Aakash Nihalani : The Adhesive Handshake
Flipping through my Flickr contacts, I was chuffed to discover that our lad Poster Boy has been collaborating with another practitioner of imprompru aesthetic interventions, tape-slinger Aakash Nihalani:

There are more on Nihalani’s website, under STREET ART > COLLAB.
Chances are, if you have working eyeballs and have been around northwestern Brooklyn or lower-mid-Manhattan lately, you’ve seen Aakash Nihalani’s tape-cubes. The things that I enjoy about his work are things that I myself gravitate toward in my own art-activity: bright colors against dull city surfaces, and simple gestures which serve to highlight and elevate small details that would otherwise seem insignificant. (And I also, obviously, have an affinity for colored tape as an artist material.)
Here are a couple of videos that I found of Aakash in action:
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January 15th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I was actually in Brooklyn over Christmas. Dag, I must have been in the wrong parts. Glad you’re feeling prolific again.