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Images of the Week 05.16.10 on BSA

May 16, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, NYC, On the Street

Our Weekly Interview With the Street

Luna Park and Billi Kid with 20 street art friends custom designed the classic Eames chair for a charity auction that ultimately mentors and helps other artists: this is a view of the whole collection in the Barneys window that debuted Thursday in Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artists participating are Aakash Nihalani, Billi Kid, Blanco, Cake, Celso, Cern, Damon Ginandes, Darkcloud, David Cooper, Elbow-Toe, James and Karla Murray, Joe Iurato, Matt Siren, NohJColey, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Skewville, Sofia Maldonado, Stikman, UR®New York and Veng.

The Eames Inspiration window (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile “Everything Under The Sky On The Wings Of Faile” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Richard Skinner shot this in Belfast of a local street artist named Mr. Kern. Plus, I like that little pod-like car in the foreground – It’s the Apple ICar ! (photo ©Richard Skinner)

It’s INSTA-MATIC! (Dain) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

FAILE Supports Single Moms (© Jaime Rojo)

Primo sporting a Lady Gaga mask of some sort, with a curiously shaped purple friend on his lapel (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ron English tribute? Is this what Ronald McDonald looks like after a steady diet of fast food? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile “Happens Everyday!” Actually, it hasn’t happened in a while (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Seeing all these new green leaves just make me break out into a smile. (Shepard Fairey) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

More construction in the neighborhood! (Various And Gould) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Aakash Nihalani, Billi Kid, Blanco, Cake, Celso, Cern, Damon Ginandes, Darkcloud, David Cooper, Elbow-Toe, James and Karla Murray, Joe Iurato, Matt Siren, NohJColey, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Skewville, Sofia Maldonado, Stikman, UR®New York, Veng, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Various & Gould, Ron English,Mr. Kern, DAIN, and Primo.

The Eames Chairs are Up at Barneys!

May 12, 2010 Artists, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street, Opening

Big Ups to Billi Kid and Ms. Luna Park and the whole glittering menagerie of street artists who blew up this beautiful little window in Barneys!

Here’s a pic from last night on the street by Luna – see more on The Street Spot

The Eames Inspiration project runs through June 1st and will culminate in a charity auction of the custom designed Eames chairs. (photo © Luna Park)

Artists participating are: Aakash Nihalani, Billi Kid, Blanco, Cake, Celso, Cern, Damon Ginandes, Darkcloud, David Cooper, Elbow-Toe, James and Karla Murray, Joe Iurato, Matt Siren, NohJColey, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Skewville, Sofia Maldonado, Stikman, UR®New York and Veng.

Street Art Eames for the Windows!

May 10, 2010 Artists, Manhattan, NYC

Street Artist Billi Kid and Street Art Photographer Luna Park pair 20 hot street artists with the Classic Chair

American designers Charles and Ray Eames worked and made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture during their life together, which stretched 4 decades or so in the last century. During that time they created many classics – like this, this, and this. So celebrated are their designs that the postal service even issued a collection of stamps a couple of years ago featuring their designs.

As with most things that become classic, they also can use an update periodically – even though I know that statement causes a shudder to go down the spines of those who consider the designs “timeless”.

And so it came to be that Mr. Kid and Ms. Park summoned 20 of the current crop of rebels on the street to reface one of the Eames classics for a fundraiser auction benefitting Operation Design, which puts architects, artists and related professionals in mentorship programs with NYC public school students. The whole enterprise, which includes a film crew an on-line auction and a few parties ultimately involves a number of players.

But the aesthetically gratifying and thrilling part of this show to me is that it is freely available by walking down the street – specifically walking by the Barney’s windows starting May 11th – June 1st.

The MOMA has the original in it’s permanent collection, and TIME magazine named their dining chair the best design of the 20th century, but for us the real deal is in these 2010 versions that erupt with new life and the D.I.Y. spirit that is alive and well on the streets.

The chairs have been rocked! I think NohJ even set his on fire… Here are a few examples.

Eames classic by Aakash Nihalani

Eames classic by Billi Kid

Eames classic by Elbow Toe

Eames classic by Joe Iurato

Eames classic by NohJColey

Eames classic by Peru Ana Ana Peru

Eames classic by Skewville

Eames classic by Sofia Maldonado

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT PRESENTS

“EAMES INSPIRATION”

CURATED BY BILLI KID AND LUNA PARK

ON VIEW AT BARNEYS WINDOWS FROM MAY 11th THROUGH JUNE 1st

Operation Design

Billi Kid

Luna Park

The Eames Office

Public Works Dept.

