Tag Archives: Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Art Crime: Naked Artists Occupy Wall Street in Ocularpation
Ocularpation is a project of New York artist Zefrey Throwell. It started in San Francisco in 2008, and has apparently found a plum context in the ongoing occupation of Wall Street. The image here is from an August iteration of the project, before the current occupation got under way. Throwell says of the neologism and the project: “Ocularpation is a new contraction. Its root comes from occupation, with the dual connotation of both a job done for money, as well as a military or strategic encampment. Ocular, or pertaining to the eye, cements the meaning of the word in a visual context. This is an act of optical guerilla office bivouac.” In short, miming office work in the buff in some of the major financial centers of the world. Of course, some of the naked artists have been arrested. Throwell bails them out. But what about the real criminals…? More Ocularpation here.
Stop for Zoltron!
Posted in Beards, Comics, Photography, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Subcultures
Tagged Beards, Photography, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Zoltron
Kook Both Ways
Is this an example of the city’s attempts to keep its Yiddish-speaking citizens safe when they cross the street (“Kook” is Yiddish for “Look,” the usual word spray-painted in SF crosswalks)…or a graffiti artist’s commentary on the eccentricity of San Francisco’s citizenry?
Seen on Folsom St. in the Mission.
-AidanAbroad
Posted in San Francisco, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Graffiti, Kook, look, San Francisco, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Yiddish
Beautiful SOMA Banksy – Hot Rat!
Banksy on 9th St. SF. Photo: Gay Highwaymen, Dec 2010.
Banksy! We snapped this shot on 9th St between Folsom and Harrison Streets in San Francisco’s SOMA (South of Market) district some time back. Popped up “just so” during last year’s run of Exit Through The Gift Shop.
Hey, B,…if you ever want to extend your marvelous marks into the rural fabulosity of NorCal, you are invited. Hospitality, anonymity, great groovy walls and other cool surfaces guaranteed!
Posted in Activism, ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Art and Artists, Collecting, DIY and Maker Culture, Photography, San Francisco, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Subcultures
Tagged Art, Banksy, Culture, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Film, Folsom St, Grafitti, Photography, Rat, San Francisco, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, SOMA, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
NY Times Article: Chewing Gum Art in London
Interesting article in the New York Times: artist Ben Wilson makes art out of tiny blobs of gum on London Sidewalks. You can read the article here.
-AidanAbroad
Posted in England, Europe, Signage, Skate and other boarding, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Artist, Ben Wilson, Chewing, Culture, Gum, London, Signage, Street, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Homotextual Slide Show: Obey Milk Now, Christian Underpants, and…
…other sights and signs seen in the Castro District and other assorted San Francisco City sites. For more homotexuality, click here and here.
Posted in Photography, San Francisco, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Art, Castro District, Culture, Gay, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Laissez Les Bons Temps Roulez! Mardi Gras Krewe of St. Anne
…and The Krewe of Guns in Churches and the very vegetative Krewe Dite’ and other assorted Krewes, Walking and Rambling Clubs, Pleasure and Social Clubs and plenty of Brass Bandage. For more on the Krewe of St. Anne, click here. For “Show Us Your Dick!”- a slide show showing the throwing of beads at boys from the balcony at Lafitte’s, click here.
The Gay Highwaymen 