Today Perola and I painted a mural of Jane Jacobs for the Lower East Side Girls Club in NYC. The mural is part of a project called Women Who Changed the World. You can see it in the Community garden on 1st st (btwn 1 & 2nd Ave)
My first photo on Instagram! Watercolored world map for the new Hearts of the World website (in progress).
The Third-Annual NYC Undercover, You-Might-Be-Arrested, Clandestine Errantry Trespassing Adventure Party – Part 1
Soon I am heading back to New York after spending 3 months traveling abroad in Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and Brazil. Spring is by far my favorite season to be in NYC. The streets come alive with happy people liberated from their coats after freezing their asses off all winter. This spring I am most excited […]
The Third-Annual NYC Undercover, You-Might-Be-Arrested, Clandestine Errantry Trespassing Adventure Party – Part 2
…Continued (Photos by Tod Seelie) So you follow the rainbow down the street, around the corner, across the road, around the block, down the way, and finally up the ramp of the Williamsburg Bridge, where Agent Blu awaits. Slowly, one by one, 29 others join you at the top of the ramp where you stay […]
THE RAINBOW BRIDGE
To protect the innocent and/or the guilty, the following may or may not be true~ The Art Explosion cracked open a door in my mind. It showed me that with many people you could make large-scale art on the street in a very small amount of time. Flash Art! (Photo by Dan Nguyen) I ride my […]
My art in Viaje Mais Magazine
I was thrilled to randomly find this beautiful image of the cable car I painted in Valparaiso Chile in Viaje Mais Magazine. I picked up the magazine because it featured an article about Chile and this image was on the first page for the article. The famous cable car also appeared on the front page […]
The Dark Side of Portal 5
Portal 5 in the 13 Portals project is Expression. The 5 symbolizes the beginning of the game; man playing and experimenting with the material world, the fool’s journey. It is the machine, language, knowledge, and expression. And it is taking Perola and I a long time to finish, mostly due to the fact that I […]
Art Explosion
Art Explosion was developed by the Free Art Society and I in 2010 and involved blasting one city block with concentrated, site specific street art overnight and then, after slipping away into obscurity, returning at 7 in the morning to flood the same block with interactive performance art and public spectacle. The idea stemmed from […]
Portal 5 and the Joker
Portal 5, Expression. The Joker. Perola and I have begun painting Portal 5 of the 13 Portals project. The number 5 represents expression, language, technology, and the Fool from the Tarot, (The Joker) who experiments and toys with reality. At first for Portal 5 Perola and I were thinking about painting a big machine. When […]
The 13 Portals Facebook Page
Perola Bonfanti and I have created a page for our 13 Portal project on Facebook. "Like" us to find out when the project officially launches~ Check it out here! 13 Portals is an interactive street art experience to be discovered in abandoned doorways on the sidewalks of New York City’s East Village this Summer, 2013. New York […]
Top 10 Things to in Rio Part 8
Take the Fort! is # 10 on my list of Top 10 “Road Less Traveled” things to do in Rio because Forte Tamandaré, found on a tiny island at the mouth of Guanabara Bay is the most obscure and interesting location that I know of in the wonderful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Forte Tamandaré […]
Top 10 Things to do in Rio Part 7
As libererating as it is to be standing before the Cristo Rendentor statue at 6am with no tourists around and as close as you might feel to God sitting on top of Pedra da Gavea I can tell you that #9 on my list of Top 10 “Road Less Traveled” Things to do in Rio, […]