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Images of the Week 09.13.09

Images of the Week 09.13.09

Our Weekly Interview with the Street

Dan Witz
Oh Baby! (Dan Witz) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz
Dan Witz (photo Jaime Rojo)

Cow boy
I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail
A starry night, a campfire light
The coyote call, the howling winds wail (photo Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe
Elbow Toe “Divine Hammer” (photo Jaime Rojo)

Explore Yourself
Explore Yourself (photo Jaime Rojo)

Gaia
Gaia (photo Jaime Rojo)

Gaia
Out on Cow Kontrol! (Gaia) (photo Jaime Rojo)

General Howe
Soldier bones (General Howe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Imminent Disaster
Imminent Disaster (photo Jaime Rojo)

Imminent Disaster
Birdie Birdie (Veng RWK) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Ink
And for my next number I’d like to return to the classics… (Ink, Shin Shin) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Ink
They did the MASH! They did the MONSTER MASH (Ink) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Keely
Fish head (Keely) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Niz
“Young Fella, if yer lookin’ fer trouble I’ll accomodate ya.” (Niz) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Click to hear the original John Wayne audio

Oopsy Daisy
Halloween is in the air! (Oopsy Daisy) (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company
Portrait of Common by The Dude Company (photo Jaime Rojo)

I'm gonna eat you!
You’re a nice Puddy Tat!  (photo Jaime Rojo)

Let's go shopping
You hear that?  No, I dint hear nuthin’.    (photo Jaime Rojo)

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Images of Week 08.09.09

Images of Week 08.09.09

Our Weekly Interview with the Street at BrooklynStreetArt.com

El Sol 25 and Passenger Pigeon
El Sol 25 and Passenger Pigeon (photo Jaime Rojo)

Cake with a Snack
Cake with a Snack (photo Jaime Rojo)

Celso keeps good company
Hola, I’m Veronica and I’ll be your hostess for this evening. These are my parents, and they will be in the basement until dawn (Celso, Cake) (photo Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25
Michael the Mannequin (El Sol 25) (photo Jaime Rojo)

I Am
Thoughtful I Am (photo Jaime Rojo)

Roce Bannon keeps night hours
Keeping night hours (Royce Bannon) (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company
The Dude Company (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company
Rockin’ the Mike (The Dude Company) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Bast
Bast is Back and Wild as ever (photo Jaime Rojo)

Bast
Bast to meet you (photo Jaime Rojo)

Blanco and Shin Shin

Child with a toy hand grenade (original photo by Diane Arbus1962) and Shin Shin (photo Jaime Rojo)

Dash Snow RIP
Dash Snow RIP (photo Jaime Rojo)

Gazlay
Gazlay does Bowie (photo Jaime Rojo)

I Am
I Am (photo Jaime Rojo)

Jon Burgerman
It’s a whole new Doodle by British Sensation Jon Burgerman! (photo Jaime Rojo)

Shepard Fairey Obey

Andre keeping an eye out (Shepard Fairey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Shepard Fairey
“Think & Create, Paint & Destroy” Shepard Fairey (photo Jaime Rojo)

Shepard Fairey

Aung San Suu Kyi

by Shepard Fairey (photo Jaime Rojo)

Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey (photo Jaime Rojo)

Specter "Billy Bobby"

Specter (photo Jaime Rojo)

WK Interact

WK Interact

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Images of Week 07.19.09

Images of Week 07.19.09

Our weekly interview with the streets

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

Rose

A Rose on a bridge beam (photo Jaime Rojo)

Space Invader

Space Invader (photo Jaime Rojo)

Specter
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

(Connor Harrington) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Stop or I shot! Connor Harrington

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

Dissed Nine

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

MBW Tian HomeTown HiFI
MBW, Tian, HomeTown HiFI (photo Jaime Rojo)

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

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

MBW

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

NINE

(NINE) (photo Jaime Rojo)

NINE

Shin Shin Stickman
Shin Shin, infinity, Stickman (photo Jaime Rojo)

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

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

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

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

)Elbow Toe "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?"
Perfectly balanced. (Elbow Toe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

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

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

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

WK Motion Picture
WK Interactive motion portrait (photo Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week 05.31.09

Images of the Week 05.31.09

(photo Jaime Rojo)
Die young, stay pretty. (Shin Shin, Billi Kid) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Chris Stain (photo Jaime Rojo)
Yo, he barely cleared that post. That was close! (Chris Stain) (photo Jaime Rojo)

(photo Jaime Rojo) crosby street
Crosby Street (photo Jaime Rojo)

Dain! There's something in mah ahh!  (Dain) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Dain! There’s somethin’ in mah ahh!  (Dain) (photo Jaime Rojo)

(Dan Witz) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Okay, I’m going to need to see some I.D. (Dan Witz) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Oh hi  (photo Jaime Rojo)
Oh hi, no I’m just looking for my contact.  I dropped it over here someplace. (photo Jaime Rojo)

