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NerD: Blattella: Barcelona's graffiti is amazing artwork. I remember taking several photos of it in the busines district the last time I was there. more »
Ultimate Cowboy: You could probably do an entire post just about sci-fi graff. more »
Sam: That looks sweet! hope their local council doesn't paint over it any time soon. Why is it the governmaent never seems to be able to tell the differenc... more »
ManchuCandidate: Or is it Bender's illegitimate child when he mated with a cylon? more »
Bender Bending Rodriguez insults human meatbags in his native Spanish in this Futurama-inspired graffiti spotted in Barcelona, from artists Guan, Sagüe and Foner. Apparently, he's gotten a bit more grizzled since the last Futurama film. [via Reddit]
Artist Anthony Lister uses spray paint and channels street art to explore the imagery associated with heroes and villains. The results include a gender-bending Robin, a crucified Captain America, and Batmen and Wonder Women of unusual shapes and sizes.
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A video-game creature in London warns us that spy cameras are everywhere in public spaces. It's almost as if the proliferation of CCTV cameras were the real "Space Invaders," intruding into our lives whenever we go outside and subjecting us to intense scrutiny that might as well be a rain of laser blasts. The Space Invaders graffiti, using tiles to simulate 8-bit video game pixels, has been a constant in London since 1999, but it seems to have started featuring the CCTV warning only recently. Click through for a couple more images.
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