Tuesday, October 25th 2005

also: read the articles posted on Tuesday, October 25th 2005

Previous Day :: Next Day

gsis: I say go 'neckface- hes effected enough of the public to get in the paper, props ... though he could jazz up his tags a bit, it will do his statement good. people whine too much, and its actually funny to see how mad people get, its a thrill, so what. and...

in response to Fuck Neck Face

Shanizzal Fo Rizzal: Robert Oppel Is My Nigga. That Mo Fo Is my roommate. He didn't kill himself after the concieled weapons and graffiti charge. He just staged his own death to publicize his upcoming movie "my elephant named Gonzolez".

in response to Fuck Neck Face

elaine: very very nice. liking the truck. liking the orange. liking the photos

in response to Orange Truck

max: send me a mail if you like to hook up for pieces or so on. i´ll be going to miami pretty soon so just holla. songoku_swe@hotmail.com or add me to msn

in response to Miami Art Massacre

Anonymous (220-253-100-181.TAS.netspace.net.au): Eh, okay. That looks like no toliet graffiti since it is shitty looking.

in response to No, no, no, no

Peter: you should ask them the next time you see em. be sure to hold our a couple of $ so they know youre for real. if youre lucky, they might tell you something, as opposed to just insulting you and getting preachy, lol. oh, and be sure to take photos :)

in response to purveyors of prophecy

Peter: im not sure its technically legal, but there are a handfull of groups here in nyc that go around "harvesting" clearly abandoned bikes... they take the parts and frames, clean them, rebuild them up into working bikes, and donate them to inner-city kids. you cant hate such well-intentioned charity. im not sure...

in response to Abandoned Bikes

vz: one day i saw one of them "off-duty", and we exchanged what were unmistakably looks of knowing irony. this confused me a little, as i had previously been sure that they were indeed some kind of rabid fanatics. seeing their theatrics again afterwards, though, i'm almost starting to think that...

in response to purveyors of prophecy

torrence: does anyone know if it's illegal to strip these bikes down? (the ones that are clearly abandoned and half stripped already.) does it count as bike theft, i wonder?

in response to Abandoned Bikes

Peter: yeah, i always liked how the tiles run diagonally down the aisle, like diamonds, as opposed to squares, running parallel to the shelving. im not exactly sure why, but im a fan of this c-town. it has character, despite its disgustingness and bad produce. check out: www.citynoise.org/article/1520 www.citynoise.org/article/1836 and www.citynoise.org/article/1829 which shows the aisles back in their...

in response to Empty Grocery

GGP: ick! and double-ick for the black mop!! the floor is kind of cool, however, now that I ponder it.

in response to Empty Grocery

GGP: you have an impressive sense of the neighborhood, peter--I wouldn't have remembered the exact block, but Bergen certainly sounds right. you know, it's been awhile since I took these pics so I honestly don't remember how "formal" the parking areas was or what else was going on there. i felt...

in response to Orange Truck

jeeff: er least

in response to purveyors of prophecy

jeeff: they seem to be having fun at lest.

in response to purveyors of prophecy

Peter: also: thats great that you were able to get in there and snap those shots! thats in the parking-lot area for the construction company, right?

in response to Orange Truck

Peter: yep. right next to 665, at the intersection of bergen and vanderbilt. gotta love the old willys jeeps!

in response to Orange Truck

Stacey: Wow these guys are still around. They used to be on Fulton Street in Brooklyn.

in response to purveyors of prophecy

Stacey: Is this on Bergen in Brooklyn?

in response to Orange Truck

Peter: Huh. I wonder if they get alot of takers on that "bargain"?

in response to purveyors of prophecy

Peter: ahh the "whiff of doom"! its all that god-forsaken smoked whitefish they have piled everywhere. YUCK.

in response to Empty Grocery

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I was told that they wanted me to go to the ATM, get out $300 and give it to them as reparations. As far as I know, the Irish and English peasants that I came from didn't own slaves, being feudal slaves themselves. I'm sure that they are lovely fellows...

in response to purveyors of prophecy

GGP: yeah, the word "apocalyptic" comes to mind, but then C-Town always has a whiff of doom about it.

in response to Empty Grocery

Peter: lol... theyre the "tribes of benjamin" www.factmonster.com/spot/israel1.html theyre a pretty fringe element of folks who believe that theyre linked to the "lost tribes of israel" via their african heritage. they are renowned for standing in times square, ranting about conspiracy, illuminati, aliens, racism, etc. once, i was observing them (with no small amount...

in response to purveyors of prophecy

ANSER ONE: DOPE PICS

in response to Albuquerque Graffiti Flood

jeeff: ok, who are those guys? i have only ever seen them in nyc and i don't know anything about them, except that they really make a scene.

in response to purveyors of prophecy

kat: Wow, beautiful fall colors...we don't get any of that down here in Fl :o(

in response to Interstate 87

jeeff: the end times are upon us!

in response to Empty Grocery

Steve: Forgot to mention that I lived in Seaward St. (opposite the bondie) not only has that part of the street gone so, at least it seems, has everyone who lived at the top end of Seaward Street.

in response to 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park

Steve: Ilived in good old KP in the later part of the 60's/early 70's what a brilliant time I had then, the last time I visited KP was Aug 05, I kept losing my way and found myself running into dead end streets,the m8 has a lot to answer for! ...

in response to 11 Stanley Place, Kinning Park

GGP: love the skulls, and that last image is fantastic.

in response to Yer Dissed.

