nevver:

X-Ray Murals of Razed Buildings

Juliana Santacruz Herrera uses yarn to fill in potholes and cracks in Paris’s roads and walkways. Check out her work here on Flickr.

(via Apartment Therapy Re-Nest)

See also earlier Everything Matters post here about pothole-inspired art, and Gardens in Unexpected Places post here about pothole gardening.

Reimagining Toronto’s public transit system:

The Toronto Transit Commission is said to be considering the idea of selling naming rights for its subway lines and stations. In response, the helpful folks at Torontoist have chimed in to offer several station-renaming suggestions, including one for Christie station — to be known as “Mr. Christie,” in acknowledgment of Kraft Foods’ Mr. Christie’s cookie brand. 

Read the rest (including Ossingston station, dubbed “Hugo Bossington”): Welcome to Your New SUBWAY(TM) System, Toronto.

Well done, Torontoist.

Via outsidermag:

DÉMOCRATIE CRÉATIVE en REBEL ART.

Via OUTSIDERmag.

Via willzone:

spiderman street art.

Via utnereader:

thedailywhat:

Street (Lamp) Art of the Day: Spotting in Minneapolis.

[phildesignart.]

If only …

Via cmonstah:

My cover story in ARTnews magazine about abstract and conceptual street art is now online. Check it!

Via laughingsquid:

Charging Bull on Wall Street Receives Custom Crocheted Outfit

Per Gothamist, artist Agata Olek’s yarn work, installed on December 26, was removed within two hours (sadly). Wouldn’t this have been great to see surrounded by snow?

Via inothernews:

Stop sign as flower, by artist Mark Jenkins.  Miniatures for sale, of course.  I love it.

(via BoingBoing)

Via murketing:

Blending Street Objects With Urban Landscape - PSFK

Via unconsumption:

From the Dept. of Pavement Art:

For the past six years,artist Ben Wilson has been making the streets of London a little more colorful by painting miniature pictures on pieces of discarded chewing gum. His painstaking process involves using a small blow torch to harden/dry the gum spots before he applies lacquer and paint to them. Each work — he’s created more than 8,000 of them — can take two hours to three days to complete.

Video of a BBC News visit on the streets with Mr. Wilson can be viewed here.

(spotted on Twitter, via Ian, aka @ReUseConnection)

(photo by Rahid)