Talking Head David Byrne designed some awesome bike racks for the NYC Department of Transportation. Amazingly, the DOT swiftly gave him the green light to turn his sketches into reality.
Gothamist has a great photo gallery of all of the racks installed so far.
Here’s a roundup of the interesting free public events we know of going on this weekend:
– Saturday in San Francisco: Zombie Mob
– Saturday in New York: Pandamonium
– Sunday in New York: Silent Rave Strikes Back
Know anything else going on? Let everyone know in the comments.
Here’s the latest creation from Joshua Allen Harris. (We’ve covered his awesome inflatable street art before.)
We got an interesting letter in our inbox today informing us of an upcoming event in New York City on July 12. We’re not exactly sure *what* it is, but it sure looks like fun.
We went to the group’s website and found this:
Your story begins here. Prototype161 seeks creative, resourceful, and daring individuals to serve as agents in our ongoing investigations.
You will track down clues, solve puzzles, and interrogate suspects. You’ll scour a city to find the answers. You’ll compete against other agents to solve the case first.
Our most resourceful and successful agents will earn rewards and accolades.
New agent recruitment will take place on the evening of Saturday, July 12th in New York City. If you think you have what it takes, click the button below.
Save the date, New Yorkers! Here’s the letter they sent us:
photo by JimmyOKelly
Photos are starting to pop up on Flickr from this weekend’s Bubble Battle NYC, hosted by Newmindspace.
Official Bubble Battle Flickr Pool
And here’s a short video:
We’ve covered Poster Boy’s subway advertisement hacks before. He’s posted a bunch of new stuff on his flickr stream, the above being our favorite.
Street artist MOMO returns a grocery store’s coupon circular littering up the urban landscape to it’s rightful owner.
Canadian street artist Posterchild was in New York earlier this month for a special mission. With the help of Jason Eppink and Steve Lambert he installed four pixelator style boxes to give New York Subway advertisement screens an awesome stained glass look.
Related works:
-Ji Lee’s Abstractor
-Jason Eppink’s Pixelator
-Anti-Advertising Agency’s Light Criticism
Street artist ry/Olympia sent in the following call to action for Greenpoint, Brooklyn residents to help him out with his latest project.
Folks in Brooklyn/NYC,
Please help me pull off an audacious street art project and surprise my girlfriend with a unique birthday gift. My girlfriend moved to Connecticut from Greenpoint last year. She misses it terribly, and constantly pines for the days spent with friends in the neighborhood. For her birthday this year, I have installed a life-sized board of the Birthday Girl at Franklin Ave and Noble Street. I am asking anyone who can to go to Greenpoint and photograph yourself with the Birthday Girl, and then, email or pix message the photo to birthdaygirl08@gmail.com. Soon she will have an entire album of images of herself and many, many friends partying in Greenpoint! I will also be uploading all images to my flickr account, so all can watch as the piece progresses.
I do not know how long the Birthday Girl will be up. It’s a pretty big piece, just begging to be torn down.
Thanks for your help. You’re going to make this birthday one she’ll never forget!
If you take a photo, post a link in the comments so everyone can see.
Brooklyn artist D.Billy has created several site-specific installations around the city using balloons as his primary medium.
He writes:
Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold up. For me, this process encourages a reexamination of surroundings and objects that are usually taken for granted, and injects a hint of the fantastical surreality that I have established in my other work.
Or, at the very least, I hope someone thinks these things are kind of funny.
