Months of work goes into costumes and practising for the children's parade, which this year has the theme of stories and storytelling from ancient myths to modern graffiti art.
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Many of the surrounding walls, which are brightly decorated with graffiti art, are the product of locally-organised painting sessions known as the Wall Project, which get people together with spray cans and paintbrushes to beautify their surroundings.
That first effort was self-consciously hip, a place to hang, chat and read about graffiti "art" and South African street styles.
Yarn bombing, also known as guerrilla knitting, is a type of street art or graffiti using items made from yarn - whether knitted, crocheted, or made into pom-poms.
Throughout the streets, the scrawls, tags and basic shapes of traditional graffiti mix with elements of fine art.
Meanwhile, over the past decade or so, a concentration of cutting-edge galleries - featuring everything from SoCal's native lowbrow street and graffiti artists to Japanese pop-art imports - has reclaimed an industrial area on Culver's eastern edge, creating an arts district to rival New York's Chelsea neighbourhood.
Graffiti artists people without traditional art training (mostly) gobsmack brick walls, highway overpasses, train cars and more, with many-flavored eye candy.
We also visited a residential neighborhood in southwest Detroit where the community is using art to battle problems with gang graffiti.
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Cairo has suddenly emerged as the street art capital of the region, and its graffiti scene one that primarily started with hastily scrawled slogans calling for the overthrow of the Mubarak regime has evolved into one characterized by well-crafted motifs, both aesthetic and politically provocative.
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As huge fans of both technology and art, our team decided to play around with some QR art concepts, borrowing some elements from traditional graffiti (drips), technology and toys (pixels made out of legos) and incorporating some rounded lines, added movement and bright colors to show that there is more to QR codes than black and white squares.
Gabriel Schoenberg, CEO of Graffiti Tours New York, called Five Pointz one of the most significant street art establishments in the world.
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