See the whole collection of chairs HERE

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
presents
EAMES INSPIRATION

A unique collection of iconic Eames Molded Plywood Lounge Chairs, as re-imagined by some of today’s most celebrated graffiti and street artists, will be auctioned online
to benefit OPERATION DESIGN.

Operation Design organizes architects, graphic artists, design, construction and related professionals to work with public school students to create motivating and inspiring spaces and projects.

Featured in BARNEYS NEW YORK windows on Madison Avenue at 61st Street
May 11th through June 1st.

Bidding begins May 11th at opdesign.org and ends June 1st.

Curated by Billi Kid and Luna Park.

Artist List

Aakash Nihalani, Billi Kid, Blanco, Cake, Celso, Cern, Damon Ginandes, Darkcloud, David Cooper, Elbow-Toe, James and Karla Murray, Joe Iurato, Matt Siren, NohJColey, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Skewville, Sofia Maldonado, Stikman, UR®New York and Veng.

Images Of The Week 04.25.10

April 25, 2010 Artists

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Aakash Nihalani, QRST, Various & Gould,

Aakash Nihalani pops out at dusk (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Riot Stencil (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jacques Eyes (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Writing poetry, or staring at her phone ? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Various and Gould floating (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ever wake up with that horrible morning breath? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“So, yeah, it was the alternator. Either that or it was the timing belt. But it would only happen when Jeanine was driving the car.” (QRST) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Spring is in the air! Shoe bouquet (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Images of The Week 04.18.10

April 18, 2010 Artists, On the Street

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Aakash Nihalani, Jaime Rojo, REVS, Banksy, Celso, Woodward Gallery, El Sol 25, Veng (RWK), QRST, Emma, Lattice Crow,

A geometric box flower blooms for 70’s power rock. (Aakash Nihalani) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

REVS is in the soup. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Could this be Bansky checking out the poster for his “documentary”? YOU decide what the truth is. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

See the BSA review of “Exit Through the Gift Shop”

Celso pays homage to a Modern Master at Woodward Gallery’s outside installation (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I give up. How many times do I have to tell you: Don’t leave your shoes outside!” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Edwin Von Hopper strains to remember the rules about mixing stripes with plaid. (El Sol 25) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Emma has beef on her face (Emma, Buildmore (?)) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lattice Crow with Sword (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fool in Love, yeah (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fun Friday 02.12.10

February 12, 2010 Artists

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FOR all you Valentines:

Copulation Dancing MEETS Extreme Sports

And AMAZING Art & Vector Insanity …MAJOR LAZER

Directed by Eric Wareheim

Edited and Animation by Zachary Johnson & Jeffery Max fatalfarm.com

Art and Vector Insanity by Kevin O’Neill & Karisa Senavitis willworkforgood.org

Produced by Clark Reinking

Says Will Work For Good, “We worked with Eric Wareheim on the aesthetic direction for his video for Major Lazer’s “Pon De Floor” featuring some of NY’s raddest dagga dancers. We wanted to take them off the typical club floor and put them on more mundane floors in an imaginary neighborhood where they could go about their business in private. All of the home environments were created as large paintings which were then photographed and transformed into a bizarre real estate fly-through by the dudes at Fatal Farm. Additionally we created a series of vector patterns used for the “otherworlds” featured throughout the video. All in all a sick mix of low/high tech and Eric’s always awesome visions.”

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FOR all you Would Be Valentines:

I’m sure you kids don’t remember this but WAAAYYYY BACK in the day before Virtual Lovemaking Suits, we had to Hook Up using CHAT and our imaginations

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Local Salsa Orchestra covers TV On the Radio

Hear their version while viewing this slideshow that features street art in Brooklyn

Not sure if we caught all of the street artists but I saw Gaia, FKDL, C215, Katsu, Poster Boy, Dude Co, Mark Cavalho… who else?

The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra, based in Brooklyn NY, plays “Wolf Like Me” by TV On The Radio. Produced and arranged by percussionist Gianni Mano from forthcoming album, “Keys To The City”. Slideshow of local pics and street art are by Miss Heather at newyorkshitty.com.

