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Ryan Mauskopf Best Street Art of 2011 - StumbleUpon December 27, 2011 | 72 Comments » | Topics: Art, Pics Hot Stories From Around The Web Other Awesome Stories El Bocho | Urban Art / Street Art / Tape Art | Berlin -iOSFlashVideo Geek Heart Art | Sharing art and creativity with geek at its heart Flyer Design Goodness - A flyer and poster design blog evie-s Street artists see the city as their canvas Photo: Allison SamuelsOne night in June, a young artist in cutoff jeans and paint-spattered Nike high-tops was walking down Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, a neighborhood in Brooklyn. In his hand, he carried one of the main tools of his trade: a bucket brimming with wallpaper adhesive. He planned to use the stuff to affix a giant copy of one of his linoleum-cut prints to a nearby building. Suddenly, up drives one of New York City’s finest, lights flashing and sirens blaring. “I told him I was going to my studio,” says the artist, who works under the pseudonym Gaia. “But he knew what I was up to — I mean, why the fuck else would I be walking around with five gallons of glue? In New York, graffiti has been a code word for vandalism since the 1970s, when city hall kicked off a campaign to scrub the place clean of “style writing.” Street artists don’t think of themselves as graffiti writers — and they don’t fit neatly under one umbrella. Photo: Gaia “Miami was cushy.

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