Sunday, March 18, 2012

A Walk in the Park
with Mercedes















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Sunday, March 11, 2012

The Streets Are Paved With Black Gold

46 street and Eighth Avenue
New York City
Josephine Meckseper
ARTIST
The Last Lot
Pump Jacks (2)
Built 2012
25' x 23' x 6'

3 tons each
until May 6
Weekdays:  4 hours morning and evening
Weekends:  8 hours continuously

"I think of them as a kind of fragment, a glimpse into what our reality is.  They are about people struggling to have enough money to pay their heating bills.  But they are also about those same people's desire for entertainment and culture, and about the costs of those things too." Josephine Meckseper from  "A Wildcat Operation in Midtown" New York Times

I was on the corner of 46 st. and 8th ave. a for half hour on Sunday taking these photographs.
I was the only person who even seemed remotely interested in what these derrick like moving sculptures were about.  Apparently, it takes more than just art for a New Yorker to stop walking.

This guy caused more of a sensation, than the pump jack sculptures.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Show
I Love To Hate










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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Curbside Haiku

The New York City Department of Transportation commissioned John Morse to create "Curbside Haiku."

There over 200 signs in all five boroughs of the city.  The signs are attached to light poles and at the entrance to public parking lots.  A very clever writer for the New York Times wrote an "article" about Curbside Haiku; in what else haiku.  He beat me to it.

I never met a sign, I liked in NYC.  You never know if you parking legally or illegally.  Being suspicious, I believe its on purpose.  Between NO STANDING, NO PARKING and DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT PARKING HERE, it's a virtual world of confusion.

John Morse has brought poetry and good graphics to the world of signage in NYC.
I love it!












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