All posts tagged: El Sol 25

Images Of The Week: 10.13.13

October 13, 2013 Artists

Welcome! Now Go Home! That’s what Tony Carapachio at the corner deli used to say about all the foreigners moving into the neighborhood. Sounds like a lot of the comments being directed at Banksy by locals, although their voices are primarily drowned out by clicking iPhones.

The pie is big enough for everybody, and in a city where 176 languages are spoken by kids in our schools, we can probably handle new voices on the street. Our Banksy-related favorite development this week was the small pack of entrepreneurs who were selling access to his stencil on a wall in East New Yawk for $20 a pop. Nice! They’re not the first or the last who will endeavor to profit from his work.

Also this week came the definitive news that 5 Ptz in Queens will be razed in favor of a new condo development. It is privately owned and has transformed into a graffiti holy place over the last decade and a half, and while you could see the final outcome being something like this, many had held out hope that it would be preserved or saved by a rich Robin Hood sort of character – like Jay Z or even Banksy.

Tweet from @ajayjapan 11 Oct “I wish Banksy would save 5 Pointz while he’s in town. #banksytotherescue“

and @xblaze23 11 Oct “It would be dope if Banksy did something at 5 Pointz considering the end is near. #banksyny“

You may remember our photo essay from earlier in the summer about 5 Ptz. The good news is that they say the new space will set aside 10,000 square feet for graffiti.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Case MaClaim, Christian Nagel, Dase, Dasic, Effy, El Sol 25, Ever, Seed, Tristan Eaton, Zed1.

Top image > Seed. 5ptz, Queens, NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zed1. Welling Court, Queens, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Christian Nagel. 5ptz, Queens, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Effy. 5ptz, Queens, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dase. 5ptz, Queens, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

EVER (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton for L.I.S.A. Little Italy, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dasic and friends at 5ptz, Queens, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Banksy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, NY 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week: 03.31.13

March 31, 2013 Artists

In this weeks news, COST is on the cover of the Village Voice and Jay Shells is making street signs with geographically pin-pointed rap lyrics (see video below).

Meanwhile here’s our weekly interview of the street, this week featuring Arturo Vega, Bast, Be Super, Billy Mode, Bologna, El Celso, El Sol 25, Faust, Gilf!, Mint & Serf, Pesk ACK, PRTL, and UNO.

Top image > An old Billy Mode piece that keeps looking better with time. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Be Super (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gilf! This Papa Bear ran away from the circus. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown. We couldn’t read the tag on this old piece. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

UNO on the streets of Bologna, Italy. (photo © UNO)

Last X Witness (photo © Jaime Rojo)

PRTL (photo © Jaime Rojo)

PESK ACK. Why indeed. Uh-oh, he’s got it bad. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

First, wipe that blood off your face. Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mint & Serf (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faust (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bast and El Celso keep each other company. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bast can’t wait for beach time. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Happy Easter. Jesus has gotten up on a wall courtesy Arturo Vega (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, March 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week: 03.24.13

March 24, 2013 Artists

March 21 hit us this week and that means Spring and that means more birds, flowers, sidewalk sales, thigh-high shorts, and Street Art and graffiti are on their way! Great to find this new brick wall falling apart by Aakash Nahalini in the subway this week, and then to learn that it is a sketch for future ideas. Also we’re on the look out for a new sculptural Faile tribute to Revs somewhere on NYC streets, and you might have seen a few new bird houses from XAM. Aside from some of the regular players, you can be sure there are some new kids on the block because this form of expression continues to expand and whether its a one-off, or the start of a long career, the street continues to inspire artists to get their stuff out there and skip the proscribed route.

Meanwhile, here’s our weekly interview of the street, this week featuring Aakash Nihalani, Ayatollax, Bast, Be Super, David Gouny, El Sol 25, Foxx Face, and Oculo.

Top image > Aakash Nihalani does a study for a near future installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aakash Nihalini test for a near future subway installation. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aakash Nihalini test for a near future subway installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Be Super does a little short circuiting of an illegal poster (photo © Jaime Rojo)

David Gouny continues to take his exploration of chubby sculpture in the streets of Paris, like this “CCTV Contaminated Fat Virus” (photo © David Gouny)

El Sol 25 “You and Me” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Foxx Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Oculo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ayatollax on the streets of Paris. (photo © Ayatollax)

Which one will you choose? Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BAST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Spring is here! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Standard High Line. New York City, March 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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New Wheat-Pasted Letter Forms from El Sol 25

February 19, 2013 Artists

New text based stuff has been popping up that may remind you of ransom letters or a D*Face logo but it actually turns out to be Street Artist and former graff writer El Sol 25, who we are accustomed to seeing figurative painting mashups from. If you apply the same technique he favors of recombining heads, torsos, and limbs from various sources to create a new franken-form, it makes sense that this is how text would come out too. As with the other work, this appears to be entirely hand painted also. So, to review, these are hand-painted letter forms that are then wheat-pasted – is it a new category? Not exactly a piece is it? – and definitely not a tag.

