Category Archives: Sculpture

Domestic Robots

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Domestic Robots
There’s a bunch of art in the vacant lot on the north side of Houston Street between Avenues B and C.

A man writes a love song to his Roomba.

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Playground Seals at Sunrise

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Playground Seals at Sunrise

These seals in the East River Park are among the best playground sculptures in the city, realistic but playful.

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Pizza Yum

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Pizza Yum

Even with no thumb, he’s still cranking out the dough. Avenue B in the East Village. International Thumb’s Up Guy Flickr Pool

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My Baby - Eddie Boros and the Tower of Toys

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008


On Sunday May 11th, 2008, the one year memorial for Eddie Boros the creator of the Tower of Toys was held in the 6th and B Community Garden. The NYC Parks department had just declared the tower unsafe and that it must come down. Eddie Boros was an amazing character, he had to be in order to build and preserve from destruction his 60 foot ramshackle tower of salvaged timber and rotting toys from 1985 until 2008, a full year after he died. I interviewed the gardeners and his relatives, asking them to give me stories about Eddie. I combined the interviews with the many photos I’ve taken of the tower, plus photos on the garden bulletin board, as well as some that people put on the garden fence after Eddie died in 2007. This is part one of a planned three parts.
Part Two here

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Eddie’s Cross

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Eddie's Cross
This stump of the tree is all that is left of the Toy Tower. The little You Tube video about it that I intended to be ten minutes long, has turned into a relatively massive project possibly an hour long. I hope to have it ready for showing in a week or so.

Toy-Pile

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Giraffe

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Giraffe
One of the few toys that made the trip down from the top of the tower apparently undamaged. It seems to be one of the carousel animals Eddie had there.

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