Until this week, a Spider-Man action figure and a dildo hung over a power line at the corner of Bedford Avenue and North 6th Street in Williamsburg. The Daily News, with quotes from “disgusted” New Yorkers, reports that it was mysteriously removed yesterday. However, with its readers’ delicate sensibilities in mind, the paper blurred out the work’s […]
Cheryl Dunn’s Everybody Street sets out to be a kind of definitive documentary on street photography, shadowing some of the most legendary practitioners — from Jill Freedman and Mary Ellen Mark to Bruce Gilden and Elliot Erwitt, as well as ANIMAL favorites Martha Cooper and Boogie. Its focus is their experience on the streets of New York […]
New York is getting chain-ified, but you already knew that. Graphic designer James Campbell Taylor’s latest series, City In Chains, plays with that notion, laying out the names of Manhattan neighborhoods in the style of big, national brands that have a presence here: Chelsea is Chase Bank, Soho is Uniqlo, the LES is the Gap, and so […]
The very bad Jamaican bobsled team has a very good promotional video courtesy of their country’s tourism board and the legendary music producer Sidney Mills, who has worked with the likes of Steel Pulse and Boogie Down Productions. Set to a bouncy reggae-flavored tune by Mills, we see 8-bit versions of the team cruising down […]
Artist Michael DeNicola aka Ink Lungs recently painted a construction trailer in the East Village to honor Philip Seymour Hoffman who died of an apparent drug overdose nearly two weeks ago. First reported by Bowery Boogie, the mural was picked up by several websites, all of whom failed to mention one glaring observation — it […]
In conducting the interviews for this piece, something became clear: The reason that so many people care so deeply about end of 285 Kent, is that 285 Kent was more than a room where bands played. At 285 we witnessed the collapse of genre barriers in real time, as internet rap stars mingled with hardcore […]
Charlie Ahearn’s 1983 cult classic Wild Style, popularized hip hop and graffiti in New York City during its very early stages. This film, not only brought validation to these newly emerging subcultures, but also highlighted some of its earliest pioneers such as Busy Bee, Grandmaster Caz, LADY PINK and LEE. Celebrating Wild Style’s 30th anniversary, […]
Here are two vintage New York City Subway PSAs, courtesy of the Kino Library (the same folks who brought you this grimy ’80s East Village footage), as dug up by Bowery Boogie. One is from the ’40s; the other from the ’70s. Both are fantastic. The ’70s spot in particular seems angled at tourists, advertising […]
A little something to get you out of bed this morning: Bowery Boogie points to this found/archival footage shot from the window of a moving car rolling around the East Village and Lower East Side in the late 1980s, “beginning with a left-turn from East Houston north onto Avenue D.” It is grimy. […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week we’re looking at Yellowman’s “Zungguzungguguzungguzeng,” a stone-cold classic dancehall tune that spawned a thousand sing-songy hip hop hooks, as well as the beats for Black Star’s […]
