BUFFdiss [street art]

buff diss is a street artist from melbourne who works with masking tape. only. i think. and that's all i know.

jef aerosol [street art]

i'm a sucker for anybody who'll expend the necessary energy to cut a stencil of a pouty, school-boyish woody allen. jef aerosol is a street artist in the vein of banksy with considerably less political mien. aerosol's focus on quality, despite graffiti's temporary nature, makes his work stand apart from the rest of the noise of heavily-tagged walls by giving a nod to the bemused delinquency inherent to graffiti.

LINK: jef aerosol at streetsy
LINK: flickr

Banksy does NoLA

Flickr is all of a sudden atwitter with photos of Banksy surfacing in New Orleans just prior to and following Hurricane Gustav. With so much graffiti devolving into loud, gratuitous tagging and branding, it's great be reminded of the potential of graffiti as a spontaneous, accessible medium for thought-provoking art. On the same token, it's a bit counter-productive of Banksy's fans to actually steal his art. Seems a bit unprincipled in its irony - after all, isn't its fleeting nature one of the inherent appeals of graffiti?

LINK: an also-ran in kensington...