CTEcreative photography is being featured on Gray Matter(s), a blog runs by architecture students at Georgia Tech. The author Shota Vashakmadze has an interesting perspective of the demolition and rebuilding of one of Atlanta’s most popular skate spots being taken over by the Beltline project.

“It was a foundation: a makeshift substructure for delinquent ambitions, an ideal site for the unsanctioned architecture of skate punks, hood rats, graffiti artists, and other renegade masters of habitus. But they were too close for comfort. Too loud. Their park was found and destroyed, victim to the ruthless side of Beltline redevelopment.”

Check out the article here.

Click here to see the image on Flickr.

Not even sure where to begin with this place. Japan is truly beautiful.
We stayed mostly around Tokyo. A friend of mine is stationed in Zama City which is a short train ride to Shinjuku, one of the busiest train stations in Tokyo.
The trains were definitely a trip. I could not have navigated without the friends I had there to follow.

The city is very clean and the people are very polite.
An enormous sense of tradition and history can be seen and felt everywhere.
The food was amazing. All was very fresh. Definite highlight was the Breakfast Sushi at the Fish Market.
I had a great time. It definitely gave me a different perspective on things.
Also made me want to travel as much as I can.
We’ll see how that works out.

Click here to view the 237 photo full set on Flickr.

Just created a logo design for Asher Educational Center. A local non-profit program.


Here is another concept they were looking at using.

Atlanta was lucky enough to feature many very talented local and international artists for the The Living Walls Conference.

12 legal walls were given to the artists to make their mark in Atlanta and many more walls may now be seen around the city with these artist’s work.

Lectures with topics on urbanism, street art, public spaces, urban agriculture, transit and an event at Eyedrum, were the culmination of months of planning and preparation for The Living Walls Conference. It had the purpose of opening up dialogue focused on street art and its role in engaging public space.

RiPO, Swampy, Shaun Thurston, Doodles, Feral Child, Marco Sueño, Greg Mike, Hugh Leeman, Jason Kofke, Michi, RiPO, Remed, Never and Nasdaq, Gaia and Faber all had walls in different locations. You can see many of them here.



Eyedrum.



RiPO.



Jason Kofke in Castleberry Hill.



Feral Child at Homegrown on Memorial Dr.



Hugh Leeman at Sound Table on Edgewood Blvd.



Swampy at 900 Dekalb Ave.



Gaia at 900 Dekalb Ave.



Greg Mike at 900 Dekalb Ave.



Greg Mike + others at Eyedrum.



Doodles on the West End.



Doodles on the West End.



Doodles on Dekalb Ave.



Never and Nasdaq in East Atlanta.



Never and Nasdaq in East Atlanta.



Marco Sueño at Krog Tunnel/Wiley St. side.



Marco Sueño at Krog Tunnel/Wiley Street side.

Michi in Castleberry Hill.



Michi in Castleberry Hill.



Shaun Thurston at the Community Garden in Oakhurst.



Shaun Thurston at the Community Garden in Oakhurst.

Faber in Castleberry Hill.

Faber in Castleberry Hill.



RiPO and Swampy.

RiPO

Swampy . VOMET reclaims.

The Living Walls Conference brought 50+ local and international street artists together for the purpose of opening up dialogue about public spaces and street art.

In this country of consumers where advertisements are inescapable, the purpose of street art and the use of public space is so important.

I am really impressed by the selection of artists. Many were flown into Atlanta and given legal walls so they can make their mark. All the walls at Eyedrum are covered and many other walls around the city now have these artist’s work on them.

Names like RiPO, Swampy, The Paper Twins, Never, Michi, Doodles, Miso, Faber, Marco Sueño, Shaun Thurston, Greg Mike, Feral Child, Hugh Leeman, Jason Kofke, Pesimo, Jess Hinshaw…the list goes on and you can see the line up here.

The turnout was great and art was everywhere. It looked as if a bomb of wheat paste and spray paint had exploded in Eyedrum. Every available wall had something on it as you can see from the pictures. Very different from Eyedrum’s semi bare walls in a visually inspiring way.

This event taught me a lot about public spaces and how they are used/misused and how important those spaces are. I met some good people and some really talented artists.
Already looking forward to the next one.

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Greg Mike and Gaia


















Never and Nasdaq

Jason Kofke

Swampy

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