Posted by on under derelict vehicles, wheeler bicycle, pop up camper, cormac mccarthy, truck camper, sculptural piece, delivery trucks, mobile vehicles, self reliance, datis, kickstarter, cabover, 3 wheeler, rickshaws, mobile unit, artt, cyr, fructose, rvs, graffiti | 
Artist Kevin Cyr is building a pop-up camper atop a shopping cart. This is a follow-up to his Camper Bike, a 3-wheeler bicycle with a truck camper on the back. Cyr is looking for donations to help complete the Camper Kart. Cyr writes: It's a functioning sculptural piece that seeks to explore aspects of housing, mobility, and autonomy. It is also largely about self-reliance and making due with less. I have always been interested in bikes and vehicles and for many years they have been the subject of my paintings. My paintings document odd and derelict vehicles: old delivery trucks inundated with graffiti and rust, well-traveled RVs, Indian rickshaws and Asian bikes. Throughout the last year, I decided to build my own type of vehicles. On a trip to Beijing, I conceived and built a CAMPER BIKE: an amalgamation of a Chinese 3-wheeled flatbed bike with an American cabover style camper. Interested in building a series of mobile vehicles and inspired by Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, I started sketching plans for CAMPER KART: a mobile unit built into a shopping cart--an ubiquitous urban object. Camper Kart (Kickstarter) "Kevin Cyr's Camper kart" (Hi-Fructose)...
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Posted by on under providence rhode, image cache, os 9, urban renewal, graffiti, wallpaper |
Spotted by a reader outside of Providence, Rhode Island (what isn't "outside of Providence" in RI, anyway?), some charming little OS-9-themed graffiti on an abandoned nightclub. Wallpaper-sized shots...
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Posted by on under iry, digg, graffiti, meta |
The meta irony is delicious.
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Posted by Maggie Koerth-Baker on under new york city subways, jamel shabazz, boing boing, boing photos, nyc subways, martha cooper, th period, little girls, yuppies, glory days, lifeblood, caricature, good stuff, graffiti, 1980s, peoe, cn, subway, photographers, men and women |
As a Midwesterner who didn't get a chance to fall in love with New York City subways until 2002, it's fascinating to take a trip back to the system's not-so-glory days, courtesy a collection of 1980s-era photos on Sean Kernick's 2 4 Flinching blog.
I've seen historical photos of the NYC subways before, but, somehow, the other picture collections seem to skip over this period in the subway's past. What I love best about these images—taken by photographers Bruce Davidson, John F. Conn, Jamel Shabazz and Martha Cooper—is the fact that they are documenting a full world. Sure, on these graffiti-covered and trash-strewn subways, guns got pointed at heads and white yuppies looked terrified. But this was also a system that took little girls to the beach, and suit-wearing men and women to the office.
The photos give you an unflinching sense of what these systems were like at a time when the city had basically left them to rot, but without creating a caricature that distracts from the humanity of the people involved (even the ones who contributed to the rotting). Good stuff.
2 4 Flinching: Subway, lifeblood
Photo taken by Martha Cooper.
Tagi: new york city subways, jamel shabazz, boing boing, boing photos, nyc subways, martha cooper, th period, little girls, yuppies, glory days, lifeblood, caricature, good stuff, graffiti, 1980s, peoe, cn, subway, photographers, men and women