Peter: a map of the area is here: maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr= . . . untry=us&new=1&name=&qty=

in response to Leeto & Beef

kc: I had a friend who said who told that once a Mr. Softee went by and someone dropped a *bag* out of it. (This said with great significance at the time, but littering seems a real possiblity.) Of course, maybe it was Mr. Soff-T or one of those imposters...dunno if...

in response to In Somnia

Peter: sweet! i know exactly where youre talking about. i think its a bus layup now. the other side is a layup for metro north trains.

in response to Subway Roulette

Peter: heh. i thought that too, at first. but you know, as its a medical/science building, that apparatus probably has something more to do with pasteurization or fermentation ;) ambafrance-ca.org/HYPERLAB/PEOPLE/_pasteur.html

in response to Cullen Building

Peter: i love catching hte same graf trux like a year or two later, and getting flicks of whats changed on them.

in response to Graf Trux 10: Back to Manhattan

Peter: oh, also: i have flicks of that piece. i need to dig em up.

in response to Gouch & Sober

Peter: totally. i live right up the street from that, and used to work right across dean street from that piece. i love the building its on, too, that huge old creepy warehouse building. ive daydreamed about winning the lotto, buying it, and moving in there. it would be the sickest...

in response to Gouch & Sober

Peter: cool. i remember taking that photo long before i ever had a digital camera, heh.

in response to Freight Graffiti

GGP: many thanks, from our farm to yours...

in response to Direct From Our Farms To You

Peter: i think its just about putting cool stuff on walls. not everyone feels as passionately about the "criminal" element to graf as others do. i agree with some of what youre saying, but i think its sort of reactionary to say "theres nothing cool about it". i see some names,...

in response to graffiti alley / style in progress \'05

Peter: lol. www.wordwebonline.com/en/CORBLIMEY

in response to airplanes

Editor:: fixed :)

in response to Direct From Our Farms To You

Peter: well, you know what they say... the world's a stage, etc...

in response to oct 23 2005 toronto

Peter: aww man! another hit! sweet. i love that oldskool f train. i miss the ones with the blue stripes.

in response to The ~old~ BMT Stillwell Ave Terminal

Peter: i lovethe sky in that first shot, and the one of the tappan zee bridge, too! sounds like you had a weekend of upstate journeying. cool. i need to get up that way more often.

in response to Interstate 87

Peter: hah this is a classic city story... when you said mr. softee, i could hear the diesel-rumble from those trucks perfectly in my head. tangent: i used to live up at 109th and Manhattan avenue, and the mr. softee trucks would creep up the street really late at night with...

in response to In Somnia

Peter: heh cool. i can picture that place perfectly. im not a big fan of mcdonalds, but i have run in there tons of times in the summer to get a softserve cone. id get the ice cream, and go over to in front of the virgin megastore, where all the...

in response to Times Square, McDonalds

Peter: oh wow, these are great! thanks for the bridge shots, too. for real- good stuff. that last photo is great, too, with the entire train in view. i havent seen anything like that since seeing a train zip along the desert-ish land, parallel to the highway, out west... cool.

in response to Hudson river

Peter: ahh, i remember riding in those horse-drawn carts when i used to go to new orleans as a kid.

in response to two more from New Orleans

indykid: Third one for me...looks like a stage. People enter from one side for a brief performance then exit the opposite side.

in response to oct 23 2005 toronto

Andy: I saw a report on T.V last night about this and came searching the internet for images to try and share this mans amazing story with others. At the end of the program I had such a mixture of feelings from awe and admiration for his dream to great saddness...

in response to Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral

SEKTO: "shopped" ?????? aww hell naw..... balls to the walls..gettum goya!!

in response to Goya on Truck

Unknown: yeah us unknowns are all over the place lately.

in response to Direct From Our Farms To You

jeeff: i think american 'gosh' or 'golly' is similar.

in response to airplanes

elaine: my most sincere sympathies. still, at least, for once, their partners probably got a good night's sleep - maybe the truck noise was for masking the snoring?

in response to In Somnia

elaine: well, it is now not viewed as anything like a swear word, and has an old fashioned feel to it, kids in comics might say it, but i don't know that any real children would, nowadays. it is also, i belive, particularly a 'cockney' expletive. it roughly means 'wow'. when...

in response to airplanes

fuzzytank: first one all the way ... solid gold

in response to oct 23 2005 toronto

fuzzytank: *VOTES*YEP* (for adding images in comments box) werk your majik

in response to Motel sign

138: come on, it's not graff if it's legal. it's just not. It's like art or something, but there's nothing really cool about it, and only artists should pay attention to it. If you can take all the time you want painting a piece, then what's the point?...

in response to graffiti alley / style in progress \'05

me: that hare is from 1998

in response to Freight Graffiti

Anonymous (ip24-255-23-216.tc.ph.cox.net): where can i find one of those LOL

in response to Gangsta Hat Protractor

Anonymous (ip24-255-23-216.tc.ph.cox.net): yo thats funny

in response to Gangsta Hat Protractor

vz: elaine, i'm curious-- what does the word "cor" mean?

in response to airplanes

vz: ...an anthropological undertaking more than anything else, really

in response to Times Square, McDonalds

GGP: I guess that was what I was secretly hoping... :)

in response to Direct From Our Farms To You

Unknown: Perhaps the all-seeing, all-knowing "Editor" will fix it, like s/he did mine!

in response to Direct From Our Farms To You

Previous Day :: Next Day