Street Art  

PART TWO
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkqHuP7NAXM

Wooster Collective
is part of my bookmarks bar.
I was an art student in the mid 80's.
I did a bit of it myself and a couple years later worked
at the Apollo theatre tagging stage sets for rap groups.
I wonder where those photos are...and a mural i did for the late Tupac.
Much of my commuting in NYC involves the Harlem River Drive.
Just about when the traffic slows before i cross the 59th st bridge,
i pass Keith Harings "Crack is Wack"
Street art is in my soul.
http://www.woostercollective.com/

link
to the NYTimes article
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/harings-crack-is-wack-mural...

another image
of Keith Haring
The Keith Haring Foundation was established in 1989 to assist AIDS-related and children's charities, and maintains the largest resource of archives on the late artist, Keith Haring.
http://www.haring.com/

Keith Haring Is The Daddy
Whether the kids today know it or not 😉
I'll post pics of my collection..(dating back to the Sex Pistols) when I finally finish this place and we have walls to hang stuff on 😉

I like these clever "bears"
that some guy fashions outta plastic bags, then ties onto NYC subway gratings. They come alive when a train passes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poi8klIN7A4

Air Bears !
They're too funny 😀

Keith Haring the "daddy"?
All the graffiti artists who came before him, in the 1970's, would resent that statement.
While not the "daddy", Haring was undeniably the "darling".

OK
Darling..
he would like that better 😉

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Edited 18-Aug-09:
As off topic, the content of this post have been removed to the thread linked below.
Dear Robert:
In the following posts there are some ideas and photos I've been collecting through last year, when I saw many times some of them I remembered this issue, sometimes I had the camera.

Art Street,
On somewhat quite incomprehensible languages.
The Videos:
I saw again the videos... and how much talent. Great the works and great atmosphere too.
I'm going to post other thing that I see here...
Since this thread was open, I had some issues related in mind.
I've been collecting since then some stuff, and here I'll post some to re-start.
First, I'm an amateur on this. A week ago I went to a bookstore and saw a book about it, the history, etc. But instead of investing in that book I decided to buy a book about "Che and markets/shopping" for another thread ;).
I thought that somebody could made a very little introduction, better than me. Robert perhaps?
Once again, I pass the ball as you see. 😉
But Here is some of the material:
I don't want to talk too much, but what recall my attention is the translation from what supposed to be a popular/transgressive art, in a quite chic-elite art. From the night to morning to me, almost without realizing.
I could be sleeping or looking in other direction, OK, but not so much. Here there is something....hidden?...or in the surface?..
I didn't saw much REAL art-street, and suddenly appears here in the most trendy events...Palermo Viejo (Palermo Soho) is the trendiest neighborhood and appears beside the traditional expensive ads, as a "casual" graffiti (provably paying much more for this than for the traditional ones).

Study Case 1, Nike
Study Case 1
Nike
Nike huge store [Here, when I say Nike and recall N.Klein :)], The building conserved the traditional facade, (good for the Brand/or provably the architects)
But makes an installation with street art.
Note that photos have half the building with graffiti/art but was all complete. I could took the
photos at least with some part.
In the 3rd pic can be seen the contrast with the Lascoste (tidy) Nike (casual?)

Study Case1, Nike, pt2
Some details:
Pic1
Gafiti over grafiti
Pic2
Construction detail
They needed to use pubic space.
Pay atention to construction permision in other photo (3rd photo 1st part).
I also recall that they paid 24hs-day-and-night security (people and car)to protect the "street art". (!!!)

Study Case 2, FPD09
Study Case 2
Feria Puro Diseño 2009 FPD09
A kind of 100% Pure Design fair. It was in the hall, as a welcome, painted by street artists during the fair...as well as all marketing, papers, catalogues, and ads.
Is quite trendy, not to say frivolous. I had a booth, so I "take over" my responsibility. But everything have a limit 😉
Note that can be appreciated, as well as the paintings, also the the happy people taking pretty pictures of their pretty faces with the pretty? street art.