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sweatshop

from banksy posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat

It's no longer here. Sorry. Someone chiseled it off the wall and put it up for sale on an auction website, which I guess is something you can do if you're a cretin.

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cheetahs eating zebra mural

from broken crow posted in art and design by prof_improbable

Behind the Peace Coffee Shop and Trylon Microcinema is a mural by Broken Crow that depicts some cheetahs feasting on a zebra. Yum...

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pbr mural

from broken crow, pbr posted in art and design by prof_improbable

Painted on the side of the 1029 Bar at this address is a mural done by the Broken Crow design collective.

The mural depicts a duo of squirrels paddling in a Pabst Blue Ribbon can canoe. Either this is a celebration of the wildlife and leisure activities of the area (drinking and canoeing- typically best not mixed), or it is an environmentally conscious commentary. Either way, it's pretty cool.

Here's how they did it.

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salvador dali museum

from salvador dali posted in art and design by prof_improbable

Opened at this location on the downtown waterfront (next to the Mahaffey Theater) in 2011, the Salvador Dalí Museum contains several works by the famous surrealist: the collection includes 96 oil paintings, over 100 watercolors and drawings, 1,300 graphics, photographs, sculptures and objets d'art, and an extensive archival library.

Also included are 7 of the 18 masterwork paintings by Dalí (including The Hallucinogenic Toreador and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, the most of any museum in the world. To be considered a masterwork these paintings must be at least 5 feet in any direction and have been worked on for over a year.

The building itself was designed by the US-based architecture firm of HOK (a.k.a. Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum).

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origami crane

from banksy posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat

There was a dispute over whether this origami crane with goldfish was actually a Banksy piece until he claimed it on his website. It's located in Lyme Regis right down the road from here on Coombe St. on the side of a building next to the canal.

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