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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.08.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.08.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Boy, that Kevin McCarthy is as popular as an STD in a bordello. After begging and paying off more and more people to vote for him so he could become Speaker of the House, it was well past midnight before he got some serious action – and it took 15 ballots over 4 days to award him into his position finally. A classy bunch too, if the pushing and shoving is any indication. Not to be outdone, our own favorite Brooklyn right-wing corporate progressive homesnack Jeffries sliced and diced his foes with some fancy alphabetics in his speech that somehow looked suddenly like a State of the Union speech via Sesame Street.

“FREEDOM OVER FASCISM. GOVERNING OVER GASLIGHTING. HOPEFULNESS OVER HATRED. INCLUSION OVER ISOLATION. JUSTICE OVER JUDICIAL OVERREACH. KNOWLEDGE OVER KANGAROO COURTS. LIBERTY OVER LIMITATION. MATURITY OVER MAR-A-LAGO. NORMALCY OVER NEGATIVITY.”

Clairvoyants that they are, the World Economic Forum already had McCarthy’s new title on its website weeks ago. In our age of dirty wars and dirtier martinis, that story had legs in some Twitter circles, but the WEF clarified the situation.

Meanwhile the BSA office game on Friday was Kevin McCarthy name-that-tune day – challenging us to find popular songs to describe the ongoing losing of votes: Winners of the contest were “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones, “Big Pimpin”, by Jay Z, “Burning Down the House,” by Talking Heads, “Fool on the Hill,” by the Beatles, and “Please, Please, Please” by James Brown, “If It Ain’t Ruff,” by NWA.

Meanwhile, BSA was starting the year in Jersey City to catch some of the newer street art murals that we haven’t published, and the graffiti was on-point as well.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Nespoon, SETH, MadC, Homesick, Manik, Mack, WASP, Beset, JCMP, and Louie Gasparro.

MadC. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MACK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SORY (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BESET (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NeSpoon (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NeSpoon. Detail. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Homesick. Samya. ? (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Louie Gasparro tribute to Virgil Abloh. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NEW. RAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SETH. Detail. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SETH. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SETH. Detail. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SETH. JCMAP. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FEELSYKOE. OSF. WASER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MANIK. WASP (photo © Jaime Rojo)
AVERT (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Help with ID, please… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Help with ID, please… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 03.20.22

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.20.22

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Welcome to BSA Images of the Week.

It’s officially Spring here today – the Spring Equinox beginning in the Northern Hemisphere will be at 11:33 am. Outside of the city, away from the glare, people will be able to glimpse Mars, Saturn, and Venus. The geese have been heard honking on the river, kids have been heard screaming on the playground, aerosol cans have been heard spraying under the bridge.

We’re relieved to glimpse fresh creativity on the streets – a sure sign that people are responding to their lives in a productive visual expression. As citizens of the Precariat, the opportunity to offer unfiltered artistic expression often requires a gatekeeper to approve it. When you are a street artist, you regularly circumvent the taste-makers and the influencers, hoping to reach people directly on the street. This week we found a number of unfiltered images and messages on New York walls and felt like these works are just as fresh as crocus popping through the soil, just as relevant as the blooms pushing through branches on trees. Here we have new shots from Jersey City. These are signs of Spring!

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Beau Stanton, UR New York, 1010, Chupa, Blaze, Melski, The Cupcake Guy, SAMO, Acro, Sory, Niceo, Mona Caron, Cheez.

Stop Putin (photo © Jaime Rojo)
1010 in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
1010 in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ACRO in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ACRO opens a museum in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CHEEZ / ACRO in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Melski in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Beau Stanton in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Beau Stanton in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
UR New York in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CHUPA in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mona Caron in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mona Caron in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sory in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Blaze in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cupcake (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mes / Jamoe Nab in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lady Bugs in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NiCEO in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SAMO© in Jersey City, NJ. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Abandoned Open-Air Catalonian Galleries: Part 1

Abandoned Open-Air Catalonian Galleries: Part 1

During a recent graffiti shooting outing the Spanish photographer and BSA contributor Lluis Olive Bulbena ventured into the woods of a remote region in the North of Catalonia.

Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

When he finally found the site, he felt like he was rewarded for his efforts.

Graffiti writers are known to seek out of the way, abandoned and neglected buildings to practice their skills and otherwise “get up”. This complex of buildings once housed a textile factory in a region famous for its textile industry – an industry that was later decimated by floods.

Anme. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

While the architectural details of the buildings date to the beginning of the XIX century, existing documentation tracks this site as far back as the XVII century where the factories were employed in the manufacture of gunpowder. The following century, the records show that it was processing cotton. Now this not-so-secret site is an open gallery for the curious, hidden from the general public – but open to those who know where to look.

Enjoy our first installment of two – new images from a very old place:

Kandy. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Sory. Astro. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Demon. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Sponer. Milo. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Sponer. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Milo. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Sory. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Sory. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Wiser. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Suflin. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Sor. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Mes. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Apes. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Aldi. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
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