March 27, 2007
Madonna Painted Large in SoHo No. 4
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: LCD Soundsystem - "Yeah (Pretentious Mix)"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 02:20 AM
Madonna Painted Large in SoHo No. 3
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: LCD Soundsystem - "Yeah (Pretentious Mix)"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 02:18 AM
Madonna Painted Large in SoHo No. 2
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: LCD Soundsystem - "Yeah (Pretentious Mix)"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 02:15 AM
Madonna Painted Large in SoHo No. 1
Massive ad-mural of Madonna for H&M is being painted on the side of a cast-iron lofts building in SoHo, New York City.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: LCD Soundsystem - "Yeah (Pretentious Mix)"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 02:05 AM
February 14, 2007
Video: Anti-Advertising Campaign in New York City by Graffiti Research Lab
The folks at the ever ingenious and creative Graffiti Research Lab have made a clip of their recent anti-advertising campaign. The guerilla effort exploits video panels that display commercials outside subway entrances around New York City. The point is that the thousands of marketing messages we are exposed to on a daily basis is the true graf problem urban dwellers face.
Posted by icorsa at 11:58 PM
February 08, 2007
Osaka: Detail - Adidas +10 Billboard in Shinsaibashi 2
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Beck - "Hell Yes"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 10:36 PM
Osaka: Adidas +10 Billboard in Shinsaibashi 1
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Beck - "Hell Yes"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 10:33 PM
February 06, 2007
Osaka: Detail - Truck with Sumo Character Logo
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Kaiser Chiefs - "I Predict a Riot"
Kicks on our feet: Converse "John Varvatos" Laceless Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 11:29 PM
Osaka: Truck with Sumo Character Logo
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Kaiser Chiefs - "I Predict a Riot"
Kicks on our feet: Converse "John Varvatos" Laceless Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 11:29 PM
January 24, 2007
Osaka: "Warm Gun" Shop Signage Detail, Minami-Horie
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Peter Tosh - "Legalize It"
Kicks on our feet: Converse "John Varvatos" Laceless Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 12:17 AM
Osaka: "Warm Gun" Shop Entrance, Minami-Horie
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Peter Tosh - "Legalize It"
Kicks on our feet: Converse "John Varvatos" Laceless Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 12:15 AM
Osaka: "Warm Gun" Shop in Minami-Horie
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Peter Tosh - "Legalize It"
Kicks on our feet: Converse "John Varvatos" Laceless Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 12:12 AM
January 20, 2007
Osaka: Bathing Ape Store in Kita-Horie
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Tosca - "Orozco"
Kicks on our feet: Converse "John Varvatos" Laceless Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 08:36 AM
Osaka: Bathing Ape Store, "Go Ape" Signage in Kita-Horie
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Tosca - "Orozco"
Kicks on our feet: Converse "John Varvatos" Laceless Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 08:34 AM
Osaka: Bathing Ape Store, 2F Window Display, in Kita-Horie
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Tosca - "Orozco"
Kicks on our feet: Converse "John Varvatos" Laceless Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 08:30 AM
January 16, 2007
Osaka, Japan: Dreaming Pachinko at Atariya in Shinsaibashi
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Deerhoof - "Koneko"
Kicks on our feet: Converse "John Varvatos" Laceless Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 09:13 AM
January 12, 2007
Osaka, Japan: "Beast" Shop Logo in Amerika-Mura
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Deerhoof - "Koneko"
Kicks on our feet: Converse "John Varvatos" Laceless Sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 09:07 AM
November 02, 2006
Video: ABC News Story on "BNE"
Last month we posted on the crackdown by San Francisco authorities on graf and sticker-bombers, especially one: "BNE." The story was picked up by other news media, including ABC News, which put together this somewhat amusing and earnest report on "BNE" and the crackdown.
