URBISMUS.....What is your opinion?

[Coolyfett]

I'm not sure if anyone is familiar. If you are, what do you think of these people? I have seen many of their art around the city.

Links:

http://www.urbismus.blogspot.com/

http://www.urbanjacksonville.info/2008/01/28/interview-with-new-jacksonville-street-art-crew-urbismus/

http://www.jaxcal.org/uncategorized/urbismus-continued

[Ocklawaha]

I think it's fantastic. Have to wonder if any of them can draw a streetcar? conductor? Motorman? Would it be cool to get a few of these up around JTA and City Hall, also all of Water and Independence? Got to love the possibilities to tweek these folks awake, they've been sleeping at the "control stand* long enough...!

Ocklawaha

*Streetcarese for "Throttle" or "Gas Pedal".

[Coolyfett]

Well their name is starting to grow. I think a trolley or a conductor would be cool to see. You never know Ock you may get your request granted. I didn't know exactly how they were getting the artwork on the wall until I read the Folio Weekly article about them this week. Good Stuff

[thelakelander]

Seems pretty interesting.  Its also something that could attract more attention to the core and buildings they are wheatpasting.

[second_pancake]

Personally, I like it.  I saw some of the art last night while riding my bike through downtown and it was comforting, as opposed to mindless graffitti which usually has the opposite effect.

I would like to see more of it even in larger scale like maybe a family peering through a 'window' with toys 'inside' on some of these abandoned buildings.  Oh, and of course, we definitely need a bike rack with a few bikes and maybe a biker or two leaning against a wall

[JeffreyS]

Good stuff. I'll be on the look out for more.

[obie1]

First impression was good to see some color downtown. Wish there was more of this kind of thing around. Most urban places have had underground street art movements since the 80s so these images are played out I think and just not real creative. Show me something new or something artistic or something that makes me think. I have seen stuff just like this on tee shirts for years now. Take a found photo, use a photoshop filter on it, copy Obey Giant style color separations, screen it and paste it up with a manifesto that sounds straight out of 1991. Act edgy and rebelious. But it's cutting edge for Jax. I'd still rather see even mediocre art on the walls downtown than the best corporate ad up instead. Maybe this will lead to better street art from other artists, and maybe these urbismus images will improve. Look at the wooster collective web site to see what I mean. There is a big world out there.

[teresangel]

When I first noticed them a month - two months? - ago, I was thrilled that something different in the way of graffiti was being presented.  It's not revolutionary, but it's welcome change around here.  People were talking about it, there were blogs discussed.  And then I found out, through a Downtown Ambassador no less, that there was a point, a mission.  Even better =)  Then that laughable bit on one of the local news broadcasts, and now Folio.

I love it, and it's so much fun discovering ones I hadn't seen.  And perhaps it will motivate other artists   

[Ocklawaha]

WE KNOW REVOLUTIONARY ART !

There are at least 2 of us on these threads that are VERY familiar with TRUE revolution and it's art forms. When you see this bas##rd on the wall, then you can worry. Anything short of good old dead CHE Guevara, is welcome to me. Bring on the trolley Conductor's and Motormen!


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Ocklawaha

[zoo]

Maybe we are on the way to more legal art in the downtown core -- tweak the downtown signage ordinance more!

[RiversideGator]

I'm not sure if anyone is familiar. If you are, what do you think of these people? I have seen many of their art around the city.

Links:

http://www.urbismus.blogspot.com/

http://www.urbanjacksonville.info/2008/01/28/interview-with-new-jacksonville-street-art-crew-urbismus/

http://www.jaxcal.org/uncategorized/urbismus-continued

My thoughts:  bad art pretending that it isnt vandalism.  It would be nice to see the urbismus crowd arrested IMO.

[Coolyfett]

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[obie1]

Riversidegator that's harsh. Bad art never killed anyone. Serra and Christo might have.....
even the good street artists are self proclaimed attention whores. You arrest bad art bombers to save the world from evil roving bands of lamo artists {Saturday night live skit} and you turn them into martyrs and get them all the attention they want. Then more people start doing it. I applaud your efforts on second thought.Seriously, what's it hurting? Until the owners of the properties they deface complain, at least it's adding something colorful downtown in addition to the homeless tricked out shopping carts.

[RiversideGator]

Well, personally I hate vandalism of all kinds but at least they appeared to hit only the vacant, mainly Hionides owned buildings.   

[Coolyfett]

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