Category: Photos

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Candyfactory Get’s A Little Surface Treatment

For those not familiar with this infamous building, the Candyfactory is essentially the last vestige of a proper spot in Soho for putting up work. What has now all but migrated across the river to Williamsburg, used to revolve around this wonderful little building. Why it has transformed into such an iconic place for putting up work and the story behind it is a mystery to me, but the city is apparently not fond of its perennially changing surface. The above photo from Amolho4 is New York’s most recent endeavor to put the last nail in the coffin. Wonder how long it will take to proliferate into its former beauty.

buff team in 2010 by Amolho4

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Kosbe on the Streets of NYC and the Walls of the Carmichael Gallery

I’ve always loved Kosbe’s zany characters and somewhat esoteric messages. Mostly on stickers, they occasionally make their way onto wheatpastes, as this recent addition to NYC’s East Village.

Photo by Lois Stavsky

Yesterday, Kosbe shared with me — via his iPhone — a photo of his piece currently on exhibit in Martha Cooper’s “Remix” at the Carmichael Gallery in Culver City, CA. A recreation of Cooper’s iconic 1980 photo of Dondi sketching in his room with friends in East New York, Brooklyn, it uncovers another side of Kosbe’s flair.

Photo courtesy of Kosbe

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Weekend link-o-rama

ECB at work on a mural in NYC with Robots Will Kill and OverUnder

Steph is here in Philly now and tomorrow Jordan Seiler, Gaia, and Marc and Sara Schiller will be here too. Pretty good week. Plus, Art in the Streets is almost here and I’ll be in LA for that. Hopefully see some of you there. Here’s some (Philadelphia-centric) news to enjoy over the weekend:

Photo by Becki Fuller

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PublicAdCampaign’s Madrid takeover

Jordan Seiler. Translation - Make love to your city, caress and hold her tightly.

On March 30th, Jordan Seiler and some Madrid-based helpers disrupted bus-shelter advertisements throughout Madrid for PublicAdCampaign‘s latest takeover, MaSAT (Madrid Street Advertising Takeover). Over 100 artists and everyday people from around the world contributed to MaSAT by supplying text which was then printed on the posters that Jordan and his crew installed. Here are a few of my favorites:

TrustoCorp
Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere. Translation - advertisement for a bad movie
Joe Iurato
Logan Hicks

And the MaSAT project is particularly interesting to me because Jordan is participating in the Street Communications panel that I am moderating this weekend at Haverford College and because both the Schillers and I (Marc and Sara will also be on the panel) participated in MaSAT by sending some text:

Marc and Sara Schiller of Wooster Collective
RJ (me). Translation - Hi Carmen. I hope you’ll smile today!

Photos courtesy of PublicAdCampaign

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Tats Cru with Revok on the Lower East Side

Members of the legendary Bronx-based Tats Cru have been painting legal murals on a huge wall off Avenue A and 2nd Street for the past few years. I haven’t loved all of them. The previous two were too cartoonish and gimmicky for me. But the latest one — that I passed today — is working. My favorite segments are those by How and Nosm and the tribute to Sace IRAK Irak painted by Revok who joined the Mural Kings for this wall.

How and Nosm of Tats Cru; photo by Lois Stavsky
Revok Pays Tribute to Sace IRAK, photo by Lois Stavsky

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Luna Park shoots Dan Witz

Sometimes a good photo can really make a piece of street art, as silly as that sounds. After all, so much of the street art that most people see these days is what they see online. Anyway, this photo of a piece by Dan Witz is by Luna Park, and I really like it.

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Weekend link-o-rama

Ripo for the LA Freewalls Project

Before I head out to Vincent Michael Gallery for the opening of the Robots Will Kill show in a few minutes, here’s what’s been going on that I haven’t mentioned on Vandalog…

Photo by Ripo