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  1. Creative Genius Tom Bob (33 Photos)

    Tom Bob finds funny characters in pipes, meters and fire hydrants Tom Bob turns gas meters into flamingos, pipes into anteaters and fire hydrants into Princess Leia. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and based in New York City, he prepares sketches and stencils before working with spray paint. In an interview with The New Bedford Light, he also describes scouting potential objects on Google Street View before traveling. More: 31 More Clever Street Art Transformations by Tom Bob 🔗 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/09/11

  2. Creative Genius Tom Bob (33 Photos)

    Tom Bob finds funny characters in pipes, meters and fire hydrants Tom Bob turns gas meters into flamingos, pipes into anteaters and fire hydrants into Princess Leia. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and based in New York City, he prepares sketches and stencils before working with spray paint. In an interview with The New Bedford Light, he also describes scouting potential objects on Google Street View before traveling. More: 31 More Clever Street Art Transformations by Tom Bob 🔗 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/09/11

  3. Creative Genius Tom Bob (33 Photos)

    Tom Bob finds funny characters in pipes, meters and fire hydrants Tom Bob turns gas meters into flamingos, pipes into anteaters and fire hydrants into Princess Leia. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and based in New York City, he prepares sketches and stencils before working with spray paint. In an interview with The New Bedford Light, he also describes scouting potential objects on Google Street View before traveling. More: 31 More Clever Street Art Transformations by Tom Bob 🔗 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/09/11

  4. Creative Genius Tom Bob (33 Photos)

    Tom Bob finds funny characters in pipes, meters and fire hydrants Tom Bob turns gas meters into flamingos, pipes into anteaters and fire hydrants into Princess Leia. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and based in New York City, he prepares sketches and stencils before working with spray paint. In an interview with The New Bedford Light, he also describes scouting potential objects on Google Street View before traveling. More: 31 More Clever Street Art Transformations by Tom Bob 🔗 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/09/11

  5. Creative Genius Tom Bob (33 Photos)

    Tom Bob finds funny characters in pipes, meters and fire hydrants Tom Bob turns gas meters into flamingos, pipes into anteaters and fire hydrants into Princess Leia. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and based in New York City, he prepares sketches and stencils before working with spray paint. In an interview with The New Bedford Light, he also describes scouting potential objects on Google Street View before traveling. More: 31 More Clever Street Art Transformations by Tom Bob 🔗 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/09/11

  6. I "Ghosted Myself" .

    Information wants to be free. Information is priceless.

    Somewhere between those two, cognitive dissonance becomes de-prioritized and ends up as public notebooking via online blog or social blog posts.

    I stopped blogging in great detail about my unique, new-to-the-world, Labyrinth designs and its underlying Islamic Geometry math used to create them.

    I simply posted the "After" photos of my Labyrinths made in Public Spaces like parks and weekend festivals, keeping the "how to" "Before" and "During" photos to myself, not sharing them online at all.

    Without even noticing it, I have almost stopped posting any photos of my works anywhere.

    Why?

    AI Scraping of my Labyrinth and public artwork blogs.

    Two plus years ago, the page views on years' old posts began to go up, from dozens to THOUSANDS per post.

    Deciphering the referral traffic, and it was almost completely bots visiting my old posts.

    Do I want AI Companies selling my self-taught skills as their own?

    I don't know what these companies are doing with my Information.

    I stopped Instagramming [sic], Mastodoning, and blogging my Labyrinth stuff.

    Online, it "looks" like I haven't made any new Labyrinths in years,

    Yet, In the real world, it's been a most productive time in terms of new public art created around Toronto since before the Pandemic.

    I think all the way back to why I previously shut down or removed a number of personal websites.

    One of those reasons was the comments from spam people/automated.

    I find still feel that way now, but it is the AI scraping, in lieu of the comment spam of yesteryear.

    I wonder how many other people have also "Ghosted" Themselves?

    | #Labyrinths #LAbyrinth #PublicArt #Toronto #AIscraping #Blogging #Ghosting #Ghosted

  7. ‘A tribute to everyday women’: Tschabalala Self’s Fourth Plinth commission unveiled in London – The Art Newspaper

    The 16th commission for the Fourth Plinth display in London’s Trafalgar Square, one of the UK’s most important…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artsanddesign #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #FourthPlinth #publicart #TschabalalaSelf
    newsbeep.com/us/842919/

  8. ‘A tribute to everyday women’: Tschabalala Self’s Fourth Plinth commission unveiled in London – The Art Newspaper

    The 16th commission for the Fourth Plinth display in London’s Trafalgar Square, one of the UK’s most important…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artsanddesign #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #FourthPlinth #publicart #TschabalalaSelf
    newsbeep.com/us/842919/

  9. ‘A tribute to everyday women’: Tschabalala Self’s Fourth Plinth commission unveiled in London – The Art Newspaper

    The 16th commission for the Fourth Plinth display in London’s Trafalgar Square, one of the UK’s most important…
    #EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #London #FourthPlinth #Publicart #TschabalalaSelf
    europesays.com/britain/121417/

  10. europesays.com/britain/121417/ ‘A tribute to everyday women’: Tschabalala Self’s Fourth Plinth commission unveiled in London – The Art Newspaper #FourthPlinth #London #PublicArt #TschabalalaSelf

  11. Taken along the way to the hospital, earlier. Drive-by shot from backseat of a taxi, through the window, along Bay St. #Graffiti #fences.

