Arizona, Meteor City "Tatooine Meets The Earth" Snapshot

We were trying to get to Meteor Crater in Arizona and took a wrong turn (courtesy of yours truly), getting off at Meteor City instead. I mean, a whole city of meteors, that sounds pretty impressive, doesn't it? Or perhaps a city by a meteor. Either way, gotta be good. And it was. An old trading post (not old old, probably from the 70s-80s), with half an adobe dome shuttered building protruding from a boarded fence running a derelict perimeter. The teepees still sport the original artwork of the trading post, plus lovingly accrued graffiti from over the years. Place doesn't seem abandoned too long, maybe a decade. Obviously still a meeting place for the local youth. One great, big, spirit catcher. Letting diesel-spouting beasts of metal sail through unobstructed. Corroding tarp down to bare bones.

On time:

Spirit Dancer Wigwam

New York Snapshot

My most recent visit to New York was a lot more hectic than usual, and wonderfully so. Four museum exhibits in about as many days, visits to the Metropolitan, the Cooper Hewitt, the Neue Galerie, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Phew!

I didn't get my usual chance to go tour Williamsburg for graffiti, but there was a piece by Frank Shepard Fairy (of OBEY fame) that I'd wanted to get a better photograph of a while back, on the Bowery, so with the brief hour or so of free time I had, I found myself among New York's most mysterious beauty once again. Oh, graffiti, how I've missed you.

New York "Public Art Museum" Series I

I took these photos while visiting my friend Andrew back in 2014. Guess it's taken me a while to put them up! We were out walking in Williamsburg, and since I was graffiti hunting Andrew took me over to the warehouse district, where practically every other wall is covered with someone's scrawl. A lot of businesses have commissioned artists to do murals there as well, and there's a few studios that have set up in the warehouses over there. It's just an amazing place, definitely worth a look for the everchanging art exhibit on public display for all to see. Cheers to New York.

Detroit Series I

I was in Michigan for my uncle's funeral (he was a great man), and before we went to my mother's hometown we stopped off briefly at the Eastern Market and grabbed a bite to eat at Supino's. I'd forgotten about all the amazing wall art Michigan has, and Detroit in particular. The slowly setting sun of the evening gave a great atmosphere to viewing these tumultuous renditions, so I indulged a bit and snapped some photographs. Hats off to all the amazing graffiti artists who showed their skill and passion here. I only got one mo' thing left to say: