Thursday, October 21, 2010

Blu --> Urban Artist

For our personal website assignment we have to create for our Project 1, I decided to choose Urban Arts as my topic.  I have learned a lot about this beautiful genre of art through research for this assignment, and I am happy to say that I am a fan.  The style is so unique and edgy at the same time. 

I came across an artist named Blu, which is just an alias name to cover his real identity.  He utilizes the art form and adds animation to it as well.  I believe he'd paint an image, take a picture, erase it with white paint, and paint the next continuous image.  So it is like a stop-and-go animation.  Can you imagine the time and patience it would take to complete a whole project like this?? I really really respect Blu as an artist, and I am just fascinated with his creativity.

Here's a few of his animated pieces.  Check it out!

MUTO - Blu



BIG BANG BIG BOOM - Blu

2 comments:

  1. I also highly, highly suggest anyone interested in his work to check out his website blublu.org. I've been a fan of his work ever since I came across these videos on youtube while researching street art a couple months ago. Very dark, thought-provoking work.

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  2. I think these are amazing. I've seen them before, and each time they blow me away. I can appreciate them for the animation, but you have to respect the time and effort it took to make these. They are cool, but kinda creepy at the same time. I think anyone who has motion sickness, might not want to watch these. :0)

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