Pssshhh! This blog has been tagged for Cities month on Scientific American.
Street science-art. Yeah, the science is often incorrect or out of date. The conceptually popular and wildly incorrect 'Ascent of Man' is popular with street artists. It interests me how much of this counter-cultural art movement in our public spaces addresses evolution over the other sciences. Will climate change street art be far behind?
Ah, here we go:
What does it say about the science in street art that so much of the science is outmoded and wrong, yet so clever in design and so well rendered?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Glendon Mellow is a fine artist, illustrator and tattoo designer working in oil and digital media based in Toronto, Canada. He tweets @FlyingTrilobite and is on Instagram. You can see Glendon's work-in-progress at The Flying Trilobite blog and portfolio at www.glendonmellow.com.
