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The Year of the Glitch is an art project website by Phillip Stearns that posts digital artifacts of the the various glitches generated by electronic devices and systems in the world around us.

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L’Année de l’Glitch est un site web du projet d’art par Phillip Stearns que les artefacts numériques messages des pépins divers générés par les appareils électroniques et systèmes dans le monde qui nous entoure.

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El Año de la Glitch es un sitio web del proyecto de arte de Phillip Stearns que los artefactos mensajes digitales de los fallos de los diversos generados por los dispositivos electrónicos y sistemas en el mundo que nos rodea.

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グリッチの年はフィリップ·スターンズによるアートプロジェクトのウェブサイトであること私達のまわりの世界の電子機器およびシステムによって生成されるさまざまなグリッチの記事デジタルアーティファクト。

Video titled “My Social Tattoo” of a woman getting her Facebook friends’ profile pictures tattooed on her arm. 152 kinds of awesome or 152 kinds of wrong. Whatever your opinion, this tattoo is a serious testament to friendship. (152 is the number of Facebook friends the woman had tattooed on her arm.) Question: Is this a hoax or PR stunt?

More details on the story behind the tattoo via Mashable.

Along with the Sartorialist, the Style Rookie is another of our favorite go-to style blogs. Also known as “the New Girl in Town,” the site is written by 13-year-old Tavi Gevinson, who in a couple of years went from obscurity to becoming an influential voice in global style, invited to sit in the front row at fashion shows and pen stories for magazines.

Revisit is a beautiful real-time and dynamic visualization of Twitter users and their tweets for a select set of keywords over time. Kind of like Twittervision, but cooler.

Website: http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/revisit/

This is way too massively awesome. Over at GamerCrave they’ve posted 20 examples of graffiti art based on video games and characters, like Super Mario and so on. This is a must see. Robby Weiss at website Albotas regularly posts pictures of video-game street artwork. Check ‘em out.

A recent entry on the Tumblr blogscape: Hipster Puppies. Says what it is. Cute, funny, droll. Must see.

Photographer Terry Richardson has recently started a new Tumblr photo blog called Terry’s Diary, and it’s fuckin’ awesome. Richardson is a fixture in downtown New York City, where he lives. We often see him at cafes and restaurants or just walking around in Nolita, stomping down down the Bowery, or in the Lower East Side and SoHo. We first became familiar with his photography back in 2001 in magazines like Vice. His photo shoots are notoriously naughty, and he’s always attending events and parties and often snapped at the side of celebrities and models.

Looking back at the last year and at our list of remaindered links, we stumbled across this street-art feature by Travel + Leisure magazine. The brief article is accompanied by a slide show called Best Cities for Street Art and it lists LA, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Melbourne, Paris, Buenos Aries, Bethlehem (West Bank, Israel), and, of course, New York. Actually NYC is listed twice — both Manhattan and Brooklyn are listed separately. Failing to include Barcelona is a bit of a scandal, but otherwise it’s a pretty good summary.

We’ve recently been revisiting a great website on Mexican street art. Check it at Streetart.com.mx

The Street Art Locator (streetartlocator.com) is a “community Google map mashup mapping street art the world over.” We say it is Fing awesome. Check it.

We’re loving this street blog aptly named Tel Aviv Graffiti and Street Art. It’s not often we get o see street art from Israel, but there’s a burgeoning presence of ephemeral art there and this Tel Aviv weblog does a great job of showing fresh images and — refreshingly for a street art blog — substantial commentary. Check it at telavivstreetart.blogspot.com.

We’ve recently been spending some time at the street art stencil blog we stumbled upon called BUE.nos Aires // C1UD4D S73NC1L, or Buenos Aires Ciudad Stencil (or “Stencil City,” Buenos Aires, Argentina). The site hasn’t been updated for a while, but we’re enjoying it nonetheless, especially since it’s written in English, so for us non-Spanish speakers, it’s a window into street art form a Latin American perspective.

Here’s the website — a Tumblr blog — for pictures of all those orange “In the Butt” stickers that are popping in all sorts of places (but mostly on advertising and public signage) … because, as the site says, “everything is funnier in the butt.” Indeed. Too fucking funny, in fact.

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“Mural Art: Murals on huge public surfaces around the world” is new book from Greek publishers Carpe Diem focused on large-scale street art and massive commissioned public murals across the globe. It’s an awesome coffee table tome. The presentation and quality of photography is first rate. The book represents a fresh take on an aspect of street art that hasn’t been covered so well by the recent explosion of publications on street art and graffiti. Among the many artists whose work is shown is Brazilian stars Os Gemeos, The London Police and Blu. The book is in English and Greek. Some images from the book follow in the next series of posts. More details on the book at the publisher’s website. Pictured above, in the post, is the cover image of “Mural Art.”

We’re loving this UK street art website aptly called UK Street Art (www.ukstreetart.co.uk/). Lots of good, juicy street art images from the United Kingdom in a well-designed website. Check it.

We recently revisited the public art works of the Barnstormers, an artists collective of New York- and Tokyo-based creators. For anybody unfamiliar with the group, it’s worth your time to check out some of their work on its website. Part of what makes the Barnstormers’ work unique is the context and setting of many of their street art-like paintings on barns in the rural area around the tiny town of Cameron, North Carolina.

We found this neat street art blog called Fubalu from Switzerland. We like its description; “Things found along the way.” It’s a good collection of street art — stickies, stencils, painted pieces and other stuff — mostly in Zurich. Check it!

We stumbled across this overview article (in English) on street art in Stockholm on the official Swedish government website. The story by Nicholas Claude is titled “Street art in all corners of Stockholm” and points out where to find street art in and around the capital.

Excellent article about the street art exhibition at the Tate Modern in The Guardian newspaper from a couple of months ago, shortly before the sow opened. In her feature, “How the Tate Got Streetwise,” Alice Fisher previews the exhibition in London and explains how, in spite of voices of disapproval among art critics, street art is being embraced by the British public and serious, celebrity collectors alike.

A convenient group-pool feed of Banksy photos on Flickr as been added to the site. Check it …