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
Delancey Street Station is one of the busier subway train junctions in New York City. Its location in the downtown hipster haven of the Lower East Side makes it the jumping off point for commuters going back and forth between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The F Line and J,M and ZContinue Reading
Another prime example of a “graf-out” on the Lower East Side of New York City. We love these things. The graf-out has its own aesthetic — cloud-shaped blobs and swaths of gray paint on metal shutters look like abstract art. Ivan Corsa Photo
Graf goes up, graf goes down. Or, rather, graf gets covered with a coat of paint. Often, that coat of paint is in a slightly different hue from the original color of the wall. We call these “graf-outs.” Nevertheless, a mismatching of hues is the price one pays in theContinue Reading
The signage is starting to fade atop this paint store on Essex St. off East Broadway in New York City, but its colors still offer a bright touch to an otherwise gray block of Lower East Side lofts, tenements and warehouses. Ivan Corsa Photo
Another shot of a paint store front-signage on a Lower East Side block of lofts, tenements and warehouses in New York. This second shot has some added color courtesy of the passersby whose clothing seems to match the color palette of the sign. Ivan Corsa Photo
This huge mural in Williamsburg, in Brooklyn, “rocks the rockingest!” This well-executed work has the look of a magazine illustration writ extra-large. But what really makes this mural pop is the explosive tag painted in the center, which is polished, highly-stylized and pristine. It’s rare to see such a juxtopositionContinue Reading
The East Village in New York City could just as handily be called “Little Tokyo” or “Japan Town” given the extraordinary number of Japanese restaurants, sushi bars and supermarkets, as well as Japanese owned-and-operated hair salons, vintage clothing shops and other establishments (from record stores to toy stores) opened andContinue Reading
An up by “Lier” on the Lower East Side. This tag has edgier, geometric lines and less of the curvelinear stylistic touches of most aerosoled monikers. Ivan Corsa Photo
A clever, “designy” (but not too designy) typographic treatment as logo for local eatery/catering company Snackbar on the side of it’s catering van. A glance at the logo — the brand — itself already makes us think that Snackbar’s food is reliably prepared and delivered. As to the taste ofContinue Reading
Here we’ve got the work of several street artists and writers, including that of a couple of the underground’s brightest stars – Shepard Fairey and Swoon. Here’s the breakdown: The black-and-white motorcycle cop paste-up holding the Andre the Giant icon is the work of Shephard Fairey (of Obey / GiantContinue Reading
A nice close-up of an up on the side of a truck in Chinatown. Mid-sized freight trucks are everywhere in lower Manhattan, but especially in Chinatown. Most of these vehicles are white and as such are a tempting canvas waiting to be filled by aspiring artists and writers. The mobilityContinue Reading
We don’t know who the artist is behind this sticker of a dripping paint brush, which can be interpreted as an ironic, cheeky comment on the nature art itself, given that painting is the medium most associated with the idea of art. The person who created this sticker could haveContinue Reading
Every time we see an up by Claw, it’s a little different from every one we’ve seen before. The colors are different, the pattern is different and there’s always a different number, word or phrase embdeed within the claw itself. It is that three-toe claw that is the only constantContinue Reading
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