Tetris Bricks raining down on Sidney streets.

Via Abercrombie in Sydney is a tiny lane running between George and Pitt Streets just near Bond Street.

Usually you find there a good breakfast.

You can order Grinders coffee and share a fresh fruit and yoghurt (topped with fresh macadamia nuts) served in an enormous glass bowl.

But it can happen, while you are grabing a bite of your big special sandwich, that a Tetris Brick seems falling down on the walls ready to hit everyone who is walking there.

photo by Justin James

In that case you will be astonished by looking at these oversize, illuminated Tetris block sculptures floating over your head.
"Giant Tetris"(aka “One More Go One More Go”) was installed from 4Tth of October to the 31st of Jannuary 2009 and is actually part of an broader outdoor art exhibition called Live Lanes – By George!

photo by Justin James

The larger-than life installation was put together by the guys over at Gaffa Gallery, who clearly have fond memories of the classic brick-stacking puzzler.
The "Live Laneway" strategy is a project of revitalisation for the Sidney City Centre. “Live Laneways” includes a range of creative initiatives to encourage more activity, and recognise the cultural, artistic and historic significance of laneways.
Tetris is a famous video game where the player must sort a simultaneously random but predictable succession of cascading shapes in exchange for points and more time in the game.

photo by Justin James

Yet here, in Abercrombie Lane, pieces are planted without a definite order, neither there is something resembling a predictable game. The dynamics of game is lost. The street is really very tiny.
Did we really pay attention and enjoy this new City Tetris Game when we are hurriedly crossing the narrow corridors of Abercrombie Lane or when we are waiting in line for a sandwich? And if we do so how this can happen?
Could the forgotten interactive part of the game be improved in such tiny streets?
It is noteworthy that this is a significant initiative to focus the pubblic attention on the need of revitalizing the forgotten but alive laneways of our cities.
And we agree that the creative idea of developing a dynamic and interactive game is really a good starting point to do it.

Luigi Serafini _ Interview @ Spazio Krizia

Intervista a Luigi Serafini presso lo Spazio Krizia durante l'opening della mostra di Ingo Maurer, Luigi Serafini, Borek Sipek per Krizia.

Video by © D+Arch

Luigi Serafini _ Interview @ Spazio Krizia

The street voice

Graffiti in the Madrid Camper store

A.M. Bonora for D+Arch

One of the alternatives and Madrid ridden urban fashion shops is that
Camper opened in Calle de Fuencarral.
Imagination, functionality and sense of humor are the traits that define the brand's designs.
The store is realized like a blank canvas in its most literal sense:
customers can fill the white walls with their messages, drawings or ideas.
We don’t know if street art inspired Jaime Hayon in his Camper concept store project, but certainly the idea is taken from a metropolitan context:
our street are full of graffiti written on walls.
But anyone of us is often taken by a strange temptational voice inside:
<<...leave your sign on this wall and say “I’ve been here” or
“I’m alive” or... simply ..."I love you" ...>>

Barcelona Street Art: "The Sants' protest "

A.M. Bonora for D+Arch

“The Sants” is not just a name of the main railway station in Barcelona, but is largely a living and thinking quarter.

Since working class folk lived here a lot is changed but not the spirit.
As the workforce born in Sants build the Modernista dream homes

( this area of town helped create the wonderful architecture that we so enjoy today in the centre of Barcelona)

people who live there has always something to say.

This “murales” is a civil, artistic protest against the abuse of cement and the quarter transformation really never accepted from young people.
On the wall appears clearly “ Aturem destrucciò de Sants”

i.e.=” Let’s Stop De Sants’ Destruction”

Barcelona Street Art

A.M. Bonora for D+Arch

Leaving the subway i ask myself how Barcellona periphery could be.

The center is so clean and orderly, all seems so happy. So let' s walk . I'm going to Parc Guell,one of the Gaudì's wonders. You can feel a sense of abandonment and looking at some decadent building you will be a little sad and romantic. But even here there are beautiful buildings and streets in typical latin order.

I like to see what others do not notice...
So he's calling me...I turn and i find him ...Just few minutes for taking a photo...He's waiting for someone that could notice him.. in his quiet pose, lying on an acient balcony... Open your eyes and look at him. He seems to say " hi!! here i am...here..for the people in the street..."

Like an hidden whisper street art and poetry live in Barcellona.

STREET-ART!

La Street Art insieme al Graffiti Writing è la manifestazione sociale, culturale e artistica che negli ultimi decenni si è rapidamente diffusa in tutto il pianeta: si basa sull'espressione della propria creatività tramite interventi sul tessuto urbano. Un movimento cresciuto per le ragioni più disparate (dalla critica alla protesta, dall'abolizione della proprietà privata, alla rivendicazione dello spazio pubblico...), ma con l'obiettivo comune di vedere le città come luoghi in cui esporsi ed esprimersi con le proprie creazioni e la propria arte.

La Street Art è l’arte del presente: un'opera d'arte contestualizzata nello spazio urbano, che crea un impatto e interagisce con un pubblico ignaro, che non ha scelto di visionare l'opera!!!

Il Fenomeno è diventato Cultura che si vive ad ogni passo nelle città: è sui muri, sulle piazze, sulle strade, ... inutile ignorarla o demonizzarla!