street art inspired by outdoor ads

It's pretty typical to see advertising people lift ideas from street artists, and then take them into the commercial world for exploitation.

But it's extremely rare to see a street artist take something that we've seen in the outdoor ad space and realize it as a medium for inspiring art. Such is the case with JR the Artist - who has taken over staircases around Brooklyn and turned them into inspiring stairways of wonder.

From the owner of Brooklyn, our good friend Loscalzo