It’s a car. It’s a helicopter. It’s a … “helicar”? No, wait … it’s a n “automocopter.” Whatever it is, it was on the wall of a lofts building in downtown New York City. The car itself looks a lot like a tricked-out Porsche Carrera sports car or possibly aContinue Reading
A wheat-paste graphic of a badminton shuttlecock (that’s “birdie” in American English) in downtown NYC, somewhere on a wall amid the luxury lofts and apartments of Nolita and Soho. THe graphic is a poster for the “Badassminton” event in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Ivan Corsa Photo
Pink paste-up of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in lower Manhattan. A couple of random notes about Powell. As this paste-up states, Powell is from the Bronx and he is a Brooklyn College grad, so in a sense he’s originally a New Yorker. His son, Michael, was recentlyContinue Reading
This impressive painting on Orchard Street, between Delancey and Broome streets, in the Lower East Side, is by one of the all-time great artists to emerge from the New York City graf underground. The artist is called West One (or West 01). These days he calls the Upper West SideContinue Reading
Sushi Ahoy! – Maritime Hotel Building, Chelsea, NYC 02 A shot of the lower and ground levels of the Maritime Hotel in Chelsea where the wave of chic gentrification continues to turn warehouses into multi-million-dollar condos and apartments. This hot piece of Manhattan real estate serves not only as aContinue Reading
The Maritime Hotel in Chelsea has only been around for 39 years, but it already has a storied history. The 12-floor building is now a fashionable boutique hotel and office building catering to the rich and fabulous and celebrity-crowned peeps who haunt the Meatpacking District, West Village and Cheslea. TheContinue Reading
Our favorite piece of graphica from the recent Honolulu series is this example of signage and graphic design at Honolulu International Airport. The standard internationally recognized iconography for Restroom, or Men’s Room, has been dressed up with local Hawaiian flavor. Not only has a Polynesian decorative graphic been used inContinue Reading
Found this surprisingly excellent up along the King Kamehameha Highway on the east side of Oahu, outside Honolulu. This was one of the best examples of graf we saw on the island. Ivan Corsa Photo
A detail shot of the Waikiki Galleria Building office tower in Honolulu. Ivan Corsa Photo
We love the style of this building. The Waikiki Galleria Building in Honolulu is an impressive piece of real estate. The architectural design is a fusion of Polynesia and post-modernism. The result of these combined influences is a glass office tower in the international style with a lattice structure orContinue Reading
We came across this abandoned barn along the the King Kamehameha Highway (or “The Kam,” as locals say) outside the Honolulu suburbs on the eastern shore of Oahu. On the side of the barn is an old, faded mural of Hawaiian imagery. Even in its weathered condition, the mural retainsContinue Reading
The famous Sheraton Royal Hawaiian hotel on Waikiki Beach, in Honolulu, is a classic, old-school luxury hotel. Its official logo is its venerable seal, pictured above. As design, it builds on the classic imagery and design conventions of both Western and Hawaiian nobility, and in doing suggests a degree ofContinue Reading
The most famous hotel in Honolulu, or for that matter Hawaii and all the Pacific, the Sheraton Royal Hawaiian is certainly one of the world’s most famous hotels and an icon of beach-resort luxury. Dubbed the Pink Palace of the Pacific for the striking color of its exterior, the RoyalContinue Reading
On the edge of downtown Honolulu is this feeble attempt to write a tag. This unfinished graf is a rarity nonethless in a city that has relatively little graf and street art compared to most large urban cities on the mainland of America. If you look hard enough, however, you’llContinue Reading
This LV store in the Waikiki condos and resorts district, in Honolulu, has an achitectural design influenced by what looks like, at first glance, a fusion of Asian, Polynesian and Western styles. Ivan Corsa Photo
This hotel and condo tower in the central Waikiki resort district, in Honolulu, looks like a classic piece of 1960’s or 1970’s beach-tourist architecture. The feature of this building is the curved UFO-like structure atop the skyscraper. Usually, this type of round, glass-sided architectural crown is a restaurant and barContinue Reading
Snapped this shot of a huge, long mural of a tiger stripe motif on the exterior of a high school east of downtown Honolulu. The design treatment fits well with the Oahu environment, and, we speculate, the mural echoes the design of the school’s colors and athletic uniforms, especially sinceContinue Reading
Walking along Prince Street in SoHo, past the the cast-iron lofts buildings, this past Wednesday evening, we spotted a major up by Gano on a truck. We’ve seen Gano’s graf only on trucks, never on a building, and given that we’ve seen his moniker at least half a dozen trucks,Continue Reading
This is a classic piece of large-scale street art by New York artist WK Interact, whose work is drawn in high-contrast black-and-white images that convery power and motion. This image suggest the notion of headache as experienced by a necktie-wearing office slave. A masked wrestler is tearing violently at theContinue Reading
We found this sticker on Ludlow Street in the Lower East Side about a week ago and couldn’t resist pulling out our Nikon camera and snapping it for the record. The colors are harsh and even harsher as a combination. Pink and yellow scream attention and echo the spiky hairContinue Reading
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