One Night of Fire – A travelling party that went from the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge to the Coney Island Boardwalk.

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Stilt dancer on the Brooklyn Bridge.

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On the Coney Island Boardwalk.

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My friend Chris did a spectacular fire show, breathing great gouts of fire to tremendous applause, but my camera’s battery was getting low causing a very long delay between pushing the button and the camera actually taking the photo, resulting in a bunch of very dull post fire-blast photos.

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The ever great Hungry March Band.

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Dancing to the sounds pumping from the Bio Diesel bus.

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Glow Hooping.

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Hula Hooper.

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Breathing the smoke of some giant sparklers.

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See more photos in my Flicker Set or Flicker Slideshow

View a bunch of youtube clips from the event

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This is one of three Swoon pieces being auctioned at an incredible art show at ABC No Rio. This seedy, hot, little art and performance space is on the Lower East Side. The art is spectacular. The show continues tonight. Don’t miss it. It must be cooler tonight than it was last night.
All proceeds from the show will benefit the legal fund of local
environmental and social justice activist Daniel McGowan, who
currently faces life plus 335 years in prison on federal charges of
arson, property destruction, and conspiracy. Daniel was arrested
during Operation Backfire, a multi-state sweep of environmental
activists who have now been charged with virtually every unsolved
earth and animal liberation case in the Northwest. Daniel has pled not
guilty to all charges.

ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street, Manhattan
5-10p; $free
Continues FRIDAY, JULY 28
visual.resistance@gmail.com
visualresistance.org/mcgowan

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Margaret and Adam – Two beautiful crisp prints by Elbow Toe.
Read my recent interview with Elbow Toe.

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I’ve been spelling it “stikman” but the plaques say “stickman.”

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“Stop Bloomberg” In rusty spray paint cans.

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Gore B with Dark Clouds above.

Some art is being sold for as little as $5.

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[stikman]

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This installation in the entrance is lovely. ABC No Rio, Rivington Street. View Large

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Excerpts of the interview below, read the full interview here.

Doorways are good. I like alcove spaces.

GB: A frame?

ET: A frame and a little privacy for doing something, and
maybe you don’t notice the piece right away. I don’t
know how other people choose their spaces. I certainly
don’t go hunt for them in relation to a piece. Once I get
a piece, I ride around and it’s usually a gut feeling,
this piece just feels right in this area.

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Elbow Toe in DUMBO. Brooklyn, NYC.

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Her Beautiful Hands – Red Hook, Brooklyn

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I find a lot of theater directors inspiring. And dancers like Pina Bausch (images), her gestures, she takes a whole moment and compresses it into this one space.

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I like to draw a lot more than I like to carve the wood. But when it’s all carved out and you have the charcoal against the wood it’s so beautiful. The charcoal has so much more
variation, the ink makes it flat, your line quality is the only thing. I like the charcoal better now. I like to constantly be playing with the image and pushing it around.

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GB: Name some artists whose work excites you.

ET: A lot of them are older…dead… Chaim Soutine, he’s
a Jewish Lithuanian artist, De Kooning and Bacon looked at
him, he for some reason decided that you could take a
figure and twist it and turn it.

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Read the Whole Interview

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On the Lower East Side.

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On Thursday, July 27 and Friday, July 28, Visual Resistance will
present If they come for you in the morning, a benefit gallery show at
ABC No Rio in New York´s Lower East Side. The show will feature over
70 renowned and emerging artists, including:

Swoon, David Ellis, Borf, Arofish, Banksy, Eric Drooker, Peter Kuper,
Leon Reid, Chris Stain, GoreB, Nicole Schulman, Seth Tobocman, RB827,
Josh MacPhee, Klutch, DarkClouds, Ryan Inzana, Christopher Cardinale,
MOMO, Nicolas Lampert, Magmo, Kelly Burns, Erik Ruin, Pete Yahnke, and
dozens more.

All proceeds from the show will benefit the legal fund of local
environmental and social justice activist Daniel McGowan, who
currently faces life plus 335 years in prison on federal charges of
arson, property destruction, and conspiracy. Daniel was arrested
during Operation Backfire, a multi-state sweep of environmental
activists who have now been charged with virtually every unsolved
earth and animal liberation case in the Northwest. Daniel has pled not
guilty to all charges.

All artwork in the show will be reasonably priced, with prints
starting at $5. Don’t go home empty-handed. Selected work is also
available for sale on our website.

ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street, Manhattan
5-10p; $free
Continues FRIDAY, JULY 28
visual.resistance@gmail.com
http://visualresistance.org/mcgowan

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Bringing together artists and musicians to forge a little solidarity in the counter-culture, to raise money for New Orleans reconstruction efforts, to come together as peers, as dissidents, as activists – to prove that it is the community that empowers the individual and the individual that empowers the community.

Show your love!

July 27th, 9:00 pm
Korova Milk Bar
212 Avenue A
$10 suggested donation

Live Music and Raffle

100% of all proceeds to benefit the Common Ground Collective
www.commongroundrelief.org

More information at www.alternativefuelsource.net

Another thing you can do is donate to Habitat for Humanity.

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This is what this wall looked like back in November 17, 2003.

See how it evolved through July 18, 2003 in this Flash Movie:
Swoon Mural Timeline

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