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

Old New is the New New

Sometimes I carry pieces around with me on trips just never quite finding the right place. They sit in my bag, slouching their way to the bottom, collecting rips and creases. This piece is one of those where after making it I brought it to NY, Baltimore, San Francisco, even India but it was just too weird to impose on an innocent audience.

While driving through Arizona we pulled off to check out some abandoned mobile homes to wheat paste. Reaching into my bag I randomly pulled this one out again, it's oddness dulled a bit over time, and gave it a canary yellow home. I'm glad to finally see it out in the light of day.

An old one made new along the Navajo Trail.

10 Days

The below piece is in Santa Rosa, CA and illustrates the situation of my good friend who just served time in Jail for writing on the pole of a street sign. He was arrested by Reno cops who belittled and profiled the shit out of him, most of all for being Mexican. As you may have noticed, I deeply despise how categories make people blind to what is really going on. Despite the fact that it was his first offense (ever, not just graffiti-related) the judge found the sentence of 10-days in jail to be adequate and fairly lenient. Why is Reno so persistent to cleanse itself of emergent culture and consistently sanitize itself to the point of economic collapse?

Back from Open Walls Baltimore

Baltimore...what a place! Aside from being so fortunate to receive a big wall to paint for OWB and Station North Arts I made the time to get up some street pieces during my ten day stay. I'm not really sure where they all are as I was drifting like Debord and had some great hosts that shuffled me around the expansive city like a hockey puck. Big thanks to Gaia for organizing Open Walls Baltimore and putting in so much work in his own city as well as all over the damn place. Also couldn't have done it with out my man Nanook and Killian along with the overly gracious Annex posse (Rob, Luigi, Rusty, Max, Dylan, Monica, Peter, Molly, Heidi, and Ben)! Will post more soon on my mural.

'We ain't even sposed to be here' on a Neapolitan cast away downtown. 

'Brat it up' across from the Bohemian and up from my man Kevin's Station North Cafe.

'EBTSOSEBTSOSEBT' on one of Baltimore's many palimpsests while kids play football in the street to the right.

'Flat fix' ode to Jean Michel Basquiat. Pretty much destroyed this piece after having to relocate it from it's original placement.

With my man Gaia to the left in the drug heavy and sadly unpopulated Old Town Mall area.

'Auto tuned dog howls' with a shout out to the Greenmount Boys.

This is why I put work outside.

'Go stupid, go stoop id', two sides to every story, coin, and boxcar. And weird swanman stoop creature.

While putting this up I met the very interesting Simon Carey, who tried to convince me to carry that couch up into the abandoned building next to this abandoned building (between the other abandoned buildings). But instead we got to talking about the shelter up the way, the importance of ivy, why to stop doing crack, and a woman who gave him a fish that he takes care of in her pond. He asked so I gave him a little cash and he responded by asking if I had a penny in my shoe for Sunday. I said 'no' so he reached into his shoe and gave me his.

Shout out to my boy FISHGLUE

'Designer genes' on Howard st. downtown. Thanks to Nether for the photo.

'Turn over a new leaf' near Greenmount Cemetary.

'Whatever it takes. Or whatever'

'Peripheral' downtown with a happy new pup in the pack.

'Science' Kung fool, chow mang, ass gass or grass collab with my brother.

'Pushin mad weight' ding dong the witch is dead.

'Screw and chopped'. Just a small offering for me you with too much weight on my mind about the self-appointed martyr's taking offense at their friends/foes.

'Thems is just jokes' breaking and filling holes.

'NOS' ladies love it! Smoking on that newoldshit emerging from the gambling chips of long nights in Reno.

'Tuxedo knuckles' on the run from senses lost and archers galore.

'Wonder' in sowebo. Lil wayne inspired, wonder bread, communion wafer, goose approved, ebt accepted.

Open Walls Prep

I'm off to Baltimore in a few days and I can't be more happy to take part in Open Walls! As usual I've been spending most nights prepping for the trip by painting on my collection of paper rolls and stacking that paper (unmetaphorically speaking that is). I'm up to 43 individual paintings that I'll be bringing and pasting. I've found putting up work is the best way to get to know a city and meet its people. And I finally get to paint a large wall! I'm really looking forward to the trip and being around two of my favorite artists, Gaia and Nanook.