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Trigger: Happy New Year from me and my favorite camel!

Last Thursday indy graffiti mag, Overspray, celebrated the launch of their sixth issue with an art battle in Brooklyn.

To play on the issue’s theme, the four competing artists represented the California graf scene. Click here to watch ‘em duke it out on canvas.

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Trigger/Site: Overspray magazine

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Cross it off the list: I’ve now walked New York City from top to bottom.

I met my brother and his friends on the train platform at 225th Street, where Manhattan almost touches the Bronx. The path was green and hilly as we headed through Isham Park and past the Cloisters. After that it was all concrete for the 15-mile journey.

We stopped only once for a slice of pizza. My brother gave me fair warning- if you sit down for too long, you won’t be able to get up again. So we kept going, pushing past the tourists in Midtown- and then looking like tourists ourselves in our baseball caps, sweaty T-shirts and tennis shoes- down Hudson Street and through Tribeca. Eight hours later we collapsed on the long benches at the bottom edge of Battery Park.

The cab driver didn’t ask, but I told him about my day.

“I don’t know why you did that,” he laughed, “but that’s pretty fantastic. I’ve got some aspirin somewhere here if you need one.”

For some way uptown shots (before my arms were too sore to lift the camera), click here.

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Trigger: NYC

Just posted: my pictures from the Richard Serra exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

They’re also in the mix at “theMoMAproject [NYC]“. This Flickr group has been so popular that a dedicated site was recently launched at Photomoma.org.

Photomoma is not meant to catalog the art itself, but to explore how museum goers document their experience with photographs. The site’s creators, Travis and Brady Hammond, write that “the result will be a pastiche of images that will force the viewer to critique their own relationship to the artwork in the photographs. Furthermore, the viewer will have to question whether or not the photographs themselves are works of art. In this way, Photomoma is designed to educate viewers not only about the artwork in the photographs, but about art in general and the ways in which the Internet can change how we both see and perceive it.”

I like this idea- and seeing the art again from many different points of view.

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Trigger: Photomoma

After taking in all the ancient art that Milan has to offer, it was refreshing to check out the Street Art Sweet Art exhibition at the Padiglione Arte Contemporanea.

The beauty of the exhibition was its lack of mass appeal. The 30+ Italian street artists featured were so stylistically varied, the fun of it was the search for the most wicked pieces.

Personal favorites included the floor-to-ceiling redheads by Nais, and Microbo’s twisted and tangled design.

The upstairs gallery showcased wheatpaste and sticker campaigns. Some, like Matteo Donini’s “Wake up!!” wheatpaste bells, were instantly recognizable from a neighborhood here or there. Others were so vibrant or interesting that you wished the artist would come to yours and jazz it up a bit.

The show has received so many visitors that the closing date has now been extended to April 25th!

Sweet art from a sweetheart. No piece in the exhibition could compare to a birthday gift I received. Umberto’s sister happens to know Sten, and they asked him to spray a T-shirt for me.What makes it such a treasure is that I know this stencil- Umberto pointed it out to me on the streets of San Lorenzo in Rome. Madonna Santa- it’s so nice!
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Trigger: Street Art Sweet Art exhibition