Jaw dropping performance by Contact Juggler, Okotanpe

Japanese street artist Okotanpe, entertains us with his skillful co-ordination talent making an crystal sphere appear as is if its floating !

In case your curious the music piece that begins about a third of the way into the video is Soleil by Yoshie Nakara.

The sphere, Okotanpe is manipulating, is a crystal ball, likely obtainable from here.

Jan Vormann Restores Crumbling Walls With Lego Bricks

Instead of plaster or stucco,the German artist Jan Vormann mends cracks,holes and fissures in buildings. Vormann uses a novel but fun approach to repairing broken building facades, and  crumbling architecture.

Vorman calls his street art Dispatchwork, with the emphasis on the patchwork.

According to Wired magazine, Vorman's "approach favored function over appearance, reminding Vormann of the haphazard Lego designs created by children."

Vorman has spent the past 3 years traveling the world repairing crumbling walls building facades and monuments with Lego bricks, and has left his mark on the streets of Amsterdam,St. Petersburg and Tel Aviv,among other places.

Chicken suited busker plays "What is Love" on Pianica

Computer gamer, Ring Mod was in Melbourne recently for Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) 09, and chanced upon busker James Bowers wearing a chicken suit, outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, playing the hit 90's track "What Is Love" on bass guitar and Pianica (or Melodica), with the assistance of a loop pedal. The real action in this video starts at around 1:20, when James gets down with the improv action on the Pianica.

"The pianica is a keyboard with a harmonica attached. You don't actually have to know how to play a harmonica. On the pianica, the harmonica part is a mouthpiece you blow into." via

Banksy stages an audacious act of defiance @ Bristol's museum

Banksy the infamous international graffitti artist slices through the ogre of his local council, Bristol, and holds a huge exhibition in its museum.

According to the BBC, Banksy said:
"This is the first show I've ever done where taxpayers' money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off." A burned-out ice-cream van is among 100 works Banksy has installed at Bristol's museum, replacing many of the museum's regular artefacts. The reason the museum was closed was kept secret from top council officials since October, with just a couple of museum officials in the loop. Staged in the council-owned City Museum and Art Gallery, Banksy v Bristol Museum features animatronics, installations and a sensory display. The exhibition and its location have been a closely-guarded secret "I think we may have dragged them down to our level rather than being elevated to theirs," said Banksy of the subterfuge involved in staging the show in his home city."

Watch the BBC video to get a handle on the size and scale of his exhibition. The image I included here is a video of Banksy's public appreciation including some shots of him making his work.

Here also is a video to help you explore the different locations of his many street art piece's with map references to help you find your way around the Banksy tour of Bristol.

Read more here.

Le Scaphandrier or The Diver : A Giant Awakes in Nantes

Faucher Romain here presents us a video of the latest performance of Le Scaphandrier (The Diver) by the French mechanical marionette street theater company Royale De Luxe.

"Nantes, the home town of Jules Verne, is situated in western France. Here, near the river Loire a giant deep-sea diver sleeps gently, waiting for his task to begin. Sadness marks his face even as he sleeps. He has been searching the world over for his missing niece and although he may not know it, the end of his search is coming. The diver or scaphandrier as he is known in French will be paraded through the streets of this historic city at the beginning of the Estuary 2009 arts festival. The biannual festival gives the French mechanical marionette street theater company Royale de Luxe the opportunity to unveil their latest creation." continue reading


If the Little Girl Giant weighs in at 42 ton and the Diver appears to be more than three times larger we may begin to appreciate the enormity of the project and be amazed at the spectacular nature of maneuvering such a huge puppet around in public domains !


See more pictures of how the giant mechanical marionette is moved about.

The Making of Edgar Müller's huge 3D Street Painting "The Crevasse "

At the Festival of World Culture in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, Edgar Müller painted one his iconic optical illusions over a 250 square meter patch of asphalt. Using acrylic wall paint to create the scene, it took the artist five days, working 12 hours a day to paint the massive crevasse; which, from the right perspective, looks remarkably realistic, as this time lapse video attests.

Be sure to also check out Mueller’s flash flood in Canada

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The Art of Herakut

Herakut, is the German graffiti duo of a blended collaboration between two artist's Jasmin(Hera) and Falk (Akut).

"Hera and Akut combine photorealism and monochrome figurative elements in a bewitching medley of images. Their unlikely merger of styles now increasingly blend seamlessly, a testimony they say to the growing way they trust each other to develop a piece."

This video shows their painted walls exhibition from the end of last year at the Leonard Street Gallery in London's East End.

See more photos of the works from Herakut, here, and their website.


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