Athlonely.

Was back in Athlone during the week, came across some really nice street art. Thought the above piece was particularly clever. 

DRN

From My Hometown

Ah Ennis. Its my hometown, and just like many small town in Ireland, it seems to be dying a slow death. But, out of depression, and recession, comes free time, which sometimes leads to art. 

 Last week I took my camera out on the town, to see what the locals have been doing, and I was happily surprised to fine a few pieces of excellent street art around my little town... 

 DRN 

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Street Artists...

Swiss artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann take streets, overpasses, soccer fields and other open public spaces and transform them into abstract paintings and a giant scale. It's literally street art.

You can see more of their unique and huge work HERE...

DRN

Oranges and Lemons

Abbie Brandon's short film follows Ben Eine as he paints his recent Oranges and Lemons piece on the side of the London Graphic Centre in Covent Garden...
Clambering around on scaffolding, Eine introduces his large-scale project which, he says, will spell out "oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clements and then something else that you've never heard of."
Despite Westminster council's notorious zero tolerarance position on street art, Eine hopes his typographic commission will keep the issue firmly on the agenda.
In the film, Brandon asks him about his wider work and the appeal of painting on the street. "Once I've taken a photograph [of it] and walked away, I don't really care about it," says Eine, passing comment on the transitory nature of the medium, where artists rarely see their work up for very long.
"Ben's a man on a mission this year," writes Brandon on her Vimeo page, "having painted all round the world in all sorts of places with all sorts of people, but this is his first piece in the UK in 2011."

While obviously street art, or graffiti as most people see it, is not to everyone's tastes or standards (believe me, I live in Ennis, I've seen enough bad tags to last me a life time) I have to agree with Ben when he asks in the video how is painting on a wall more offensive than seeing another Starbucks or Gap opening? And graffiti is just ephemera, most pieces don't last for more than a month...

DRN

Ben Eine - Oranges and Lemons from abbie brandon on Vimeo.

Wonder Wall

All this was done with a chisel and a hammer, amazing work... Its like art meets graffiti that the council would have a pretty hard time painting over...

These fantastic works of street art were done by Alexandre Farto, and you can see more of his work HERE

DRN

Ennis gets a little Candy

So when I came back to Ennis in September I was surprised to see that street art, and really really good street art, not some stupid tag saying Up The Lifford, was sporadically spread throughout the town, I spent days discovering new murals every time I was in town. Ennis is so well know for the Tidy Towns, so it would be great to see some more public art around the place also, its not for everyone, but then again, neither are flowers.

The work was part of a project called Wall Candy and in my opinion it was a complete success. More information can be found at Wallcandy.ie

DRN

Make Over

I love these images, ive had them on my hard drive for ages and been meaning to post em up here forever. Anyways I think I came across them on stumble or FFFFound, so Ive no idea who came up with the idea, but I love the simplicity of it.

DRN

Happy Trees

Happy Trees by ckoe

epic

Exactitudes

i remember seeing pictures from exactitudes in the very first issue of i-D magazine i ever brought. its so clever and relevant. in dublin you can spot the ucd girls a mile away with their uggs and blonde backcombed mops, even in athlone the scumbags have their trackies and the try hards have their ac/dc tshirt.

epic

Aquarium/Phone Booth

Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino have transformed a regular telephone booth into a functioning aquarium.

Poster Boy

Ad BUSTIN!

Berlin artists The FTW Crew added a few missing elements to a Britney, Leona and Christina billboard in Berlin!

Epic

Street Art

When bored turn to art. Or vandlism!