Posted by icorsa at 01:54 AM
October 23, 2006
More Lenin Head Stickers with Skulls, SoHo, No. 2
A closer up view revealing the details of the stickers and background paste-up design.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Lady Sovereign - "Random"
Kicks on our feet: Puma Double-Lace "R-System" RS100 sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 01:47 AM
More Lenin Stickers and Skulls, SoHo, No. 1
More Lenin stickers in SoHo, NYC, but this time the stickers have been placed on a paste-up pattern with a skulls motif. The jutxtoposition is striking.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Lady Sovereign - "Random"
Kicks on our feet: Puma Double-Lace "R-System" RS100 sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 01:45 AM
October 05, 2006
Context View: White Rabbit Logo
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Lily Allen - "Smile"
Kicks on our feet: Puma Double-Lace "R-System" RS100 sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 04:27 AM
Another Angle: White Rabbit Logo
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Lily Allen - "Smile"
Kicks on our feet: Puma Double-Lace "R-System" RS100 sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 04:25 AM
White Rabbit Logo at 11 Spring Steet, NYC
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Lily Allen - "Smile"
Kicks on our feet: Puma Double-Lace "R-System" RS100 sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 04:21 AM
October 03, 2006
Background: Lenin Head + The Gap Ad Mash-Up No. 5
Here's a shot of an undefaced ad for The Gap upon which the Lenin stickers were put up around SoHo, in downtown New York City.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Mad Professor & Jah Shaka - "Zulu Hut"
Kicks on our feet: Puma Double-Lace "R-System" RS100 sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 04:28 AM
Sticker Detail: Lenin Head + The Gap Ad Mash-Up No. 4
... And here's another detail shot, this time of a sticker that's been put up with Lenin facing left.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Mad Professor & Jah Shaka - "Zulu Hut"
Kicks on our feet: Puma Double-Lace "R-System" RS100 sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 04:25 AM
Sticker Detail: Lenin Head + The Gap Ad Mash-Up No. 3
Here's a detail shot of the Lenin sticker facing right.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Mad Professor & Jah Shaka - "Zulu Hut"
Kicks on our feet: Puma Double-Lace "R-System" RS100 sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 04:22 AM
Detail: Lenin Head + The Gap Ad Mash-Up No. 2
Detail of The Gap ads defaced with stickers of Lenin in SoHo, New York City.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Mad Professor & Jah Shaka - "Zulu Hut"
Kicks on our feet: Puma Double-Lace "R-System" RS100 sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 04:19 AM
Lenin Head + The Gap Ad Mash-Up No. 1
This is a beautiful mash-up in SoHo, New York City: Sticker art of Soviet icon Vladmir Lenin's face over the faces of the models appearing in recent billboard ads for The Gap clothing brand. There are a whole bunch of images in this series, including a shot of the ads before they were defaced (no pun intended ... really). Check 'em out.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Mad Professor & Jah Shaka - "Zulu Hut"
Kicks on our feet: Puma Double-Lace "R-System" RS100 sneakers
Posted by icorsa at 04:10 AM
July 22, 2006
Detail: Brooklyn Art Collective Paste-Up, SoHo
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:52 AM
Contextual View: Brooklyn Art Collective Paste-Up, SoHo
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:49 AM
Brooklyn Art Collective Paste-Up, SoHo
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:47 AM
June 16, 2006
Nike "Joga Bonito" Soccer Ball Vending Machine 5
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Tunes on the iPod: Damian Marley "Welcome to Jamrock"
Sneakers on the feet: Vans Camoflage Slip-ons
Posted by icorsa at 10:21 PM
Nike "Joga Bonito" Soccer Ball Vending Machine 4
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Tunes on the iPod: Damian Marley "Welcome to Jamrock"
Sneakers on the feet: Vans Camoflage Slip-ons
Posted by icorsa at 10:20 PM
Nike "Joga Bonito" Soccer Ball Vending Machine 3
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Tunes on the iPod: Damian Marley "Welcome to Jamrock"
Sneakers on the feet: Vans Camoflage Slip-ons
Posted by icorsa at 10:19 PM
Nike "Joga Bonito" Soccer Ball Vending Machine 2
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Tunes on the iPod: Damian Marley "Welcome to Jamrock"
Sneakers on the feet: Vans Camoflage Slip-ons
Posted by icorsa at 10:18 PM
Nike "Joga Bonito" Soccer Ball Vending Machine 1
Ivan Corsa Photo
Photo gear: Nikon Coolpix 3200 digital camera
Tunes on the iPod: Damian Marley "Welcome to Jamrock"
Sneakers on the feet: Vans Camoflage Slip-ons
Posted by icorsa at 10:15 PM
June 08, 2006
Close-up: Sexy Calvin Klein Billboard on Houston St., NYC
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 10:27 PM
Sexy Calvin Klein Billboard on Houston St., NYC
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 10:26 PM
April 20, 2006
Detail: New Vans Sneaker Billboard in Soho
Here's a detail shot of the artwork used in the new Vans sneakers billboard outside Spring Street subway station in lower Manhattan.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:21 AM
Context: New Vans Sneaker Billboard in Soho
This is a slightly wider-context view of the Vans billboard in SoHo, in downtown New York City.
