Forever Young

Simplesmente ;)

Uniqueness

"In a society where it is easier to label and pigeon hole people, our individuality and uniqueness is whittled down to being just a statistic."

ADW (irish street artist)

Another Poster

Non-stop production.

Dalaiama's Portuguese Flag

A produção de cartazes continua a bombar!!!

Cartaz mais recente

Most recent poster: another little contribution to forthcoming books of portuguese Art History.

Discreet

Presença discreta.

Cascais Downtown

Travessa do Poço.

Elogio dos sindicatos

"Já que toda a gente se mostra preocupada com o enorme crescimento das desigualdades, por que é que esta análise do Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI) passou despercebida [1]? Terá sido por causa das suas conclusões? Num estudo apresentado em Março último, dois economistas oriundos deste templo do liberalismo salientam «a existência de uma ligação entre a queda da taxa de sindicalização e o aumento da parte dos rendimentos mais elevados, nos países avançados, durante o período 1980-2010». Como explicam eles esta ligação? «Reduzindo a influência dos trabalhadores nas decisões das empresas», o enfraquecimento dos sindicatos permitiu «aumentar a parte dos rendimentos constituída pelas remunerações dos altos dirigentes e dos accionistas».

Segundo estes economistas do FMI, «cerca de metade» do aprofundamento das desigualdades que os liberais tradicionalmente preferem atribuir a factores impessoais (globalização, tecnologias, etc.) decorreria do declínio das organizações dos trabalhadores. Será isto surpreendente? Quando o sindicalismo, ponto de apoio histórico da maior parte dos avanços emancipadores, se apaga, tudo se degrada, tudo se fragmenta. A sua anemia só pode agudizar o apetite dos detentores do capital. E a sua ausência só pode libertar um espaço que é de imediato invadido pela extrema-direita e pelo fundamentalismo religioso, dedicando-se ambos a dividir grupos sociais cujo interesse seria mostrarem-se solidários."

Serge Halimi

"Why has a new report by the International Monetary Fund (1) gone mostly unremarked, given current concern about the widening inequality gap? The report, by Florence Jaumotte and Carolina Osorio Buitron, economists from this temple of neoliberalism, finds that “lower unionisation is associated with an increase in top income shares in advanced economies” between 1980 and 2010. They explain this correlation: “Weaker unions can reduce workers’ influence on corporate decisions that benefit top earners” and “increase the income share of corporate managers’ pay and shareholder returns.”

According to the report, “around a half” of the inequality gap, which neoliberals prefer to attribute to factors such as globalisation and technology, might result from the decline in labour organisations. It’s hard to be surprised. Unions have historically played a key part in the achievement of most freedoms, so their weakening can only sharpen the appetite of those who hold capital. And their disappearance creates a void quickly filled by the far right and religious fundamentalism, which divides social groups with interests that need solidarity."

Serge Halimi

(1) “Power from the people”, Finance & Development, vol 52, no 1, Washington, DC, March 2015.

Um spot, vários anos

The most recent years of the lifetime of a street wall.

Drawing Love

"I have always loved to draw. I think this is my main motivation."

Zuk Club Art Group (russian street artist)

Simplesmente no Street View

A aventura militante de pintar sem autorização acumula incontáveis histórias emotivas que nos marcam para sempre.

De todos, um dos momentos mais singulares foi certamente vivido quando, naquele verão de há seis anos atrás, esta casa da EDP foi pintada. Agora descobrimos que o Google Street View honra-nos com uma imagem cheia de memórias especialmente comoventes.

Começada na clandestinidade noturna, a peça acabaria por ser concluída já ia o sol alto. Em nenhum momento houve a certeza de que conseguiríamos cumprir a missão; a rua não era especialmente movimentada, mas a todo o instante circularam carros e pessoas.

E houve magia! Nunca saberemos que forças ocultas é que nos protegeram da denúncia. Talvez tenhamos sido abençoados pela compreensão coletiva de que o nosso empenho era genuíno. Bem intencionadas, as nossas mãos foram conduzidas por anjos. O ser humano é bom, a comunidade é generosa.

Foram horas de perseverança, dúvida, dissimulação, atrevimento, receio, bravura, encantamento,... e o deleite festivo de quem se rodeia de afetos. Vale a pena oferecer o Belo levando no coração a simplicidade. 
:)

Use Your Voice

"I love painting more than anything. It gives me a voice and I would be lost without it."

Solus (irish street artist)

Tagging on the surface of Space and Time

"La notion d’inscription est liée au trait puisqu’il s’agit d’une trace, d’une gravure, d’un texte. C’est une notion commune au texte et au dessin, mais aussi à l’espace et au temps. Une inscription peut être une devise, une légende, un titre. Le graffiti est une inscription (un tag, c'est à dire une signature). Inscription pour transmettre une information, conserver, évoquer un souvenir, indiquer une destination. Inscription d’un nom gravé sur une table, sur un arbre. Ce peut être une signature. [...]

On parle ainsi d’inscription dans la mémoire d'une personne. C’est aussi ce qui attache ce mot au monument. Les monuments portent souvent des inscriptions, et un monument est ce qui garde la mémoire : inscriptions d'un cartouche, d'un phylactère, inscriptions hiéroglyphiques. On dit d’un archéologue qu’il cherche à déchiffrer des inscriptions. L’inscription est aussi une courte indication écrite destinée à informer le public, à renseigner.

