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Michele Collet has a piece about Heinz Maier’s water-splash images on Environmental Graffiti

Inspiration can be found in a bottle, apparently. Crowd-sourced online magazine Environmental Graffiti has beautiful collection of images by Heinz Maier of water droplets shot at high speeds. Writer Michele Collet narrates the images—and gave the piece its inspired headline, “20 Incredible Snapshots of Water Splashes That Look Like Hats.”

Downtown L.A.'s Fashion District has always had an effervescent buzz of creative energy swirling through it, but lately the stylish 'hood is increasingly starting to look like an urban art gallery without walls as more and more creative street artists leave their mark. And we couldn't be more impressed.

Luxury Loves Company's graffiti tote

Once a symbol of urban blight, graffiti is increasingly considered high fashion by some luxury designers.
 
The celebrated New York label Proenza Schouler recently debuted its graffiti-print jeans, which are part of its Fall 2010 collection. The graffiti jeans are sold at upper-crust retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman.