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Happy New Year! BSA Highlights of 2010

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As we start a new year, we say thank you for the last one.

And Thank You to the artists who shared their 11 Wishes for 2011 with Brooklyn Street Art; Conor Harrington, Eli Cook, Indigo, Gilf, Todd Mazer, Vasco Mucci, Kimberly Brooks, Rusty Rehl, Tip Toe, Samson, and Ludo. You each contributed a very cool gift to the BSA family, and we’re grateful.

We looked over the last year to take in all the great projects we were in and fascinating people we had the pleasure to work with. It was a helluva year, and please take a look at the highlights to get an idea what a rich cultural explosion we are all a part of at this moment.

The new year already has some amazing new opportunities to celebrate Street Art and artists. We are looking forward to meeting you and playing with you and working with you in 2011.

Specter does “Gentrification Series” © Jaime Rojo
NohJ Coley and Gaia © Jaime Rojo
Jef Aerosol’s tribute to Basquiat © Jaime Rojo
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January

Imminent Disaster © Steven P. Harrington
Fauxreel (photo courtesy the artist)
Chris Stain at Brooklyn Bowl © Jaime Rojo

February

Various & Gould © Jaime Rojo
Anthony Lister on the street © Jaime Rojo
Trusto Corp was lovin it.

March

Martha Cooper, Shepard Fairey © Jaime Rojo
BSA’s Auction for Free Arts NYC
Crotched objects began appearing on the street this year. © Jaime Rojo

April

BSA gets some walls for ROA © Jaime Rojo
Dolk at Brooklynite © Steven P. Harrington
BSA gets Ludo some action “Pretty Malevolence” © Jaime Rojo

May

The Crest Hardware Art Show © Jaime Rojo
NohJ Coley © Jaime Rojo
The Phun Phactory Reboot in Williamsburg © Steven P. Harrington

June

Sarah Palin by Billi Kid
Nick Walker with BSA in Brooklyn © Jaime Rojo
Judith Supine at “Shred” © Jaime Rojo

July

Interview with legend Futura © Jaime Rojo
Os Gemeos and Martha Cooper © Jaime Rojo
Skewville at Electric Windows © Jaime Rojo

August

Specter Spot-Jocks Shepard Fairey © Jaime Rojo
“Bienvenidos” campaign
Faile studio visit © Jaime Rojo

September

BSA participates and sponsors New York’s first “Nuit Blanche” © Jaime Rojo
JC2 © Jaime Rojo
How, Nosm, R. Robots © Jaime Rojo

October

Faile “Bedtime Stories” © Jaime Rojo
Judith Supine © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Roswitha Guillemin courtesy Galerie Itinerrance

November

H. Veng Smith © Jaime Rojo
Sure. Photo courtesy Faust
Kid Zoom © Jaime Rojo

December

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Fun Friday 06.18.10 : We Have a Winner!

Fun-Friday

Contest Winner for “For Your Eyes Only”

You guys are good!  And so many got so close in guessing the full list of “Eyes” last week.

So here are the answers:

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The big sticking points for most people were Number 2, which a lot of people guessed was Os Gemeos, and Number 4 which some thought was Neckface or Royce Bannon.

But don’t feel bad if you didn’t get them all – nobody did.  Our winner is Sandrine from Montreal, Quebec, who was the first person to guess 7 out of 8 correctly (she guessed #4 was Neckface).  Congratulations to Sandrine and your original and signed piece from Chris of Robots Will Kill will be in the mail Monday!

Thanks everybody who participated. We’ll have another contest soon!

Where Are You Getting Up This Weekend?

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Read about the Mighty Tenaka show here.

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Read about the Pandemic show here.

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Read about the Crest Hardware show here.

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Ya Hearrrd? BSA on HUFF PO

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Yo homey, still doing a Snoopy dance on the subway this morning because your favorite Street Art blog was up on HuffingtonPost.com yesterday. Arianna Huffington is one of the few straightforward truthtellers in a storm of darkness year after year, and this is like when it is your turn at Double Dutch and Malcolm McLaren  happens to be walking up your block. Okay, big difference is I don’t wear striped red disco shorts and grew up on a farm upstate and never heard of Brownsville or Buffalo Girls till “Duck Rock” came out —but otherwise it’s totally the same yo.

