everyone's favorite national holiday where the cute and the macabre commingle in an amazing outpouring of public art making ...
all photos ©Ken Brown
This is the blog of the New York cartoonist, filmmaker, designer, and photographer, Ken Brown. You can visit his website at kenbrownpixpop.com
"POETIC POSTER DECAY"
Monday, October 24, 2011
HALLOWEEN ART
Monday, October 17, 2011
"HAND PAINTED" SIGNAGE-LOS ANGELES
from the "golden" state of oranges, autos, and fabulous hand painted signage, here is a small sampling from a trip to Los Angeles last week ...
all photos ©Ken Brown
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
"NUIT BLANCHE" BRING TO LIGHT NEW YORK
One of the things I really love about this city is the constant cavalcade of visual surprises. Usually they are things I come across in the course of daily rambles, but there are also numerous events concocted by various cultural agencies to enlighten and amuse.This past weekend we went to a nighttime contemporary art festival on the waterfront in Greenpoint
Brooklyn, called Bring to Light or Nuit Blanche New York. It was billed as an "immersive spectacle of site-specific light, sound, performance and projection by over 50 artists".
a small sampling ...
WAREHOUSE CLIMBING
A LIGHT CONCERT
NEON BENCH SLEEPER
SHADOW PLAY
Monday, September 26, 2011
STREET ART "OTHERNESS"
I've been documenting NYC and its street art and culture for over 25 years. As the files grow and new categories have emerged with their respective titles, there is still one file called "other".
Here's to "otherness" ...
BUSHWICK
BUSHWICK
WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE
SOHO-BROADWAY AND PRINCE
LOWER EAST SIDE
WILLIAMSBURG (FROM THE BRIDGE)
CHELSEA
HUDSON RIVER PARK
CHELSEA
all photos ©Ken Brown
Monday, September 19, 2011
YARD ART EXTRAVAGANZA
There is a yard on the corner of Bedford and 1st in Williamsburg Brooklyn that has amused me, and I'm sure many others, for years.
The lot is fenced off, and at first viewing, it appears to be the remnants of a particularly boisterous yard sale. On subsequent visits, I noticed that the cast of characters was changing and new figures were being added. Also, I noticed that they would often be relocated and costume changes were not infrequent. This modest corner lot had become an ongoing installation space created largely from cast off items and curated with artful theatricality by an elderly local woman named Carmen.
Thank you, Carmen.
OCTOBER 2009
MAY 2010 Coco the gorilla is introduced
JULY 2010 Coco at work with a new menagerie keeping him company
OCTOBER 2010 a tender moment as George/Spiderman comforts a cow
FEBRUARY 2011 waiting out the Winter
APRIL 2011 George and his lizard buddy
MAY 2011 Springtime
JUNE 2011 a mini monster truck
JULY 2011 a family moment
JULY 29th 2011 a note from Carmen to friends and photographers
all photos ©Ken Brown
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