November 2nd, 2011
Chances are you missed Dual’s Halloween wishes to you. The Ichabod Crane of street art stunts was out on the streets on Monday night. It’s a heckuva decoy. Looks just like the guy*; probably got arrested onsite.
* Note: We do not know what Dual looks like…
Artist: Dual
Photographer: O Texano
Location: Unknown
Make sure to check out David Elizondo’s book, Stay Up, at blurb.com.
[Add your street art finds here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1477471@N25/]
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April 11th, 2011
These days, some of us live through social media. We’ve created personalities for ourselves that border on the fringes of reality that we show to others through @ signs and photo albums. In person, each one of us attempts to live up to the easily accessible selves that we’ve projected on the internet, but sometimes it’s just easier to live in the shadows behind a smart phone or laptop. That’s why we relate to the artists that have taken over our street corners and abandoned buildings.
The buzz surrounding Stick ‘Em Up, a documentary about Houston guerrilla wheat paste artists, was not surprising. Street art has been a hot topic lately with Exit Through the Gift Shop sneaking into Academy Award contention and Houston struck it big (at least in internet standards) when a proposal in front of artwork by Ack! went viral. But when Stick ‘Em Up – directed by Alex Luster and produced by Tony Reyes – had to add a second screening and then a third to its debut, my lack of surprise was replaced by being impressed.
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— Paul
April 5th, 2011
Wow, what a week. Now that the NCAA Champion UConn Huskies have been crowned, we can finally get back to business. What a game… I don’t know if any of you subjected yourself to the horror that was the final game of the Big Dance, but at one point I almost jammed my PB&J dinner into my eye just so I could stop watching.
Let’s open it up for debate – Which championship game that Houston has had the privilege of hosting was worse: Super Bowl XXXVIII (Carolina vs. New England) or the 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship?
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January 28th, 2011
We’re dissolving two of our favorite columns, Your Regular Scoop of Houston and Procrastinator’s Plan, and giving them a new look this year. Gone is the single serving of events in Houston. Here is a five-times-a-week battery of things to do. We will publish a few events every morning. If we’ve missed something let us know with an email to contact@theloopscoop.com or tweet at us @TheLoopScoop.
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— Paul
January 19th, 2011
The Houston street art bandwagon seems to be getting kind of crowded these days. That’s just how we like it. The graffiti scene in Houston is certainly seeing a surge in both fandom and participating artists. Show us your favorite finds from around town in our Flickr group and we’ll publish them here in Street Art of the Week.
Location: Unknown
Artist: Eyesore & Dual
Photographer: mathteacher
Make sure to keep up to date with the Stick ‘Em Up documentary (twitter too).
[Add your street art finds here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1477471@N25/]
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October 6th, 2010
When I jumped head first into an obsession with Houston street art it was easy to realize that I had only made it into the kiddie pool. There were a whole host of other photographers, writers and, most importantly, the artists themselves that had been making waves without the aid of floaties for a long time. Luckily for me, the pros were rather accepting and willing to show me the ropes – even while they created new ropes altogether.
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— Paul
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August 16th, 2010
In trying to decide how to break this all up and put it together, there was a bit of debate. Would the best way to account for Houston’s scene be to classify it by medium, neighborhood or just give a play-by-play of each hunt? There’s no right answer, but a decision had to be made. The photos will take some of the steam away from the words below, but I’ll fill in the gaps with the names, places and other information that I’ve come across in my month-long adventure.
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— Paul
July 21st, 2010
It’s hard to know exactly what you’re looking for. Guaranteed, you’re missing a lot along the way as you search for whatever it happens to be. I can personally attest to this because until Sunday I hadn’t really opened my eyes on my A-to-B journeys. An entire culture of Houston art was ignored because it wasn’t in a press release from a gallery in my email. After a video went viral last week showing a graffiti marriage proposal it was obvious that I was going to have to start paying attention.
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— Paul
