Spooky! Days are getting shorter in Brooklyn.
The winds of change are blowing, but few can discern the direction they’ll go in the upcoming elections as the city is going full tilt into fall and a twisted neoliberalism grinds us to into a frenzy of automated stock trading and market swings that make you nauseous, ever higher rents and food costs, forever-stalled wages, food banks that serve 1.5 million hungry New Yorkers annually and yet a brisk business at Tiffany’s…
— and there are delays on the 1,2,3,4,5,6,N,R,Q,M,L,G,E,F,J,W, and Z subway lines. Every day.
There is word that attendance at the upcoming Village Halloween Parade may be down this year because it’s a daily freakshow at the White House so the novelty is worn thin. Zombie here. Zombie there. Zombie everywhere.
So here is our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Al Diaz, BB Bastidas, Bob Floss, Captain Eyeliner, Danielle Mastrion, Groose Ling, Invader, Just Paint, Kenor, Lil’ Kool, Michel Velt, Pop Artoons, Sara Erenthal, Sean9Lugo, Subway Doodle, The Postman Art and Vanessa Powers.
Top Image: Girl, I got an attitude. Bowie flips in this intensely colorwashed wheatpaste by The Postman Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sean9Lugo. Detail. For Just Paint. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sean9Lugo for Just Paint. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Subway Doodle for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Al Diaz (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Thank you Banksy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Vanessa Powers (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Space Invader (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Michel Velt (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lil’ Kool (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lil’ Kool (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Groose Ling (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Captain Eyeliner (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kenor (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidientified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BB Bastidas for The Lisa Project NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Danielle Mastrion (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pop Artoons (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sara Erenthal. Bob Floss forcing himself on Ms. Erenthal (as in forced collaboration). (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. October 2018 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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