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Images of the Week: 01.27.13

January 27, 2013 Artists

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 4 Burners Crew, Bast, Billi Kid, Bunny M, Doug Nox aka the Harlequinade, El Sol 25, Entes y Pesimo, How & Nosm, JMR, Kobra, Rubin, and Stikman.

Top image > KOBRA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

KOBRA. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rubin . 4 Burners Crew (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JMR in Dallas ( yes that Dallas). (photo © JMR)

How & Nosm covered the windows for their big pop-up show opening this week with Jonathan Levine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Click here to read How & Nosm Confessions.

Stikman continues to flirts with dangerous dames. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 has a new batch of off-kilter kollage. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Intro at Buswhwick Five Points (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Intro at Bushwick Five Points (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Doug Nox AKA The Harlequinade (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

bunny M (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Billi Kid goes over himself with his own promotional beer. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Entes in Lima, Peru. (photo © Entes)

Entes y Pesimo at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima, Peru. (photo © Entes)

Untitled. Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. January 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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The Sol Still Shines: El Sol 25 Hand Paints New Remixes

January 23, 2013 Artists

Street Artist El Sol 25 is back on the street with riveting visually displaced droids as he hand paints and wheat-pastes the future past on abandoned walls and construction lots through certain parts of New York. Looking at this evermore integrated fusing of limbs, torsos, and heads, you can imaging that the studio of El Sol 25 is a warehouse piled high with the anatomical spare parts of modern and historical figures and everyday people that he mischievously welds into remixed robots wandering the street.

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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(VIDEO) 2012 Street Art Images of the Year from BSA

December 19, 2012 Artists

Of the 10,000 images he snapped of Street Art this year, photographer Jaime Rojo gives us 110 that represent some of the most compelling, interesting, perplexing, thrilling in 2012.

Slideshow cover image of Vinz on the streets of Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Together the collection gives you an idea of the range of mediums, techniques, styles, and sentiments that appear on the street today as the scene continues to evolve worldwide. Every seven days on BrooklynStreetArt.com, we present “Images Of The Week”, our weekly interview with the street.

We hope you enjoy this collection – some of our best Images of The Year from 2012.

Artists include 2501, 4Burners, 907, Above, Aiko, AM7, Anarkia, Anthony Lister, Anthony Sneed, Bare, Barry McGee, Bast, Billi Kid, Cake, Cash For Your Warhol, Con, Curtis, D*Face, Dabs & Myla, Daek One, DAL East, Dan Witz, Dark Clouds, Dasic, David Ellis, David Pappaceno, Dceve, Deth Kult, ECB, Eine, El Sol 25, Elle, Entes y Pesimo, Enzo & Nio, Esma, Ever, Faile, Faith47, Fila, FKDL, Gable, Gaia, Gilf!, Graffiti Iconz, Hef, HellbentHert, Hot Tea, How & Nosm, Icy & Sot, Interesni Kazki, Jason Woodside, Javs, Jaye Moon, Jaz, Jean Seestadt, Jetsonorama, Jim Avignon, Joe Iurato, JR, Judith Supine, Ka, Kem5, Know Hope, Kuma, Labrona, Liqen, LNY, Love Me, Lush, Matt Siren, Mike Giant, Miyok, MOMO, Mr. Sauce, Mr. Toll, ND’A, Nick Walker, Nosego, Nychos, Occupy Wall Street, Okuda, OLEK, OverUnder, Phlegm, Pixel Pancho, Rambo, Read Books!, Reka, Retna, Reyes, Rime, Risk, ROA, Robots Will Kill, Rone, Sacer, Saner, See One, Sego, sevens errline, Sheyro, Skewville, Sonni, Stick, Stikman, Stormie Mills, Square, Swoon, Tati, The Yok, Toper, TVEE, UFO, VHILS, Willow, Wing, XAM, Yes One, and Zed1 .

Images © Jaime Rojo and Brooklyn Street Art 2012

A Monster Mash on the Streets

October 31, 2012 Artists

“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.”

Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533–1592)

Seeing a monster on the street can make you pick up your pace a little.

Especially if it is a dark windy autumn night and the block you are on has no working street light. And if the leaves and garbage and random pieces of plastic are swirling in the air and clattering into cluttered little piles in the corners of doorways. Here’s an eclectic collection of spooks and skeletons and wild-eyed beasts created by today’s Street Artists and shot by photographer Jaime Rojo that may make your march along the footpath just a little more mysterious and monstrous as the wind picks up and you rush to your home for safety.