Imminent Disaster (photo Jaime Rojo)
Help us out with this one if you know the name/s (Imminent Disaster) (photo Jaime Rojo)

(Mussolini) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Mussolini. The original Che (photo Jaime Rojo)

(Nobody) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Incredible new colorful sculpture by Nobody. (photo Jaime Rojo)

NYDF (photo Jaime Rojo)
Another ingenious merging of the two cities. (NYDF) (photo Jaime Rojo)

(passenger pigeon) (photo Jaime Rojo)
(Passenger Pigeon) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Peru Ana  (photo Jaime Rojo)
Blowing bubbles or smoking a pipe? (Peru Ana Ana Peru) (photo Jaime Rojo)

(Tazzmat) (photo Jaime Rojo)
(Red Nose Tazzmat) (photo Jaime Rojo)

(Tian)  (photo Jaime Rojo)
You mention my multicolored bike and I’ll punch your lights out. (Tian) (photo Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week 03.09.09

Aiko (photo Jaime Rojo)
Why don’t you come up and see me sometime? (Aiko) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Cake and ShinShin (photo Jaime Rojo)
Cake and ShinShin (photo Jaime Rojo)

Altered Torino (photo Jaime Rojo)
Altered Torino (Altered Beast) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Altered Brokeback (photo Jaime Rojo)
Altered Brokeback (Altered Beast) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Altered Beast (photo Jaime Rojo)
Jon Benet (Altered Beast) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Bishop 203 (photo Jaime Rojo)
Broken Heart. (Bishop 203) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Feral (photo Jaime Rojo)
Head Dress (Feral) (photo Jaime Rojo)

You’re looking good just like a snake in the grass (Hellbent) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Mark Carvalho (photo Jaime Rojo)
Spring is in the Air! (Mark Carvalho) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Pork at the Robot (Noah Sparkes and ? ) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Pork Robot (Noah Sparkes(pattern) and Roa (pig) ) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Priority Celso (photo Jaime Rojo)
Priority Celso (photo Jaime Rojo)

(photo Jaime Rojo)
Supreme Sunshine (photo Jaime Rojo)

Start Early! (photo Jaime Rojo)
Start Early! (photo Jaime Rojo)

Zoso (photo Jaime Rojo)
Never Forget Your Roots (Zoso) (photo Jaime Rojo)

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Week In Images 03.01.09

I'm gaurding these bricks. Don't move any further. (Veng from RWK) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Halt! Step no further! I’m guarding this brick wall. (Veng from RWK) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Honey there's an Alien in the stairwell (UFO) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Honey there’s an alien in the stairway (UFO) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Been awfully windy lately (photo Jaime Rojo)

Been awfully windy lately (Skewville) (photo Jaime Rojo)

There's a party up in here (photo Jaime Rojo)

There’s a Party Up in Here! (photo Jaime Rojo)

(NohjColey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Derivation of Contemplation (NohjColey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

(photo Jaime Rojo)
Which way is the wild side again? (Nobody) (photo Jaime Rojo)

pity party (photo Jaime Rojo)

Pass me a cupcake, with you? (Karat) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Okay Erykah is Hot but check out my (Goons) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Okay Erykah is Hot but check out my T-shirt (Goons, The Dude Company) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Sweet Tamed (Faile) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Sweet Tamed (Faile) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Wild Librarian on the Loose!  (Billi Kid) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Wild photog on the Loose! Watch out! (Billi Kid) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Hero to Lehman apparently (Billi Kid) (photo Jaime Rojo)

A hero to the Lehman family apparently (Billi Kid) (photo Jaime Rojo)

That's funny, bunny (Aiko) (photo Jaime Rojo)

That’s funny, bunny (Aiko) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Poster Boy and Aakash Nihalani (photo Jaime Rojo)

Overnight delivery in a flash! (Poster Boy and Aakash Nihalani) (photo Jaime Rojo)

(Aakash Nihilani) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Transformer Boxes (Aakash Nihilani) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Are you sure? (Zoso) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Are you sure? (Zoso) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Midwinter spring is its own season (Shin Shin) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Midwinter spring is its own season (Shin Shin) (photo Jaime Rojo)

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Week in Images 02.22.09

Week in Images 02.22.09

We’ve been a little busy on that “Street Crush” KRAZEE-ness for a few weeks,

so we thought everyone should just take it easy, and not put up any work on the street until we could get back out there and take a look around. Well, that didn’t really work very well, did it? What the heck?

