“Gray hair is God’s graffiti.”
(Bill Cosby)
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My Favorite Things – Graffiti Served Up Brooklyn Style
Living in Manhattan, I see lots of graffiti in the subway stations, on mailboxes and on passing trucks. However, this graffiti often feels “incidental” – more the outcome of a hurried prank than anything else – and as such, it’s usually not worth more than a passing glance. Manhattan might be the sexier place to live, but I’ve decided that Brooklyn definitely has a leg up in the graffiti department.
Witness these urban treasures I happened upon recently near the Lorimer St. subway stop:
A memorial for Twitch and JRock. I don’t know who they were, but I’ll remember this!
Matryoshka dolls, Williamsburg style…
Feeling watched?
A better use for guns in my opinion, too.
I don’t know where he’s going, but I feel the heat!
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Friday’s Thought – On Decorum
“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”
(Thomas Jefferson)
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Josephine, the Urban Gardener
(Print now available at Joana Miranda Studio at Etsy)
My Favorite Things – Whimsical Graffiti in Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn, for better or for worse, seems to be blessed with a large amount of graffiti artists. On a recent trip to Dumbo, Brooklyn I saw:
Smiley faces and hearts, grunge-style, of course…
A bit of cultural graffiti (c’est jolie, n’est pas?)…
Tragic graffiti…
A bit of the creepy-crawly…
And a forbidding mascot. Enter here at your peril!
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My Favorite Things – Artistic Graffiti in New York City
I don’t usually like graffiti when it looks to me like gibberish scrawled across a subway poster, train or the side of a building. Every once in a while, though, you’ll see a graffiti image that stays with you. Here are a few of my favorites:
In Chinatown…
On a truck just off Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side…
In Chinatown…
On an Upper West Side wall…
In Chinatown…
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