Stop.
The graffiti artists in Bloomington have a good eye for design.
**Edit**
Thank you to everyone who has stopped by to look at this photo; it's
been viewed, oh, about 10,000 times more than any of my other pics.
While looking at some of the blogs that have linked to it, I found a
message purportedly from the artist:
"This piece is part of a line of work I have been developing over the last year or so, which is called "Urban Impressionism", in which represent 3D objects in 2-Dimensions through shadows. These shadows are created at a particular point of day, or night, and later stenciled and spray-painted in order to resemble real shadows. Through this process I am able to discuss light and form, in an unconventional way, placing it directly on the streets of the contemporary urban "cityscape" that surrounds us.
"Ideally I hope to create a moment of magic or illusion in which the spectator or passer-by questions the space around him/her, through the shadows that are either naturally cast or artificially created. This particular piece incorporates text to politicize a very important issue for many of us today- the end of the war in many regions of our globalized world.
"PS. I noticed that on the site, the piece had been mistakenly tagged as a "chalk" piece... The piece itself is was stenciled on the floor using a shadow cast by a light post at night, and later carefully sprayed with a 'camouflage black' can."
Comments and faves
Occasus, juznie, schmoo_, Unipäiv, and 469 other people added this photo to their favorites.
seriykotik1970 (71 months ago | reply)
This is superb- you should definitely put this in a few groups- like Street Art- for example. It looks like someone has gone round the city stencilling in these anti-war shadows!
Rob Maguire (64 months ago | reply)
You might be interested in posting this image to our new Flickr group on political art. The group also acts as a submission pool for Art Threat, a journal of political art.
staygraphic (60 months ago | reply)
This is great!
LIQUIDMASS (59 months ago | reply)
Excellent! Dugg.
jimgoldstein (59 months ago | reply)
One of the best stop sign graffiti I've seen to date.
Penter Folio (59 months ago | reply)
This one ROCK!!!
mustharshid (59 months ago | reply)
Very creative!
gregwilker (59 months ago | reply)
I'm going to do this to every stop sign I see tomorrow!!!
blmurch (59 months ago | reply)
Wonderful! Great stencil.
Paul Wilcock (59 months ago | reply)
Most graffiti is rubbish, but is great.
Monochor (59 months ago | reply)
would love to see a whole series of these..like stop war, racism, famine, etc.
zornfett (59 months ago | reply)
xox
vackraord (59 months ago | reply)
Thats some cool graffiti, also a very nice shot.
aconaway1 (59 months ago | reply)
That's excellent! I love it.
Clevergrrl (59 months ago | reply)
Awesome. Nicely shot.
SiLawson (59 months ago | reply)
love it :)
..aaron.. (59 months ago | reply)
Brilliant
jylcat (59 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called you got some Art on my Street, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Such a fantastic shot!
Richard- (59 months ago | reply)
This is great. Here's another one:
Caffeine inc (59 months ago | reply)
Fantastic!
Hell's Donut House (59 months ago | reply)
J_blu (59 months ago | reply)
HOT!
blatch (59 months ago | reply)
I walk by this sign a lot.
Yong Hwee (59 months ago | reply)
This is pretty cool!
jamayalop (59 months ago | reply)
Que verraquera... W O W
LoriDesigns (56 months ago | reply)
Love the concept. Now we need to help "Stop" Start at home.
A. Reece (56 months ago | reply)
cOOOL !
Bhavesh.Shah (55 months ago | reply)
nice
Pete.r (55 months ago | reply)
pure genius!
Anika Malone (55 months ago | reply)
That's great. I saw a similar one in Long Beach, CA back in 2003. It was a little more stream lined. but it said "Bush".
yosefsilver.com (55 months ago | reply)
Touche
PHAR AWAY (55 months ago | reply)
uh, excellent concept.
hennebry [deleted] (54 months ago | reply)
that is so sweet! love the taggers comments.
Michael Kappel (48 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Graffiti of the world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
sniderscion (45 months ago | reply)
That's brilliant; takes modifying signs to a whole new level. Awesome discovery and capture.
Someone ought to start a group for altered stop signs; seems like there's a lot of them out there :)
Toban Black (44 months ago | reply)
Hi,
I've posted about this photo at my blog, here -
tobanblack.net/blog/?p=371
mtsofan (42 months ago | reply)
Found this on Photoree. Great job!
Claudiu Balaceanu * [deleted] (42 months ago | reply)
AMEN !
congrats
Sandy Edgar (Flickr Blog) (41 months ago | reply)
Awesome photo, great job.
This is an Uber Shot, feel free to add it and your other
favourites to the group.
Lilb792 (41 months ago | reply)
great job
bilinkis (41 months ago | reply)
Excellent picture! I have used it under CC to illustrate a post on my blog to stop the war in the Middle East.
english.bilinkis.com/2009/01/08/stop-war/
Thank you!
Samer Ziadeh (41 months ago | reply)
haha impressive
Life Sun Death (41 months ago | reply)
Sweet!
nileshbabu (41 months ago | reply)
creative / impressive
JMartinezStudios.com (41 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Elite Photography (Post 2 Cmt & Fav 3) Quality Photography, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
garethfw (41 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Best Urban Art, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Cechas (36 months ago | reply)
i likeeee ;]
SDCharley (36 months ago | reply)
Beautifully done.
Saw this on Stumble!