Posts Tagged with "NYC"
February 14, 2008
Earlier in the month, DKNY chained orange-painted bikes, branded with DKNY.com, to trees, fences, and bike racks all over Manhattan in order to promote their products and website during New York Fashion Week.
As stated on DKNY’s website, the campaign is all about encouraging the citizens of New York to explore the city on a bicycle [...]

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February 4, 2008
“Shopdropping” as it’s known, is an ongoing project in which artist Ryan Watkins-Hughes replaces the packaging of canned goods with his own artwork, and then “shopdrops” the items back onto grocery store shelves.
According to Hughes, “The shopdropped works act as a series of art objects that people can purchase from the grocery store. Because the [...]

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July 10, 2007
You can find some pretty damn cool people in New York. Take for instance Nelson Loskamp, a Soho-based artist and hairdresser. As part of his “Electric Chaircut” routine, he takes random folks from his audience, straps them to his chair, blindfolds them, and then uses clippers running through an amp with electric guitar effects to [...]

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June 18, 2007
“The Splasher” is an anonymous individual (or individuals) that defaces famous works of street art in New York. Over the past several months, he/she has destroyed pieces by Shepard Fairy, Swoon, Momo, WK Interact, and Neck Face - among others - with big splashes of paint.
Often following the defacement of a famed piece, “The Splasher” [...]

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May 31, 2007
On a recent trip to NYC, I became acquainted with the fun pop sounds of The Virgins. Pretty much everyone in the Lower East Side had nothing but positive things to say about them. They definitely have a good buzz going on and are one of today’s most under rated bands. Simply put, they rock.
Their [...]

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May 20, 2007
Dear Mr. Reggie Noble a.k.a The Funk Dr. Spock a.k.a Redman
You used to be one of the illest, most consistent lyricists in Hip-Hop. What happened? For the past 11 years, I have been patiently waiting for you to drop some tight-ass shit like you did back in ‘96 with Muddy Waters. That album to [...]

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