Here we go! Eat all the last fresh corn-on-the-cob, watermelon, lemonade, tomatoes, green beans, black berries, peaches that you can get before the summer disappears and your local grocer turns all those things into plastic hot-house versions imported from Pluto and transported with a million gallons of fossil fuel to you table. New York has many farmers markets and delis with fresh produce — it is not all expensive either. Chinatown in Manhattan still has some of the coolest stuff to eat and hasn’t jacked up the prices.
We’ve been riding around New York looking for new Street Art and for those who are complaining that the scene has devolved into festivals and large murals, you are just being lazy and relying on the Internet for all your news. There are so many artists out putting up small one-off individual pieces with social and political messages on the street – and of course there is a lot of aesthetically pleasing stuff as well. Its all alive and well and we are still missing much of it.
Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Baron Von Fancy, Buff Monster, bunny M, Crisp, El Sol 25, Mister Melty, PaytoPray, QRST, Space Invader, and Square, Suckadelic.
Our top image: QRST. An ad takeover in Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
QRST. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
QRST (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Buff Monster. Mister Melty. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Buff Monster. Mister Melty. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
bunny M (photo © Jaime Rojo)
bunny M (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Baron Von Fancy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Square. Being Their. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pussy Power (photo © Jaime Rojo)
An unidentified artist impression of a deranged con artist trying to fool the whole USA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
#overthrownewyork (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Crisp (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Crisp (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Invader Ninja (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Invader (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Suckadelic (photo © Jaime Rojo)
#paytopray (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan sunset and the East River. July 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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