Cluckatron Has a Prediction

Posted by Camille Dodero at 4:41 PM, February 1, 2008

. . . AND I PREDICT THAT NEXT WEEK MONTH, YOUR (LEAST) FAVORITE SHIT TALKER WILL RETURN!

Judith Supine Goes Bathing in the East River

Posted by Camille Dodero at 12:43 PM, September 4, 2007

Reason #39777 why we dig Judith Supine. He's not only brilliant, but friggin' hilarious.

Lightning Bolt Superhero's Been Busy

Posted by Camille Dodero at 2:13 PM, August 27, 2007

Just gonna keep imagining that a superhero is responsible for these, but turns out they're all over Williamsburg. . .

Santo's Big Cock

Posted by Camille Dodero at 5:43 PM, August 21, 2007

This large cock—get yo mind outta the gutter!—belongs to Santo. Apparently a member of the Third World Pirates Crew, Santo has not only hit the Williamsburg Bridge with his cock adult-male chicken, but he's tagged enough places in the last year that paste-up artist Flower Face Killah claims she heard that "a group of homeowners in S. Williamsburg [we]re talking about pooling their $$$ and hiring a P.I. to catch this guy [because] they're pissed cause he's putting huge tags on private homes."

All we know is that Santo's definitely got some focused haters: nearly every time we catch one of his bird heads, it's spitefully crisscrossed out with vitriolic I-killed-your-cock-rooster chicken-scratch. Like here.

And here.

In this particular haterade-sprayed spot, paper-airplane painter Bloke actually fixed up Santo's ruined piece by covering up the ugly diss, but keeping the rest of the piece intact.

But yesterday, we found a head near our house that hadn't been mercilessly defaced. So we present. . . one of Santo's last clean cocks roosters. No beef, just bird meat.

Who Dat? Random Stuff Near McCarren Park Pool

Posted by Camille Dodero at 4:14 PM, August 20, 2007

Couple small pieces spotted yesterday on a Williamsburg walk by people/artists we didn't recognize. People always ask grafheads why they write and this bolted sign pre-empts that question. If I didn't write on walls, I'd be boring like you. Looks like it's signed by Magic, but it's hard to read so we wouldn't bet a pack of smokes on it.

Also spotted this paint job. Technically speaking, the piece sucks, the cloud's black outline looks like a two-year-old trying to draw a hand. But we kind of like its comic-book primitiveness. We also like inventing a story about how the bolt got there: plainclothes superhero heading to the park noticed how drab the wall was. Made sure no one was looking. Then—zap!—shot a lightning bolt out of his/her fingertips onto the facade. Goodbye ugly penitentiary wall, hello cartoon storm!

Yes, We Do.

Posted by Camille Dodero at 7:45 PM, August 15, 2007

Found on the Williamsburg Bridge

Yes, They Do.

Posted by Camille Dodero at 2:18 PM, August 14, 2007

Found on the Bowery

Yes, They Do.

Posted by Camille Dodero at 10:32 AM, August 14, 2007

Found in Greenpoint

When Bong Hits Go Bad: Dread-Mullet Edition

Posted by Camille Dodero at 8:02 PM, August 13, 2007

Photographed on 08.11.07, in Williamsburg.

What the hell happened here? This dude has a dreadlocked mullet. We repeat: a mullet. Made out of dreadlocks. Did this dude get stoned, start cutting all his dreds off, then zonk out, only to forget all about it the next day? Did his brain have an accident on the back of his neck? Does he (not-so) secretly want to be Bib Fortuna? Fifty cents goes to the first jerk who approaches him and says, You will take me to Jabba now.

He will take you to Jabba now.

Kardz's Dope Window Display

Posted by Camille Dodero at 10:00 AM, August 13, 2007

Don't know much about this writer Kardz, but gotta give props where they're due. Nice colorful piece, but shit, this was risky: a nasty B&E charge added to that already gnarly vandalism rap could've instantly ended dude's writing days. Not advocating breaking the law or anything (cough), but this was pretty well executed.

Friday Scribbles: Made You Look

Posted by Camille Dodero at 2:17 PM, August 10, 2007

Made You Look

PAST SCRIBBLES
Week 15: Walk-To-Work Williamsburg Bridge-Style Edition
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Judith Supine Takes the Manhattan Bridge

Posted by Camille Dodero at 6:40 PM, August 8, 2007

All photos from Streetsy.com

It's three days after the fact, but Judith Supine still deserves an earth-shakingly loud shout-out for pulling the best street-art stunt of the summer. We already loved Supine's style—his collage creatures's disproportionate features, their vaguely anxious expressions, Supine's oft-flourescent-green skintones—but this past Sunday's feat has us completely bugging out. Look again at that above photo.

