This Is Vandalism??

An NC State student, Joseph Carnevale, stole a few traffic barrels from a construction site and created a massive sculpture of a roadside monster hitching a ride. He accurately described his work as 'street art'.

Turns out the police didn't, of course, because they arrested him and charged him with vandalism.

The funny/best part about this is that the company who makes the barrels won't press charges against him, and instead want to hire him to recreated the monster outside their office headquarters.

"We've had a fair amount of vandalism, but have never had anyone turn it into art," Company President Steven Hussey said. "I actually thought it was pretty neat....it's been positive publicity for us, if we'd known he'd do that good of a work, we'd have given him the barrels."

Street Art - 1, Police - O!

via MSNBC

3D Pavement Art

Edgar Mueller is a really talented German artist that uses the street as his canvas and makes large scale, 3D paintings. They are insane, as you can see. He's kind of like Julian Beever, but uses paint, instead of chalk.

I wish I could do something like this.

Here is a video of him making the first painting, The Crevasse, which he did for the "Festival of World Cultures" for the the Goethe Institution Germany. It's fascinating to watch - and proved the painting is indeed real, because seriously, it doesn't look it.