Walls of Change

In 2009, The Cinemart traveled to Wynwood, Miami with the late urban visionary Tony Goldman to document his efforts to re-invent the neighborhood with street art and entrepreneurial innovation.

The result was Here Comes The Neighborhood.

After the series premiered in 2011, the team continued to work with the Goldman family and artists from around the World to document this transformation from a dormant industrial quarter into the global Mecca of Street Art and one of the fastest neighborhood revitalizations in American history. Over six years in the making, "Walls of Change" taps into a deep film and photo archive, featuring over 25 of the World's biggest names in street art and graffiti and exclusive photographs from legendary documentarian Martha Cooper.

For more visit: Wynwood Walls Official.

"Street Art" - PBS - Off Book

PBS, for those who don't know, is the Public Broadcasting Service, a non-profit American television network. They broadcast a range of programs, most noticably for Australians, the PBS NewsHour, which is home to people like Jim Lehrer, David Brooks and Mark Shields.

They also have their own YouTube channel, with almost 5,000 videos uploaded. Part of that is a sub-channel called "Off Book", a web-exclusive series that explores cutting edge art, focused on a new generation of artists.  

No, it's an optical illusion, done in chalk. Street art, at it's most challenging...

This video is called Street Art. It's different, but I like it.

The street is a space where art thrives, and a place where artists can shape the public aesthetic. Olek, a sculptor whose medium is crochet, and Swoon, a mixed media artist, disrupt daily life with work that creates wonder, emotion, and humor. Equally at home in museums and galleries, both artists also create installations that challenge the formats of traditional art spaces. With powerful layers of meaning, beautiful aesthetics, and using unique media, these two prolific creators are pushing the boundaries of contemporary art.

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"Topham Mall Free-For-All Time Lapse"

Topham Mall in Adelaide is home to one of those modern, box-like, iron-bars-and-grey-concrete car parks that popped up in cities all over the world, as massive numbers of automobiles took over the streets. Ugly as sin. I used to walk past it, years ago, on my way to work. The greyness would creep over me, generating the perfect mindset for another day of employment as a soulless bureaucrat. 

Then the Council ruined it by allowing anyone to paint the place anyway they wanted. It's an official art gallery now. Fortunately I don't work in the area anymore, because I would struggle to get back into the kafkaesque mindset needed for that job. 

The original "Free For All" was captured on time lapse camera by Mark Zed. As Chloe L. might say in flawless Strine: Get a bitta culcha inya. 

[Note for locals: All the pictures visible in the video have since been painted over.]

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"Caught Up" in Portland, Oregon

The song, "Caught Up," was written and performed by Worth and Bondy, our street musicians. The art is provided by Riannah Weaver (couldn't find a link for her). The film was shot and edited by Jon Meyer in downtown Portland, Oregon, in September 2011.

Street art and music. Enjoy...

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