Weah’s getting even more philisophical on us than usual with this work photographed by Candace Garcia. The artist pulls a quote from Bahá’u'lláh, whose teachings focused on unity of all and spawned the Bahá’í Faith. “The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.”
Artist: Weah
Photographer: Candace Garcia
Location: Unknown
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What a treat. It took less than a second to decide what photo would make the cut as Street Art of the Week this morning. Marco Torres‘ shot was the latest uploaded and had first position. Don’t take our spontaneity as being lazy or rash. You’ll agree. This photo of Weah’s work is quite deserving.
Location: Lawndale Art Center
Artist: Weah
Photographer: Marco Torres
If you don’t know of Alex Luster and you like this column, you should be ashamed of yourself. He’s the director behind “Stick ‘Em Up” the documentary that profiled a number of Houston’s prolific wheat paste artists. I bring that up because he’s the photographer behind this week’s Street Art of the Week.
Location: East Downtown
Artist: Weah
Photographer: Shoot.Edit.Sleep.
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.
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: Midtown
Artist: Weah
Photographer: Shoot Houston
Make sure to keep up to date with the Stick ‘Em Up documentary (twitter too).
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Living in Houston, I find the creative community, to be quite elusive. When writing for The Loop Scoop we’re telling Houston’s story. Houston’s design, marketing, and artistic societies and what’s being done within them, is part of that story. That being said, we bring you this monthly experience featuring one such creative and their thoughts on a number of issues pertinent to Houston’s vibrant and diverse aesthetics.
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.
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.
