Posted in Art, Greenpoint, Street Art
When I was a teenager, I had a framed poster of Claude Monet’s, “House of Parliament at Sunset” on my wall.
This chalk drawing in McGolrick Park reminded me of that image.
It brought me back to when I confused Impressionistic sunlight for fire.
Posted in Art, Greenpoint, Street Art
Tagged abstract, chalk, Claude Monet, fire, French, House, House of Parliament, House of Parliament at Sunset, impressionist, McGolrick Park, monet, painting, Parliament, sidewalk chalk, street, sunlight
I’ve been escaping to Vermont this Fall every chance I can.
From downtown Brattleboro, Vermont
Tagged Brattleboro, green, light blue, painting, Signs, Vermont
Hey is that a mid-century Edward Hopper painting??
No, just a reflection from the back of one of the several film studio trucks in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Posted in Art, Gadgets, Greenpoint
Tagged Art, Early Sunday Morning, Edward Hopper, film, French films, painting, red bricks, Reflections, trucks
I’m always looking for interesting abstract images created from every day life in this fine city of New York. Here are 25 of my favorite ones that I took in 2011. The picture above is just rain-soaked newspaper fround on a Manhattan sidewalk.
Spilled and dried latex paint from a Brooklyn sidewalk.
Eagle Street, Greenpoint landscape.
Ikea parking lot, Red Hook, Brooklyn.
The Laboratory.
Sidewalk on the Lower East Side.
McGolrick Park lit up while filming for Boardwalk Empire.
Weathered advertising on Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
From under the Pulaski Bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Building exterior close-up in London, England.
Rooftop gardening junk.
A wall on East 60th Street, Manhattan.
From Norman Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The ole Q60 buses that shuttle people across the Queensboro Bridge.
South Williamsburg street pattern.
Rectangular stones on a beach in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Cardboard on Manhattan Avenue.
An aged sign on Clay Street, Greenpoint.
A door on Devoe Street, Brooklyn.
A beautiful wall on Oak Street, Greenpoint.
Unintended assemblage art created with utilitarian interests in Red Hook.
Fire escape shadows on Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint.
Construction debris on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg.
From a facade being restored in Union Square, New York.
A partly cloudy reflection on the Gotham building on Queens Plaza.
Posted in Art, Greenpoint, LOUISADA, Manhattan, Non-human Life, Red Hooked, Williamsburg
Tagged abstract, abstract art, Abstractions, Bedford Avenue, Boardwalk Empire, Brooklyn, Clay Street, colorfield, Devoe Street, Eagle Street, Gotham building, Greenpoint, LOUISADA, Manhattan, Manhattan Avenue, McGolrick Park, Nassau Avenue, New York, Norman Avenue, Oak Street, painting, Pulaski Bridge, Queens Plaza, Queensboro Bridge, Rectangular, Red Hook, sculptures, Slim Pickens, South Williamsburg, Union Square, urban, Urban Abstractions, Van Brunt Street, Williamsburg
From Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn
Posted in Art, Williamsburg
Tagged Colgate, drug store, drugs, finesse shampoo, Geritol, minerals, mural, painted advertisement, painting, refer zol, Vicks 44, vitamins, zinc
Hello and Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers. This is going to be a fun post. Choice means these are my favorite random bits of the Internet for the month of November 2011 for you to consume. Happy eating.
Bacon Apple Pie.. yup. (Via Tasty Trials)
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A good cop helps a deer in headlights. (via Neatorama)
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A roller coaster for pedestrian use only in Germany. (Via Kuriositas)
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Protestors clashing with police and each other in Warsaw, Poland that someone caught on a camera-mounted remote control helicopter. (Via kottke.org)
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“Inglourious Animals” is a really well-done movie trailer mashup of “Fantastic Mr Fox” and “Inglorious Basterds“ (Via Boing Boing)
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Christophe Courtois makes mosaics of film poster clichés. (Via Laughing Squid)
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Social Media Magazines (Via Buzzfeed)
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28 seconds of Picasso painting. (Via MetaFilter)
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Check out Ron Arad’s “Two Nuns Bicycle”. Go to 0:42 (Via NotCot)
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Ever see a camel run? (Via The High Definite)
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Check out the “GOP Clown College” Flickr page from WMxdesign
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And finally.. Benetton has a new ad campaign. (Via The Gloss)
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Posted in Art, Food, Food Review, Gadgets, Music
Tagged Apple Pie, Bacon, Bacon Apple Pie, Benetton, camel, camera-mounted, Christophe Courtois, clowns, college, deer in headlights, good cop, john boehner, Magazines, movie posters, newt gingrich, painting, pedestrian, Picasso, protestors, remote control helicopter, roller coaster, Ron Arad, sculpture, Social Media, Social Media Magazines, Two Nuns Bicycle, unhate
My friend, Aurora Robson, whose piece, “Belch” is above, had an opening tonight at PPOW Gallery, called “Debris” also with Portia Munson & Sarah Frost. This was a solid show and had my kind of mixed media monochromatic sculpture and paintings.
Portia Munson’s “Pink Project”
Sarah Frost’s “QWERTY” with over 60,000 computer keys used.
This show will be up until April 24.
Posted in Art, Art Review
Tagged Aurora Robson, mixed media, painting, Portia Munson, PPOW Gallery, Sarah Frost, sculpture
Looking down, like we do when there’s an ugly February rain outside, like today, you see things that have probably been there for a while. I found this gem on Norman Avenue today. This is what happens when you care enough to paint your fence, but not enough to consider the permanent sidewalk mess you will create. And clearly this guy’s technique looks not unlike the Abstract Expressionists works from the late 1940′s. Excellent drip technique! I totally feel your pain.
Posted in Art, Greenpoint
Tagged 1940's, Abstract Expressionists, Art, fence, Greenpoint, Jackson Pollack, Norman Avenue, painting, polack, sidewalk
