my friends and i leave letters in secondhand books.

hello there.

for some strange silly (perhaps egostistical) reason i google searched my name and came across it listed on your little blog here. thanks. it looks like you have a good thing going on. keep it up.

see ya,
jeff

take care, kids.
big brother is watching you! )

Someone in my hometown has been attaching old-fashioned-type vinyl records to street lamp posts about town - some of them so high up you really have to wonder. The game is to go around and try and see what album it is, then figure out how it got up there.

Hi Keri,
I liked your article on Guerilla Art. When I was in art school, whenever my chums and I went out to a restaurant, we would do impromtu portraits of our waitstaff on the back of the paper napkins, paper place mats or whatever there was to draw on. Always ask for the crayons restaurants keep for kids...better yet, keep some in your bag! We never saw what the waitstaff thought of them...we usually put them under the tip but I hope some were pleased.
Thanks for a great site and lots of inspiration!

Yippee! Keri, maybe we should get some kind of guerilla art circle going where we all take piccies and link to each others blogs. i've always loved the idea -- and have been known to paint love hearts on telephone poles in the dead of the night to make the world a girlier place... we have our own guerilla artist in Sydney, too, a lovely french fellow named Dutot who paints pretty ladies at railway stations...

This site makes me smile everytime I visit. I'm a student at LSU, so when I saw the link I was very excited--like we are connected in some small way (a fun, non-stalker, way). Thanks for your inspiring entries!

There is a bush in the park across from my apartment building that someone has trimmed to look like a bunny rabbit. We suspect that it is guerilla art a la Edward Scissorhands, and it looks as though the park gardeners are keeping it up. It definitely inspires me when I see it each day.

Thanks for the inspiration Keri! I am going to try the bookmark idea in the public library. ANd maybe some secret chalk messages for the neighborhood...

I had never heard of bookcrossing.com until yesterday after reading your post. I went to the website and read up. Last night I was at a coffee shop with a friend when a woman approached us and asked us if we were there for the bookcrossing.com meeting. I was thrilled! I told her that we were not but that I had just found out about the site via you that morning. The group of strangers were meeting to exchange books that had been meaningful to them. How fun!

keri! just earlier this week i left my first chalk work all along my morning dog-walk route. i'm so glad you pointed us to some other ideas and websites, too! lovely.

I like the idea of sending annonymous art to people. I think I might do this to some people where I work...tough to see any reaction though...I would like to see the fruits of my labour..maybe send something to someone you know is really crabby to see if you can cheer them.

Have you seen this month's Bust? (I'm just guessing you spotted the graffiti artist profiles?)

I'm so glad I read this today. I was toying with ideas for my own guerilla art projects a while back & this was a huge reminder for me. I guess I should act on it while I'm still inspired & not wait another 6 months or so for someone else to write about guerilla art & remind me all over again to get out & do it.

I can't wait to check out the links. :) thanks.

When I first met my husband in college we were waiting in between classes and decide to go to the art store. We barely knew one another so he was just getting used to my 'let's do something crazy' whims. We bought a huge tub of sidewalk chalk, went back to school and drew on all concrete outside of the school while everyone else was in class. It was thrilling. I teased him the entire time, telling him that we could go to jail for this...and he believed me. He was quite nervous throughtout the process but in the end found this form of art very exciting. I'm actually inspired to do it again at that college...how fun would that be!

oh keri, these links are great, especially the potato guerilla art. i'm sending them around to the people i work with as we eat leftover birthday cake for breakfast. it's a good morning. thanks.

i love this post Keri! when i first got your book i was reading it on the subway and when i hit the page with the inspirational stickers i peeled one off and pressed it against the wall.

i'm almost done a book right now, 'Diary' by Chuck Palahniuk, and a big theme in it is leaving your mark on the world. leaving little messages behind for people to find. he talks about how contractors will sign their names or write quotes on walls before they drywall them.

i think i'll make some art to spread around while i'm at work today. it would be kind of neat to have a website dedicated to found art left behind by guerilla artists....is there one?

I love the idea of guerilla art. I am planning to do that with small monsters this summer. Leaving them randomly around the city...or maybe put them in bottles and let them float out around georgian bay.

Guerilla Gardening, now that is awesome as well, i have a good friend who plants roses out by the go-train tracks!

As for making art with out attachment to the outcome...yes yes and yes. Keri have you met my dad? (hee hee)...I learned that lesson at an early age when i was doing some pastel drawings, and my dad told me i needed to loosen up and not worry about the final product...an be emmersed into experimenting with the actual process. Wow, was he ever right. I try not stay unattached to everything i make...which when you make small plush things.

Have you heard of Guerilla Gardening? There was an article about it in Utne magazine. People go and either take over waste ground and garden at night or sprinkle flower seeds which come up.

In Luthrie, Fife Scotland some years ago a farmers son went up on the hillside and planted daffodil bulbs. Every year this ENORMOUS Acid Head Smiley comes up!

My suggestion for the guerila artists all around the globe - make a handful of origami cranes (symbols of peace and hope) and leave them behind: on park benches, telephone booths, library tables cafes' counters, and so on. I do that all the time! It's like wishing a peaceful day for people you don't know.

PS - my sister just brought me your book, "Living Out Loud", from her US trip. I've only just browsed it so far, but it seems wonderful! :)

What a kind world we would live in if we all found and shared art.

I think I'll burn a CD of inspiring songs and leave it on a park seat for someone to find.

As always, you inspire me.

I was visiting Frankfurt last year for the Book Fair, and outside the fair I found a 'poetry tree': Someone had attached poems on little pieces of paper with sticky tape to the trunk of the tree, and was encouraging people to pick one. As I picked one, I got a feeling I was sharing someone's secret, even though it definitely was public. Nice!

This post is MOST inspiring.

I am going off to make art in the night.

Like a pirate.

You are the best.

In our city Utrecht, The Netherlands, a lot of Mr T.'s (BA in The A-team) can be found on sticker art through the whole city.

http://www.klopgeest.net/BAinUtrecht.html

(dutch, but just click on the numbers for pictures of the stickers)

Much fun to discover new Mr. T.'s here :)

There is also someone who paints little tiles with art and sticks them on several places in the city.

What a great idea! Check French Toast Girl and her chalking project:
http://www.frenchtoastgirl.com/thoughts/chalking.shtml
I'm totally inspired!

Oh my god, the rat series made me laugh so. Particularly the one cutting a hole in the ground. Thanks for that link.

Graffiti, lies and beady little eyes. Banksy (www.banksy.co.uk) is an excellent artist and worth checking out. Great entry!