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The New York Times has a story about what it terms "street art," the illicit application of wheatpaste posters and painted murals in public spaces. The story mention " a curatorial Web site for street art around the world," The Wooster Collective. I tracked it down after reading the story, and I'm like, "Oh Yeah!" All my synapses are firing at once looking at the images of physical urban space used in meaning-making. And they even have an RSS feed!

BTW, I really dig this picture, which I ran across a few weeks back when I was working at a 3D animation camp. I had it up on screen of a computer near the door. A young student walked in, and shouted, "Ew!" like it scared him or something. I went back and looked at the pictures on the Wooster Collective, and I think part of the reasons the images seem so arresting is that many of the shots are pretty contrasty and don't have a lot of depth-of-field (well, they're taking pictures of walls, duh). Combined with the two layers of the image, the street art and its context, the viewer has a lot of information to process in order to make sense of it.