“Belief is the absence of fact.”
“Politics are for the rich, revolution is for the poor, and most revolutionaries are closet aristocrats.”
“Are your feet tired, because you’ve been running through my mind all day long.”
“I think I might be tapped out.”
The Freeway Blogger, is a one-man truth army, putting his bold, often funny anti-war/torture/bush statements on freeway overpasses out west. I’ve often featured the Freewayblogger here on the blog.
The Video is by Robert Corsini. After the overblown intro, it’s interesting to see the blogger behind the madness. He walks the no-man’s-land between the malls and the freeway in his orange vest of authority doing what needs to be done.
Plastered all over South Philly. My old neighborhood.
“Throat burns from a coffee coated heart - Elbowtoe” Another enigmatic scrawl from Elbowtoe.
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.
Elbow Toe in DUMBO. Brooklyn, NYC.
Her Beautiful Hands - Red Hook, Brooklyn
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.
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.
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.
