GammaBlog » Swoon Mural http://gammablog.com NYC Street Art, Architecture from the East Village Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:59:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wheat Paste http://gammablog.com/2011/02/14/wheat-paste-2/ http://gammablog.com/2011/02/14/wheat-paste-2/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:45:53 +0000 gamma http://gammablog.com/?p=6101 Wheat Paste
“Wheat Paste is Gay” Ah, this wall has seen better days. No one has been bold enough to paste a major work on this wall since Swoon. Pasted paper is scraped off or sprayed over quickly. But I have seen some fun stuff last for a few weeks. I keep telling myself that I should update the Swoon mural video and show what has happened to this wall since then. I photograph here every time I go shopping, so I have a lot of material to work with. But the video needs a more interesting ending. I don’t think this is it. Filigrees of paper, cut by Swoon persist if you look closely enough.

Sorry for the lo-res nature of this 2007 video. I need to give it an upgrade to HD.

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Gaia in the East Village.

On the Lift
Clown Soldier in the East Village.

Read Up
Scant remnants of the Lower East Side Swoon mural remain at the edges.

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This spot, where Swoon had her paste-up mural on the Lower East Side, continues to attract pasted paper artists. I don’t recognize the boxer, do you? The bound, kneeling, oddly proportioned stereotype of a Native American is pretty strange.

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Or is he really early. Pasted on the remnants of the old Swoon mural on the Lower East Side.

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]]> http://gammablog.com/2009/02/09/late-santa/feed/ 0 Dead Angel Boy http://gammablog.com/2008/12/19/dead-angel-boy/ http://gammablog.com/2008/12/19/dead-angel-boy/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:16:42 +0000 gamma http://gammablog.com/?p=4686 Dead Angel Boy
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:

Lost in the East Village

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Latest addition to the Lower East Side Swoon Mural.

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Official Interest

I had my camera out and ready to take a shot of the latest on this Swoon mural, when this official city car pulled up and the guy inside started looking closely at the mural. I suspect he may be looking to fine the building for the graffiti.

view profile C-Monster says: so hurtin

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]]> http://gammablog.com/2008/03/21/official-interest/feed/ 28 Swoon Mural Tagged http://gammablog.com/2008/01/27/swoon-mural-tagged/ http://gammablog.com/2008/01/27/swoon-mural-tagged/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:01:30 +0000 gamma http://gammablog.com/?p=4227 Swoon Mural Tagged

After that whole splasher thing (see the video below), this mural remained unmolested for a full year, until this fool wrote his name.

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A small detail of a much larger mural.

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