Nerve.com. Thought Catalog. Cracked.com - America's Only Humor & Video Site Since 1958. 55 Unbelievable Examples of Graffiti Artworks Around the World. You would surely have heard about Graffiti artwork that refers to images or lettering scratched, scribbled, painted or marked in any style. This is perhaps one of most ancient form of artwork dating back to Ancient Greece and Roman Empire where it was used to mark belongings. At that time, it was used for public marking in the shape of simple written words that go into wall painting detail. Here, we have assembled a collection of more than 55 Incredible Examples of Graffiti Art that will inspire you and let you understand how this art form can be used to communicate social as well as political messages.
Enjoy! JR in Rio de Janeiro Favella Peterbaker Snake and ladder in Montreal Character I love NY Graffiti Inside The Treforest Tin Works Banksy Maid Is that with fries Lido Lugano Tree Parking Test the Best Wall Paint Ocho in Paris Blu in Arhus/Denmark Tate modern Girls of Dactown 3Dom Nobody Weird Like Me Westbourne Grove Northcote Graffiti Banksy Graffiti Art Bar Candela The Mac Grafiti, Jaen, España 1 Vögel. Who Are All Those People In Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - Spacious Planet. The album art from Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is one of the most popular album covers in music history.
The cover is a collage of more than 60 famous people. Most of the people selected for the collage were requested by The Beatles. For example, George Harrison requested the three Hindu gurus who appear in the collage. Lennon requested Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi and Jesus Christ. However, Jesus and Hitler were rejected because the record label feared a public backlash. The record label was nervous because of the controversy over the US Butcher Cover a year earlier. Mahatma Gandhi was excluded because EMI was worried about a negative reaction in India. EMI needed the permission of all living persons in the collage, creating a nightmare for their legal department. The following is the complete list of all the people on the cover of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band: Top Row- from left to rightYukteswar Giri - Hindu guru Aleister Crowley - Magician W.
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Our cars now have mobile phone integration and a thousand satellite radio stations. When walking from one place to another, we have our devices streaming data from dozens of sources. Even at our bedside, we now have our iPads with heaps of digital apps and the world's information at our fingertips. There has been much discussion about the value of the "creative pause"--a state described as "the shift from being fully engaged in a creative activity to being passively engaged, or the shift to being disengaged altogether.
" However, despite the incredible power and potential of sacred spaces, they are quickly becoming extinct. Why do we crave distraction over downtime? Why do we give up our sacred space so easily? So what's the solution?