Leave a comment at Huffington Post and tell them how good BSA is at swinging those ropes! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/17/blog-watch-brooklyn-stree_n_615922.html


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Mighty Tanaka Gallery Presents: “Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell” A group show with Robbie Busch, EMA, KOSBE, Josh McCutchen, Skewville and Alexis Trice

Mighty Tanaka

Alexis Trice "Mediocre" Image courtesy of Mighty Tanaka

Alexis Trice "Mediocre" Image courtesy of Mighty Tanaka

Preview:
Thursday, June 17th 6pm – 9pm

Opening:
Friday, June 18th 6pm – 9pm

Mighty Tanaka
68 Jay St, Suite 416
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(F Train to York St)

Press Release:

Mighty Tanaka is pleased to bring you our latest installment entitled Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell, a six-person group show that exposes our individual insecurities and transcends our personal observations. Through representations of introverted wonder and inner chaos, each artist offers a unique balance of emotion and integrity, which provides them with the proper tools to create their personal iconic styles.

Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell encourages the viewer to closely examine the turbulence of humanity and, in turn, challenges the visitors to look more closely at their own personal commotion and understanding of life’s social constructs. The exhibition provides a voyeuristic look at the personal interpretation and experience of the artist’s life and how they choose to relay it to an audience.

Featuring the art of Robbie Busch, EMA, KOSBE, Josh McCutchen, Skewville and Alexis Trice this New Century art show brings together artists of various disciplines and techniques in order to express a common theme that is congruent to us all.


OPENING RECEPTION:

Friday, June 18, 2010 – 6:00PM-9:00PM, and closing July 9, 2010

Mighty Tanaka
68 Jay St., Suite 416 (F Train to York St.)

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Hours: M-F 12:30PM to 7PM, weekends by appointment only

Office: 718.596.8781

Email: alex@mightytanaka.com

Web: http://www.mightytanaka.com

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Images of the Week 02.07.10

Our Weekly Interview With the Streets

Primo

One of the boys in blue (Primo) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Avoid P

OverUnder (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Eatin' money keeps her good looks. Tazz Celso
“A Fly Girl like me needs security”(Rednose Tazmat and Celso) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gwen Guthrie 1986 – Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But the Rent

Chief Rad
Still wondering about the name of this artist – maybe Chief Rad? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Detail
Tron-Cosmonaut Embrace  – Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Detail

Flapper Mime (Detail) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Take notice Alexis
Since 1933  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ema

Good Jiminy! Would you take a look at her Chassis! (Ema) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Primo and Co.
Jesus! We just got over Christmas and their cramming Easter down our throats.  Wait, no I’m wrong. This is street art.  Is that bunny siting on the porcelain throne? (Primo, Ema, Kid Acne, Andy, Jean-Michel…) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Discuss
Discuss. (Swan) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tazz' tough love
Tazz’ tough love (Rednose, Tazmat) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Geometry
Woven street geometry (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Week in Images 01.24.10

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Brooklyn Street Art – Our Weekly Interview With the Streets

Spread Love Brooklyn
Spread Love the Brooklyn Way (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brooklyn Beef
There’s always some kind of Brooklyn Beef (Skewville) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Angry Eel
Angry Eel by the Williamsburg Bridge (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week 01.17.10

Images of the Week 01.17.10

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Our weekly interview with the streets

Aakash Nihalani

Aakash Nihalani's new green piece (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JC2
JC2 has taken the image originally wheat-pasted and turned it into a sign post.  Don’t recall seeing something this large bolted before, do you? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris RWK
The Blues Robot Brothers (Chris RWK) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Clown Soldier
Clown Soldier makes his first entry on the New York Top Forty this week at number 32, with “The Gentle Clown from Verona” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

EMA
EMA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia  and Deeker on top
Gaia and Deeker (or is that GoreB?) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sam McCurdy
Sam McCurdy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Trusto Corp
Trusto Corp (photo ©Jaime Rojo)

Graffitti Soup
It’s easy as ABC (Graffitti Soup) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

KId Acne
Oh, where where, has my little kid gone?  (Kid Acne) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pet Bird
Pet Bird has found a nice nesting spot inside this dumpster (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Trusto Corp, Kid Acne and EMA Trample Through Brooklyn

Aided by Kid Acne’s small army of sword wielding vixens and EMA’s genteel mustachioed dude, Trusto Corp left some words for thought on the streets of Williamsburg.

Geez it’s great to be back home in the freezing bitter city!  What have we missed?

Went parading through the ever-changing Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn yesterday and BAM, we’ve been hit! Always keep your eyes peeled in Brooklyn, even as you hobble up the street shaking from cold, avoiding patches of black ice. It’s amazing how sometimes things come in threes, like the Three Muskateers, the Three Stooges, and of course, Triple XXX ratings at your local porno theatre.

Kid Acne, whoever that is, must also be a fashion designer or a costume designer or just fancies laddies who play dress-up – because this new fleet of pastie-ups are chic and sexified, and possibly violent. EMA rings in that old-world charm with the oval locket portraits of a guy who is probably part of a barbershop quartet.  And don’t ask me about Trusto Corp – these very seriously realistic looking signs have a variety of sentiments that range from encouraging illegality to insulting me for being fat. Which I’m not!

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That SO cannot be true! I am in Williamsburg! By DEFINITION I must be cool. Right? Right? (Trusto Corp) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kid Acne

Kid Acne's ladies are now carrying swords all the time, have you noticed? Makes me think of that Tina Turner song "What's Love Got to Do With It". ("I've been thinkin' of my own protection") (© Jaime Rojo)

EMA

You might want to trim that - looks like trees are growing! (EMA) (photo ©Jaime Rojo)

Trusto Corp

Is that a threat or a promise? Either way arms are involved (Trusto Corp) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kid Acne

Nice hat, what's your hurry? (Kid Acne) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kid Acne

Kid Acne (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kid Acne

And they're all topless, did I mention that too? (Kid Acne) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Trusto Corp

You got me. I don't write the news folks, I just report it. (Trusto Corp) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kid Acne ©Photo Tristan Eaton

The mailman better watch his hands! (Kid Acne) (© Tristan Eaton)

Kid Acne

Oops, must have fallen during that last roller-derby match. (Kid Acne) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kid Acne

Awwww, the sling is blocking the bare breasts! (Kid Acne) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Trusto Corp

The burrito truck guy is probably wondering why business is off (Trusto Corp) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kid Acne ©Photo Tristan Eaton

Kid Acne ©Photo Tristan Eaton

Kid Acne

Kid Acne (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Trusto Corp

Well that's comforting, I'm still in style! (Trusto Corp) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Vixen and the Dude (Kid Acne EMA)

The Vixen and the Dude (Kid Acne EMA) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kid Acne

Interesting placement (Kid Acne) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kid Acne

Kid Acne

Trusto Corp

And so is the life of these signs. Half of them are already gone! Weird. There used to be more of these boardy type pieces around - I think the department of Transportation must take them down, or fans. (Trusto Corp) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week 08.16.09

Images of the Week 08.16.09

Our weekly interview with the street

El Coucho
El Coucho has a certain savoir-faire, don de gente (El Coucho) (photo Jaime Rojo)

PeruAna AnaPeru
Clayton and Maybelle still remember their first blind date. (PeruAna AnaPeru) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Gaia
Bovines on Lockdown! (Gaia) (photo Jaime Rojo)

El Coucho
Pugilistic Showiness (El Coucho) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Red Nose tries his luck with Hamlet
Red Nose tries his luck with Hamlet (photo Jaime Rojo)

Red Nose doing time
I’m gonna break my rusty cage and run … (Red Nose) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Chris RWK
Hey cutie. (Chris RWK) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Half Obey
Half O’ Bey (Shepard Fairey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Skewville Obey
What’re you sayin’ zactly?  (Skewville, Shepard Fairey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey
Sometimes when I’m trying to get my point across I just get all tied up in knots. Know M Sayin? (NohJColey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Younity Collective Mural Bedford and South 5 Williamsburg
The Younity Collective Mural in Williamsburg (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Younity Collective. AM
The Younity Collective, AM (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Younity Collective. AIKO

The Younity Collective, AIKO (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Younity Collective. AM, JEN ONE, EROTICA
The Younity Collective AM, JEN ONE, EROTICA  (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Younity Collective EMA

The Younity Collective, EMA (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Younity Collective SHIRO
The Younity Collective, Shiro (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Younity Collective SOFIA
The Younity Collective, SOFIA (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Younity Collective SOFIA
The Younity Collective, SOFIA (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Younity Collective TOO FLY
The Younity Collective, TOO FLY (photo Jaime Rojo)

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