Pasadena

Images of the Week 10.09.11

October 9, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, California, Chicago, L.A., Los Angeles, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street, Pasadena

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring: Nice One, Jim Darling, Cardiff, NohJColey, El Sol 25, Dan Witz.

Dan Witz. fresh from his participation in NUART 2011 Dan give us his take on “Equus” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nice One. Last month photographer Brock Brake spent some time with Street Artist Nice One on the same rooftop in Chicago where Ludo put his piece in August. Nice One departed from his usual wheat pastes or air brush compressor and painted this piece with the can. (photo © Brock Brake)

Nice One. (photo © Brock Brake)

Jim Darling new mural in LA. (photo © Jim Darling)

Cardiff. Street installation in Pasadena, CA (photo © Cardiff)

El Sol 25. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“The benefit of death is you know not to waste life living someone else’s choices. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition” Steve Jobs. Stanford University, 2005. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Mac and Augustine Kofie : Two Cats in an Alley

May 18, 2011 Artists, On the Street, Pasadena

It happens on a roof in LA, in a back alley. El Mac and Augustine Kofie, two gifted graff writers, street artists, fine artists, balanced assuredly on ledges and ladders, cans in hand and collaborating on a new piece. It’s a dreamlike sequence of scaling and balancing, backing away and re-approaching, scanning the sky as day folds into night and looking back at the bricked canvas to see a gentle babe gazing upward from an abstract future past.

El Mac. Augustine Kofie. (photo © Todd Mazer)

Photographer and videographer Todd Mazer, a regular contributor to BSA, circled and treaded nimbly and quietly in panther-like pursuit of the right screen capture while the artists worked. Over time, perched camera in hand, he documents the dexterous and purposeful movement and focus of two big cats on the top of their game. And roof.

“For me I feel like that’s as good as it gets,” says Mazer.

El Mac. Augustine Kofie. (photo © Todd Mazer)

El Mac. (photo © Todd Mazer)

Brick: You’ll make out fine. Your kind always does.

Maggie: Oh, I’m more determined than you think. I’ll win all right.

Brick: Win what? What is, uh, the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?

Maggie: Just stayin’ on it, I guess. As long as she can. *

Read our interview with Augustine Kofie with photos by Todd Mazer here:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=18806

The piece was created behind 33third in Los Angeles http://www.33third.com/ A Graff and Street Art supply store in conjunction with:

The Street Cred Art show in Pasadena http://www.pmcaonline.org/exhibits/61/index.html

* from “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, a play by Tennessee Williams

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