“Yes, I’m an infowarrior,” says the African American yelling about how CNN is promoting Sharia Law in downtown Manhattan for the #MarchAgainstSharia and a short distance away someone is wrapping the “Fearless Girl” statue with a black burka. The infowarrior is wearing a red “Make America Free” baseball hat and very much seems like he might be gay. And then your head explodes.
Welcome to the “Disinformation Age.”
But New York is waaaaaay too diverse to even countenance this weird new wave of anti-Islam sentiment and the counter-demonstrators with their signs dwarfed the haters– and being good liberals, they probably invited them to come over for dinner after all that yelling.
Otherwise the weather has been gorgeous and Street Artists have been getting up in New York, when they are not too busy fighting about the David Choe wall and calculating new ways to spray over it. We have brand new mural works from people like Dasic, Cekis, and Case Maclaim, and there is a lot more political content in the new free-range Street Art that we are seeing, with much of it focused on the corruption at the top of the national government, racism, environmental matters, the growing police state.
The Puerto Rican Day Parade is today down 5th Avenue, with people celebrating – and also fighting over the “freedom fighter”/ “Terrorist” Oscar López Rivera, who was going to be the Grand Marshall but whom will now simply be a marcher. And Lucy Sparrow tells us that “Vagisil” and champagne are the two big sellers at her temporary bodega under the Standard Hotel that is 9000 items made entirely of Felt. Our own story on that this week, so there’s something to look forward to, along with 90 degree weather and more brain-frying tweets from 45 in the White House while the Congress is emptying all the cupboards, privatizing everything that used to be the people’s and leaving the back door open for banks.
Other than that, everything is dope!
So here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Adam Fujita, Beast, Blanco, Brandon Garrison, Cekis, Dasic, Dirty Bandits, El Sol 25, FKDL, Jetsonorama, Jerk Face, Joe Iurato, Logan Hicks, Mataruda, Mr. Toll, Myth NYC, Opiemme, S0th1s, and She Wolf.
At the top: Dasic and Cekis collab for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dasic in action. The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
S0th1s (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Joe Iurato and Logan Hicks restored collab for The Bushwick Collective Block just in time for the block party 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FKDL for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Roof top view of The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
She Wolf (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Brandon Garrison (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Trainwwg (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fujita and Dirty Bandits. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Blanco has a new piece about prison and police reform, including advocating for the closure of New York’s Rikers Island. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mataruda (left) and Jetsonorama (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Myth and She Wolf collab. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Myth (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Myth (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Myth (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Myth (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jerk Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Disney Dollars (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Opiemme in and abandoned USA base in Ligure, Italy. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mr. Toll (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Beast (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Bushwick, Brooklyn. June 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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