Specter

Remember your patriotism being questioned at every corner a couple years ago? Specter would like to continue the conversation apparently. (photo Jaime Rojo)

artzososhinshin

Don't know where Zoso is going with this, but Shin Shin is surrounding it with spring flowers (photo Jaime Rojo)

aakashnihalani1

Oh, you are like, such a square. I mean, like you are so square you are like a cube, or whatever. (Aakash Nihilahni) (photo Jaime Rojo)

aakashnihalani2

This was on a floor, which means it is probably destroyed by now. (Aakash Nihilahni) (photo Jaime Rojo)

blanco

Dreaming of Brownstones and affordable mortgages. (Blanco) (photo Jaime Rojo)

c215

I'm watching you. (c215) (photo Jaime Rojo)

chris

Someone needs a bib (Robots Will Kill) (photo Chris)

chris

The Amish Robot (Robots will Kill) (photo Chris)

chris
chris

All tied up (Chris from Robots Will Kill) (photo Jaime Rojo)

unknown

unknown (photo Jaime Rojo)

Ellis G.

Ellis G. (photo Jaime Rojo)

Gaia

Can't tell if he's petting it or snapping it's head off (Gaia) (photo Jaime Rojo)

General Howe

Obama and Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth at Arlington Cemetery - on a gravemarker covered with lace. (General Howe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Art Goons C215

Like my new Stoll? Filene's Basement of course! I know, PETA would probably have a fit, but it was 40% off. (Art Goons, C215) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Art Goons
Art Goons

Damn! Forgot my gloves! (Art Goons) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Haculla

Siiiiinnngggiin in the Rain, Just Singing -- In the Rain!! (Haculla) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Hellbent

I used to live in this apartment on the upper east side near Gracie Mansion, and sometimes at night a golf-ball sized cockroach would run across my bed and thump onto the hardwood floor and run away. I kid you not. (Hellbent) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Hope

Hope, expressed as a garish, heavy pyramid-like sculpture. (unknown) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Imminent Disaster

Imminent Disaster (photo Jaime Rojo)

I want a Divorce
Keely

Keely (photo Jaime Rojo)

Keely

Keely (photo Jaime Rojo)

MBW

That famous kiss by two of our visionary leaders (MBW) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Momo

Momo (photo Jaime Rojo)

Mr. Afternoon

Sometimes the right hat can just MAKE the whole outfit. (Mr. Afternoon) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Sex

A temple to Sex. (photo Jaime Rojo)

Deeks and Stikman

Deeks and Stikman on a corroded wall (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company

The Dude Company honors Dr. King (photo Jaime Rojo)


Unknown

Bishop 203 (photo Jaime Rojo)

Unknown Collage
Veng

I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Veng from Robots Will Kill) (photo Jaime Rojo)

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Year in Images 2008

Year in Images 2008

Paradigm Shifting and Cave Writings

Looking back at the powerful changes in ’08,

it’s not hard to see their reflection on the Brooklyn streets, which may serve as tea leaves revealing the messages swirling around us and in us. Each individual act of creating is of significance, yet it is the cumulative effect of the groundswell of new participants that seems so powerful, so hopeful in it’s desire.

Naturally, at the beginning of this selection of images from 2008, we are featuring the most visible street art piece of the year by Shepard Fairey, which appeared here on the streets of Brooklyn and transcended mediums to reach millions of people. Shepard’s graphic design style and his images of the man who would be president helped many to quickly glimpse the character and message of Barack Obama.

A Winning Campaign (Shepard Fairey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

A Winning Campaign (Shepard Fairey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

The image was replicated, adopted, adapted, transformed, re-formed, lampooned even. It became an icon that belonged to everyone who cared to own it, and a symbol of the change the man on the street was looking for. Like street art, Obama’s message was taken directly to the people, and they responded powerfully in a way that brought a historic shift; one that continues to unfold.

Elsewhere on the street we saw themes from topical to fantastical; crazy disjointed cultural mash-ups, celebrity worship or destruction, Big Brother, icons, symbols, death, war, economic stress, protest, dancing, robots and monsters and clowns and angels, and an incredible pathos for humanity and it’s sorry state… with many reminders of those marginalized and disaffected. We never forget the incredible power of the artist to speak to our deepest needs and fears.

The movement of young and middle-aged artists off the isle of pricey mall-ish Manhattan and into Brooklyn is not quite an exodus, but boy, sometimes it feels that way. The air sometimes is thick with it; the creative spirit. The visual dialogue on the street tells you that there is vibrant life behind doors – studios, galleries, practice rooms, loft parties, rooftops.

Even as a debate about street art’s appropriate placement on public/private walls continues, it continues. From pop art to fine art, painterly to projected, one-offs to mass repetition, Brooklyn street art continues to grow beyond our expectations, and our daily lives are largely enriched by it.

This collection is not an exhaustive survey – the archival approach isn’t particularly stimulating and we’re not academics, Madge. The street museum is always by chance, and is always about your two eyes. Here’s a smattering, a highly personal trip through favorites that were caught during the year.

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