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05-06-2005, 01:37 AM
Source: Wired (http://www.wired.com/news)
By Rachel Metz
27 April 2005
Not everybody can stroll the streets of Melbourne, Baghdad or Vilnius, Lithuania, looking for street art, but one website lets everybody do so virtually, by bringing international images of spray paintings, stickers, stencils and more to the masses.
Known as the Wooster Collective (http://www.woostercollective.com/), the New York City-based site houses an array of graffiti and street art from around the world. Artists and camera-happy passersby send in photos of their works and sightings, and site creators put them up in blog-style postings that ensure the pictures take center stage.
The Wooster Collective is the brainchild of New York City's Marc Schiller and his wife, Sara. When the two moved to Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood in 2001, they started noticing graffiti and street art while walking their dog around the area, Schiller said.
"A few years back, we were blown away that there isn't a block in the area we live, SoHo, the Lower East Side, the East Village, (that) if you look closely isn't exploding with original art that artists are placing on the streets," he said.
Full Story (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67317,00.html)
By Rachel Metz
27 April 2005
Not everybody can stroll the streets of Melbourne, Baghdad or Vilnius, Lithuania, looking for street art, but one website lets everybody do so virtually, by bringing international images of spray paintings, stickers, stencils and more to the masses.
Known as the Wooster Collective (http://www.woostercollective.com/), the New York City-based site houses an array of graffiti and street art from around the world. Artists and camera-happy passersby send in photos of their works and sightings, and site creators put them up in blog-style postings that ensure the pictures take center stage.
The Wooster Collective is the brainchild of New York City's Marc Schiller and his wife, Sara. When the two moved to Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood in 2001, they started noticing graffiti and street art while walking their dog around the area, Schiller said.
"A few years back, we were blown away that there isn't a block in the area we live, SoHo, the Lower East Side, the East Village, (that) if you look closely isn't exploding with original art that artists are placing on the streets," he said.
Full Story (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67317,00.html)