[...] S’inscrire est souvent une obligation, une démarche administrative et juridique. [...]

Inscription confirme ainsi sa signification du respect des formes, des règles.

La notion d’inscription nous intéresse parce qu’elle rapporte le geste du tracé, dessin, écriture, signature, graffiti, dans un contexte particulier. Il n’y a pas d’inscription sans lieu. Inscrire c’est aussi une façon de faire rentrer, de faire tenir quelque chose, une représentation, des signes, dans une forme et dans un support, dans un cadre. Inscrire c’est une manière de décrire, de représenter."

Étienne Boissier

Breve passagem por Lisboa

Today we payed a short visit to Lisbon. Really short. Anyway we had time enough to leave there a small gift to the city :) Love to everybody!

Cabo Espichel revisitado

https://goo.gl/maps/DbvIb

https://goo.gl/maps/J8mtg

These images are still online today, although they were captured in 2009 by Google Street View. In that same year, we published here a post about them in the beautiful Espichel Cape. Virtual life seems to be endless!

Burning

Dalaiama e Google Street View no combate aos fogos ;)

A sort of a fire prevention placard shining in the forest.

Socio-Political

"A lot of the projects I do are related to socio-political situations not many people consider in their daily life, so it's a way of raising certain issues that other artists don't raise."

#Codefc (english street artist)

Never Noticing Otherwise

"I'm interested in attracting people's attention on a wall or a place they would never notice otherwise. Street art makes the daily and urban environment a bit more fun and interesting, and I'm definitely fighting for that cause."

Zabou (english street artist)

An Offer to the City

"The city is ours. I want to surprise the passers-by; they wake up one morning and discover one piece on the walls. I want them to think, but most of all to smile, to amaze, to [feel] surprise, in a kindly way; I don't take action against the city, but rather for it and with it."

Ender (french street artist)

Not Signing

"Street art should be free, with people creating without thinking about money, the future or shows at elegant galleries. This is why we don't sign our pieces, if I put my name I became "the author", with that simple act I claim credit and attention. If you don't sign your piece, anyone in the city becomes a suspect of having done it, even that guy beside you waiting for the bus."

Gonzalo from The Collective BS.AS.Stencil (argentinian street artist)

Going Beyond

"Hardly any of us now, reaching for success, relationships, money, fame, is able to give up all of this. Burn the bridges and tear down all your achievements for the sake of a new, illogical, unknown, reckless life or death. This installation is dedicated to those who have gone beyond their own dusty corners and are able to single-handedly create a new world. Those who are capable of self-denial for the sake of a step-forward."

Pasha 183 (russian street artist)

Big Corporations' Freedom of Speech

"People with money can put up signs. If you don't have money you're marginalized, you're not allowed to express yourself or to put up words or messages that you think other people should see. Big corporations, they're up all over the country and look at the message they are sending: they're just trying to keep the masses paralyzed so they can go about their business with little resistance."

Eskae (american graffiti writer)

Picoas resiste

This happens quite often, but it's still amazing how street art posters do last some years... We've just received this unexpected picture! El St, big friend, crew mate and superb artist still hits the glass! We're there! Crew L rocks!

Illegal Art Is The Strongest

"The lifespan of the art pieces [...] is typically short. Many are cleaned off, erased, covered, and destroyed within days of their creation. Some lucky ones, perhaps the sanctioned ones [...] tend to last much longer but I would argue that their impact isn't as strong as the art that is illegal and that we can encounter spontaneously."

KET

Bombing Non-Stop

Always getting up and hitting the streets, everyday stepping up the game.

Apresentando-se ao serviço

Os nobres guerreiros que recentemente se juntaram às nossas legiões ainda não se tinham apresentado. Saídos dos seus veículos blindados de cartão resistente, hoje desfilam agrupados por naipes de cores. A parada militar mostra-nos as fardas frias, as fardas quentes, os soldados de infantaria e o grupo de oficiais em seus trajes de gala vestidos de branco e negro.

Nas pedras a voz

"A gente pintava nas pedras a voz.
E o que dava santidade às nossas palavras era
a canção do ver!
Trabalho nobre aliás mas sem explicação
Tal como costurar sem agulha e sem pano.
Na verdade na verdade
Os passarinhos que botavam primavera nas palavras."

Manoel de Barros

Feathers of Hope

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune -- without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm."

Emily Dickinson

Beauty

"I find it beautiful. That's why I do it."

Stay High 149

Reposição do stock: 37 latas

Acabadinhas de chegar, 37 latas, dezenas de caps e um magnífico livro do histórico Stay High 149. Abraço Ivan, saudoso Amigo! Dedicated rocks!!! Abraço, Bruno! Paredes venham elas ;) Yeeeeah!!!

We've just refreshed our stock of paint with 37 brand new cans. A really nice book has also arrived, about Stay High 149, the great guy who made History! :D
There are plenty of walls waiting for us. Streets, here we go! Yeeeeah!!!

The Proof

"How many people can walk through a city and prove they were there? It's a sign I was here. My hand made this mark. I'm fucking alive!"

Omar (New York City graffiti writer)