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May 31, 2006
Detail - Guerilla Subway Art: "Do Not Bomb Iraq!"
Here's a quickly taken snap of the phoney "Do Not Bomb Iraq!" door sticker on the "C" Train.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Gear: Nikon CoolPix 3200 Digital Camera (Manual Setting, natural light)
On our Apple iPod: Damian Marley - "Welcome to Jamrock"
Kicks on feet: Paul Smith Boots
Posted by icorsa at 01:30 AM
Guerilla Subway Art 2: "Do Not Fine TWU!"
This copycat subway door sticker has a political message specific to New Yorkers, who are sensitive and opinionated when it comes to transportation. (A three-day transit strike last December forced millions of New Yorkers to commute to work on foot in bitterly cold weather just days before the winter holidays.) The strike was organized by the Transit Workers Union, or TWU, which was subject to millions of dollars in fines due to the walk-out. The message here: "Do Not Fine TWU!"
Ivan Corsa Photo
Gear: Nikon CoolPix 3200 Digital Camera (Manual Setting, natural light)
On our Apple iPod: Damien Marley - "Welcome to Jamrock"
Kicks on feet: Paul Smith Boots
Posted by icorsa at 01:29 AM
Guerilla Subway Art: "Do Not Bomb Iraq!"
The sliding doors on New York City MTA subway cars have dark-brown safety stickers warning riders with the imperative "Do Not Lean on Doors!" In a clever, subtle piece of subversive guerilla art-marketing, the stickers on the doors of this downtown "C" Train have been covered with look-alike stickers that have political messages such as "Do Not Bomb Iraq!"
Ivan Corsa Photo
Gear: Nikon CoolPix 3200 Digital Camera (Manual Setting, natural light)
On our Apple iPod: Damien Marley - "Welcome to Jamrock"
Kicks on feet: Paul Smith Boots
Posted by icorsa at 01:12 AM
May 29, 2006
Detail Shot - Swoon on Mercer St., NoHo
Here's a detail view of fresh work on Mercer Street by the artist Swoon. This paste-up cut-out can be found in back of the cast-iron loft building that is home to the Angelika Film Center and a Crate & Barrel store just north of Houston Street, in Noho, New York City.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 Digital Camera
iPod: Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy"
Kicks: Van's Camoflage Slip-ons
Posted by icorsa at 09:31 PM
Swoon on Mercer St., NoHo
The Brooklyn-based artist Swoon never ceases to surprise us with her artwork. The streets of downtown New York City is like her gallery; the backstreet walls of old tenement buildings and cast-iron lofts are her canvases. Pictured here is a piece by Swoon on Mercer Street, behind the building that houses the Angelika Film Center and a mammoth Crate & Barrel store in Noho, in lower Manhattan.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 Digital Camera
On the iPod: Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy"
Kicks on the feet: Van's Slip-ons - Desert Camoflage
Posted by icorsa at 09:27 PM
May 28, 2006
Global Graphica's New Home
It's been quiet here on the Global Graphica site the past week or two as we, Air Massive, the publisher of Global Graphica, have been on hiatus, taking a short vacation before getting super busy with a big move to a new place in downtown NYC. We apologize to our regular visitors and subscribers for the lack of posts during this time.
We relocated the Air Massive HQ back into the heart of the Manhattan's Lower East Side, and into our favorite part of the nabe, which, depending on with whom you speak, is sometimes also referred to as "Northeast Chinatown," "LoLIta," "LoHo" or "Bel-Del" (for Below Delancey Street). It's a fascinating part of New York, one with lots of history, culture, bars, restaurants and music venues, as well as lots of diverse characters. It's a place where the surviving remnants of Manhattan's historic Jewish immigrant community of the Lower East Side rubs up against the newer bustle of Fujinanese Chinatown on one side and an old Puerto Rican barrio of "Losaida" on the other side.
A few doors down from Massive HQ, in a now empty and decrepit tenement building, is where Lou Reed used to live back in his Velvet Underground days. Down the street you can find the best caipirinhas outside of Brazil. Around the corner, you can find the best fried dumplings outside of China. And a few blocks away you can drink the best espresso in Manhattan and eat the finest almond croissants outside of France. We fucking love it.
Now that we're done unpacking and have settled in, we thought we'd share some images of the new nabe and home to Air Massive and Global Graphica below.
Posted by icorsa at 03:02 PM
May 19, 2006
Chinatown, My Chinatown, NYC
A view down an alley one late, late night in Chinatown, New York City.
Ivan Corsa Photo.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:59 AM
May 04, 2006
Context: "Yolk" Tag on Ludlow Street, NYC No. 2
This shot shows a slightly wider, contextual view of the Chinese storefront on Ludlow Street in the LES, NYC, where "Yolk" has put up his tag.
On our iPod: "I Run New York" by 50 Cent
Gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 03:48 AM
"Yolk" Tag on Ludlow Street, NYC No. 1
An excellent tag by "Yolk" on a storefront roll-up shutter on Ludlow Street in the East Chinatown neighborhood of the Lower East Side, New York City.
On our iPod: "I Run New York" by 50 Cent
Gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 03:40 AM
Context: Street Art: NoHo Bulldog Paste-up, NYC
The wide, context view of the familiar bulldog wheat-paste-up on Bleecker Street in the NoHo nabe in downtown NYC.
On our iPod when we took this photo: "Back Then" by Mike Jones
Kicks on our feet: Vans Camoflage slip-ons
Gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:48 AM
Detail: Street Art: NoHo Bulldog Paste-up, NYC
Here's a detail shot of the bulldog paste-up on Bleecker Street in NoHo, in New York City.
On our iPod when we took this photo: "Back Then" by Mike Jones
Kicks on our feet: Vans Camoflage slip-ons
Gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:45 AM
Street Art: NoHo Bulldog Paste-up, NYC
We've been seeing this bulldog paste-up around downtown Manhattan for a few years now. This one is practically a landmark on Bleecker Street near Lafayette Street in the cast-iron lofts neighborhhod of NoHo (for NOrth of HOuston Street).
On our iPod when we took this photo: "Back Then" by Mike Jones
Kicks on our feet: Vans Camoflage slip-ons
Gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:39 AM
