Sticking around NYC

I was fortunate enough to be in NYC for the second half of September and it was a great two weeks. For this post I just wanted to show a few of the wheat pastes that went up throughout the city during that time.

Book smart lions kneel anti-gravity style, Bushwick

Hashtagging with NDA on 3rd and C in Alphabet City

Been listening to a lot of Raphael Saadiq and that song Good Man snuck in on this paster in Bushwick

Crying over the Gowanus canal

Made this in Santa Rosa with the help of some ambitious and imaginative kids. Found a home in Greenpoint

Creative supports on these Harlem metal doors on 103rd. And yes, that's a stretch pickup with a jacuzzi party in the back.

All I see is you... oh you!

This spot was the cat's meow up on 130th and Malcolm X. Got a little Kashink in there too.

Jim Joe approved lot off Broadway. Like the Leathal Weapon 2 Off Broadway show.

And there she is in all her iconic glory. With my man NDA again. About a week later they punched a hole through the wall right on the guys chin.

Or maybe this one is the cat's meow. LOL kitty on Rivington in the LES. Already gone though.

Hungover rainy mornings in the Lower East Side. We've all been there right?

Let's see, we got me and the NDA on some New Gold hashtaggery and a RAE, DAIN, and EKG down on Division near Chinatown. Already gone

Back to an OG spot in Redhook for this welcome wagon of nosiness.

Do you think she wants to Rah Rah with my nina? Back in Redhook on Van Brunt for this 10ft goliath.

Praying for housing in Redhook.

#nofilter, SYKE, I don't know what happened to this flick but at least you can see all her little wormy legs.

Z tip top is the best bar in BedStuy. Do your self a favor and have a bday party there. This is on Whipple off Flushing

ND'A: Wheat paste cliff notes

If you don't know ND'A yet than this will be a quick crash course. The Portland native turned NYC illustrator hit the streets running with a strong and unique style. His heavy-handed brush work and comical characters nestle within the forgotten grooves of Brooklyn. Unlike the typical graffiti characters found on the street, his work is like a troubled second cousin. One can't help but be fascinated and slightly repulsed. Not to say they are grotesque but that they are grotesque, as the word was originally intended to be used.

Even amongst the street art du jour his work seems foreign while giving a nod to the much earlier days of comics and editorial-style cartoons. Although ND'A shrugs off the comparison, I find the work of Pettibon to be a strong influence. The main differnence being ND'A breaks free of the monochrome palette with a dense and decorative layering of colors. Oh yeah, and ND'A goes BIG! Give him a 20 foot wall and he'll find a way to go 22 feet. Check out some of my favorite big murals by him...

Things that make you go hmmmm in Bushwick, Brooklyn. With VENG RWK (left) and IRGH (right).

Prime time in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

ND'A with IRGH (center) and OverUnder (left)

ND'A attempts to mask the real smell of the Lower East Side

ND'A vs OverUnder in Rochester, NY

Since becoming a pretty active tag team with the gent two summers ago I've seen ND'A really come into his own. I think we all remember seeing his piece with Chris RWK or his work at Coney Island and being stopped dead in our tracks. During that time one constant has remained, his love of paper.

When I first met ND'A he was working at a letterpress in the city. Those days are long gone but his affinity for paper is here to stay. Which lends itself perfectly to the weird, world of wheat pasting. To ND'A and I, we break bread by pinning up a fresh stretch of rolled paper, crank up the HOT 97, and clear the air with some cheap spirits. Looking at the work, the booze probably explains a lot. Well you be the judge. Here's a few of my favorite works on paper.

And then...it came down within a week. Sad day for wheat pasters. Off Myrtle Ave.

I've learned over the years that painting open-mouthed characters leads to big penises. Bushwick, BK

One of the early pieces in the Old Navy Yard, Brooklyn.

ND'A above Tomcat in Williamsburg.

So now you can probably see why I'm so excited to show work with the guy! Not to mention Labrona, the third leg of our Paperboys tri-pod. I'll leave you with one more thing. Hopefully not to many of you have seen this already. Well kick of your shoes, get comfortable, and shut up already because this is Nick the Amazing.

In Utero Than Outro on Bogart

Finally warm enough to put up a few new pieces. This was one of my favorites based off the dialogue in the film Moonstruck.

Nick the Amazing

One of my favorite video-shorts so far! And excited to see it featured on Brooklyn Street Art yesterday!

Nick The Amazing from Miss Tint on Vimeo.

November Paste

Cold morning exploring the old haunts up in Bushwick with White Cocoa. She completely obliterated me on this wall with this gorgeous piece! Get your drool sack ready...

Head over heels

New piece in a beautiful and flooded abandoned hospital in Bushwick.

Looking Back

Survived the freak thunderstorm/tornado/hail storm and felt the urge to put something of a different nature up on the street. I finally got the impulse to pull from some old sources and made a remix of Massacio's 'Expulsion From The Garden of Eden' (1425). My friends have been joking with me how no one in there right mind will make the connection but it definitely fits perfect with the place and the situation.

While putting it up this morning a very curious and protective woman overshadowed the whole process. I asked her if she wanted to see it before putting it up and she played aloof. Before I was through her and a man across the street began a shouting match at one another. The cussing finished just about when I finished and turning around I saw them both staring directly at me. I walked over and asked what they thought and the man, Roy, a resident of the Bed Stuy block for 43 years said he wanted to see it up closer. We all went up to examine and he pointed out the key elements right away. The iPod. And the number 86.

"Hell yeah, they're getting 86'd," exclaimed Roy.

"Don't you know it," I added.

Roy then asked, "So why the iPod?"

"Well you know how in the old story of Adam and Eve how they get kicked out for eating the Apple? Well everyone is still eating the Apple it just is a new type."

"Oh yeah, I see that. I see that," he replied.

"And what about the writing on the gate" pointing at the figure on the right.

"Oh that's about a 70-year old Doctor in Warren County who was caught tagging along the freeway. He wrote that word. Rowlow. I don't know what it's supposed to mean but it was kind of his expulsion from paradise."


Before leaving the woman finally spoke and said how the wall to the right was a Memorial to her son Pablo who was killed. She grabbed my hand and said she was just nervous that I would paint over her sons mural.

I told her not to worry and that I hope no one ever paints over the mural.

It's sad that most people think graffiti is about destruction when most people painting on the street pay more attention to architecture and property than most architects do. Talking to a writer is like sitting down with an Urban Planner. The only differnece is, at the end of the day shit gets done. Than again, there is always that one rotten apple.

Michaelangelo, 1508, Fall from Grace


Benjamin West,1791, Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise


Over Under, 2010, 86'd