Hands are stirred by the gentle breeze of the Subway. .
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Happy Bright Friday - have your Memory Replaced with cats. /
Have your Memory Replaced with cats. This pic was indeed taken on Union Square so these aren't ordinary cats - they are freedom loving, new yorker, union square cats. Will explain the leashes later.
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Pics from my Memory Replacement performance.
it doesn't take too long before people grab the paints and the brushes. It is a beautiful thing to paint. And what brings people together is doing an entirely odd thing for an entirely odd reason.
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Thank you, London ! And Happy Thanksgiving. /
Thank you, London, and Happy Thanksgiving. The Left and Right Wings of the same Memory Angel. We have the two sides of the Pond, together. Without the human in it it is a bit like some strange animal has left its tattooed skin on the road.
I literally flipped the Memory Replacement NYC piece and had Londoners of all walks of life write me a message.
#today #London was a blast - Thank you, London ! /
But first #letmetakeaselfie 📸@mirenarhee wearing #blankcanvas asking people to draw on her🖍...so obviously I did!#london #lifestyle #wcw pic.twitter.com/AEOoeq98W9
— She and the City (@sheandthecity) November 23, 2016
Today London - The Flip Side ! It was a blast.. also thanks to London Police and the two nice cops in a cruiser on The Mall - Thank you ! /
Ingredients of a Subway Car, pen and ink drawings installation, dimensions variable, 2016 /
Ingredients of a Subway Car, pen and ink drawings installation, dimensions variable, 2016
Ingredients of a subway car at Hudson Yards. I love this station and it is a nice home for animated hands and other objects and villains. .. I like setting up my installation in a porous and transient spaces.. with the station attendants pushing trash cans around it. Too bad my plans for Kings Cross in London din't materialize because I came down with the most unpleasant cold.. and wet. ..
Funny - as in the Inception Bucket the Inception Box and a Canadian shoveling snow /
This is not a random gif - I love Rémi Gaillard and often think he is the odd hybrid between Andy Kaufman, Woody Allen and Salvador Dali in bed with Jackass, Monty Python, South Park and South Jersey.
Michelangelo's David /
Photographed him awhile ago and still marvel at the ability of the italian people to be so talented in so many different arts, from music to painting to sculpture. They are not merely talented, they are magnificent in so many directions.. i sometimes think the Italians were the chosen peoples. Although of course we shouldn't forget that the aesthetic was invented and handed down by the Greeks. It really is difficult to make beautiful things, it is much easier to do nothing or to make half things and half baked artworks, it is much easier to destroy or to simply deflect and pass the time anonymously and with no blame or judgement.
Messages written during my Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square. The wing of a public opinion airplane shot down over election day on Union Square /
Messages written during my Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square /
One of the aims of the work is honesty via immediacy, unexpected interaction, friendly confrontation on the street and eliciting the same in people I met. Because I was not protected or tasked by an institution and there was no institutional context to my work - myself, the work and the result were entirely at the mercy of complete and unbridled honesty. .
I surely relied on everyone being at least a bit nonplussed and curious and to have no time to feel self-conscious or deliberate.
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And thirdly ( something imagesurgeon correctly noted ) I was a living sounding board placed on one hand between a guy who was shining shoes and on the other a couple of masked guys who were selling bricks (yeah, the real kind). With the understanding that Union Square has always been a place of gathering and dissent.
via imagesurgeon: . The People have the power! ( if they did but realise it?) Iconoclasm is a way of intelligently re establishing that power. . .
Memory Replacement – Election Day /
During my Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square.
Memory Replacement was a success.
This is about giving people weapons - little arrows of brushes and sharpies, and oddly enough people use these weapons to express their feelings of belonging and joy of one another. I want to use these tiny weapons to bring the best in people, a moment of joy with an arrow of paint. Where people from all walks of life put there heads together in a brief moment, a second of color.
Where day traders and day schoolers doodle together on the sidewalk.
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Photos by Ian Mack - ianmackstudios.com
Have your Memory Replaced this Election Day - Tues November 8th - 14st Union Square - west 4th Subway Stations /
Memory Replacement - Election Day Tues Nov 8th noon - midnight
14th Street–Union Square & West 4th Subway Stations Union Square & Washington Square Park and other places underground and above
Have your memory replaced this Election Day !
Grandpa sketches, he was always in good spirits and good company, enjoyed eating pig ears, goofing around drawing funny cartoons of people and grandma and he loved parties /
I miss grandpa everyday and his drawings and paintings fill the house he built, he was an enemy of the communist state, lost all - his business and property to the government, he watched many of his friends get shot from the terrace of his house ( my aunt says he paced the terrace all night smoking cigarettes and watching the muzzle flashes down in the valley i guess wondering about their turn ). Grandpa was saved by a lawyer whose family grandpa used to take care of when said lawyer was in prison, he and my grandma lived for many years with a live-in communist ( don't ask, it was the weirdest arrangement that i can not even properly describe, read up on Kafka ) - it used to be a lot worse ( in the 60s and 70s) with the police coming at midnight to check on people's activities. Grandpa barely escaped with his life and was never allowed to work a proper job, he was told he was lucky to be alive. In the beginning of the communist regime he was in a labor camp building roads and later on only my grandma worked. When my mom sued the government later on in a Strasbourg court I came across papers in the archives, anonymous letters informing on grandpa and calling him "enemy of the state". This is how I know. but now this whole thing is done, his work lives on, I always say hi and bye to him as if he's around.
Van Gogh Halloween Costume- i think it's pretty good. Happy Halloween! /
Hands Chart - in gold and not /
New York things /
by robotorigami - via reddit
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMHIMssBYpo/
aka subwaycreatures
I love the subway.. people pay to go to the theater.. i go to the subway.
i have photographed many train stations and realized that i simply love inhabiting transient spaces,.. feel at home and make myself comfortable at bus stations, terminals and various corridors.. even parking lots, especially was fond of Tokyo & Kyoto stations.
more underground photographs:
http://dimmerlight.com/portfolio/some-kind-of-train-or-underground/
A lot more fun than it sounds /
trying to not think of packing hoping that the next room over indeed holds a self-packing bag, after having a large hot chocolate and a beer for some reason - I am sneaking in a meaning of life and having a laugh actually..