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Seeing a lot more wheat-paste activity recently on Postal Service dropboxes in downtown Manhattan. Here’s one for (by ?) “Lint NYC” of a line-drawn rendering of President John F. Kennedy smoking. There was once an era when president’s smoked and it was ok. Of course, that was also an eraContinue Reading

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Here’s a close-up of the JFK wheat-paste in Soho. Seeing a lot more wheat-paste activity recently on Postal Service dropboxes in downtown Manhattan. Here’s one for (by ?) “Lint NYC” of a line-drawn rendering of President John F. Kennedy smoking. There was once an era when president’s smoked and itContinue Reading

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Not sure who the artist is behind this faded wheat-paste of two boys “brawling,” but we think the creator is the prolific wheat-paster called Faile. Found this in Soho, NYC. The boys appear to be dressed in private school attire and one of them actually looks like he has stabbbedContinue Reading

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A close-up shot of some recent NYC work by Andre. It’s great to see some fresh work by Andre on the streets of downtown Manhattan. Andre (“Tout Va Bien”) is an influential French graf-writer and street-artist whose iconic character “Monsieur A” can be found throughout Paris and other European cities.Continue Reading

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Same shot of work by Andre, but from a different angle. It’s great to see some fresh work by Andre on the streets of downtown Manhattan. Andre (“Tout Va Bien”) is an influential French graf-writer and street-artist whose iconic character “Monsieur A” can be found throughout Paris and other EuropeanContinue Reading

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It’s great to see some fresh work by Andre on the streets of downtown Manhattan. Andre (“Tout Va Bien”) is an influential French graf-writer and street-artist whose iconic character “Monsieur A” can be found throughout Paris and other European cities. Sometimes Monsieur A is painted as thin stick-legged character. OtherContinue Reading

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Another shot of the Apple Store, Soho. The New York City Apple Store in Soho resides in a former US Post Office building formerly called “Station A” in Soho. It’s located in the heart of downtown Manhattan amid multi-million-dollar real estate in the form of lofts, apartments, retail spaces, creativeContinue Reading

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The Bloomingdales Soho store in New York City has an interior design that reflects its downtown setting. The department store’s lower Manhattan outpost is in a quintessential Soho lofts building in the heart of what was once one of the city’s artiest neighborhoods. The interior is filled with original artContinue Reading

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Stop Sign Stickers, Soho, New York 2 – Context Pictured above is the context shot of some great NYC sticker street art. Sticker bombing is a common sight in downtown New York City. Here and there public street signs get hit with a mad vengeance. This stop sign in SohoContinue Reading

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Here’s a detail shot of this awesome sticker street art. Sticker bombing is a common sight in downtown New York City. Here and there public street signs get hit with a mad vengeance. This stop sign in Soho is good example. The stickers are a mix of street art andContinue Reading

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We’ve been seeing a lot of “i love you” popping up around lower Manhattan these past six months, especially in the Lower East Side, Nolita, Soho and the East Village. It’s unkown to whom, individually, this message is directed besides the public. But its essense is positive, a reminder, perhaps,Continue Reading

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The actors Robert Deniro and the late Charles Bronson both played vigilante killers in films about outsiders taking the law into their own hands to seek justice. Here the two are united in wheat-paste street art on a Chinatown street in lower Manhattan. The image of Deniro is culled fromContinue Reading

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Surface To Air (or Surface 2 Air) is an underground-ish creator’s atelier, art gallery, event space and boutique all wrapped up into one at very central Paris address in a right-bank neighborhood near Les Halles. Here is a shot of the iron-shuttered, graf-scrawled storefront from across the lane. Like ColetteContinue Reading

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This is a shot of the Surface To Air signage, a non-descript, sterile sans-serif logotype. Surface To Air (or Surface 2 Air) is an underground-ish creator’s atelier, art gallery, event space and boutique all wrapped up into one at very central Paris address in a right-bank neighborhood near Les Halles.Continue Reading

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This image doesn’t really need explanation … well .. okay, maybe it does … a little. Whenever a building undergoes some sort of renovation work in New York City, scaffolding is placed on all sides of the building adjacent to the sidewalk. The scaffolding covers the sidewalk, and the sidesContinue Reading

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Another shot of the clever use of scaffolding space by Digital Ink to advertise its business in New York. This image doesn’t really need explanation … well .. okay, maybe it does … a little. Whenever a building undergoes some sort of renovation work in New York City, scaffolding isContinue Reading

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One more shot of the clever use of scaffolding space by Digital Ink to advertise its business in New York. This image doesn’t really need explanation … well .. okay, maybe it does … a little. Whenever a building undergoes some sort of renovation work in New York City, scaffoldingContinue Reading