You come across a lot of strange towns while traveling by train through Europe. Eerie, remote locations whose only inhabitants are gypsies, transients, and those employed by the train stations to service them. One such place, somewhere off the beaten path in France - its name escapes me - struck me as being particularly odd. [...]

Julius von Bismarck’s Image Fulgurator is a modified camera that’s capable of projecting images onto street furniture (a bench, wall, sign etc.) where they appear in the photos of strangers, but remain invisible to their eyes.
So how does it work? According to Wired, the “half guerrilla-art stunt and half homemade-gadget awesomeness” has a “slave unit [...]

Recent years have seen street art and its central figures become as mainstream as all over print tee shirts and French electronica. Today, mega-corporations are increasingly incorporating wheatpastes into their marketing mix and doing their best to cash in off the art form’s caché. Two weeks ago, the mythological Banksy, with corporate funding from Eurostar, [...]

Although graffiti culture is alive and well in Paris, artists making their mark on the streets of Barcelona take reclaiming public space to a whole other level. Every nook and cranny of available space is caked with years of murals, wheatpastes, etchings and tags. On doorways and apartment entrances live the faded creations of yesteryear [...]

The city of lights, the city of romance. Countless tourists pass through Paris every year to see some of the world’s biggest attractions all in one place: Centre Pompidou, Musée de Louvre, Avenue des Champs Elycées, Cathédrale Norte Dame, and the most famous, la Tour Effiel. Step a little off the tourist path though, and [...]