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Hand-made Animation and Stop Action Camera Work

Early Animators used this same technique for experimenting with new stories (I just made that up. I’ve never seen this stuff before)

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“The Dirty Show” in Detroit for Valentines

courtesy Arrested Motion

“The Red Light Exhibit” is comprised of tantalizing talent including Shawn Barber, Paul Booth, Scott G. Brooks, Vincent Castiglia, Colin Christian, Molly Crabapple, Camilla D’Errico, Ewelina Ferusso, Michael Hussar, Michael Mararian, Dan Quintana, Celeste Rapone, David Stoupakis, The Dirty Fabulous, Brian Viveros, Tony Ward, & Jasmine Wort. Curated by Genevive Zacconi, in association with Last Rites Gallery, the show will be held at The Dirty Show in Detroit.

See more images and learn more at Arrested Motion

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The Sexy “Street Crush” Show from Brooklyn Street Art a year ago.

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Very Sad to Hear the News of the Passing of Alexander McQueen

What the heck does this have to do with street art and graffiti art? Hang out till the second part of this video. We won’t likely forget his famous robotic spray-painting of a white dress in ’99.

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Images of the Week 01.17.10

January 17, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week, NYC, On the Street, Week in Images

Our weekly interview with the streets

Aakash Nihalani's new green piece (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JC2 has taken the image originally wheat-pasted and turned it into a sign post. Don’t recall seeing something this large bolted before, do you? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Blues Robot Brothers (Chris RWK) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Clown Soldier makes his first entry on the New York Top Forty this week at number 32, with “The Gentle Clown from Verona” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

EMA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia and Deeker (or is that GoreB?) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sam McCurdy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Trusto Corp (photo ©Jaime Rojo)

It’s easy as ABC (Graffitti Soup) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Oh, where where, has my little kid gone? (Kid Acne) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pet Bird has found a nice nesting spot inside this dumpster (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fun Friday! 01.15.10: “Street Crush” on Video, Jerkville, Available Men, Greenscreen Grannies, Local Banking

January 15, 2010 Artists

“Street Crush” on Video

Brooklyn Filmmaker Collective “Cinema Set Free” produced this great video about the celebration of Street Art in New York called “Street Crush”. Thank you Antonio, Lawrence, Melissa, and Demitri of “Cinema Set Free” for your talents.

BrooklynStreetArt.com and AlphaBeta Art Space hosted a fun street art show with 43 street artists, 4 burlesque performers, and a kissing booth. Working around themes of “Love, Sex, and the Street”, well-known street artists alongside relative whipper-snappers dug deep for fresh takes on gritty street ardor.

Artists included Aakash Nihalani, Abe Lincoln Jr., Aiko, Anera, Bortusk Leer, Broken Crow, C. Damage, Cake, Celso, Charm, Chris Uphues, Creepy, DirQuo, Ellis Gallagher A.K.A. (C)ELLIS G., Eternal Love, FauxReel, FKDL, General Howe, GoreB, Imminent Disaster, Hellbent, Infinity, Nobody, Jef Aerosol, Jon Burgerman, Matt Siren, Mimi the Clown, NohJColey, Pagan, PMP, Poster Boy, Pufferella, Pushkin, Chris from Robots Will Kill, Col from Robots Will Kill, Veng from Robots Will Kill, Royce Bannon, Skewville, Stikman, The Dude Company, Titi from Paris, and U.L.M.

See the Street Crush Artists Here

THE PERFORMERS Nasty Canasta, Clams Casino, Harvest Moon, and your MC, Tigger!

THE KISSING BOOTH A funky loveshack built by artist and set-designer J. Mikal Davis and lorded over by Madame Voulez-Vous. Kissing Booth Volunteers: Ashley, Jeremy, Jess, Justin, Natasha, Ryan, and Val.

THE NON-PROFIT: Art Ready mentoring program for New York City high school students considering careers in the arts, please visit: http://www.smackmellon.org/education.html

MUSIC The DJ was Jesse Mann streaming live on DailySession.com

POST PARTY Brooklyn projection artists, SeeJ and SuperDraw performed at Coco66 .

SPECIAL THANK YOU TO “CINEMA SET FREE” and
Producer/Cameraman – Lawrence Whiteside
Producer/Cameraman – Antonio Bonilla
Editor – Melissa Figueroa
Voice Over Recordist – Dimitri Tisseryre

The original “Street Crush” Press Release

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It’s a New Dance KRAZE Born in Jerkville!

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And Speaking of Jerkville: Dashing Men Available for Dating

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Too Cold For Coney Island? Not Virtually!

Forget Avatar – Put Grandma in front of a Green Screen!

