D.Billy: Street Interventions
You may have noticed D.Billy’s name on a number of posts over the past few months. He’s not only a friend of mine, but a pretty awesome artist.
From the artist’s statement on his website:
Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold up. For me, this process encourages a reexamination of surroundings and objects that are usually taken for granted, and injects a hint of the fantastical surreality that I have established in my other work.
Or, at the very least, I hope someone thinks these things are kind of funny.
Here’s some of his work:
More after the jump …
July 11th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Wonderful!
July 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I love it!
July 11th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
way cool. i bet it won’t take long for those balloons to pop though.
July 13th, 2008 at 1:56 am
streets need more colors…
July 13th, 2008 at 9:08 am
beuatiful, light hearted work . . ,more more!!
July 13th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Very nice! The water for instance is impressive. Not that it looks real per say, just very well crafted.
Cheers!
July 13th, 2008 at 9:48 am
It’s brilliant, I love it!
July 13th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I really like these images. I love the combination of urban photography, with the cartoony additions. It is great how he makes the picture his own, by adding his touch of color, and it changes the mood of the pictures entirely.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Caution! Unpopular Social Commentary Ahead: I hate to be such a party pooper, and I also acknowledge that the urban environment needs more vibrancy and color, but…do you know where this non-biodegradable plastic graffiti is going to go once it decays in the sun and blows away in the wind?
July 13th, 2008 at 11:21 am
It’s funny you should mention that. This is actually on the back wall of an endangered sea turtle sanctuary.
I kid.
But it is in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the biggest toxic waste dump in the US. Look it up. A few balloons are just adding color at this point. The whole area’s totalled, environmentally.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:23 am
‘Narnia’ is not a sound effect
July 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am
@kayin:
/facepalm
July 13th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
LOL, I love the telephone rriinngg one. That is soo cool. Nice work.
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July 13th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
[...] Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold up.http://www.andiamnotlying.com/2008/dbilly-street-interventions/ [...]
July 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
i am glad someone is finally bringing something new to the graff community. This changes everything.
hope to be seeing more of this when i get the city in the mornings.
July 13th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Narnia? Can’t wait for the Disney lawsuit…
July 13th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I LOVE it!!! Pure realized original thought!!! I remember visiting NYC when I was around 12 years of age (on a family vaca up from Texas) and after seeing the graffiti on the trains and subways, but rather than become offended, the work struck me as pure art. It was an expression of talent rooted in a very different socio-economic environment than from where I traveled. I happily looked upon the colorful and geometric “tags” as adornment in an otherwise drap and depressed place . . .and this is what this delightful artist has done. Why can’t there be more people like this in the world? And why can’t more people appreciate them?
July 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
That is amazing. Please come set up Philadelphia with some of this… we need some uplifting messages on the walls around here.
July 13th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
3dleo, I am excited to tell you that I believe the balloons used in these pictures are 100% biodegradable and will degrade at the same rate as an oak leaf. I appreciate your concern about the environment and thought you would like this information.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:49 am
wow, very creative!
July 14th, 2008 at 9:39 am
i like your balloon shots
the rest of your shots, i.e. narnia and crackle shots look photoshop-ish
i like the balloon shots so much that i might do them myself…
i will email billy one of these days
July 14th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Weird. I wouldn’t think a post like this would start a greeny war! Very entertaining.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:39 am
This is very cool and legal as assume too. If they complain you can just take it off.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Lovely colors. Love the NARNIA shot.
And finding out that the balloons are bio-degradable makes it less destructive than if it weren’t.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
brilliant… crazy about the phone
July 15th, 2008 at 4:08 am
[...] cool, you ask? Artist finds gives unto world onomatopoeic balloon-graffiti, finds (oven?) door to Narnia! Actually, balloons and graffiti are having a great week: artists [...]
July 19th, 2008 at 8:12 am
this is a joke right… really, you people like this crap… i wish i was like you, easily amused… d billy you suk and i hope you get fucked up and choke on your ballons….culture dont need pundits stooopid
July 24th, 2008 at 11:26 am
brilliant work…
August 9th, 2008 at 11:51 am
wicked awesome.
March 9th, 2009 at 12:16 am
nice color,balloon shots….