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BSA Images Of The Week: 03.17.24

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.17.24

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Happy St. Patricks Day to all our Irish brethren and sisteren (?) — unless you are unlucky to be a gaylesbitrans Irish resident of Staten Island: their official Saint Patty parade bans all of those other types. Our 5th borough always complains that it doesn’t get enough attention because Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens hog the spotlight. So bigotry, because why not? But Manhattan shouldn’t bray too loudly; we’re old enough to remember the LGBT bans by The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) at the beery 5th Avenue parades for decades.

Grocery stores, big box stores, and McDonald’s are converting customer service to self-service, so why not law enforcement in Brooklyn? On the subway, this dude takes a gun from his attacker so he can shoot him, after another passenger stabbed him in the back. You used to call this vigilante justice, but now it’s just called DIY policing.

And now images from our ongoing conversation Specter, Cern, Homesick, Peter Phobia, Dzel, REW, Folk, Appear 37, BRK. Nover NYC, GUS, Hand of Tess, 1krlOs, Pirdb!, Kool Hand, Croke, Regae, Nova44, and Spyee.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hand of Tess (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cern (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Homesick (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Folk (photo © Jaime Rojo)
PIRDB! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FOLK. HOMESICK. PRDB! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kool Hand (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CROKE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
REGAE NOVA 44 BRK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SPYEE REGAE BRK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
APPEAR37 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Peterphobia (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Junkmen (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nover (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nover (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GUS DZEL REW (photo © Jaime Rojo)
1krl0s (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Spring 2024. Manhattan, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Tiny Torrefarrera, A Locally Sourced Mural Festival in NorthEast Spain

Tiny Torrefarrera, A Locally Sourced Mural Festival in NorthEast Spain

It’s their 5th annual street art festival, Torrefarrera, although you may more accurately call it a mural festival. For a small village of less than 5,000, they have about 40 murals now, and an interactive map online to help you find them, even fund them if you like. Deeply rooted in history and regional pride this northern town is convenient to the A-2 motorway which connects Barcelona and Zaragoza.

Nauni Dank. “Boy or Girl?.. It doesn’t matter!!” Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

A municipality in the province of Lleida and an autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain, their festival has been drawing people out into the street and into the community in a way that appears to be gratifying to many in the community. They even frame it as an inclusive competition to garner most votes for favorite and present awards at a public ceremony. Sponsored by the municipality, local institutions, and a paint company, you’re unlikely to find transgressive, or even disagreeable themes – but possibly educational.

Nauni Dank. “Boy or Girl?.. It doesn’t matter!!” Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Photographer Lluís Olivé Bulbena took a drive a few hours north of his home recently to capture some of the new walls that went up during the September festival. Looks like he captured many of this years locally-sourced artistic participants who range from former graffiti writers to commercial artists, including Gasic Painter (from Tarragona), Dil (Lleida), Folk & Miedo (València and Alacant), Nauni 69 & Dank (Almeria), Txus Montejano (Lleida), and Saiko 134 (Terres de l’Ebre).

Nauni Dank. “Boy or Girl?.. It doesn’t matter!!” Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Dil. “Dance to life” Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Miedo 12 & Folk. Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Miedo 12 & Folk. Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Miedo 12 & Folk. Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Txus Montejano. “We exist as long as we are remembered”. Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Saiko. Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Saiko. Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Saiko. Torrefarrera 5th Street Art Festival. Torrefarrera, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
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