Subway Graffiti at 8th Avenue: “I Give You Finger, G.I. Joe.”
March 20th, 2008 by Jeff Simmermon
Shepard Fairey’s cool and all, and Wooster Collective rounds up some of the best graffiti on the streets. But me, I love the dashed-off graffiti in New York the best — the hastily scrawled line or two that completely cracks me up. Simply scribbling a dirty word doesn’t cut ice. There’s got to be wit, vision, or some kind of instant art. I saw a poster for Cats once where people had sculpted little genitalia out of chewing gum and stuck it on all the leaping cat-dancer crotches in a sort of wordless 3-D sculpture.
I don’t know why this adulterated poster in the 8th Avenue A/C/E/L station cracks me up so much, but it sure enough does:
Here’s a closeup:
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March 24th, 2008 at 7:12 am
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March 24th, 2008 at 10:14 am
My favourite piece of graffiti I’ve seen was a similarly-scrawled line on a bus shelter in Belfast, which simply stated, “Higgins is a fool”.