(The image you see behind them is the image they’re looking at)

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Bill Maher on Keeping Your Money Local

You don’t have to stay in a loveless, abusive relationship with your Big Bank.

Here’s a list of Brooklyn Community Banks

AD HOC hurtles BKMIA to Miami right on Time!

December 3, 2009 Artists

When your van breaks down and dies en route to Florida from New York, you might get a little cranky and freaked out because you have 40 people’s art in the back and are somewhat behind schedule.

You haven’t met the Buxtons.

Ad Hoc and Eastern District are in Miami as BKMIA Thursday Through Sunday

Brooklyn gallerists Garrison and Alison from AdHoc found themselves at a U-Haul truck rental agency when it was obvious that fixing their jalopy wasn’t going to happen anytime soon.

“Yeah we’re definitely making some tangy lemonade out of the lemons we’ve been collecting,” says he.

With a show to mount and open in 2 days (Today) in Miami, they asked for a 14 foot or 18 foot truck but U-Haul was out of that size. So they upgraded to the 26 foot, which made the whole process of moving art a lot easier, and together they steered the MIGHTY BKMIA SHIP southward.

“We just got another beautiful space today”, says Garrison, now that they’ve arrived with a truck of Brooklyn Street Art in the land of orange groves and mobs of art-hungry models in stilettos. They are spreading out into their new giant space on 4141 Northeast 2nd Avenue, which is right across the street from their original space. They had a lot of people’s work with them, “Yeah there was no way it all was going to fit in the original space we had”

And the art itself? One of the first things to be unpacked was this badass sculpture.

UFO and Ryan Doyle at BKMIA (photo courtesy Ad Hoc)

This is an interactive kinetic piece by Ryan Doyle and UFO of 907 crew.

What’r YOU lookin’ at? (courtesy Ad Hoc)

According to the artists, it’s made of found objects and crafted using caveman spaceship technology. Amazingly similar to the squidlike image in the photo below, this sculpture is mechanized with two worm head, gear drive electric wheelchair motors, and is fully operational with a joystick. And yes, Martha, he does look like a writer (check out the fat marker in his tentacle).

Ad Hoc is partnering with Brooklyn neighbor Eastern District in a conceptual gallery called AE District to show off some of Brooklyn’s finest street artists, graff writers, and related contemporary artists in a 40+ name show. Names you might know like London Police and Gaia and Morning Breath will be joining talented newbies like NohJColey and Mario Brothers.

Aakash Nihilani “Tape and Mirrors” at Eastern District – Ad Hoc

September 11, 2009 Artists

TAPE AND MIRRORS

"Tape and Mirrors" by Aakash Nihilani at Ad Hoc & Eastern District

Eastern District and Ad Hoc Art are pleased to announce their newly featured joint effort exhibit: “Tape and Mirrors” by artist Aakash Nihalani. Tape and Mirrors, the artist’s third solo exhibition in New York, will open on Friday September 25th, 2009.

Note, the Press/VIP Preview is from 6-7pm, followed by a public reception from 7-10pm. The exhibition will be on view weekly Thursdays through Sundays from 2pm-8pm until October 25th, 2009.

Eastern District is a contemporary exhibition space located at 43 Bogart Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They pride themselves on the merging of all creative artistic practices and presenting the community with art exhibitions as well as ongoing performance and event-based programming. Eastern District is excited to be presenting Tape and Mirrors with Ad Hoc Art. Ad Hoc, formerly located at 49 Bogart Street, is a staple in the Bushwick art community that has dedicated itself for years to being more than a gallery but a passionate creative fulcrum, showing work that is often marginalized by the larger New York art scene. This collaboration will undoubtedly be the first of many to come and will hopefully continue to build the local art community to another level.

photo credit: Poster Boy NYC

Aakash Nihalanis street work consists mostly of isometric rectangles and squares. Using brightly colored tape, he selectively places these graphics around New York to highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry pre-existing in the city itself. All execution of his street level tape work is done on site, with little to no planning.

For however brief of a time, Aakash Nihalani’s work offers people a chance to see a different side of New York, and momentarily escape from routine schedules and lives. “We all need the opportunity to see the city more playfully, as a world dominated by the interplay of very basic color and shape”. He tries to create a new space within the existing space of our everyday world for people to enter freely and unexpectedly “disconnect” from their reality.

