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It takes us forever to make the many amazing murals that adorn our office walls. Our foremost media and materials are post-it notes, darts and single slices of baloney. The results are often pointillist in style and smoky in smell. Watching us at work would probably be pretty entertaining, though certainly not as interesting as [...]

The Listicles offices are within a few blocks of several great graffiti murals that regularly get painted over and updated, making our dreary ride to work every morning a little brighter. We were rather surprised to not find any of those local masterpieces on Smashing Magazine’s listicle of 40 Great Graffiti Artworks, so we included [...]

We’re all for clever and subversive street art, especially when it’s done to surfaces that more or less deserve it, as is the case with many of those so-called vandals whose work is featured in Manofest’s listicle of The 25 Funniest Moments in Vandalism History. We especially like the playful revenge a graffiti artist took [...]

The Internet, digital and dematerialized though it may seem, is also a very real place in as much as it dictates how millions of people live their lives–not to mention its various physical and architectural manifestations in cables, processing centers, web infrastructure and so on. At any rate, like many real things that we don’t [...]

For ten days in May of 2009, the street artist RIPO used news headlines as inspiration for a painting that he then covered with another painting of the following day’s news–a commentary on the over-saturation of media and fleeting nature of news–before peeling back a strip for each day to created a spectacularly striped, multicolor [...]

We were recently stuck on an unfamiliar block in a bit of a jam, and we desperately needed to find a phone booth. After searching for nearly 20 minutes we gave up: we were already soaking wet. We didn’t actually need to call anyone, but as far as shelters in a downpour go, phone booths [...]

We’ve long contemplated defacing street signs, but aside from the problem that we’re total wusses about this sort of thing, we keep living on blocks that already have funny names and wouldn’t really gain anything from being defaced. We used to live on Somass, which we suppose could use and E in there, but it [...]

We’d like to say that it qualifies as some kind of public performance art, like defacing some symbolic monument whose legacy you disagree with (like the scene in Life of Brian where the titular Messiah defaces the Roman temple), but really the practice of pretending to have sex with statues is just an obvious and [...]

Today is Toast Day! (Not to be confused with French Toast Day, which, of course, is on November 28.) Accordingly, we here at Listicles have spent all morning gorging ourselves on golden-brown slices of all sorts of breads, appreciating the infinite variety of toasts to be sampled on Toast Day. Now, dear readers, we want [...]

The days when street art and the iconography of geekdom were completely antithetical are long-gone, and so it comes as no surprise that video games and computer linguistics are spilling over onto city walls. Kontraband tracks this development in urban art with their listicle of 23 Graffiti Works by Geeks, which includes everything from iPods, [...]