Photos 12 Jul 2009 07:56 am
PhotoSunday – Scribbles Redux
- I’ve been fascinated with the things that have been scribbled or drawn on the streets and sidewalks. I’ve come across many varied bits and pieces, so I thought it time to post some of them.
(Click any image you’d like to enlarge.)
A lot of messages are left on the ground by a Public Utility worker
for other workers. When Con Ed scopes out a site, they leave
their info discovered right out in the open.
These calligraphic images and remarks leave everything
to the imagination of those who don’t understand.
It’s really just a bunch of gibberish to me, but so are heiroglyphics.
Of course, there’s the old drawing in cement with your finger sign.
Here’s a relatively new one on Bleecker Street that doesn’t really
make much sense either.
This one was used to try to save a garden outside of a
local supermarket when it changed hands. It worked.
The garden is still there – pretty wild, too.
Seeing Leviticus on the sidewalk, and I think I’m supposed
to be somehow thinking in biblical terms – dismiss, dismiss.
It turns out to be just another ad for some local studio.
Cheap advertising.
Nom de Guerre marks the entrance to a store.
In the basement – down those dark stairs.
Here’s another one that’s been turning up around town.
Who knows what it’s for – potatoes?
Give me a good ol’ painted heart, and I think I understand.
This is a painted ad for an off-Broadway play.
Six months ago, a worker fell off a construction site and died.
The site was closed for a short period and ultimately everyone
went back to work.
This is the tribute that sits there now, in the pedestrian walkway.
This isn’t written on the sidewalk, but it’s too great to bypass.
I think my cat may be lost.
Though I’m not sure he has that big a smile.
on 12 Jul 2009 at 8:49 am 1.knacht said …
Neck Face was something of a street celeb several years ago, even getting an art show in LA. I spotted his ‘tag’ in the background paintings of a South Korean animated film Called Aatchi and Ssipak. Nonsense sure travels.
on 12 Jul 2009 at 8:59 am 2.knacht said …
…and while we’re on the topic of cheap promotion, i’ve got some work up (22 cartoon paintings on drafting film/mylar) in the basement of HERE Center for the Arts in SoHo, One block south of Spring off 6th ave. (Dominick st. on the west side of 6th)… Please go see if your strolling around SoHo, and are of the mind to. Thanks!
on 13 Jul 2009 at 7:30 am 3.Michael said …
Knacht, congratulations. I’ll try to catch it.