Playing off of the metaphor ‘smoke and mirrors,’ meaning an illusion created out of an elaborate distraction, Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors exhibition aims to create a magical experience out of the mundane. By implementing mirrors in key positions throughout the space, the viewer is given an opportunity to step ‘into,’ and view themselves within, Nihalani’s signature tape installations. Creating a playful interruption to the regular gallery schematic, the viewer is prodded from a bystander into a participant, not only interacting with the space and materials around them, but also with their own reflections.

Let Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors open up a new portal of reality and experience yourself between dimensions at Eastern District gallery in Brooklyn.

Original prints and paintings by the artist will also be on view and for sale throughout the gallery.

To find out more information about Aakash Nihalanis Tape and Mirrors exhibition, and more about Ad Hoc and Eastern Districts collaboration please go to adhocart.org and eastern-district.com.

For more information on Aakash Nihalani and his art visit aakashnihalani.com.

Refreshments generously provided by Asahi.

Thank you! We hope to see you out here at Eastern District Gallery, 43 Bogart Street, on September 25th from 7-10pm.

Best,

Ad Hoc Art & Eastern District
info@eastern-district.com
Hours: 2-8pm Thursday-Sunday

EASTERN DISTRICT
43 BOGART STREET – L TRAIN TO MORGAN AVENUE.

www.Eastern-District.com

Street Signals 08.15.09

August 15, 2009 Artists, Events

Aakash Nihalani Continues to trace the geometry of the street & Now It’s Interactive!

Simple, cheeky and inspiring. Aakash Nihalani redesigns the streets of New York by creating simple geometric shapes with Day-Glo tape, intriguing many the New Yorker. His impromptu graphic pieces highlight the contours and geometry of the city, making for playful visual grids that brighten the urban landscape.

“In an effort to translate that very personal unique interaction of human and art, I have begun to explore interactive digital artwork that can be experienced via the internet, from anywhere in the world. Integrating the visual and experiential concepts present in my tape installations into this digital medium”

-Aakash Nihalani

Click the image to interact with Aakash’s illustrations

And you can wear tape too, apparently! (photo courtesy the artist)

Trip in the “Way-Back” Machine:

Keith Haring Live

Many artists look up to him as an originator. Did you ever see this guy in action painting a car? This short clip shows Keith Haring in his design of the BMW Z1 at the Galerie Hans Mayer in Dusseldorf.

Logan Hicks and C215 to team up at “Show and Tell” in November

From Logan Hicks,

“The single best thing about leading the life of the an artist is the people you meet. A few years ago, I saw the work of C215 and immediately loved his work. Some time later, I met C215 and got to know him personally. C215 is an amazing person and an equally amazing artist. Earlier this year C215 asked me if I was interested in doing a show with him in Toronto at the Show and Tell Gallery.

It was a natural fit and we quickly locked in the dates.”

Looks like the show opens November 6.

Logan Hicks

C215

Images of Week 08.02.09

August 2, 2009 Artists, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week, On the Street

Our Weekly Interview With the Streets

Ripoff, Isoceles (Akash Nihalani) (photo Jaime Rojo

Serious thug back in da day (Dain 1943) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Parrot Flame Thrower Dissed (photo Jaime Rojo)

Honey I decide to put on a quilt, light up, and get off the grid! (El Sol 25, N.Y.D.F. ) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Gallerie D’ BQE (photo Jaime Rojo)

Installlation (Gallerie D’BQE) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Strong images speak for themselves (KNF) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Lady Trapeeze (photo Jaime Rojo)

The headmistress hurriedly rushed to the choking child to provide resuscitation (OHM) (photo Jaime Rojo)

A thin filmstrip from Peru Ana Peru (photo Jaime Rojo)

Please Do Not Forget Me (photo Jaime Rojo)

REVS (photo Jaime Rojo)

Smile (photo Jaime Rojo)

Space Invader (photo Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe and OHM (photo Jaime Rojo)

OHM (photo Jaime Rojo)

Cash Cow (Gaia) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Revs (photo Jaime Rojo)

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Luna Park and Billi Kid with 20 street art friends custom designed the classic Eames chair for a charity auction that ultimately mentors and helps other artists: this is a view of the whole collection in the Barneys window that debuted Thursday in Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Eames Inspiration window (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile “Everything Under The Sky On The Wings Of Faile” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Richard Skinner shot this in Belfast of a local street artist named Mr. Kern. Plus, I like that little pod-like car in the foreground – It’s the Apple ICar ! (photo ©Richard Skinner)

It’s INSTA-MATIC! (Dain) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

FAILE Supports Single Moms (© Jaime Rojo)

