Images of Week 07.19.09

July 19, 2009 Artists, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week, NYC, On the Street

Our weekly interview with the streets

Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
Its all about the benjamins baby
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
Its all about the benjamins baby (photo Jaime Rojo)

A Rose on a bridge beam (photo Jaime Rojo)

Space Invader (photo Jaime Rojo)

Does this remind you of those cheap home-office printers you go through because they make them to last about a week and a half now? (Specter) (photo Jaime Rojo)

(Connor Harrington) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Stop or I shoot! (Connor Harrington) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Do you love KH1? (Nine) (photo Jaime Rojo)

MBW, Tian, HomeTown HiFI (photo Jaime Rojo)

Who knew he would turn out to be a cross-dresser? (MBW) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Oops, you may want to wax that. (MBW) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Door to door salesman (MBW) (photo Jaime Rojo)

(NINE) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Shin Shin, infinity, Stickman (photo Jaime Rojo)

Bees near the entrance of the hive. (Shin Shin) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Sweet-Toof-Mobile eyeballing the girls in their summer shorts (Sweet Toof) (photo Steven P. Harrington)

You, that’s the bomb! (Space Invader) (photo Jaime Rojo)

“The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths”, so sayeth the Stikman (Stikman) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Everybody knows that Einstein dude is just a total hippie. (Tian, MBW, DickChicken) (photo Jaime Rojo)

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Perfectly balanced. (Elbow Toe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

These three homeys are spreading the good word. (Elbow Toe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Under the ever-watchful and wise eye (Elbow Toe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Revs on the East River with Mad-hatten in the back (photo Jaime Rojo)

WK Interactive motion portrait (photo Jaime Rojo)

Chicken Plus Ham! A consummate smart-aleck couple on the street

July 15, 2009 Brooklyn, On the Street

Low Brow? Below the Belt?

This posting has been re-written three times, with varying degrees of delight and disgust. You try to go for the double-entendre, but you are talking about the animal kingdom, and that just sounds too close to bestiality for comfort.

Which is one of the icky points about this recent call and response on the street – and what makes it so HIGH-LARIOUS to 12 year olds and degenerates and, truth be told, me.

First it was DickChicken, a simple stencil of a phallus-like shape extended from the top of a featherless chicken corpse, like the ones people buy on styrofoam rectangles wrapped in cello. It started popping up everywhere recently. Then last week I saw the answer to Dick-Chicken and nearly collapsed in front of a delivery truck.

Yes, that’s right (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Honeyed we presume (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Will this spawn more clever responses? Already we spotted a script that said “Phallus Poultry” Saturday night, but that didn’t have the same sauce as it’s common cousin. (sorry!)

On with the (Street Art) Show !

July 2, 2009 Artists

Action! That’s what is happening in the street art scene in New York,

despite the wretched economy and artists losing their dayjobs, and galleries of all types dreaming up new innovative ways to stay afloat, the street art keeps coming.

In one week only (the week we lost Michael Jackson) we hit only a few of the events going on that featured street artists – we’re considering rollerskates and interns at this point – and even if you can’t afford it, you feel rich! Plus the refreshments are usually free… just don’t take it on the street or you get a ticket.

Welcome to the new Brooklynite Pop Up Shop in the East Village. The main gallery remains in Bed Stuy, where Ray and Hope hope it will stay! (photo Steven P. Harrington)

New Specter Print at Brooklynite – he did 8 versions of this, and they are much more impressive in person (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Zbiok and Remed, Various and Gould at Brooklynite (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Cool Aiko pieces on cupboard doors at Brooklynite (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Michael in the Headlines (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Hundreds of fans crowded together to dance and shout and shake their bodies down to the ground outside the Apollo Theatre in Harlem on Friday (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Imminent Disaster at Ad Hoc – sorry no good pics from Gaia – you can check our interview with them a couple days back (photo Steven P. Harrington)

An impressive number of new canvas pieces by Bishop 203 at Eastern District (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Ever cheerful Dennis McNett (McMutt) at Eastern District (photo Steven P. Harrington)

The crowd at Eastern District (photo Steven P. Harrington)

The captions are the funny part. But no closeups here, sorry. Dick Chicken at Eastern District (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Can you name these 4 album covers? Invader at Jonathan Levine (photo Steven P. Harrington)

WK Interact wall sculpture at Jonathan Levine Gallery (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Vixen with cougar by WK Interact (courtesy Jonathan Levine) (photo Steven P. Harrington)

WK Interact courtesy Jonathan Levine Gallery (photo Steven P. Harrington)

A series of new portraits of WK’s friends adorned the gallery – with friends like these… (WK Interact at Jonathan Levine Gallery) (photo Steven P. Harrington)

A blur in motion, WK Interact signs fresh copies of the new Drago volume about him at Jonathan Levine (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Skewville’s donated piece at the fundraiser for NbPAC (North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition) in Greenpoint (photo Steven P. Harrington)

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