womp, womp
in my hood (aka below 14th), there have been a series of new tags (like skraffitos yo!) popping up on the funniest of places–
sure traditional tags (yah, before social media) have been on subways and buildings but this new hooligan, WOMP, has been hitting up the funniest places– here are my shots:
going postal!
no park for you! one year!
the ironic placing of these images with such a tag is such a hilarious finger to the system- the postal truck, the construction site with a ‘no parking’ barricade, a public phone (bc really, who uses them anymore?). If you spot any WOMPs out there, take a photo & send on over!
and TrustoCorp has been switching out traditional road & street signs for some equal protest to system- perhaps a bit bolder and much more stylized, these signs have been put up from chinatown to tribeca and meatpacking. really beautifully done, if you ask me, especially when coupled with such irrefutable biting realism (or cynicism, depending on the shading of your lends but meh! never gets old to me!)
let them eat cake, says the queen of chinatown!
oh corey, watch out for the DOT
so what does this say? well, basically, in a post-graffiti world where subways are cleaner than my kitchen. Banksy has made street art as radical as bottle service and snark still seems to be the prevailing method of rejecting corporate values (albeit it IS getting a bit stale), these little trinkets are a nice counterbalance to our society’s general proclivity for shiny, branded values.
if you spot any around town or your part of the woods, send ‘em ova!
all photos are by me, except the sunglasses at night which you can find here at TrustoCorp’s flickr
captainchampion
In response to the photo of the “welcome to hell” sign, there have been a number of random signs as such scattered around this concrete jungle. There was one on 24th and lex (SW corner) that said “it’s okay to play with yourself” with a fun-looking monkey. Where are these from? and why are they only up for a few days? (i suppose the fun-ness of it all would be limited if these signs were permanently placed).
In response to the “WOMP”: don’t you secretly love when you see a “tag” or “skraffitos” more than once in a day, on random buildings, scaffoldings, USPS trucks, etc. (and also, is that scaffolding on kenmare going to be there forever?!)
They’ve been made by an anonymous character known as TrustoCorp — the sign in Chinatown is still there (at least as of earlier this week) so I’m not sure why the one on 24th & Lex is gone– i think there’s a hunt for who this person is (probably much like Bansky a few years ago!). let me know if you materialize anything!
And YES, i LOVE seeing someone’s tag more than once — there’s another tagger in the hood that i’ve been following…i’ll post pictures soon. and lord, kenmare is such hot street now, hahah, wtf! even with all the scaffolding!
big kiss!xx