Primo sporting a Lady Gaga mask of some sort, with a curiously shaped purple friend on his lapel (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ron English tribute? Is this what Ronald McDonald looks like after a steady diet of fast food? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile “Happens Everyday!” Actually, it hasn’t happened in a while (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Seeing all these new green leaves just make me break out into a smile. (Shepard Fairey) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Eames Inspiration project runs through June 1st and will culminate in a charity auction of the custom designed Eames chairs. (photo © Luna Park)

Street Artist Billi Kid and Street Art Photographer Luna Park pair 20 hot street artists with the Classic Chair

Eames classic by Aakash Nihalani

Eames classic by Elbow Toe

Eames classic by Joe Iurato

Eames classic by NohJColey

Eames classic by Peru Ana Ana Peru

Eames classic by Skewville

Eames classic by Sofia Maldonado

Aakash Nihalani pops out at dusk (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Riot Stencil (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jacques Eyes (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Writing poetry, or staring at her phone ? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Various and Gould floating (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ever wake up with that horrible morning breath? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“So, yeah, it was the alternator. Either that or it was the timing belt. But it would only happen when Jeanine was driving the car.” (QRST) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Spring is in the air! Shoe bouquet (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A geometric box flower blooms for 70’s power rock. (Aakash Nihalani) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

REVS is in the soup. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Could this be Bansky checking out the poster for his “documentary”? YOU decide what the truth is. (photo © Jaime Rojo) See the BSA review of “Exit Through the Gift Shop”

Celso pays homage to a Modern Master at Woodward Gallery’s outside installation (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I give up. How many times do I have to tell you: Don’t leave your shoes outside!” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Edwin Von Hopper strains to remember the rules about mixing stripes with plaid. (El Sol 25) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Emma has beef on her face (Emma, Buildmore (?)) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lattice Crow with Sword (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fool in Love, yeah (photo © Jaime Rojo)

And AMAZING Art & Vector Insanity …MAJOR LAZER

JC2 has taken the image originally wheat-pasted and turned it into a sign post. Don’t recall seeing something this large bolted before, do you? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Blues Robot Brothers (Chris RWK) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Clown Soldier makes his first entry on the New York Top Forty this week at number 32, with “The Gentle Clown from Verona” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

EMA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia and Deeker (or is that GoreB?) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sam McCurdy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Trusto Corp (photo ©Jaime Rojo)

It’s easy as ABC (Graffitti Soup) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Oh, where where, has my little kid gone? (Kid Acne) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pet Bird has found a nice nesting spot inside this dumpster (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Street Crush” on Video

It’s a New Dance KRAZE Born in Jerkville!

And Speaking of Jerkville: Dashing Men Available for Dating

Too Cold For Coney Island? Not Virtually!

Bill Maher on Keeping Your Money Local

Ad Hoc and Eastern District are in Miami as BKMIA Thursday Through Sunday

UFO and Ryan Doyle at BKMIA (photo courtesy Ad Hoc)

What’r YOU lookin’ at? (courtesy Ad Hoc)

Aakash Nihalani Continues to trace the geometry of the street & Now It’s Interactive!

Click the image to interact with Aakash’s illustrations

Trip in the “Way-Back” Machine:

Logan Hicks and C215 to team up at “Show and Tell” in November

Our Weekly Interview With the Streets

Serious thug back in da day (Dain 1943) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Parrot Flame Thrower Dissed (photo Jaime Rojo)

Honey I decide to put on a quilt, light up, and get off the grid! (El Sol 25, N.Y.D.F. ) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Gallerie D’ BQE (photo Jaime Rojo)

Installlation (Gallerie D’BQE) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Strong images speak for themselves (KNF) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Lady Trapeeze (photo Jaime Rojo)

The headmistress hurriedly rushed to the choking child to provide resuscitation (OHM) (photo Jaime Rojo)

A thin filmstrip from Peru Ana Peru (photo Jaime Rojo)

Please Do Not Forget Me (photo Jaime Rojo)

REVS (photo Jaime Rojo)

Smile (photo Jaime Rojo)

Space Invader (photo Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe and OHM (photo Jaime Rojo)

OHM (photo Jaime Rojo)

Revs (photo Jaime Rojo)

Revs (photo Jaime Rojo)

Featured Video | Martin Wong’s “Houston Street”

Could this be Bansky checking out the poster for his “documentary”? YOU decide what the truth is. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

See the BSA review of “Exit Through the Gift Shop”