----The photos are linked, as required, to Flickr. But In general the largest versions are here on the blog. ---The street art I found most interesting in 2008 was sometimes found in galleries.
I have heard that the Haring Foundation was not pleased, but these additions by an old Haring collaborator added a lot of life to the memorial.
Hamburg Graffiti / Autumn 2008 / Vol. 2 from txmx on Vimeo.
From artist THOMAS MÜLLER
Note that fragment of Jackie Kennedy in front of the White House.
Christmastime in the East Village from GammaBlog on Vimeo.
I passed this Christmas display this afternoon, and I knew I would have to come back to see it at night.
Join for $20 a year, and get together with other 1stfans. On January 3, which is the First Saturday free day, they are having an event where 1stfans can bring paper and make their own prints, under the supervision of of a crew from Swoon’s studio. Most likely this is silkscreen printing. I am not sure if the designs are from Swoon’s hands or of her “school”. Swoon is traveling and will not be there. Update: I heard from the museum and the designs are Swoon’s and the printing is screen printing.
Take the 2 or 3 Subway to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum.
1stfans visits Materials for the Arts to obtain printing material for the event.
1/8/09: I can’t figure out why this post is getting so many hits. Leave a comment if you know.
This is the Santa pole that so many Elves and Santas admired. It is obviously less exciting up close.
I took a bit more care giving my lightweight monopod the ability to tilt. But this quickly made version was just as functional. Use 1/4-20 bolts with machine threading (a very common size in the US). The wood is 5/8" thick, which let me bend the plumber’s strap and align the holes just right. The washer under the wingnut helps with smoother operation. The two nuts on the same bolt will lock against each other, and keep the bolt from spinning. the washers on the bolt space the depth the screw goes into the camera. You may have to play around with it a bit to get your camera pointed straight forward.
I was surprised at how steady an image a pocket camera on the end of a pole can provide. I suspect the length of the pole somehow dampens the handheld jitters. I did have to guess at what the camera was seeing, so this is less than ideal. But for crowd events having the ability to go smoothly from eye level to ten feet up is pretty cool.
gammablog.com/2008/12/14/santacon-nyc-2008/
I’m not sure why a tilt mechanism is not standard on all monopods. It increases the functionality tremendously. You can buy heads for your monopod, but they increase the minimum length by a couple of inches. This mod kept it the same length it was. Without being able to tilt the camera, I couldn’t have looked down on the Santas without holding the pole awkwardly.
Update: the videos made a quick return, the end in not necessarily nigh.
All of my embedded videos hosted on Vimeo are not playing. And the vimeo website is not displaying video either. Sunday is a common day to do site maintenance, I hope that is all that it is. It would be a real pain having to fix all my old blog posts.
I have no idea where Vimeo has its servers, could this be related?
Millions of internet and telephone users across the Middle East and south Asia are struggling to get connections after damage to undersea cables linking Europe, Africa and Asia took down a major route for internet traffic.
Creepy and lovely. Another paste-up over the Swoon mural on the Lower East Side. It’s using the same Dianne Arbus photo as source, as this one:
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