Pesk ACK

Aerosol Texting: The Power Of Words on City Walls

November 13, 2013 Artists

Brief Analog Messages on Walls Ape Our Digit-driven Discourse

Whether satire, slogan, or soliloquy, the anonymous street scribe shapes our experience while we walk through the city.

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Boffo or blustery, a piece of poetry can sling or sting your unsuspecting heart as you round the corner or look above your head and a rallying cry will bring color to your cheeks or dread into your head. A well-crafted counterpoint can clearly confound and a cleverly flipped script will turn up your lips, but no-one can crack some cryptic confessionals or meandering non sequitors that pop and squirm under your quizzical gaze.

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Whether cute or contentious, the hand-rendered words that we daily see on walls throughout the city are all speaking to us in a cooly comforting lo-fi handwritten way across the bricks and mortar, but somehow they often obey a 140 character limit too. Mercifully brief, as if targeted to our hurried pace and tightly tailored for the twitter-brained among us, these textual communications are looking for a more general audience, but an audience nonetheless.

And here we are.

Today we look at a kaleidoscopic collection caught by photographer Jaime Rojo, cobbled together here for you.

Rambo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Love Me (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

3tt Man (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

B.D. White & Jilly Ballistic (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Banksy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bagman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pesk ACK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gilf! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Enzo & Nio (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week: 03.31.13

March 31, 2013 Artists

In this weeks news, COST is on the cover of the Village Voice and Jay Shells is making street signs with geographically pin-pointed rap lyrics (see video below).

Meanwhile here’s our weekly interview of the street, this week featuring Arturo Vega, Bast, Be Super, Billy Mode, Bologna, El Celso, El Sol 25, Faust, Gilf!, Mint & Serf, Pesk ACK, PRTL, and UNO.

Top image > An old Billy Mode piece that keeps looking better with time. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Be Super (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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