Global Graphica

Artist and Lower East Side fixture Marco painted these massive hoardings on the stretch of Orchard Street between Houston and Stanton streets, where for a couple of years several major condo, hotel and retail property-development projects have simultaneously been in progress.

Marco’s aesthetic is not exactly our style, but he’s playfully brightened up a block that for too long has been blighted by construction. We took these pictures a couple of months ago during a terribly grim patch of winter weather in New York City. These paintings brought some cheer on a gray day, on a gray road. Thanks, Marco!

From our City Life file: We stumbled upon this portable stage — a kind of bandshell on wheels — parked at Grand and Orchard streets on the Lower East Side.  An indie band was playing the stage at the time — we wish we could remember their name. The stage and concert were part of the Apples on Orchard street festival, an annual event to mark the start of autumn in New York City.

From our Design and Cool Spaces file: The “Lower East Side Ping Pong Club” is a newly opended, temporary storefront table-tennis space in downtown New York City (on Grand Street, near Norfolk Street) that’s part of a collaboration with sneakers brand Puma and Grand Opening, an event-marketing agency that produces pop-ups stores. We love this!

Lower East Side street art: Wide shot of Rat graff art on side of oddly re-designed tenement building on Ludlow Street just south of Delancey Street, LES, NYC.


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Wicked little Sharpie drawing by Goon OMG on a US Postal Service stickie on Ludlow Street in te LES, downtown New York.


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Stickies street art by Musk and Goon OMG on Ludlow Street in the Lower East Side, New York City.


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Stickies by Goon OMG and “Mercyful Fate” on Ludlow Street in the Lower East Side, NYC.


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Ludlow Street stickie by “Mercyful Fate” in the Lower East Side, NYC.


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Ludlow Street stickie with Sharpie illustration.


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Street art on Ludlow Street, LES, NYC: Sharpie drawing on US priority-mail stickie.


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New Obey wheatpost by Shepard Fairey on Broome Street, between The Bowery and Elizabeth Street, downtown New York City.


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Closer look at new Shepard Fairey Obey wheatpost on Broome Street, downtown New York City.


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Detail of the new Obey wheatpost on Broome Street, NYC.


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Obey on Broome Street, NYC.


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Another shot of the American flag graffiti art on Ludlow Street, Lower East Side of New York City. See the full text in the previous post below.


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American flag graffiti art on a fence / gate down on Ludlow Street, Lower East Side of New York City. A fitting image for the 4th of July / Independence Day holiday in the United States this week. This piece as been here for years. It’s on the block between Hester and Canal streets, about 40 meters north from the corner where the French-Tunisian-Brazilian bar restaurant Les Enfants Terribles, where the Global Graphica massive usually get together for brunch and caipirinhas at the weekend.


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Our minimalist workspace as it is now in ’08 in downtown Manhattan, New York City, where all the magic still happens. Compare the images in this post and the previous post and it’s interesting to see what’s changed: artwork on the wall, newer smartphone, earbuds instead of headphones, different books and magazines, coffee cup has a proper saucer, etc.


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Our minimalist workspace as it was circa summer 2006 in downtown Manhattan, New York City, where all the magic happens.


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Close-up of the “No Graffiti” warning sign near the corner of Broome Street and The Bowery in Chinatown / Lower East Side.


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This “No Graffiti” warning sign is explicit. It’s on a building near the corner of Broome Street and The Bowery in Chinatown / Lower East Side. The sign is apparently effective because there wasn’t a lick of graff on the property the last time we checked.


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