Ghent, a city that was founded around the year 650, has lots of history - but it’s also actually a major graffiti destination with a thriving street art scene.
Ghent, a city that was founded around the year 650, has lots of history - but it’s also actually a major graffiti destination with a thriving street art scene.
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Would love it if this came to the UK – Being in Brighton, I guess we would need to go somewhere away from the coast where there are lots of hills. Great new sport though, the bikes look great.
Reminded me of this video. you could set up a whole world if you did street art as only the participants would realise which imagery on walls related to your adventure. Someone should do this in every city if you ask me.
Great idea, not sure why it only stayed in book form. Modern games are all about making choices to decide your fate but having signs in the street to guide historic tours is a great one. I just found this link to the old books too.
… as if councils would provide a place for community event advertising – they only find the time to add advertising displays they make money from. And they pretend to support community-minded people rather than business. Read this – flyposters are banned, advertising is welcome. Typical.
Yeah, I agree, it should be the brand advertised that gets prosecuted, not the skint person doing the work. The law sucks, but nobody seems too interested in making it fair.
Graffiti is words or drawings that are written, painted, sprayed or scratched on the surface of any property. Fly-posters usually advertise or promote events and are placed without permission of the owner of the property and can take the form of stickers, signs or posters. Councils take fly-posting... Read more
This world map shows there are over 400 legal graffiti wall in the UK. Every town should have one in my opinion, just hide it away and prosecute anyone that strays off the legal wall.
Or just some wall covering that quickly jetwashes off? That would save Brighton and Hove council lots of money. Someone should invent it and donate some to major cities to have the councils do their marketing for them.
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Councils could save on the continuous cost of clean-up by installing big community digital display screens where anyone can post an event for free. Just go online and upload your flyer. Have linked to a supplier of big community display screens, but this could work like noticeboards, or like those in bus stops.
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Would be good if they played a sound while you crossed too!
Google Image Result for http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/7/8319/z8319967X,Z-przejscia-w-ksztalcie-klawiatury-niektorzy-k… | Zebra crossing, Urban art installation, Street art
Aug 7, 2012 - This may not be very exciting to most, but as a piano player I find it extremely cool. Newly painted zebra crossings in Warsaw have been given a new shape. I absolutely love it!!!
Think its just a concept/idea rather than a thing. Though not sure. It says in the Wired article that it could project silhouettes of the pedestrians behind it, so the motorists are aware that there are lives behind the barrier, that don’t want to be extinguished. Would this type of thing help though? Motorists that ignore lights are just as likely to ignore laser lights too right?
Laser experts, we need to know something: Would this work? The Virtual Wall is designed as a replacement for traffic lights and if made would use “plasma laser beams” to project silhouettes of moving people into the path of oncoming traffic. Supposedly this would calm traffic and make drivers mo... Read more
Wow, I found this from a Google reverse image search. It’s a “virtual wall” and looks like they made it over a decade ago, why aren’t they all over the place already?
The Virtual Wall provides a barrier made up of plasma laser beams depicting pedestrians doing what they do best and any car that crosses that barrier suffers the consequences. Okay so maybe those lasers aren’t powerful enough to do any harm but the effect is enough to make drivers and pedestrians ... Read more
A few years ago I wrote a post about a new initiative in Vancouver: using recycled rubber for a sidewalk, on the south side of the 500 block of East 17th. Here is some of what I wrote at the time: …
After dreaming one night about flexible sidewalks made of rubber and later seeing the interlocking rubber flooring at a health club, Richard Valeriano, who as a public works director in Santa Monica, came up with the idea of rubber sidewalks. But…
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Over 10 years ago I wrote a column about Rubbersidewalks, a new product made from recycled rubber tires. They are an interlocking sidewalk paving system designed to save trees by helping ameliorate the problems that arise when roots of street trees heave and crack sidewalks. Too often city trees are... Read more
Sixty cities in 15 states are taking a playground approach to sidewalk maintenance. They’re testing rubber sidewalks as a way to avoid the costly repairs of concrete walks that have been broken up by tree roots. Officials say the rubber sidewalks as a win-win. But some residents aren’t so sure.