Dave Kinsey (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Steiner (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Vampire Cloud (photo © Jaime Rojo)

John Lurie (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

TY (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nick Walker (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BRLRS (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Buff Monster (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You know, a lot of people around the office like Echidna but I always think she has an empty sort of expression on her face that makes me wonder what she’s thinking. Michael DeNicola (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nervous updates Barbarella. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Evil World (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MOR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lover (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Good to see that the Raven knows love when he sees it. Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Left Handed Wave looks like he might have had a couple while in costume. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

J (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Burning Candy does a horror theme. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week 10.28.12

October 28, 2012 Artists

Here is our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Avoid, BAST, Cruz, Dain, Dark Clouds, EKG, Hanksy, JC, Jesse Hazelip, JM, Jonathan Matas, MUDA Collective, Judith Supine, LNY, Luv1, Poke, Sheepman, Whisbe, XAM, and Zach Rockstad

Street Artist XAM is directing eyes to fly across the sky again throughout Brooklyn with a new flock of birds on a wire. Check us out tomorrow for a new collection of bird shelters from XAM we just found and shot before the Frankenstorms came. Hopefully some birds found them too.

XAM. We welcome XAM back on the streets of NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jonathan Matas . Zach Rockstad . Poke (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cruz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cruz. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dain sidebusts El Sol 25 in this piece that makes both of them more unusual than usual (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WhIsbe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sheepman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sheepman. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gilf! at Bushwick Five Points (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Remember when your aunt Millie told you not to point at somebody because when you point one finger at them you are actually pointing three back at yourself? JC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Luv 1 at Bushwick Five Points (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hanksy imitates Street Artist Chris Stain to try a pop culture reference at Bushwick Five Points. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LNY (right) has been so horny lately as he completes his collab with Overunder (left) at Bushwick Five Points. Also interesting to note the OU urban architectural language melding into the LNY cityscape. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

One more off-kilter collab between Judith Supine and Jesse Hazelip. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

EKG and Dark Clouds in Bushwick Five Points with Avoid’s blessings. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Architect/Designers The MUDA Collective were in town from Rio De Janiero and left some of their custom tile work. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week 09.16.12

September 16, 2012 Artists

Here is our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Cern, Dain, El Sol 25, ETAM, Hef, Ka TVT, Kosbe, Lae, Lucx, Meks, Never, Nice-One, Phetus, Pilot, Reyes, Rez, RONE, Sebs, Skewville, Such, Vers, Victor Reyes, and Yes One.

Yes One, Hef, Ka TVT, Never, Phetus, Vers, Such, Lae, Rez, Cern, Pilot, Such, Meks, Sebs Summer wall collab. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

RONE in San Francisco. Click here for details on RONE current show at the White Walls Gallery (photo © White Walls Gallery for BSA)

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Images of The Week 09.09.12

September 9, 2012 Artists

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Adeline, Cost, El Sol 25, JM, Joseph Meloy, Keely, LMNOP, Mr. Toll, No Sleep, NohJColey, Sanpaku, Sheryo, Smells, ICY & SOT, Shie Moreno,The Cretin, The Yok, and Werds.

The Beautiful and awesome Adeline performs to celebrate NohJColey’s birthday at his opening last night. Better than Marilyn at the MSG for Jack. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

From Wikipedia:

Sanpaku gan (三白眼) or Sanpaku (三白) is a Japanese term that means “three whites” and is generally referred to in English as “Sanpaku eyes”. The term refers to the iris being rather small, so that it only covers about two-thirds or less of the vertical axis of the eye; e.g. delineate an eye into four portions; the iris would only occupy one portion of the divided four sections; thus leaving the other three in white, hence “three whites”.

When the bottom of the white part of the eye, known as the sclera, is visible it is referred to as ‘Yin Sanpaku’ in Chinese lore. According to the myth, it represents physical imbalance in the body and is claimed to be present in alcoholics, drug addicts and people who over consume sugar or grain. Conversely when the upper sclera is visible this is called ‘Yang Sanpaku’. This is said to be an indication of mental imbalance in people such as psychotics, murderers, and anyone rageful. Stress and fatigue may also be a cause.^[1]

In August 1963, macrobiotic pioneer George Ohsawa predicted that President John F. Kennedy would experience great danger because of his sanpaku condition. This was reported by Tom Wolfe in the New York Herald Tribune.^[2]

People with sanpaku eyes may also be feared to be prone to violent or disordered behaviors.^{[citation needed]} There is no evidence for this belief, however.

John Lennon mentioned sanpaku in his song “Aisumasen (I’m Sorry)” from the 1973 Mind Games album. It is also briefly referenced in William Gibson’s Neuromancer, as well as in Michael Franks‘ 1979 song “Sanpaku”, and in The Firesign Theatre‘s piece “Temporarily Humboldt County”.

Icy and Sot. Special shout out to Joe’s buddy at Bushwick 5 Points for giving me a lift so I could get the right angle. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week 07.29.12

July 29, 2012 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

Our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Brilla, Demo, El Sol 25, En Masse, Evereman, Feral Child, Issa, Lambros, Luca Missoni, MOR, Olek, Rae, SSDD and Swampy.

Could be The Abominable Snow Monster or maybe your tenth grade Geometry teacher, Mr. Hairdell. This one was spotted on Bedford Ave (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Let me slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini” said the statuesque David by dEmo and Luca Missoni. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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