The street is beautiful

Four photos from this weekend: three on Purves Street in Long Island City, near the Sculpture Center, and one in Park Slope.

Pink, green, purple

Fabulous colors and shapes in detail from a mural on the side of a building in Bushwick.

Tentacular

Took a long (LONG! Ten or twelve miles total) walk yesterday, winding my way from Astoria to Long Island City and then to Bushwick, all before looping back to Queens by passing through Greenpoint. A lot of rubber was burned.

I happened upon two artful octopi. The pasted-up drawing above was on a  hoarding in LIC; the vibrant painted fellow below was in Bushwick.

Undersea life

Three jelly-fish blobs on the side of a red building in Greenpoint, from March 2012.

Out of this world

Loved the pretty purple and green of this UFO sticker slapped onto a sign on 39th Street in Queens (walking from Astoria to Sunnyside).

I wanna hold your hand

A bear and a wolf, holding hands; this stenciling was somewhere down on Kent in Williamsburg. 

Keep an eye out

Down in the Village, the walls are watchful.

Roo

Loved this stencil -- saw it on some plywood on 35th St., near 35th Ave., in Astoria. (Anyone know the artist? Credit where credit's due!)

The adventures of Tintin as art object

 

The old ball and chain was off doing some work in France, and on one of his days off, he made a jaunt to Belgium. Although I never read Tintin as a kid, Sumeet devoured the stories, and whenever we see a little street-art paean to the plucky young Belgian reporter, we are sure to whip out our cameras like the schlocky tourists we are. I suppose the Tintin love written across Brussels is a consequence of the fictional reporter being a native of Belgium?

Of course, not everyone is apparently a fan: