So Fresh and So Green

Graffiti Taxonomy Print – ‘E’: Lower East Side, NYC by Evan Roth

Evan Roth (aka fi5e) is an artist who is obviously pretty brainy and likes graffiti…maybe that’s an understatement. At Parsons School The New School for Design Roth developed a project called Graffiti Taxonomy and thesis project called Graffiti Analysis. In Roth’s Graffiti Taxonomy project he “presents isolated letters from various graffiti tags, reproduced in similar scales and at close proximity. The intent of these studies is to show the diversity of styles as expressed in a single character.”

Over 4 days in April Roth photographed 2,400 graffiti tags in Paris’s 20 districts. 18 tags were used to express the diversity in character of the letters A,E,I,K,N,O,R,S,T and U “ranging from upper case to lowercase, simple to complex and legible to cryptic”. ~woostercollective.com

This summer Roth’s project will be on display at Fondation Cartier’s Born In The Streets – Graffiti exhibition in Paris which will be up until November 29, 2009.

Anything that shows the creativity and intelligence behind graffiti and anything related to Hip Hop is aces with me. A cosign from the Wooster Collective doesn’t hurt either.

Buy his prints at factory.ni9e.com

FUN FACT: “The main [Fondation Cartier] gallery space and garden have been filled with pieces and other graffiti-inspired works by artists including SEEN, JONONE, Barry McGee, Evan Roth, QUICK, and PHASE2.” ~animalnewyork.com

Related: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSH GOLDSTEIN- ARTIST AND NYC BODEGA ENTHUSIAST PART 1 and 2

If you like it then you shoulda put a bookmark on it!

Photo Credit: DREAMSCAPE by SkyShaper. An incredible artist…

I had a co worker once that ran away to New York City the day after his graduation in pursuit of a career in fashion and a lifestyle out of the closet. Fortunately for him he was very talented and driven. Many who come to the Big Apple don’t make it. Still others have fallen on hard times financially. Either way there is a significant homeless population in New York City and our current mayor Michael Bloomberg has sworn to eradicate the problem.

In March of 2009 the exact number of homeless people in New York City was supposed to be “9,720. This is five times the number of people who were in shelters back in 1983, when the issue of homelessness was considered a major municipal scandal, rating regular attention on the evening news and newspaper front pages.” ~villagevoice.com

Something would have to be done, especially considering the 2 term mayor’s desire to break term limits and run for a third term. Also it costs the cash strapped City of New York about $36,000 a year to keep a family in a city shelter. Mayor Bloomberg’s latest solution: give homeless people free one way tickets out of the city.

You know when you consider the subject matter it was kind of difficult to understand this song as a hit but how many songs can we say that about though? In 1991 we couldn’t resist that hook “La da dee da da da”. I don’t know about you but it still gets stuck in my head…They’re just like you and me but they’re homeless.

Earlier this year the plan was to charge working homeless shelter residents rent.

This program is supposed to send homeless persons back (more…)

If you like it then you shoulda put a bookmark on it!