Continuing the tiles edition (from here and here), a new one has been spotted near the city council of Oeiras. Just like the José Sócrates tile, this one reads “Isaltino Morais street, (corrupt, criminal, politician). Pretty sure more will pop up.

Isaltino Morais

All pics thanks to Strumphana

Oh the irony. Just before the year end, I showed you this piece of a tile showing up in Porto, which was completely destroyed and removed by the city council, apparently by being too offensive I suppose. Then, the artist moved on to part II, which was already intended for something else, but in this context suited better than before in this location. Brought to you thanks to the sharp eye in Porto of Miss K, the ”No tiles allowed” tile. Let’s see if they have reason to remove this one now.

No tiles allowed

And for the 1st post of the year, it’s the looking back edition, giving you a small insight on to the stats running the website. At the same time, P3 has invited me to leave an article for the Top walls by Portuguese artists in 2011, which can be seen here. But, head on for a quick look at this past year. Posts will follow soon.

Looking back at the numbers:

With 3 years up and running, the blog has been active for some time now, so looking back, visits and pageviews have significantly improved as usual, and content became stronger, with dedicated galleries to numerous posts. A number of 249 posts have been written throughout the year of 2011, which is a remarkable number for urban art in Portugal.

Top Blog Posts (most seen):

1. MACE with Vhils, MaisMenos± and more
2. ARYZ wall in Lisboa
3. Pantónio street signs
4. Super Mario Bros in Lisboa
5. “Detritos” by Vhils
6. “Chão do Loureiro” parking
7. WOOL by ARM Collective
8. “Brilho do sol” by CALMA
9. Por um país mais pobre
10. Ego Sum Panis Vivus

Top countries:

1. Portugal
2. United States of America
3. United Kingdom
4. Brazil
5. Germany

Less known:

Greenland continues to have 0 visits third year in a row. Guess it’s harder than I thought…

Top keywords:

1. stick2target
2. stick to target
3. bruno santinho
4. pantónio
5. target
6. sticktotarget
7. arm collective
8. vhils
9. mbw banksy
10. stick2target.com

WTF keywords:

• myanmar love story
• elena wolay
• zachary levi girlfriend
• 2011 soup festival oliveiro do bairro portugal
• 1-1/2″ stick on targets
• $800 bape hoodie
• + gay +videos+gemeos
• %d8%a8%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%aa%d9%888
• “show me how deliver a baby in taxi
• “blu and david ellis have been working like crazy on this animation for a full week against moskitos, rain, bored assistants. “
• 54ª edição da bienal de veneza em 2011, apresenta “tesouros submersos do antigo egipto”,
• asian pear tree nursery uk
• short story plots french shopkeeper
• the drink called naked pussy
• vhils que aparece no teledisco dos orelha negra
• who made the faile temple in portugal
• x videos as mais negras
• x videos peludas.com

Funny facts:

• Facebook continues to be a great tool to share content, and apparently users prefer to go that way, taking up 38% of the year incoming trafic;
• Windows and Mac are almost equal, yet Safari is the most used browser on the blog (go figure);
• Most common language is EN-US followed by PT-PT;
• Lisboa is the city that brings more visitors to the blog.

Final words

I wish to thank everyone who’s been following on Portuguese urban art through this blog, via Twitter or Facebook page. All the support has been overwhelming throughout the year, and surely 2012 will bring us many new pieces to admire. See you soon.

Apparently, one day was how much it lasted on the streets, but this tile will definitely last on the internet. José Sócrates, who I’ve dedicated a poster some time later last year (see here) was given a false square name to the Mompilher square in Porto. Reads “Eng José Sócrates (Liar, corrupt, incompetent, Prime-minister of Portugal 2005-2011)”. Artist unknown.

Eng José Sócrates

Pic thanks to Patrícia Mendes

Sources from Público and Jn

Got this in the mail, and had to share it. Right next to the Police department of Cascais, you can find two shapes very different from the others. Coincidence, or just someone with a sense of humor? Share your thoughts…

In Cascais

With the night starting, I headed out to Nimas to finally see “Women are heroes” by JR. I only knew what I’ve seen from the trailer and some more from the TED talks, but nothing could prepare me for this. As we sit down, a member from the theater announces JR is not present, but that he would be by the end of the movie for a talk. At this point, I feared he would not be showing up, due to some occasion, but that happily did not happen. The movie starts…

After the movie ends JR jumps up to the stage to says thanks for the applauses and as he’s getting ready to start the talk, a man from the audience bursts into this imense feeling, gets up his chair and starts yelling at JR “THIS IS FUCKIN AMAZING! YOU FUCKER, WHAT YOU DID HERE WAS AMAZING” and starts rushing down the room heading towards JR, stumbling on the wires of a camera in the middle, and continuing to shout vast compliments with the F word attached to it, and leaves the room amazed and touched by the doc. This man was Christopher Doyle. It was a truly amazing experience, followed by an insightful talk by JR himself, and I also had the chance to meet him. Do watch the movie!

pics thanks to Pedro Seixo Rodrigues.

Mr. Phomer just launched an illustration concerning the riots, where the changes of time are visible.

Riots vs Riots

Like a boss

After Moody’s rated our country as “Junk” (Ba2 in their scale) several actions started to take notice, from random people flooding the contact form of the Moody’s website, to creative companies making some videos on it, to artists such as iamfromLX. Check the video inside.

“Uprising to Downrating” by IamfromLX

“World top Influencer Moody’s Investors Service rated this week our country as “Junk” (Ba2 in their scale), after we negotiated a $116 billion rescue package in May. They are only trying to raise the pressure on Euro zone governments to work out a lasting solution to their financial woes.
We all have our opinions, and so do i base mines on facts.
I´M NOT TRASH, neither my country is.
And since we are talking about “names” or “brands”, i would like to give them a small payback taste of what downrating is all about..”

by IamfromLx

MappyArt

“Don’t steal, you’re being filmed”

“Here I am with a new project, this time and again with the same concept of trying to explore peoples reaction, with objects that don´t belong to specific public places. And trying to establish a cooperation attitude among all of us, on preserving and maintain the public welfare and with this, stimulating all kinds of intervention on our daily routines.”

“This time the idea was bringing music to people, applying small radios on the bus stops, with the music on, so people can listen while they wait for the bus, they can tune the station and turn the volume up or down . And with that to see peoples reaction, to see how long the radios survive the Portuguese enormous impulse of taking them home , and of course, replacing the dead batteries with new ones would be wonderful, the climax of the whole porpoise of this intervention.”

“This time, new security measures have been applied…” from the blog.