Installing this project was a pleasure. There was no planning for size, color, or fumbling with my usual custom collage bits. I was done with fifty in Manhattan and Brooklyn in two easy nights.

I also wanted a photo of these posters being removed (art mirrors life mirrors art). So I set them up where I'd lost my best work, and camped out with my camera.


The first drawing is funnier maybe?


I wanted my adversary to look moderately heroic tearing down posters.
On Bleeker where I'd lost my largest collage, just 2 hours after installing it, you can still see the scraped remnants everywhere. But this morning posters are just fine .

Its interesting that iPod and Sony cover the town in posters through a mafia chain of command like GoPoster. I think this lends freelancers like myself some cover. Perhaps that's why these fake ads were left alone. It was also something to imagine commercial poster-pasters finding these; because I'm trying to mimic their trade, in style, size, and frequency.

I even went over their ads a few times- just to play. High-brow magazine wants turf war !?

Other thoughts:
- The New Yorker is great, I read all of my roommate's before he can get to them.
- We have till Sept 2007 to convince the NYr that this should be their cover, that may not be enough time. (See Below)
- When you visit the site that sells Original New Yorker Cover Art (cartoonbank.com), "momo" in the search field returns nothing.
- Lots of people said they liked it, they took these pictures, I did not:
*See Flickr.com