Dekochari

I have been looking at the flow of traffic (or lack of) within york but also outside of york, and thinking about the methods we use to get from A to B. It seems to me the best and almost definitely fastest way to do this in york which essentially has one road through it is on a bike, avoiding the constant traffic  jam that is york city centre. I then discovered the craze of dekochari within japan (deko - decoration, chari- bike), which is a very literal link between the bike and art. It comes from dekotora which are Japans celebrated art trucks, and dekochari is basically for dekotora enthusiasts who are too young to drive. They instead set about making there bicycle look as much like a truck as possible, these people are almost definitely crazy but I admire them for it.

JR-
"The hippest street artist since banksy"
JR is a 25 year old french artist working out of Paris. He is a self described "photograffeur", a hyprid of Photographer and graffiti artist.

JR has made his mark around the world turning unconventional spaces into large scale photograph galleries, for example train carriages in Kibera, Africa, or the
security wall in Isreal. A lot of his
work helps the communties he works in, for example in africa by pasting hhis photographs on slum roofs he in turn made them water proof.

Chiho Aoshim.

ok now this is the most amazeing thing ever!! Well ok (maybe not..) but i think so!! well this is outside the white cube'ish'.. as its in a tube station... so yes ive shared a wonderfull artist with you all!

alexander brodsky

these are some pictures of his Canal Street Subway Project (1996, Canal Street, New York), where he used a length of tunnel of the underground in new york to make this venetian-like boat scene (while the tunnel was undergoing renovation). he made these little boats and silhouette figures out of tin and wood and aluminium and floated them down the disused rails in a pool of water, so people using the underground had this slightly eery-but-atmospheric (slightly nostalgic?) scene to distract them from their everyday regular subway journey.