Acid-Based Graffiti

Posted: January 25th, 2009 | Filed under: Citywide

Some like to intellectualize their street art, but for me, I prefer my graffiti dumb and ugly:

Etching Acid Graffiti, Queens-Bound R Train, 57th Street-Seventh Avenue Station, Midtown Manhattan, January 21, 2009

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.

On Capturing God’s Great Creation

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:

Snowflakes, Vernon Boulevard and 49th Avenue, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, January 18, 2009, 3:57 a.m.