30 October, 2008

Roadsworth

Since 2001 Canadian stencil artist Roadsworth (Peter Gibson) has been using stencils to adapt road graphics, mainly on the streets of Montreal.

It started as a protest against the lack of cycle lanes but gradually became a comment on car culture, oil dependancy and authoritarianism.

North American Footprint
If you’re from Bangladesh your “eco-footprint” is about the size of…a foot. If you’re from North America it looks something like this.



Life Support by Night


Bullets for Oil
Any time you hear a politician utter the phrase “our way of life” replace it with the phrase “access to oil” and things start to make more sense.