    #PublicArt #SprayPaint

  12. Every once in a while, your run group gets creative and organizes a run to someplace fun. Today we ran from our usual gathering place in JP to the Great Elephant Migration on the Commonwealth Ave Mall. 6AM turns out to be a great time to avoid the crowds! https://thegreatelephantmigration.org/pages/visit

    #runreport #running #elephants #boston #art #publicart

  13. lol, the problem is the Zombie OSullivan mural is now set in the public's mind, it has taken a life of it's own...finishing it, normalising it? oh no, we can't let that happen..

    theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

    #PublicArt #Sheffield #RonnieOSullivan

  14. Yayoi Kusama Covered the World in Dots (12 Photos)

    The dots escaped the canvas. Yayoi Kusama died at a hospital in Tokyo on August 14 at the age of 97, her studio announced on August 27. She continued to paint until her final days. Her dots had long since spread into public space: a pumpkin at the edge of the sea, a giant likeness leaning over a Paris façade, hundreds of eyes along a courthouse and silver spheres curling above a London station entrance. Here are 12 of her public works and installations. 🔗 Visit Yayoi Kusama’s […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/08/27

  15. When Retro Games Hit the Street (12 Photos)

    The games have left the screen. A real drainpipe fires a Bullet Bill. Tetris takes over a wall. A giant Goomba steps into the real world. Across these 14 works, artists turn walls, pipes, utility boxes and even hay bales into scenes from familiar games. More: See 15 Retro-Game Characters in Real Life 🍄 “With My Goomba” — By French artist SCAF 🇫🇷 SCAF titled the work “With My Goomba”. He turns an abandoned interior into a full-size Mario encounter: the painted Goomba […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/08/07

  16. A quotation from George Orwell

    Artists don’t so much object to aesthetic discipline. Architects will design theatres or churches equally readily, writers will switch from the three-volume novel to the one-volume, or from the play to the film, according to the demand. But the point is that this is a political age. A writer inevitably writes — and less directly this applies to all the arts — about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be the truth. But no government, no big organization, will pay for the truth. To take a crude example: can you imagine the British Government commissioning E. M. Forster to write A Passage to India? He could only write it because he was not dependent on State aid.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1944-10-13), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/42525/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #censorship #government #patronage #sponsorship #truth #writing #publicart #funding #politics

  17. I'm looking forward to showing my friend, Jada, some #hiking trails up island, when we go on our galpals Spring getaway. I'm taking her to a park where there's several #woodcarved creatures embedded into the #forest - in #trees & such 😊

    #cedar #owl #carving #ForestFriends #trees #bark #nature #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #ForestFinds #WoodArt #PublicArt #Art #handcarved #textures #camouflage #VisualArt

  18. Falling for It (10 Photos)

    A flat wall is just a flat wall, until an artist decides to play a trick on your eyes. Suddenly, a solid brick corner turns into a massive tiger ready to pounce. A plain pavement opens up into a glowing pit. Across cities from Patras to Mons, creators are bending perspective and turning everyday architecture into giant optical illusions. You walk past what you think is a normal building, only to realize a T-Rex is crashing through the plaster. These aren't just paintings. They are […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/02/26

  19. 22 Amazing Dirty Van Artworks

    Next time you see a dusty car, do not write “wash me” on the window. These artists are turning road grime into masterpieces that belong in a gallery! More: Cars With Attitude (10 Photos) 🏰 1. The Dusty Castle — By Dirty Van Art This van hasn’t seen a car wash in years. Luckily, that just means there is more room for a majestic castle. The winding path leads right to the door handle. It is the perfect home for a tiny, grimy king. Find more from Dirty Van Art. 🤖 2. RoboCop […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/02/05

  20. Cinema on the Streets: 17 Murals That Look Like Movie Stills

    Ever walked down a street and felt like you were suddenly inside a Hollywood blockbuster? These 17 masterpieces turn ordinary walls into extraordinary cinematic scenes. From towering monsters peeking around corners to intimate, emotional portraits that feel like frozen film frames, street art is evolving into a form of public storytelling. We’ve collected 17 incredible artworks that blur the line between reality and the silver screen, proving that the world truly is a stage. More: 14 […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/01/11

  21. Humor in Nature (8 Photos)

    Nature is usually breathtaking, but sometimes, it’s just plain hilarious. These 8 artists decided that the great outdoors needed a sense of humor. We often think of nature as serious and majestic, but these creative minds saw something else: a punchline. By adding a few clever details to trees, bushes, and even shadows, they’ve turned the world into a giant comedy club. Get ready for a double-take with these 8 photos that prove nature has a funny side. More: When Artists Play With […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/01/10

  22. Humor in Nature (8 Photos)

    Nature is usually breathtaking, but sometimes, it’s just plain hilarious. These 8 artists decided that the great outdoors needed a sense of humor. We often think of nature as serious and majestic, but these creative minds saw something else: a punchline. By adding a few clever details to trees, bushes, and even shadows, they’ve turned the world into a giant comedy club. Get ready for a double-take with these 8 photos that prove nature has a funny side. More: When Artists Play With […]

    streetartutopia.com/2026/01/10