Ivan Corsa
Posted by icorsa at 02:19 AM
New Vans Sneaker Billboard in Soho
For much of the past year (maybe longer) the Vans sneaker brand has been running ads on a street-level billboard outside Spring Street subway station in SoHo, New York City. These ads are part of a larger billboard campaign that involves the old-school skateboard sneaker-maker commisioning artists -- some of them street artists -- to supply original Vans-inspired imagery for the adverts. Despite the commercial context and aim of the artwork, much of these artists have created amazing work for the campaign.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:17 AM
December 15, 2005
Sony PlayStation Portable Street Art / Guerrilla Marketing 1
During the past few months, we've seen dozens of these street art pieces of kids engaged with various handheld toys and other objects that, upon closer inspection, are actually Sony PlayStation Portable devices, that is, the PSP. This image was taken in Soho. Most of the ads are confined to downtown Manhattan. This "graf" is really a clever attempt by Sony to appropriate the street art vernacular for advertising purposes as part of its guerilla marketing efforts for the PSP. We have to admit that the ads are cool; we like 'em. Unfortunately, when we spotted this one, the batteries on our Nikon digital camera were out of juice, so we had to shoot these images with the lower resolution of the camera embedded in our Palm Treo 650 Smartphone.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 01:58 AM
November 15, 2005
Court TV Tenement Apartment Billboard, NYC #3
It seems like there's clever billboard advertising everywhere in New York City, so when we see a billboard that actually stops us in our tracks and makes us pause and smile (and snap a bunch of pictures while we're at it, too), well, that's something. That's what happened when we saw this massive ad-screen for CourtTV. The ad has been designed as the side of the Soho tenement apartment building upon which it's hung. In the windows, shadows suggest tenants engaged in criminal intrigue. The apartment buildng is at the corner of King St. and 6th Avenue, a block south of Houston St., in a neighborhood that is home to some of the hottest, most acclaimed advertising agencies in the world.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 01:43 AM
Court TV Tenement Apartment Billboard, NYC #2
Here's the context shot of the CourtTV billboard apartment building.
It seems like there's clever billboard advertising everywhere in New York City, so when we see a billboard that actually stops us in our tracks and makes us pause and smile (and snap a bunch of pictures while we're at it, too), well, that's something. That's what happened when we saw this massive ad-screen for CourtTV. The ad has been designed as the side of the Soho tenement apartment building upon which it's hung. In the windows, shadows suggest tenants engaged in criminal intrigue. The apartment buildng is at the corner of King St. and 6th Avenue, a block south of Houston St., in a neighborhood that is home to some of the hottest, most acclaimed advertising agencies in the world.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 01:41 AM
Court TV Tenement Apartment Billboard, NYC #1
Here's a closer view of the windows on the Court TV billboard in Soho, New York City.
It seems like there's clever billboard advertising everywhere in New York City, so when we see a billboard that actually stops us in our tracks and makes us pause and smile (and snap a bunch of pictures while we're at it, too), well, that's something. That's what happened when we saw this massive ad-screen for CourtTV. The ad has been designed as the side of the Soho tenement apartment building upon which it's hung. In the windows, shadows suggest tenants engaged in criminal intrigue. The apartment buildng is at the corner of King St. and 6th Avenue, a block south of Houston St., in a neighborhood that is home to some of the hottest, most acclaimed advertising agencies in the world.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 01:39 AM
October 13, 2005
Walk This Way 3
This image doesn't really need explanation ... well .. okay, maybe it does ... a little. Whenever a building undergoes some sort of renovation work in New York City, scaffolding is placed on all sides of the building adjacent to the sidewalk. The scaffolding covers the sidewalk, and the sides of the structure is often repurposed as billboard space and as a placeholder for signs of those street-level retail businesses whose front signage is blocked by the scaffolding. Pictured here and below is a cheeky use of scaffolding space as signage by Digital Ink, an electronic printing company on Varick Street in Soho.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:59 AM
Walk This Way 2
Another shot of the clever use of scaffolding space by Digital Ink to advertise its business in New York.
This image doesn't really need explanation ... well .. okay, maybe it does ... a little. Whenever a building undergoes some sort of renovation work in New York City, scaffolding is placed on all sides of the building adjacent to the sidewalk. The scaffolding covers the sidewalk, and the sides of the structure is often repurposed as billboard space and as a placeholder for signs of those street-level retail businesses whose front signage is blocked by the scaffolding. Pictured here and below is a cheeky use of scaffolding space as signage by Digital Ink, an electronic printing company on Varick Street in Soho.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:56 AM
Walk This Way 1
One more shot of the clever use of scaffolding space by Digital Ink to advertise its business in New York.
This image doesn't really need explanation ... well .. okay, maybe it does ... a little. Whenever a building undergoes some sort of renovation work in New York City, scaffolding is placed on all sides of the building adjacent to the sidewalk. The scaffolding covers the sidewalk, and the sides of the structure is often repurposed as billboard space and as a placeholder for signs of those street-level retail businesses whose front signage is blocked by the scaffolding. Pictured here and below is a cheeky use of scaffolding space as signage by Digital Ink, an electronic printing company on Varick Street in Soho.
Ivan Corsa Photo
Posted by icorsa at 02:53 AM
