Hellmouth

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Hellmouth
The entrance to a daycare center on Houston Street.

Billboard Painters

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Billboard Painters
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!

Mummy and the White Shadow

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Mummy and the White Shadow

A Musk mummy and what looks like a traced streetlight shadow. Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

What’s Going on Here

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

What's Going on Here

Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Cam Babies

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

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

cam-gray.com

Update: July 25
Lonely Babies
Some spoilsport has pried away the other babies. :(

It looks like an uphill battle

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

It looks like an uphill battle
A section of 11 Spring that was buffed a few days ago.

OMNI

Monday, April 9th, 2007

OMNI
Looks like a work in progress.

Faro Truck

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Faro Truck