Art - The Streets

What In The Fuck Does This Mean?

— By Serg |

I reach out to you, Internets, to tell me what in the fuck does this sidewalk moment of brilliance have to do with life? It's pretty fucking amazing but I don't know why it is exists and I really really want to know.

Taking the 'Commie' Out of Christmas

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

I'm sick and tired of Big Christmas and Uncle Santa's yearly socialist retribution of wealth.  Every December 25th, the red flannel menace whips our country's baby creators with taxes only to shower the lazy breast-feeding do-nothings with handouts and new stuffed animals.  It's time we take Saint Nick, that Kenyan terror-president, and maybe Sean Penn and toss 'em in a Siberian Gulag.  To die.  Forever.

Also, is May too early to start thinking about Christmas?

Another Mural Bites the Dust

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

First things started getting ugly in Clarion Alley in the fall, then 2012 hit and things really escalated with the entire 17th St. Mural getting trashed with vandalism, followed by the Mr. Bubbles sign, and then much of Sirron Norris' work.  Even Balmy Alley has seen many of its works ruined in the last month.

Well, according to DVTDY?, who photographed the above whitewashing following the vandalism, we can add the Alabama St. Mural to the body count.

What remains to be seen is if muralists will persist in painting despite the unrelenting destruction of their works.  The pair of artists interviewed last fall in Clarion Alley stated they had enough and were moving on from Clarion's once sought-after alley walls.  Is the age of murals of graffiti prevention done, to be replaced with horribly boring-yet-effective treasure map-esque lines?  We can only hope not.

[Top photo by Funston]

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