On the Scene … Chet Faker Performing at Our Agency Office
2014-03-31
Electronic-indie musician Chet Faker put in a short live performance set of his beautiful songs at our NYC agency’s offices.
Baby Face Street Art in NYC
2014-03-30
This wheat-paste street art (or “wheatie”) of a super cute, larger-than-life baby face by artist “Mactrukk” has been popping up around New York City lately, including at a spot on the famous graffiti-covered former bank building owned and inhabited by photographer Jay Maisel at the corner on Spring Street andContinue Reading
New York Street Art … “Smoke Trees”
2014-03-30
This stenciled “Smoke Trees” wheat-pasted street art poster in the Lower East Side of New York City has a graphical, lo-fi propaganda feel. The bear iconography and message harkens to Smoky the Bear and public service ad campaigns to create awareness about forest fire prevention. The message here is subversiveContinue Reading
Cute Japanese Toy Cars at Our NYC HQ
2014-03-29
We dug up this small collection of Japanese toy cars manufactured by Tomica. Among these are miniatures of a classic Japanese soba and ramen noodle truck, a Yamazaki bread company delivery truck, a taxi, and an unmarked police car. The models were designed in the 1990s based on real-life carContinue Reading
Funny … “This is a Generic Brand Video”
2014-03-29
This short video titled “This is a Generic Brand Video” was created entirely from stock video to go with the words of Kendra Eash’s clever and funny McSweeney’s Internet Tendency piece of the same title. It’s an amusing, masterful break down of advertising semiotics and visual style. This Is aContinue Reading
Artist Creates Awesome Geometric Paintings with Discarded Cigarette Pack Boxes
2014-03-25
Santa Cruz, California-based artist Robert Larson creates awesome abstract geometric-patterns on his large canvases using pieces of discarded Malboro cigarette pack boxes he has scavenged as his material. His artwork pictured below was recently exhibited at Volta NYC 2014 in New York City. There’s a good interview on Eyebuzz fromContinue Reading
In NYC … Artist Exhibits Reproduction of Trayvon Martin’s Hoodie
2014-03-18
“Tough Love,” an exhibition of recent work by Chilean artist Sebastian Errazuriz, is currently on show at the Storefront for Art & Architecture in New York City. The show features some provocative artwork by Errazuriz that riffs on recent and current events. Among the work on show is “Portrait ofContinue Reading
Mural by Korean Artist Yoon Hyup at Rag & Bone NYC
2014-03-17
Korean artist Yoon Hyup recently had a mural on the wall at the Rag & Bone Jean flagship store in Nolita, in downtown New York City. Rag & Bone has devoted the wall on the Elizabeth Street-side of its shop to showcasing art, with artists putting up new work everyContinue Reading
Wild Postings of Fashion Blogger ASVOF
2014-03-17
We stumbled upon these street-artsy wild posting images of Paris-based American fashion blogger and journalist Diane Pernet on Crosby Street in SoHo, in New York City. The posters include the hashtag #asvofnyc, suggesting her recent presence in New York for fashion week or another event perhaps (?). Pernet’s website A ShadedContinue Reading
In Los Angeles … “Honor” Stone at Fred Segal, Santa Monica
2014-03-05
The entrance to the sprawling, edgy-hip fashionista mecca that is the Fred Segal store complex in Santa Monica, in Los Angeles, has a artsy set of stones embedded in the pavement leading to the front doors from the parking lot. Each of the stones has a word carved into itContinue Reading
On the Scene … At Propellor Coffee in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
2014-03-05
We recently popped by Propellor Coffee in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on one of those interminable snowy days during this year’s remarkably harsh winter in New York City. This cafe is a solid, local ‘third-wave” coffee joint with much more generous space than many of the miniscule espresso bars that these daysContinue Reading
Street Art … “Curb Your Ego” Sign in Brooklyn
2014-03-05
“Curb Your Ego” strikes this stretch of wall in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It’s a cheeky piece of street art playing on the usual visual grammar of municipal street signage, and it never fails to amuse, especially when placed near an art gallery. 🙂
New York Street Art … Charlie Chaplin Stencil in Brooklyn
2014-03-04
Sublime stencil street art image of the legendary Hollywood actor Charlie Chaplin on a wall near Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Broken-Heart Macaron at Cafe Grumpy
2014-03-04
Super delicious macarons at Cafe Grumpy, an espresso bar and cafe in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, including the one pictured here with a cute broken heart graphic printed on it. Yummy! Pop-cultural reference: This Cafe Grumpy is used as the location set for the Cafe Grumpy that appears in Lena Dunham’s hitContinue Reading
Street Art … Skeleton Portrait of Fashion Editor Diana Vreeland by Bradley Theodore
2014-03-04
Recent street art painting by Bradley Theodore depicting legendary Vogue magazine editor Diana Vreeland. The artwork is on Lafayette Street between Prince and Spring streets in SoHo, in downtown New York City. Theodore’s street art images are portraits of iconic figures from the fashion world rendered as colorful, grotesque skeletons.Continue Reading