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April 6, 2009
Uncategorized [+]Share/SaveI still haven’t seen it, but here’s Faesthetic#10; via Vice; who claim it does not suck!
Rojo’s OCHO is out
This brick, painted to look like brick; is in one of those lofts, remodeled to look like a loft.
This party was nuts (photo: Stephanie)
Eltono was back in town! We checked on PLAF Gantry Plaza. 6 months later, its still there / working fine.
Adam Purple / George Bliss
October 25, 2008
Graffiti Observer, Uncategorized [+]Share/SaveI received an email from Adam Purple recently. He says he did not create the purple foot prints (that inspired my Tag across Manhattan), George Bliss did.
I couldn’t get a confirmation of this from George, but it makes sense when you see George’s other (foot powered) inventions. Its tough to rearrange these credits in my mind – but they are somewhat amended at the “Tag Manhattan” Press Kit. We could still say Adam Purple inspired these footprints. I’d love to hear more from George Bliss, on or off the record.
Adam Purple created The Garden of Eden, 1975-1986 from rubble in an abandoned area of New York City. An annotated history is here, an interesting personal account is here. Between 1967 and 1971 he published books containing “zentences”, one of which remains preserved in the New York Public Library’s rare book collection. See the latest (flash) expression of this here. He currently creates pod-casts as rev. les ego. You can find his own documentation of these projects linked through these sites, including a journal of the Garden of Eden’s creation LIFE with les(s) ego available for donation through the mail. And though Adam abhors the New York Times, I enjoyed reading this article.
George Bliss is a bicycle designer, contributing to the development of freight bicycles; Dump Trike, Pick-Up Trike and pedicabs. He’s pioneered and fought for the pedicab industry in NY with his fleet at The Hub Station. In 1992 he coined the term Critical Mass. (*http://www.nationmaster.com)
Thanks to Harvey Wang for this photo.
The Last New Yorker
August 17, 2008
Uncategorized [+]Share/SaveEric convinced me to sell the last New Yorker street poster I had. And then sent this amazing photo of it floated & framed (its a huge piece). Thanks Eric! They were made using this wacky system I’d devised for copiers. Calculating 400% and 300% backwards gave me the “tile” which were over-lapped just enough to trim the gutter & glue them together. All this on one sheet of paper that could be copied to the back of your copied original and you’re set.
This is the grid that’s copied to the back of your original. Over the years I’d added notes like resulting sizes after trim and overlap at 400% 300% 800%, so I could be sure to fill certain spaces.
MMMB show
July 6, 2008
Uncategorized [+]Share/SaveThis Saturday: Melissa Brown and I are having a closing at Espeis. See the wall brought inside, a video of where it has been, a collaborative print that we’re creating right now, & Milton and Tedward of Gay Beach radio DJing.
July 12th, 7pm, N11th & Wythe Williamsburg
*UPDATE: this show will be left up for a while. Espeis hours are M-Sat 1-6
Here’s some bits of this print while we work on it…
Paper Monster Print Release
June 18, 2008
Uncategorized [+]Share/SavePaper Monster is offering some giant prints I’ve created, as a “best of” my latest and greatest series. Their interview is here (in PDF). From the Blog/Info section of their site. My street adventure photos are here
Subaquatica
March 30, 2008
Uncategorized [+]Share/SaveI’ve known of Subaquatica for a long time. Most of the artists I’ve taken inspiration from have had something to do with the site/shop/gallery in Madrid. Now I’m their Artiste of the month. Wow. That meant designing a “header” for their site, so I modified the MOMO Maker to try handling the whole bit for me. See it working live here.
See Subaquatica interview here (English)or(Espanol).
Monkey Town video
March 26, 2008
Uncategorized [+]Share/SaveDescribes our process. The tune “How Many More Times” is from the Led Zepplin album on the wall. I spent most of the memory card trying to twist the camera, so the record would appear to spin… but decided to save all of that for a DVD ‘bonus features’.
Totem in the East River
September 2, 2006
Uncategorized [+]Share/SaveMarie Lorenz, Zosen, & myself built a giant sculpture in New York City’s East River.
Marie Lorenz creates amazing art work and very real adventures, you should explore her site. This was a part of her Tide and Current Taxi project. Zosen has been a graffiti hero of mine for years, but we’d never met. Trying to make a date for all three of us was nearly impossible. Zosen’s arrived from Barcelona at midnight, made it to my studio around 2am. By 5am we had met and made a 15 foot sculpture, and were climbing into Marie’s boat (that she has made her self), hoping we wouldn’t get busted/stopped.
Everything went fine, looked great. Marie left for a foreign country that afternoon.
Here’s a rough video of “found footage” I just cobbled together:
The idea here was largely inspired by the Emeryville Mudflats that I grew up with in San Francisco’s East Bay. It was this place by the expressway people made public art from driftwood. I think there is a book about it “Driftwood Whimsy” by Douglas Keister. 
Graffiti Observer July 2005
July 4, 2005
Uncategorized [+]Share/SaveStarting with an argument; as to whether these emergency fire alarms are made crooked, I amassed photos supporting or contradicting this, then I realized we were documenting Darius and Downey’s work.
