We Make Money Not Art has a recap of Wooster Collective’s talk at Conflux:
- Location, location, location! It has to be illegal. A work of street art reclaims the public space and the best street art has a context, builds a relationship with its environment, dialogs with the city. […]
- Surprise and delight: the works tap into our emotions and we get that WTF ??? moment. […]
- Have something to say: a statement on how you see the world, the best pieces do not necessarily make a strong political statement but they will make you see the city under a different light. […]
- Personal and intimate, the pieces are very subjective. Read more
Public art meets paranoia? Or, just cultivating mystery:
The cement-bound messages take on various forms, but usually bear some variation of the following text: “Toynbee Idea: In Kubrick’s 2001, Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter.” But no one is certain what the messages mean, or who may have planted them. They seem to be made of linoleum, presumably stuck to the street in the middle of the night. Read more
This list reads like a good start towards Office Space 2.0.
Part rock star, part Johnny Appleseed and fully the bane of the Federal Communications Commission, Dunifer has long, gray hair, large, clear glasses and a deep commitment to what he calls “Free Radio.”
“We’re not stealing anything. We’re claiming something that’s rightfully ours,” he says. Read more
Pirate radio has been part of ‘the underground’ for some time and looks to be getting more mainstream. I suspect we’ll see a similar effect with analog television when US stations switch to all digital signals in April 2009.
