From the streets of Boston to Hollywood people started to spot a robot figure that further got the name stikman. The figures are placed all over the states and are made out of corrugated plastic, vinyl records, burlap sacks or scraps of wood, metal or cloth. You can find the stikman on building walls, newspaper boxes and traffic signs, but he is most often seen in crosswalks as a sticker pasted to the pavement. Some people are finding him interesting, others think he is creepy, but no one knows who the creator is. Some has tried to contact him through his email but he has always refused to give his real name, he will tell you to just call him Bob.
Brazil is known for their colorful culture and carnivals, but did they stop there? The answer is no. Now you can walk along some streets in Brazil and feel like you are in the middle of a cartoon, with funny drawings making the pavement a bit less gray and boring.
His work is created in a reaction to what we readily encounter in our lives, sidewalks and doorways, building and bricks. I’m just connecting the dots differently to make my own picture. Others need to see that they can create too, connecting their own dots, in their own places.
Buff Diss is an awesome Melbourne based artist who has recently stranded himself in Europe. Some of his work can be seen in Paris, Barcelona, Jerusalem … All his works are made free-hand with masking tape.
A 22-year-old student, Joe Carnevale, took road blocking barrels, cut them and made a monster statue that became an Internet sensation. The “barrel monster” had a wide and toothy grin and was pointing down on cars and motorists passing nearby the university where he is a student. These barrels were owned by a contractor working on a round-a-bout project on Hillsborough Street. Raleigh police seized the barrel monster as evidence on May 31, but they didn’t arrest Joe Carnevale.