Chameleon paint is a type of paint that changes colors like a chameleon, hence the name. It is sometimes called flip flop paint, flip paint and color changing paint. This is a rather new product on the market, so many people haven’t heard of it while fewer have seen what it looks like. What is
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Cool, imaging walking past a huge ad in London and seeing yourself with someone else’s clothes superimposed on it, using augmented reality. Watch this space, its bound to happen.
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The streets of NYC, at a glance, seem to provide a ubiquitous bike rack model, well, besides trees and poles. You know the one. It resembles a wet noodle with alternating U-turns. We can't help but think that Roel Vanderbeek's attractive and space-saving design would make a dandy trade-out for...
Grafitti is an expensive form of vandalism. It should be banned completely!
Check this out: graffiti is legal in this Belgian city!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5836973/The-not-underground-art-scene-Ghent-Belgium-graffiti-LEGAL.html
Street art should be legalized everywhere worldwide. Let graffiti pop!
Graffiti may be illegal, but it can also be used for good.
This for me. £1K
Want – pls buy me this.
Careful now!
Would love it if this came to the UK – Being in Brighton, I guess we would need to go somewhere away from the coast where there are lots of hills. Great new sport though, the bikes look great.
Reminded me of this video. you could set up a whole world if you did street art as only the participants would realise which imagery on walls related to your adventure. Someone should do this in every city if you ask me.
Great idea, not sure why it only stayed in book form. Modern games are all about making choices to decide your fate but having signs in the street to guide historic tours is a great one. I just found this link to the old books too.
This? Looks like it would last more than a few nights on the street.
Cool, not. 15 bucks for a dollar’s worth of wrap.
… as if councils would provide a place for community event advertising – they only find the time to add advertising displays they make money from. And they pretend to support community-minded people rather than business. Read this – flyposters are banned, advertising is welcome. Typical.
Yeah, I agree, it should be the brand advertised that gets prosecuted, not the skint person doing the work. The law sucks, but nobody seems too interested in making it fair.
reminded me of this video I saw a while back. worth watching
This world map shows there are over 400 legal graffiti wall in the UK. Every town should have one in my opinion, just hide it away and prosecute anyone that strays off the legal wall.
Or just some wall covering that quickly jetwashes off? That would save Brighton and Hove council lots of money. Someone should invent it and donate some to major cities to have the councils do their marketing for them.
Councils could save on the continuous cost of clean-up by installing big community digital display screens where anyone can post an event for free. Just go online and upload your flyer. Have linked to a supplier of big community display screens, but this could work like noticeboards, or like those in bus stops.
You can’t project lasers onto nothing, but you can use clouds or mist like this idea https://ideamill.info/waterfall-road-signs/
This identifies objects rather than helps with navigation but it seems like a great help to people with difficulties in seeing things.
Try Blindsquare, it helps when using public transport.
We should have these crossing laser walls on the end of groins and piers in Brighton, and the gay lights they have in Madrid.
The UK has a cheaper solution, ain’t seen one of these but there was one in London.
Would be good if they played a sound while you crossed too!
Think its just a concept/idea rather than a thing. Though not sure. It says in the Wired article that it could project silhouettes of the pedestrians behind it, so the motorists are aware that there are lives behind the barrier, that don’t want to be extinguished. Would this type of thing help though? Motorists that ignore lights are just as likely to ignore laser lights too right?
Wow, I found this from a Google reverse image search. It’s a “virtual wall” and looks like they made it over a decade ago, why aren’t they all over the place already?
Still working well in Vancouver. Come on the rest of the world, catch up.
After dreaming one night about flexible sidewalks made of rubber and later seeing the interlocking rubber flooring at a health club, Richard Valeriano, who as a public works director in Santa Monica, came up with the idea of rubber sidewalks. But…
Great idea and this was a thing years ago, why then never caught on I don’t know. maybe they pollute or break easily?
nice idea, especially if it looks like chameleon paint if nobody is advertising on it at the mo. or it might just look white or dirty, in a city.
Billboard advertising is going to be revolutionaised with all the data they can use to target people and adapt the ads. just like the web.
Cool, imaging walking past a huge ad in London and seeing yourself with someone else’s clothes superimposed on it, using augmented reality. Watch this space, its bound to happen.
Who knows what google are already doing – considering yahoo can spy on passers-by
More info on Roel’s stand here.
Tried and tested in NY – Should be everywhere, they take less material to make and the existing ones are rubbish at holding a bike up.