Draw Outside the Bun: Poster Boy and the Taco Bell Drawing Club
My friend David William is helping me beef up the NY/Web-based arts coverage here, just to get more content moving through the pipes and be another set of eyes, ears, and opinions on the street. We’ve been friends for a while now, and I’ve loved his art and aesthetic for a long time. Make sure and make him feel welcome, folks, while we monkey with the technicalities of setting him up with his owner user account here.
He writes in here with his first guest post:
Walking past the Taco Bell on 14th street, just West of Union Square, I spotted these two new cut-and-shuffle jobs:
…and wondered if there might be a copycat on the loose, or if subway ad collagist Poster Boy had ventured topside. A glance at his Flickr page confirms that it was indeed the man himself. Welcome to the surface world, friend.
I have to wonder, though: is he the ONLY person doing this now? If so, why? At one time, was it just one dude wandering around New York, writing graffiti with spray paint, and that was his whole thing, being nicknamed “Paint Can” or something? David continues:
Speaking of thinking outside the bun: While Googling to make sure that it was actually 14th street that I had been on, I discovered the Taco Bell Drawing Club — an ad hoc art group with chapters in New York, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Michigan, and perhaps elsewhere. To join, all you have to do is go to any Taco Bell, start drawing, and photograph yourself doing it.
The Taco Bell Drawing club was started by Jason Polan, who’s been mentioned recently on Gothamist for his “Draw Every Person in New York” project. Sometimes TBDC meetings are scheduled well in advance, and other times Jason will simply post a note that he’ll be at Taco Bell on his lunch break, in case anyone wants to come and draw.
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