Posted: February 2nd, 2009 | Filed under: Citywide, Feed
I don’t know why I think Employees Must Wash Hands signs are funny, but they are. Two new ones from this weekend — Pearl Oyster Bar and Hi-Life Restaurant & Lounge:
Before it occurred to me to start taking pictures of “Employees . . .” signs, I remember a couple of creative signs — What Bar, owned by freshman State Senator Daniel Squadron, had a good one, if memory serves and Ten63, an early coffee shop in Long Island City (the cafe’s name has been co-opted by a condo development that replaced the building), had a creative one that used claim tickets, again, if I remember correctly. There’s also a whole blog devoted to the signs.
Posted: January 25th, 2009 | Filed under: Citywide
Some like to intellectualize their street art, but for me, I prefer my graffiti dumb and ugly:
There is a little “scratchiti” in there, too. I can’t tell which is worse — the acid cream graffiti that etches tags into the subway window or the furtive scribbling of scratchiti. Who knows? They are both beautiful. The MTA has been dealing with it for several years now, and it’s still around. If only Banksy could combine scratchti and acid etching in an aesthetically cool way then I might stop being such a fuddy duddy about it.
Posted: January 24th, 2009 | Filed under: Citywide
Such perfectly formed snowflakes falling late at night last weekend. You think, “Wow, wouldn’t it be neat to get a picture of one?” Meanwhile, God says, “Silly mortal, you believe you can reduce God’s Great Creation to a mere curiosity of winter? Who are you, mere moral, thinking you can simply point-and-shoot God’s Great Creation?” And the answer is, surely not I . . . neither with a flash:
Nor without a flash:
