Monday, May 31, 2010

Shrek's unhappy ending

So, let's bring some closure to this Shrek Saga... Yesterday began with so much hope and promise... a cardboard Shrek was for sale along Avenue A...



...and, perhaps, this empty space meant that the Shrek had found a home...



This would not be the case, though. As this photo by EV Grieve reader Jeanne shows, Shrek was thoughtlessly thrown into the trash by an unknown Shrek tosser....



Previously on EV Grieve:
The cost of a carboard ogre

Noted

Looking at the weekend box-office report...

Sex and the City 2 notched an estimated $32.1 million on approximately 6,100 screens at 3,445 locations, bringing its total to $46.3 million since its Thursday debut. That's a huge step backwards from the first Sex and the City, which bagged $57 million on its first weekend. Distributor Warner Bros.' exit polling indicated that a whopping 90 percent of Sex 2's audience was female, and 54 percent was under 35 years old. By comparison, the first Sex's opening weekend audience was 83 percent female.


Meanwhile, the SATC2 sign vandalism continued around the neighborhood....





BoweryBoogie has pointed out some SATCII vandalism on the LES...

Neighborhood watch



The flyers hanging on First Avenue and Third Street tell the story...

The cost of a carboard ogre

On Avenue A. This morning!



Flashback to yesterday around the same time...

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Avenue C, 4:12 p.m., May 30



At the Loisaida Festival, Avenue C.

At Bike Noise 3 in Tompkins Square Park









Bike Noise 3 continues



Bike Noise 3 continues in Tompkins Square Park. Morning Glory, Team Spider, Sewage, Wombat in Combat to come.

And buy a T-shirt. More details here.

New Cooper Square Hotel fence tagged

On Wednesday, workers finished putting in the Popsicle fence at the Cooper Square Hotel... a tempting canvas for street artists... and sure enough, in what will be the first of many, I imagine... someone tagged the fence last night... and thanks to EV Grieve reader Ryan for snapping this shot early this morning of the Cooper Square Hotel Anti-Graffiti Team going into action...



I took this shot a little later...




...and just up the way at the new Cooper Union academic building...



Anyway, why did the Coop Hotel clean the tag? I thought they wanted to "fit in with the edgy local art scene?"

Avenue A, 9:10 a.m., May 30

You can say this about ConEd: They don't skimp on the barricades




First Avenue near First Street.

Reminders today: The Loisaida Festival on Avenue C




And I'm a little late in telling you this... but in case you parked on Avenue C and didn't see the signs...

Avenue A, 6:39 p.m., May 29