Painted City Blocks

"QUANTUM SHOT" #187 Huangjiaoping street in Chongqing, China About a month ago we did the article Cool Murals and Painted Buildings, but it seems like we underestimated the audacity of some urban designers. In the urban area of Chongqing, China (home to some 4.1 milion people) they took the whole 1.2 km street and turned it into a work of an exceptional graffiti art. Chongqing's urban ladscape is quite intense by itself (see the following photo of intersection), but the gaudy Huangjiaoping street would be a quite a wonder to behold when finished. Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts has perpetrated a titanic group effort, involving more than 300 artists (mostly students), covering more than kilometer of apartment blocks with colorful cartoons (some buildings though remain in dire need of renovation). (images credit: Newsyc) Images courtesy: Thalia Kwok Source: Newsyc via Spluch Artists are using powerful projectors to display designs on the wall during the painting process. The street is expected to be completed this summer. I'm wondering if it may not become an on-going project, spreading the madness of color from block to block, until the whole city is covered in radical and unavoidable designs, citizens desperately trying to find a gray spot. But I am only dreaming, of course. -------------------------- Painted City Blocks in Russia Wikipedia hosts an interesting panoramic view of the apartment complex in Ramenskoye, a small city south-east of Moscow, which we covered in our Cool Murals and Painted Buildings article (see also original photos by Sturman) Work-in-progress: More after the jump.......Sponsored Links - Your text ad here Home Decor - Spice up your surroundings! $1000 Pier One Gift Card for all your home decoration needs City of Norilsk (Siberia, Russia) also has some painted urban blocks (though they are significantly cheesier in appearance): (image credit: grndrs.livejournal) ----------------- Sony's Bravia "Paint Explosions" Commercial All of the previous projects are nothing, however, compared with the certain staged video, issued by Sony Corp. as a commercial for Bravia TV. This video is nothing short of astonishing, and I consider it to be one of the highest achievements in the history of advertising. The whole site is worth checking out, marveling at the mechanics of "how they did it". Under bombastic orchestral soundtrack we witness the complete transformation of a city block - sprayed over with thousand liters of exploded paint. 70,000 liters of paint 358 single bottle bombs 33 sextuple air cluster bombs 22 Triple hung cluster bombs 268 mortars 33 Triple Mortars 22 Double mortars 358 meters of weld 330 meters of steel pipe 57 km of copper wire More images are here (images courtesy: Bravia) "StumbleUpon" this page Permanent Link... Category: Architecture,Art Related Posts: Cool Murals and Painted Buildings Dark Roasted Blend's Photography Gear Picks: