the stereotype of an ordinary commuter, someone who finds himself in the most silly, mundane situations. He falls asleep on someone’s shoulder, fights for seats and sometimes can’t avoid peering onto other people’s newspapers.

You are invited to participate in this story and give a unique voice to MrPete’s journey. Get part, you just have to find one of those adoravle creatures at the subway, take a picture and uploada it at the Mr Pete web!

Calligraffiti by Niels Shoe Meulman. He uses his broom and water instead of spraypaint or pen to create some beautiful calligraphy on ground level in Singapore.

Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada is not just a brilliant artist but also a person who makes a difference in the world.

The amazing work of Meritxell Duran, from Barcelona, always transports me to a special and unique place. A parallel universe full of those complex characters, with is both cute and intriguing..

She is now needing our vote in here . Thanks for helping!

Artist Statment – Meritxell Duran

My art is accessible to everybody because my raw material are emotions. It’s in the sculpture where I can express myself more comfortably, moving these emotions to a phisic plane, visible to everyone. I live art as a safety valve and I understand it as a path to discover things about oneself. I try to make discover new things from themselves to my audience. Thins that maybe they don’t even know or remember. Sculpture is the crystallization of a thought, it has something lyric, like a frozen poem, but even though, I don’t reject its more recreational side.

When I create, I previously work with drawings, but even then I think the images always in 3D. Drawings are potential sculptures, still in 2D, and you can see that in the way I compose the illustrations, always thinking about the space, even in paper. I use the usual techniques in sculpture, but I like to research new materials to work with, for fun but also to push the limits. This innovation in the materials has led me to approach my art to all kind of different budgets, creating sculptures with affordable prices. I believe that everybody should be able to access to art, not only in an intellectual level, but also economic.

I work a lot by intuition, following my instinct, not knowing where I’m going, exactly. I usually have an idea but is in the process where I finally end discovering the right path to follow. My work is divided in two general parts: my more artistic works and my more industrial productions, following this idea that art is everywhere and everyone must be able to access it. I also work as a professor in several Art Schools where I teach this way of understanding art and life.

Riusuke Fukahori

Above in South Africa

Prismatica consists of an arrangement of pyramid-shaped crystals affixed to an LCD screen and illuminated with programmed geometric animation. The animated patterns are precisely mapped to the vertices of the crystals, illuminating them individually and in formation. The animations are further refracted through the geometry of the crystals in accordance with the shifting perspective of the observer, which in turn alters the way the illuminations appear and interact with reflections of surrounding lights within the space.By Kit Webster

M-CITY visited Mexico during the month of August 2011 leaving six walls in different areas of the city and the country.

This visit was thanks to the collaboration between MAMUTT and the Antique Toy Museum Mexico. Gonzalo, from MAMUTT says that in January, Roa is going to hit the town… let´s wait for more beautiful pieces!

Nice video showing all the process of one of those murals..!

Designed and Produced by Katy Beveridge.
Sound Design by Stefan Neidermyer.

“This is a piece created to question whether it was possible to film animation in realtime. I developed this project based on what is being done in animation right now as well as a lot of primary research into the history of animation techniques.”

Miguel Endara says: “The making of “Hero,” a drawing of my dad composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots”

Hero from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.

José Parla video with timelapse and interviews from his Toronto Mural project