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Found on 7th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Caution: You Are Entering A Sound Rating Zone

While walking down University Place, I stumbled into a sound rating zone.

This is the zone, near the corner of West 11th and University, where the Cedar Tavern used to be.

This is the guy who did the sound rating. His method was to tap everything with a stick and rate the sounds.

The rating categories were resonance, tonality and uniqueness, and the scale was 1 through 10

Passers-by were invited to make their own ratings. I did not see anyone take him up on this.

Old World Kaoz

It's good to see that some people still appreciate old world kaoz. Yes, it takes a little longer and it costs a little more but you can tell the difference.

Found in Los Angeles by Rob.

Celso

Here, Celso combines the sex ads from the back of a tabloid weekly, the labels of sports drinks and drawings of naked women. Yes, cavorting with hookers can make a guy thirsty.

Beers For Barcelona Video

This was made at Animoto.com.

SPC. Brandon Jacob Rowe

Posters found in the West Village, recording the date of death and age of a U.S. soldier, presumably a casualty of the Iraq War. Uncle Sam could either be repeating his "I want you" message or singling out the viewer as responsible for Rowe's death.

Theater Poster

The Circle in the Square Theatre on Bleecker Street is closed up and the posters for its last production are long gone. In the empty space, someone created this piece with a Francis Bacon vibe.

Leviticus - Part 4

Another one-of-a-kind assemblage of fabric and xerox. I found this at 23rd Street & 8th Avenue.

The text reads, "We are all in this ocean of consciousness enduring Every crashing wave of emotion alone in the sea of solitude searching for oursleves in the dark."

If the Freestyle Family decides to form an Emo band, they've already got their lyricist.

Paris Hilton

This already great piece of Soho street art has been improved by the elements. A few months of rot and exposure only add to the meaning of the image.

I think this is Paris Hilton who I assume is named after the Hilton Paris hotel. That means that she could also have been named Stockton Hilton, Waco Hilton, or Newark Airport Hilton.

Lost Liberty

This is a combination of images. A series of "Lost Liberty" posters were wheat pasted to the exterior of the now closed Tennessee Mountain BBQ in SoHo. Then someone came along later and contributed a new image to the text.

The Lost Liberty posters are intended as protest, but the addition of new image introduces an ambiguity that makes art.

Rack Tag Hustle

Another tour through SoHo found more brilliant street art. In this piece, I love the combination of graffiti culture and the Weekly World News.

Live.

I found this bolted to a traffic sign on Spring Street in Soho. Soho used to be an artist's neighborhood. Now it's fancy boutiques.

The East Village used to have more of this sort of thing, but with every new luxury high-rise that goes up we'll see less and less artistic espression at street level.

Wealth lacks imagination, and uses its means to create the monotony of more wealth.

Defend Brooklyn

I found this in Williamsburg where luxury hi-rise condos are going up all along the waterfront. This is a great looking piece of propaganda but advocating resistance to development in New York doesn't show any knowledge of the city's history. The war against real estate developers was lost over a hundred years ago.