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Watts Tower in Los Angeles

This has been on my to-post list forever but now with the news that a new benefactor for the watts tower has come forward, I am posting it now.

In my mind, The Los Angeles Watts Towers in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles was one of the first modern street art mosaic works. Built by Simon Rodia, The Watts Towers consists of seventeen major sculptures constructed of structural steel and covered with mortar. When I went there many years ago it was just this great sculpture in the middle of a neighborhood. Now it appears to be a tourist destination with admission tours and everything. I support whatever keeps the Watts Tower going.


Watts tower


Tiny Cardboard Box People Appear All Over Singapore

Amy tang Street art does not ahve to be two dimensional. In fact using the concept of discarded amazon cartons to make figures and misenscenes fits into my definition of street art too. Here, Singapore-based artist Anton Tang takes unused plastic figurines and repositions them in Lilliputian set-ups full of humor and pathos, thus reimagining what it means to be human.

Recycled Clothing As An Art Form

Working "in the now" and with discarded objects, is always interesting and exciting to me. Street artists and graf artists use walls and other urban forms as their canvas. And now, Derick Melander uses discarded clothing as his art form.
 
Artist Derick Melander creates large geometric structures from carefully folded and stacked second-hand clothing that weighs between five hundred pounds and two tons. What seems like a straightforward process – procuring the clothing, sorting it by colour value, folding and stacking it – soon takes on a life of its own. Read more at - http://eco-chick.com/2010/04/5555/amazing-art-sculptures-made-from-recycled-clothing/
 
Recycled clothing

Motorcycles from Japan

Scooter_9 Part of the street art zeitgeist is the low brow art, hot rod, car culture mindset that artist Robert Williams celebrates (and deconstructs) in his amazing paintings.


I am not a car fan but I can appreciate design. So when I found this link of Japanese motorcycles on Good Experience I was intrigued. While not part of the NYC graffiti mindset ... yet, it does have that cool urban feel. Well, judge for yourself.