We've told you about Supine's background before, but in case you missed it the first time. Dude's got a long history of doing really mind-blowing shit: wheatpasting a Times Square army recruitment center, filming a short video that fast-forwards through his approach, inadvertently ending up on the Metro section of the New York Times as a target of the Spl—oh, you know who we mean.

So anyways, this past Sabbath, while you were still drooling on your pillow, Supine unfurled an awesomely large and detailed figure over the side of the Manhattan Bridge. And even though the piece apparently only hung there for a few hours (we'd love to get the tapes of those police phonecalls), the photographic documentation is just more evidence of the project's success. Supine's work has always been one of our favorites; this is just another reason why.

All photos from Streetsy.com

Friday Scribbles (On Wednesday): Walk-To-Work Williamsburg Bridge-Style Edition

Posted by Camille Dodero at 2:14 PM, August 8, 2007

OLD PEOPLE THINK/ADULTS ASSUME/KIDS KNOW

If you're a local who doesn't work at home in your pajamas, you had an assload of trouble getting to the office today. For all you out-of-towners, there was a flood that shut down most of the subways and made all us commuting New Yorkers get creative about transportation—even saw one pimp-looking goofball offer a 10-year-old-ish kid $25 for his skateboard. (Kid said no. Diss!)

So in honor of how much it sucked to travel this morning, here're the scribblish things that've been running on the Williamsburg Bridge pedestrian/bike path for God knows how long. Just today, we'all had to pay attention. . .

Somebody named Dave marked his territory

f u, dad!
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Go Ahead, Call It a Comeback

Posted by Camille Dodero at 12:41 AM, August 6, 2007

This time, it's for real.

Where The Investment Bankers At?

Posted by Camille Dodero at 6:35 PM, July 26, 2007

Damn Fidelity Investments. We're gonna knock you out if we find out you're responsible for this.

Ding Dong, The Splasher's Dead

Posted by Camille Dodero at 10:13 PM, July 16, 2007

We always knew it was a dog.

Why You Gotta Draw Ugly Shit?

Posted by Camille Dodero at 4:54 PM, June 29, 2007

Whoever is making these snailbirds, please stop. Can we be honest? They suck.

Whoever you are, we also noticed that you've been making their heads into stickers. Those aren't so bad because they kind of look like mini bathing suits carrying coconuts under their bazongas. See what we mean?

Stick with the ta-tas.

Someone To Splash Over Me? New Shepard Fairey Flicks

Posted by Camille Dodero at 8:15 AM, June 26, 2007

Another dead wrestler, less than a week old.

So much going on in the street game that we couldn't stay on the bench anymore; had to come out of retirement like these other attention-mongering media manipulators. Got a lot to say about this whole thing, but let's start with the good. Shepard Fairey's been back in town for two mega-publicized shows, so he's been running around and pasting up on New York's outdoor walls. We all knew this was going to happen, especially when Fairey showed off a little fighting spirit when he was quoted in the big ol' NYMag Splasher piece (thanks for the unidentified quote!) about coming back to town and getting up:

Fairey said he’d be putting up more work in New York this summer. “This person’s not stopping me,” he said. “It took him over two months to get all the stuff that I basically did over the course of three nights back in December. I’m just gonna go higher. Even if I did stuff at street level and it took him two months to get all of it again, I get two months of exposure in New York City. That’s massive.”

Haven't seen anything he's done really high; no matter we're still thrilled to find new Shepard shit out there, especially when it's stuff that hasn't yet been on the ever-grinding Streetsy. Like this piece that went up last week, either Tuesday or Wednesday night:

And this piece that just went up Sunday a.m.:

By the way, if this gets splashed? Don't blame the postman, blame the guy who packed the mail bomb.

Shepard Fairey Is In Town

Posted by Camille Dodero at 12:41 AM, June 19, 2007

Thursday Doodles: Poor Pac-Man

Posted by Camille Dodero at 2:48 PM, June 14, 2007

Poor Pac-Man. First, he's constantly chased by ghosts, as well as stuck eating the same thing over and over and over again.

Then, he gets outmoded by Grand Theft Auto.

Then somebody gives him genitals, but no arms!

(Good thing the Ms. is all mouth.)