Paris

Just back from good ol' gay Paris where I stayed at 115 with Pigeon Crew from Amsterdam. It was an amazing and quick trip filled with way too many coincidences. Thanks to Alex, Thomas, and Benji at le 115 as well as the A-dam posse Cavin, Donny, Jessy, and Jeremy.

Yale Wolf New Mural

My good friend Yale just sent me some images of a new mural he finished. Not only is it bangin but it involves customized neon signage! You here that Jeff Johnson? So hats off to Yale on this amazing work. Check out more details here

NY Times Story

I would have completely missed this if Joe Delappe hadn't forwarded it to me. I didn't think I'd ever be mentioned in the NY Times, but I'm just imagining it to be an early birthday present.

A Facade to Celebrate the Neighborhood

By STEVEN KURUTZ

Published: October 23, 2008
Last spring, Jeremy Sapienza, a 28-year-old Web editor, and his partner bought a two-story house on a rough block of Central Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Like most urban pioneers, they have been renovating as funds allow.

They couldn’t afford to redo the facade, though, which Mr. Sapienza described disdainfully as “flat stucco painted Pepto-Bismol pink.” So this summer they hired an artist named Erik Burke to cover it with a mural.

Read more at the NYTimes

I <3 Breakfast (still)

Yes, it's true, I love breakfast. Some would even go so far as to say that I love breakfast more than ponies. And even with all that affection the B Word is still not done. The breakfast zine was scheduled to be announced last year but after the makers (and contributers, yes you Mike G) were getting to shithoused to celebrate breakfast and moved onto trendier things like brunch, the breakfast world was devastated. But no breakfast world, you shouldn't believe it! No, you shan't! So just to set the record straight I'm goint to give operation Breaky Freedom a timeline. Rest assured knowing that there will be a surge in breakfast writing and issue 1 will hit coffee tables by New Years.

Construction Typography

Typographical remix in the bed steezy. Working concept using found objects on site.

Pensioners try graffiti art

Saw this on the BBC and had to repost. Click this link to watch the video.

Batcave

Got a chance to go milling around in this beautiful old building down near the Gowanus Canal.  Found a bunch of old squatter houses (this being one of the cleanest by far) and couldn't imagine who would've stayed here.  Then randomly ran into You Go Girl on the G train and he said that this place, the Batcave he called it, was his first home.  He moved into it when he was 17 and lived there for a year until too many other squatters moved in and started doing heroin.

In other news I got the flu and haven't been able to do much of anything.  Ugghhh!

Erik Kastner // Spell w/ Pictures

Erik Kastner created this application which uses the API of flickr to spell with differenect combinations of pictures.  This is going to make life a lot easier for thugs making ransom notes.

Banksy Vandalism Good for Economy

After numerous new stencils went up over night in New Orleans a new type of discussion is emerging about the legitamacy of Banksy's graffiti.  So the meat of the story is that his newest work is already being removed.  Some removed as in catching the buff or other forms of oakie cover-up and revandalism.  But more excitingly, a lot of his pieces are literally being removed from entire buildings by cutting and hacking.  This comes as no surprise since his work has been selling in the 6 digit range at galleries and auction houses like Bonhams.  Check out this article to read about the reception of people to Banksy's clandestine stencils in New Orleans.

New // Over Under Mural

Just finished this mural for Jeremy of BushwickBk. What seemed like it would only take a few days took almost a month as more and more people from the neighborhood came by to get their portrait added and chit chat. It was very Jane Jacobs-like hanging out their and getting to know the neighborhodd through and through. I'm really going to miss them now that it's done.

Cuban Motorbike

How could you not love this?! Rochambeaux take note. This is a cheap recipe for success.

jacked from Wired

Upcoming Show: "The Outsiders"

Opens Sept. 26th till Oct. 12th. Feat. works from Faile, JR, Invader, David Choe, Mark Jenkins, Todd James, BAST, Conor Harrington, Zevs, Antony Micallef, Jonathan Yeo, Miranda Donovan, Paul Insect, Vhils, Polly Morgan, and Mode 2.

Lazarides Gallery New York
282 Bowery at Houston
Hours: 11am-7pm
Admission: Free

Lazarides London site

Dwellings

In the face of a dismal real estate market, U.S. homeowners are proving quite resourceful. At 9.5 feet wide and ten feet high, the home features a bedroom, living area, electric kitchen, and bathroom. It is property tax-free (it counts as “rolling stock”), transportable, and powered by an electric plug. The railcar is now on the market for $225,000.