Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Metamorphosing Paris

An artist is someone who sees what the rest of us need to be shown, and then shows us.
An artist sees struggle...



...fashion...



...entertainment...



...a ribcage in a street grate...


 
...a pipeline torso missing it's feet...


...a hole of surprise...



...happiness...

*All photographs shot in Paris, France.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Clown Soldier

Don't blame me! It's the Percadan. If you ask me that stuff rots your brain...And now a word from our new sponsor...Percadan, OH CRAP!!!
Krusty the Clown (The Simpsons)
Clown Soldier



Homer gave me a kidney, it wasn't his, I didn't need it, and it came postage due, but still a lovely gesture.
Krusty the Clown
Clown Soldier


A little schmutz, a little schmeer, and presto, you're part of the underground railroad.
Krusty the Clown
Clown Soldier



If this is anyone but Steve Allen, you're stealing my bit.
Krusty the Clown
Clown Soldier






Monday, November 21, 2011

Hipster mania

Hipsters; you either hate them, or haven't met any yet. In Brooklyn, and lower NYC, they are everywhere- drinking tea infused with live organisms at abandoned warehouse "art shows", dumpster-diving outside of Trader Joe's for dinner, bumping into you on the streets because they're busy updating their Spotify playlists. Street artists have noticed them too, and this is what they have to say.
Cali Killa

Two hipsters walk into a bar. The first one did it before it was cool, and the second one did it ironically.
Enzo & Nio



Posers. I was hatin' Zoidberg before it was cool.
Bender-Futurama
Brett Ashley


*Disclaimer: Scratched City does not promote discrimination or hatred
of any group, even hipsters. 
We only document it.


You used to not be able to tell the difference between hipsters and homeless people. Now, it's between hipsters and retards. I mean, either that guy in the corner in orange safety pants holding a protest sign and wearing a top hat is mentally disabled, or he is the coolest fucking guy you will ever know.
Chuck Klosterman
Found in the Realform Girdle Building


Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa.
Allen Ginsburg-Hipster extraordinaire.
Ironically, this sticker was stuck up in a hipster art gallery.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

An American Street Art Compilationist in Paris Part Deux: Objectivism


It may be hard to tell from this picture but this is a realistic
looking dummy stuck up on a wall 20 feet above the ground.
Let's devote some time to objects that have been pasted up in the streets.
Milo Project



[Extraterrestrial Robot] "I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


Le TAG des beaux artiers
Letres decoratives
Jerome Gulon


Jerome Gulon


Jerome Gulon



Jerome Gulon


Oak and Prop



Oak and Prop


Prop



Oak1


Oak1



Bastek







Bastek







Pieuvre





Bastek and Gregos






Ore





Tuesday, November 15, 2011

El Sol 25


Diamond Eyes
Monkey, Frog, Molecules, Globe, Waffle, Eye, Galaxy, Disco Ball,
 Faces, Book Page, Donuts, Crosses on the brain.

El Sol 25


Framed!
El Sol 25


Jean Baptist Pointe Du Sable 22
The first permanent resident of Chicago
El Sol 25


El Sol 25


Monday, November 14, 2011

Gotta know DNJO

Wally Walrus: Young lady are you refined?
Woody Woodpecker: Am I refined? I'm 110 octane.

DNJO
Woodpecker wheatpaste by Willow



A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg.

DNJO
Lizard fingers by Willow.
Aesop's fabled golden egg goose by QRST

Inside the Realform Girdle Building in Williamsburg

DNJO

Photo booth inside the Realform Girdle building in Williamsburg

DNJO

When I come back, just for fun, the subject will be alternative history. Specifically, how would the Civil War had gone differently if Lincoln had been a robot sent from the future.
Sheldon-The Big Bang Theory

DNJO
Robot 
 Family dinner by Michael Fumero


If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

DNJO
Bortusk Leer monster


Thursday, November 10, 2011

Granada Nose Animals


Graffiti by street artist Tox (Daniel Halpin).
This 26 year old graffiti artist from Camden, London was recently convicted of seven counts of criminal damage for his tags around London. In presenting his case against Tox, the prosecutor stated, "He is no Banksy. He doesn't have the artistic skills..."
Banksy's response has been a large mural in London showing a boy blowing a bubble that spells out TOX. More recently, he created a monopoly house with a Tox tag for a giant monopoly board made for the Occupy London protests.
Apparently, in London, art is no longer subjective. If you're tagging, in London, make sure it's quality vandalism, or you may go to jail for seven counts of bad taste.

Tox


Don't tell fish stories where the people know you;
but particularly don't tell fish stories where they know the fish.
Mark Twain



If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
Nan Porter


Bugs Bunny: Hey, scram. Go on, beat it. The Tasmanian Devil's liable to get you. He's a mean, vicious, nasty, no-good, baggy-eyed, marble headed ignoramorus. He's a stupid...
Tasmanian Devil: Flattery will get you nowhere.


Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Pooh Bear

"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh
"I wish I was there to be doing it, too".
Winnie the Pooh Bear

Lynx eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves.
Jean de la Fontaine



Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, then it's disgusting.
Dave Barry


Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat.
 If he knew, he'd be a chef.
Andy Rooney


Customer: Which is better, the tuna salad or the egg salad?
Roseanne: Tuna salad...egg salad...chicken salad...turkey salad...shrimp salad. What difference does it make? It's all just different words for mayonnaise. Pick one.
Roseanne


Street News

Banksy creates life size monopoly board with a shout out to Tox, for the Occupy London protests:


Musical graffiti-let's not: http://www.thestar.com/article/1084413--lang-lang-the-graffiti-artist





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