Monday, July 6th, 2009

The entrance to a daycare center on Houston Street.
Filed under: Lower East Side, Street Art- , Houston Street, Murals, Paint - by gamma
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Sign painters plying their estimable skills in service of dreck, that creepy symmetrical girl movie. I imagine they are working from a lightly drawn grid. But what is their reference, just a photo of the ad or something more elaborate. I would want a printout with paint-by-numbers contours, to be of course skillfully blended away. This is an old time skill that I am glad still employs artisans. What must this cost, and how does it compare to printing techniques? A billboard this size is probably only done in NYC and LA, it may be cheaper to have it painted than gear up for a printing run of 2. Also the attention the billboard gets just from the spectacle of humans painting overhead, is bound to add some value to the ad. Here I am blogging about it for free. Arggh!
Filed under: Manhattan, Photos- , Advertising, Paint - by gamma
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

A Musk mummy and what looks like a traced streetlight shadow. Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Filed under: Brooklyn, Photos, Street Art- , Graffiti, Paint, Spraypaint, Williamsburg - by gamma
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

This one knocked me out: sixteen finely rendered baby portraits on individual canvasses. An earlier cam board above; Lincoln rendered in baby pixels.
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Update: July 25

Some spoilsport has pried away the other babies.
Filed under: Photos- , Hitchhikers, Paint - by gamma
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

A section of 11 Spring that was buffed a few days ago.
Filed under: Photos, Soho, Street Art- , 11 Spring, Graffiti, Paint - by gamma
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Monday, April 9th, 2007

Looks like a work in progress.
Filed under: East Village, Photos, Street Art- , Graffiti, Murals, Paint - by gamma
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