Summertiiiiiiiiiiimmme, and the living is eaaaaassssssyyyyy. Yessir, today is the first day of Summer here in New York and the longest day of the year – which means you can take a nap under a tree in the park or on your towel at the beach and still have plenty of time to play when you wake up. There are abandoned buildings to explore, murals to paint, wheat-pastes to stick, interventions to engineer, stencils to cut, selfies to snapchat, potato chips to eat, beer to swig. That couch by the window is calling me even now, the big temptress, as she does so often on these languorous days, induced by the heat. But I will not heed her siren song.
Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Bezt, Buff Monster, Dain, Dee Dee, Faile, Fra. Biancoshock, Free Humanity, Gold Loxe, Li-Hill, Natalia Rak, Okuda, Old Broads, Phoebe, Sophia Hirsch and Johannes Mundinger, and Simon Vazquez and Sebastien Waknine.
Top image above >>> Okuda (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Li-Hill for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Li-Hill for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bezt (from Etam Cru) in Providence, Rhode Island for Avenue Concept/Inoperable Gallery (photo © Bezt)
Dee Dee and Dain are BFF’s on the streets. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gold Loxe (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Faile (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Faile with a remnant of El Sol 25. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Faile. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Phoebe New York (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Phoebe New York (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Natalia Rak in Providence, Rhode Island for Avenue Concept/Inoperable Gallery (photo © Natalia Rak)
Fra Biancoshock’s new installation in Vilnius, Lithuania features a speed checking camera refashioned in the fashion of an Instagram camera. He calls it #picoftheday (photo © Fra Biancoshock)
Old Broads (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Old Broads (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Buff Monster for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sophia Hirsch and Johannes Mundinger installation at the former prison ‘JVA Magdeburg’ in Magdeburg, Germany. (photo © Johannes Mundinger)
Sophia Hirsch and Johannes Mundinger installation at the former prison ‘JVA Magdeburg’ in Magdeburg, Germany. (photo © Johannes Mundinger)
Free Humanity (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Simon Vazquez and Sebastien Waknine interventions in an abandoned hotel someplace in Northern Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Simon Vazquez and Sebastien Waknine interventions in an abandoned hotel someplace in Northern Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Simon Vazquez and Sebastien Waknine interventions in an abandoned hotel somewhere in Northern Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Untitled. Coney Island, NY. Summer 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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