Huffington Magazine Issue 29-30 | Page 10

VOICES STEVEN P. HARRINGTON JAIME ROJO The Year in Street Art Images 2012 From Brooklyn Street Art 2 STEVEN P. HARRINGTON, Editor in chief and co-founder, BrooklynStreetArt.com MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES JAIME ROJO, Editor of photography and co-founder, BrooklynStreetArt. com 2012 WAS AN exciting year for Street Art around the globe as it continued to climb into the consciousness of the mainstream with phone apps, museum exhibitions, public panels and workshops, street tours, auctions, gallery shows, and an increased recognition, if not a full-body bear hug by cities with street art fes- tivals. Rooted in an urban aerosol tradition that comingled the concepts of outlaw with public art while many of today’s Street Artists were children, this is clearly not your fathers’ graffiti. Street Art today is following an explosive and almost organic route for creative expression that is being fueled by the ubiquitous capturing and sharing by handheld devices across personal networks instantly. Because of this spawning and re-