Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
We met at the East River Time’s Up in Williamsburg. The ride was co-led by Jake Dobkins and Becki Fuller, both longtime street art photographers and bloggers.
Becki commanding the megaphone in front of a Williamsburg wall. Though the Time’s Up listing called it a graffiti ride the emphasis was definitely on street art, I learned a lot about artists otherwise unknown to me.
Strangely other listings on the web stated that the ride would cover Queens and Harlem as well, which would have been a sweaty marathon. As it was we covered a large chunk of Williamsburg and then headed to Bushwick, enough riding for me as my trip started across the bridge on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The lines of this amazing rabbit are from a fine tipped spray can, wielded by the French Artist ROA. Factory Fresh had a wonderful show of his work this past May. The bike tour ended up Bushwick and they let us park our bikes behind the gallery to see the show.
A small piece but one of the favorite things I saw, artist unknown to me.
The Christian Paine piece looks in a style he was using five years ago, though most of them deteriorated quickly in the weather. I always like the name, even more blatant than Lost’s Christian Shepard, and the fact that he was putting out one-ups, original paintings on paper.
Grandfather by Gaia. Gaia is a young talented painter and printer, the placement of this piece is ballsy.
Filed under: Art, Brooklyn, New York City, Photos, Street Art- , Bikes, Christian Paine, Gaia, Pasted Paper, Williamsburg - by gamma
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Nah, not really, on the side of the Spaceship Hotel on the Bowery.
Filed under: Art, East Village, Photos, Street Art- , Bowery, Pasted Paper, Shepard Fairey, Spaceship Hotel - by gamma
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Remnants of the Swoon mural on this wall still remain on the periphery. But of late it has been a lively ever changing succession of pasted paper. My guess for the identity of the artist of the foreground couple is Imminent Disaster.
Filed under: Lower East Side, Photos, Street Art- , Imminent Disaster, Pasted Paper - by gamma
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 – 1969)
Filed under: Manhattan, Photos, Politics, Soho, Street Art- , Pasted Paper - by gamma
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
I’ve been seeing these faces signed Beau for a couple of months. They have a bit of personality.
Filed under: East Village, Manhattan, Photos, Street Art- , Graffiti, Pasted Paper - by gamma
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Graffiti cleaner hired by Deitch Gallery. Whatever he is using (it was in a Fantastik spray bottle but smelled more potent) works fairly well on the white background but does little to the black outline.
Filed under: East Village, Manhattan, Photos, Street Art- , Graffiti, Pasted Paper, Shepard Fairey - by gamma
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
EV Grieve tells the Crazy Landlord story better than I can.
Update: May 10, 2010
“Exquisite auburn awning” Elbowtoe’s design suggestion for the Crazy Landlord Building?
Filed under: East Village, Street Art- , Crazy Landlord, Elbow Toe, Pasted Paper - by gamma
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