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Sesame Street Characters on Box Truck

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sesame street box truck photo by gail worley
Photos By Gail

Anyone familiar with Sesame Street will recognize the likenesses of both Cookie Monster and The Count on the side of this well-tagged box truck, which I snapped a few photos of as it was stopped on Lafayette Street. The truck is the work of the COD Cru, a Bronx-based group of graffiti artists that’s been active since 1983! TC5 and KMS are two of the artists who left their tags on the truck. I wish I had been able to get a glimpse of the other side!

sesame street box truck photo by gail worley

Update August 28th, 2022:sesame street box truck photo by gail worley

I got the other side of the truck!

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Modern Art Monday Presents: Ed Ruscha, The Old Tool & Die Building

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Photo By Gail

The title of Ed Ruscha’s The Old Tool & Die Building (2004) suggests that the industrial space pictured here — decorated with signage in a mix of altered, nonsensical Korean and archaic Mandarin characters, an unidentifiable corporate symbol, and graffiti — was once a place where machinists manufactured parts.
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Ren and Stimpy Mural, Bushwick

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ren and stimpy mural bushwick photo by gail worley
All Photos By Gail

A couple of variable factors kept me from getting the best possible shot of this mural depicting two of my favorite cartoon characters — Ren and Stimpy — by graffiti artist Just Another Toy (@justanothertoy1).

First off, it was a very overcast day, and second, there were several vehicles parked at the curb, which obscured a full-on shot of the complete piece. That is for another day perhaps.

ren by just another toy photo by gail worley

The pink tag placed between Ren and Stimpy is not vandalism  obscuring an important part of the work, but rather the artist’s signature, which figures prominently on most (read: all) of his pieces. The two other tags — Gold Poo and Hudson — refer to other street artists.

stimpy by just another toy photo by gail worley

This piece (circa 2019) is part of the Bushwick Collective and is located on Scott Avenue between Troutman and Jefferson Streets.

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Blue Bulldog Mural in Bushwick

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blue bull dog by kane photo by gail worley
Photos By Gail

I don’t own any pets, but I sometimes look after a stout English Bull Dog named Mac, who belongs to a neighbor. Mac is an extremely loving and intelligent dog, and I am so fond of him that I miss dearly him whenever I see another Bull Dog on the Street.  Of course, Mac came to mind immediately when I came upon this mural of a Blue Bulldog lounging in the grass during a recent Graffiti Art Tour in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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Humor and Cuteness, Lifestyle

Shark Attack Security Gate Graffiti!

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shark attack security gate graffiti photo by gail worley
Photo By Gail

I definitely feel for any business owner whose security gate gets tagged repeatedly. They aren’t easy to clean off, and most of the time the spray-painted tags are illegible and  just plan ugly. The owners of Trinity Unisex Salon, located on 14th Street between Avenues B and C (cheap haircuts, ladies!) can take some comfort at least in the fact that their gate was tagged with a fun, hungry Shark, which in turn has supplied me with the image for this post. I’m all about finding a silver lining.

Shark Attack on the storefront!