[From August 2013 via EVG reader Marc]
Yesterday's item about the apparent arrest of graffiti writer SMELL reminded me of this post, which I never finished ... I had been documenting some of the Cool tags around the neighborhood... it's the work of "Drew," whose "Ross is Not Cool" tag on David Schwimmer's new East Sixth Street estate in August generated coverage everywhere from the supermarket tabloids to Vanity Fair.
Here are but a few Cool tags from recent months... Anyway, these tags — scourge of the city or a welcome part of the urban landscape?
I think it's cool. Always have and always will.
ReplyDeleteCool is so funny. It's so simple and 70'sish. And making it look like a cloud on the 9th ST building was awesome. Actually, the owners painting the building ilke that out of nowhere was awesome!
ReplyDeleteWhat's up with pics 5 & 7? The guy some sorta Doritos enthusiast?
ReplyDelete10:09, I think they're candy corns. I was just about to come here and say I liked the candy corns! I enjoy COOL's seasonality and holiday themes. I find it charming, sue me.
ReplyDeleteMuch rather see graffiti than stupid American Apparel ads, liquor ads, ads for HBO's Girls, blah blah
It's sooo hip and edgy I looove it!!!
ReplyDelete-Meghan
Perhaps a better tag than Cool would be Not Cool/Not Art. Why? because it is not cool and it is not art. No sense of composition. No content. Nothing socially redeeming. No message. No understanding of color. Hmmm..maybe that is a better tag...."NO".
ReplyDeleteonly an art student would give this.snide review. not an artist. you think in a box dude. keep cultural context in mind, professir
DeletePainting a wall approved & paid for by the owner is cool. Painting someones building in the middle of the night without their approval is uncool and they should go to jail.
ReplyDeleteUgh. Really? I hate the Cool tags.
ReplyDeleteMan. How did you miss 4th and Ave A.
ReplyDeleteNot large but really stands out. Maybe more than any of these others in some way, given that they spent like a year refurbing and steaming all that brick (4th to 5th)
@makeout it was around halloween... candy corn!
ReplyDeletelove cool!
self centered "scourge of the city"
ReplyDeleteThere are several of these tags in LIC that have been there for a few years. They're all about to become obscured by a yet another batch of luxury apartments going up.
ReplyDeleteCool is K3WL
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to Neckface?
ReplyDeleteCool is cool.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't see the beauty in that melancholy-looking little candy corn then you are probably dead inside
ReplyDeletelove cool and the candy corn is my favorite!!:)
ReplyDeleteVandalism is not cool.
ReplyDeleteI vote "Scourge of the city". Arrest the uncool vandal and punishment should be cleaning gum stains off all the side walks of the East Village.
- East Villager