The Philip Seymour Hoffman memorial on East 1st Street looks freaky at night

[February]

The artwork for Centre-fuge Cycle 12 has been up since February on the rotating outdoor gallery/construction trailer here along East First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Cycle 12 includes Michael DeNicola's tribute to the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Several EVG friends just noticed, and pointed out, how eerie the memorial looks at night when the lights are on inside the trailer…

Looking at Centre-fuge Cycle 12, which includes a tribute to founder Mike Hamm

The artists participating in Centre-fuge Cycle 12 completed their work this past weekend on the rotating outdoor gallery/construction trailer here along East First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Artists represented in Cycle 12 are Amar Stewart, BK, Col Wallnuts, Michael DeNicola, Numb-DSI and Vernon O’Meally.



The most recent recreation of Mike Hamm's work is permanently installed on the eastern face of the trailer.



Hamm, who worked at Lancelotti Housewares and Alphabets on Avenue A, was one of Centre-Fuge's creators. He died on Jan. 7, 2012, after doctors discovered an undiagnosed condition called arteriovenous malformation that caused a series of brain hemorrhages. He was 29. (Read more about Mike here.)

Also, as you may have read yesterday (the story made the rounds on the Internet), Cycle 12 includes Michael DeNicola's tribute to the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.



And an in-progress look from Saturday morning…



This western-facing side of the trailer was previously home to Danielle Mastrion's tribute to MCA of the Beasties Boys in the spring of 2012…



Find more info about each artist on the Centre-fuge Tumblr here.

Report: Philip Seymour Hoffman 'scored his smack like a common junkie' in the East Village

The Post is touting this "exclusive" …

Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman scored his smack like a common junkie, schlepping to an East Village apartment to feed his heroin fix, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

A witness has come forward to tell cops that several months ago, he personally eyeballed Hoffman buying the drugs himself, making the transaction at the same apartment where the witness was being supplied.

Based on this tip, the NYPD set up surveillance on the apartment on the unnamed street/Avenue Monday night. Police arrested one man emerging from the apartment, but, as the Post notes, he was not carrying the drugs branded "Ace of Spades," the logo that appeared on the heroin reportedly found in Hoffman's West Village apartment.