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SUMMER PACKING “It is the color that leads me on,the wild...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:04:00 -0400

SUMMER PACKING

“It is the color that leads me on,
the wild color
that sets the coolest woman to sing
at the top of her lungs
laugh like a fool - it drives the
woman to dancing… it even
tempts her to mix out shades
better never mixed”.

Ok… that’s not a real quote, but I think that if Homer’s hero would have been a heroine, this is what she would have packed as she sailed the Aegean to get back home. A suitcase full of Tapebombed goods!

Color for summer, anyone?

“ALTER EGO” | Christian Magaldi Architecture...

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:56:41 -0400

“ALTER EGO” | Christian Magaldi Architecture Studio

It’s Cruz de Mayo guey!
Say what?
No building activity today…

Magaldi’s recent migration to one of Miami Downtown’s most beloved buildings (The Huntington Building) had to be celebrated in fresh style. What better way to inject vibrant energy into the space than with a color filled tapebomb installation?

We chose today (May 3rd) for its symbolic meaning in Mexican culture: the Cruz de Mayo holiday. The Fiesta de las Cruces is celebrated in Mexico mainly by guilds and unions involved in construction. A cross is adorned with flowers and paper is placed in a high position on a building in the process of construction. The workers then celebrate with local cuisine and alcoholic beverages such as tequila, mezcal and local beer.

No cross with paper was adorned here, just a promising space with colored tapes.

We had a great time during Sobe Local’s launch event at...

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:31:00 -0400

We had a great time during Sobe Local’s launch event at the don’t-throw-it-away-I’ll-take-it furniture filled Freehand Hotel.

Don’t miss THE best looking Ping Pong table in Miami Beach at 00:36

;)

Lotsa tapebomb-splash-a-fun during Sobe Local’s launch...

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:23:00 -0400

Lotsa tapebomb-splash-a-fun during Sobe Local’s launch event at the Freehand Hotel (Miami Beach).

More about this amazing locals group here.

“DO | UNDO” - Impromptu tapebombing session Moi:...

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:51:00 -0400

“DO | UNDO” - Impromptu tapebombing session

Moi: HOLY NUDITY! I MUST tampebomb ze house!
Enabler: (Wheels screeching).
Moi: Do you think..?
Enabler: Allow me, mademoiselle! … Excuse me dreadlocked friend, ici la tapebomber extraordinaire.
Dreadlocked (de)construction guy: chomp, chomp! - (he was having lunch) - Can I see?
Moi: I’ll do whilst you undo.

Moral of this fable: Do unto others as you would have them undo to you.

More images here.

SAY WHAT?! Extreme Tapebombing I went to receive the promising...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:49:00 -0500

SAY WHAT?!

Extreme Tapebombing I went to receive the promising month of March. The third month of the orbit has proven to be life changing in one way or another, so why not give it a little push and descend into it at daredevil speed this time?

Doing what only makes sense to you is much more gratifying when you have a bunch of enablers around. You manifest your need for more, they offer adrenaline in a silver platter, you say bien sûr!, you wrap yourself in color, people look as though you’re not from around there, a nice British gentleman makes sure all those colors don’t get squashed into the land below, you fly up and you take the most sublime leap of your life. That is art!

Welcome March.

Thanks to Skydive Sebastian (FL). More about this project here.

WAXING GIBBOUS #TAPEBOMBING

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:32:00 -0500

WAXING GIBBOUS #TAPEBOMBING

If I ever were to melt… | “ESTUDIO VERTICAL”

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:35:00 -0500

If I ever were to melt… | “ESTUDIO VERTICAL”

Ze girl in action avec les tapes pour ze Tape Bombing du Buena...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:55:00 -0500

Color Study in 45

Thank you awesome stranger for sharing this process picture avec moi

Ze girl in action avec les tapes pour ze Tape Bombing du Buena Vista Deli à Miami | “COLOR STUDY IN 45”

How patient of them… Them being the usual life-loving hungry customers of the area’s unpretentiously hip meeting place, the Buena Vista Deli. The went with their conversations, daily newspaper readings, IM chatting and more while I repeatedly made the exact same sound with my Tape Bombing gear and got closer and closer to them as I tried to reach every inch of that pistachio colored fence.

Worth it.
Too bad tonight has been pouring like crazy.

Post-planning and a map.

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:39:34 -0500

Post-planning and a map.

A daytime vampire after an intense good ol’ Tapebombing session...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:26:00 -0500

A daytime vampire after an intense good ol’ Tapebombing session | “TEMPO”

Street Art installation for GRAMPS Bar in Wynwood.

Hunter playing instagramer-that-doesn’t-post whilst enjoying a...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:10:49 -0500

Hunter playing instagramer-that-doesn’t-post whilst enjoying a pair of exclusive in situ Tape-Bombed clogs (man, were they ugly!!!).

“D” day, as in Defolding day. Having finished...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:59:58 -0500

“D” day, as in Defolding day. Having finished painting all the faces that the geometry of a folded origami envelope allowed me to reach, I took a huge leap and decided to open them all.
As it usually happens to a spoiled kid who gets too many presents in Christmas I indulged in the process of, though not so much in the “toys” themselves. I bolted out of my studio as fast as the Road Runner! It was too much, too fast.

Video

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:33:00 -0500

“SPIDER NESTS” | Miami Design District The last weekend of...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:16:00 -0500

Detail

The "other" side of Street Art

“SPIDER NESTS” | Miami Design District

The last weekend of January caught me eager to explore a new format for the (accidental) series of Tape-Bombing pieces I’ve been working on. This time I went solo. Having been kicked out of this bitty construction site once before, I revisited it for my own insatiable desire’s sake.

You can’t blame a girl with a wild hunger for color if she can’t turn her back to the perfect canvas. In my mind, I fixed it.

#processevidence #lovetoimprovise pre-Basel #tapebombing in...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:46:49 -0500

#processevidence #lovetoimprovise pre-Basel #tapebombing in #wynwood #miami

The Pickle sandwich and the paper Brown Bag

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:52:00 -0500

Serrated top and all
Like an old man’s lunch?
Must’ve been 30 orbits ago…
What did you know?
Still choose to carry it covering up my air
I’d rather see not, until it smells like home
Cosmos’ mischief by the corner
(Hold the laughter)
Steady second turnaround the sun?
Pull I cannot master
Would you cut me a pair of holes?

“PROCESS” began as a personal record to document the...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:47:00 -0500

“PROCESS” began as a personal record to document the creative (repeat title) that took the most basic and understated materials (inches and inches of color tape) into an hedonistic, fantasy-futuristic, extravagant, impractical and unnecessary pair of fashion accessories.

This video documentation ended up being a relevant (if not the most) one-third of the triad that conforms “PROCESS | EVIDENCE”, the pieces created for the Wolfsonian Museum’s Visionaries Anniversary Gala, suitably themed The Art of Illumination.

Ten Miami based architects and designers were invited to be part of The Art Illumination challenge. Among this buncha talented heads was mine. Such an honor.

Visitors beware! You stop by my studio, you’ll be requested to...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:15:00 -0500

Visitors beware! You stop by my studio, you’ll be requested to improvise in the great white hallway, like world traveler Michael who snaked and shimmied away!

There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, because the...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:46:50 -0500

There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, because the tunnel is full of light.

This winter no one expresses this anti-cliche notion better than the Japanese. Winter Illuminations at Nabana no Sato (a botanical garden) on the island of Nagashima in Kuwana.