Homeboy Sandman, an enterprising rapper, took over the advertising space of a subway car, slipping his own series of flyers under the plastic that holds paid ads.
This takes bumper sticker politics one step smaller. I found this four-and-a-quarter-inch demand on a subway exit in Long Island City.
Any offer that skips what the job is and goes straight to the piles and piles of cash you can earn is always suspect. Especially when the people who have figured out how to make these vast sums can't even afford a computer and printer. Still, all of the tear off tags were gone when I found this.
He has a Myspace page where you can read all about his work. In one of the pictures on his page I noticed that he had a show with our usual suspect Leviticus and I think I recognized the Freestyle family logo too.
To my eye his drawings look like spot illustrations, the kind you find in the Black Book.
I remember the days of "united we stand." That was before the country was divided over the Iraq war. Even the World Trade Center is still a hole in the ground because no one can agree on what to build there.
For some, 9-11 marks a new era a fascism in this country brought about by the Bush administration when the threat of terrorism is merely a tool to frighten the populace into submission. You can find more stickers and posters ready for printing at www.strike911.org.
And then there are the conspiracy theorists who I wrote about earlier. The activists at NY 9/11 Truth are trying to create an NYC 9/11 ballot initiative enabling residents of NYC to vote for a new, independent investigation of 9/11. I get the feeling that even if there were an independent investigation revealing the conspiracy behind 9-11 there would still be people claiming that the independent investigation was a cover up and that there is an even deeper conspiracy behind the attacks, involving the Vatican, the Trilateral Commission, the Federal Reserve and Home Depot.
Found along 5th Avenue, near Union Square.
Of all of the pet portraitists I've seen, Keith Romano is one of the better artists. He also does pen and ink portraits of houses.
Eventually most American holidays lose sight of their original intention. Labor Day was created to honor the working man but has been transformed into summer's last hurrah. Writing a poem to point this out is not much of a revelation.
This flyer, for the early 80s SoCal punk band the Plugz, was a bit of nostalgia for me. I remember seing those guys back in the day.
The same can be said for this one for Black Flag.
The contemporary Oneida get the nod from the art world as well. They played P.S.1 on Saturday, September 1st.
Not all of the flyers were for bands and they all seem to have been picked for their hip factor and graphic design.
I should think about how to organize my flyers into an installation so when I get the phone call from a gallery or institution I'll be ready.
Sticker found on a lamp post near P.S. 1 in Long Island City. The museum is in the same neighborhood as a lot of artist's studios and is a magnet for this sort of thing.
Who killed our 3000 brothers and sisters on September 11?
Found in Washington Square Park wheat pasted to a lamp post. The image is an architecural detail of the famous apartment building.
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.
This is the second lost dog flyer I've found in my neighborhood in a week. I suspect that there's a dognapper loose. All the more reason to boycott Saigon Grill.
Found in the subway. This is the sermon, preserving the emphasis:
On 12th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues. You can see already how the remains of the church will be completely overwhelmed by the building behind it.
The Christian Scientists will remain on the bottom floor but the upper floors will be residences.
On West 4th Street between 6th Avenue and Washington Square Park. God just can't afford to live in this neighborhood anymore.
Most lost pet flyers are sad but this one is downright jaunty. The only sign of desperation is that the $1000 reward sticker has been placed over the original amount of $700.
The skull superimposed over Joseph's face and genital -like shapes over the bodies of both figures suggest a sex-death motif while the riot of color is an allusion to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
My wife is a performer and she has told me that I should physically restrain her from putting on a one-man-show.
From the Polish neighborhood in Greenpoint Brooklyn. I kept this for the weird illustration.
This is another Jews for Jesus flyer trying to be relevant, this time by borrowing interest from the popular CSI television series.
The biggest flaw in hypothetical situation is that the NYPD would have no reason to investigate this case. No murder was committed. It would be like looking into someone who was sentenced to death in Iran. Their legal system doesn't work like ours does, and we may disapprove of it, but it's out of our jurisdiction.
Any Republican politician who takes a stand on an issue will be compared to Hitler. The comparison has been made so many times that it has become meaningless. So what will we do when the nationalist socialist workers find themselves a new leader?
I love the crazy ones. Here's the text, preserving the capitalization and emphasis:
The Guardian Angels are like the Boy Scouts - you know that they still exist, but their raison d'être expired a long time ago.
I too am bothered by street campaigns by big corporations but where do you draw the line? How big can your band, magazine, website or improv theater get before you become a corporate vandal?
You co-founded Pixar. You brought us OSX. You invented the iPod, iTunes, and iDon't know what else.
While we're on the subject of band names, punk is another genre where the pickings for fresh names are slim. Menstrual Tramps is good. So is Hymen Holocaust, although it's right next door to Anal Holocaust. Blackout Shoppers isn't bad either.
It must be hard to think of an original name for a metal band. It seems that every moniker involving death and Satan is already taken, leading to bands calling themselves Planned Collapse and Killinit.
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