BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
Aside from signing the Outer Space Treaty that was ratified by 107 nations in which member states promise to not militarize the celestial heavens, US Vice President Pence tried to pull a fast one last week by announcing an idea for a US Space Force, the 6th branch of US Armed Forces.
Evidently being in 7 wars right now on Earth isn’t enough for the masters of war. There is surely more money to be made by further bloating a global weapons industry that focuses primarily on destruction rather than construction.
Victor Ash. Berlin, Germany. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
What is Mike Pence needing defense from exactly? Gays? Gay aliens? Intelligent assertive women? African-American or immigrants struggling to make ends meet, living day-to-day from paycheck to paycheck? We decided to take the whole ridiculous announcement with humor and found ourselves pawing through the archives for Street Art images of astronauts. We found many!
As we contemplate war in space, we turn to our collective fascination with astronauts and cosmonauts and nauts of many kinds. Since the dawn of this popular spaceman fixation there has been this guy or gal floating around weightless in our collective imaginations, bouncing along at the end of his tether, or untethered altogether.
Victor Ash. Berlin, Germany. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Toven. Baltimore, USA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Toven. Baltimore, USA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
B.D. White. NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Axolotl Collective. Mexico City. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty. NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cranio. Berlin, Germany. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Topaz. NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The London Police. Boras, Sweden. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tristan Eaton in Collaboration with CYRCLE. NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Joe Iurato. NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Faile. NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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