Broome, between Chrystie and Delancey
Rivington, between Bowery and Chrystie
Broome, between Bowery and Chrystie
Bowery, between Broome and Delancey
Corner of Ludlow and Rivington
Spring, between Elizabeth and Bowery
Rivington, between Forsyth and Eldridge
Rivington, between Bowery and Chrystie (Ghost Octopus)
Cleveland Place
Mulberry, between Kenmare and Spring
Mulberry, between Kenmare and Spring
Corner of Forsyth and Rivington
Corner of Eldrige and Rivington
Orchard, between Rivington and Stanton
Corner of Rivington and Forsyth
Orchard, between Stanton and Rivington
Corner of Rivington and Orchard
Kenmare, between Cleveland and Mulberry
Linkage:
:: Some plausible explanations.
:: Some more shots, including non-octopii interlopers, and more explanation buried in the comments.
fools’ names
and fools’ faces
are always seen
in public places
There are a few of these octopus-ghosts (that’s what my girlfriend and I call them) near my old palce on White b/w Church and Broadway in Tribeca. I’ve spotted a few within a couple blocks of my new place near Union Square too. Who are you octopus guy, and what do you want from me?!?!
Its that guy that owns that gallery in the les! He went crazy after chillin with the downtown graff heads! Mad ups!
Octopi triumphs NeckFace…Hurrah for the marine spirit!
maybe triumphs neckface, but nothing on ufo
http://www.digital-dose.net/index_files/writers/ufo1.jpg
I love Neckface and the gorilla hand, but that smiley octopus makes me happy every time I see him. Keep it up, Octoperson, whoever you are!
what about the skulls that appear everywhere in the lower east side? it’s a single stroke drawing of a skull. does anyone know what i’m talking about?
Better late than never
Matthew wants me to link to his little octopushy graffiti photoblog entry because he “needs to check if his trackback system works.” The things people will say to get a mention on MemeFirst. Honestly….
Who is Neck Face? Anyone cataloged him?
I think the octopus is kind of sad, actually… He’s terrified. He’s trying hard to keep it together.
the octopus appears to be the “it” image for graff artists these days. i remember the “octa-alien” that used to be everywhere a few years ago: les, e.village, williamsburg, etc. i even once saw the image in an art show in dumbo. it’s great to walk all over town and see a motif.
It is Harif Guzman- he is an artist who lives on Ave C.
He also does those HA drawings.
My favorite octopus-type graffiti is on Rivington between Attorney and Clinton, south side of the street, visible when you’re walking west. I think it might be an octi-alien one. It might not be too visible these days, with the new building on the corner. Go Harif!
i hate these octopi. they’re ugly and lack style.
neckface is one of the most innovative graff artist out in ny right now : http://www.fotolog.net/neckface/
also check out http://www.woostercollective.com for all things streetart. if you don’t know, now you know.
complete detroit TRTL ripoff…
graffiti is for losers. why don’t you deface you’re own property? like say…maybe, oh I don’t know…a canvas! oh right because no one would see it. because it sucks. and people can choose to not look at sucky shitty work. oh and basquiat and haring are both overrated. just my $0.02.
People who use names that fit the style of their post are overrated.
yeah, I took a trip to New York city and saw these things everywhere I went. I thought to myself “oh no, New York has a trtl equivalent.” Which is awful because if you went to detroit you would know that the trtl thing is more or less universally hated in its suffocating omnipresence. Just wait till this thing gets out of hand like it did here and it turns into an african locust swarm of paint.
graffiti…
Octopushy [via Memepool]
You really shouldn’t get too interested in the activities of vandals, certainly not as much as this. Have you never thought how pleasant it would be if retards didn’t scrawl all over things, and perverts didn’t make holes in toilet walls to watch us going, and stupid people didn’t get elected and start wars to make themselves popular?
Be nice like The Walrus. The world would be nicer if you did.
these octopi are in atlanta as well…
If I owned a sketchy building in NYC, I would personally thank any artist that adds a bit of character to the place with a spray can. If I had a high-rent tower in Manhattan, I’d sneer loudly as my goons erased the offending marks from my marble fascade.
you should post these to http://www.streetmemes.com!
There were several similar ones around Freedom Parkway by the Carter Center in Atlanta.
Feh, let them enjoy the octopii, you pretentious graffiti fucks.
the octopus is a good ny pickmeup
the alien is great, but almost a drumstick.
the one stroke skull is really great.
sometimes it looks like it’s teeth are a word.
neckface wrote on a cop.
“he’s” the big winner.
I run a silly blog devoted to a Gund toy hectopus. Thanks for the smile your photos provided.
No, I don’t understand it…
K I M T H E W: Octopushy Octopushy…
LOL – NYC has their Octopus, Detroit has Turtles.
I have an octopus in my trousers!
We have Cthulhu style skulls w/ tentacles in NJ… seen on I-287 NB
just to be pendantic, it’s octopuses, not octopi.
Either way, it’s good to see cephalopod related bombing. Not nearly enough of those around.
In between Greenwich street and Hudson, on Harrison, there’s an empty shop that has atleast four of those guys on them, if the photographer is interested.
octopodes, my friends. not octopi, not octopuses, octopodes.
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/
faq/aboutgrammar/plurals
know your role!
can someone explain to me why neckface is cool? after looking at several photos of his ‘work’ i think i must be missing something. its like a 5 year old’s scrawlings…
Neckface sucks. But people think it’s cool is because it shows up all over in weird places, and because they know it pisses ME off.
But it still sucks.
Theres a sloo of spray painted turtles all around downtown Detroit in Michigan.
Are you certain that the “sloo” of turtles were in Downtown Detroit in Michigan? Or maybe you meant the Downtown Detroit in Florida?
The turtles are in Detroit, Michigan and not just downtown everywhere the artist is wanted by the law for defacing landmarks and disobeying teritories
Someone’s doing “broken lightbulb” graffiti all over Alexandria, VA.
Love it. And the pushies.
GAY!
you’re a youngster…do some research back in the 80′s you’ll find real talent!
I’m annoyed with all this grammar. Please look at:
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/
faq/aboutgrammar/plurals
no you dummy, that was already posted. look at:
http://www.kimthew.com/000028.html
those octupussy’s arn’t HA they are MARCOART who has that store on rivington.
The trtl’s r faded now…
-From downtown D
Would luv to do a reseach paper on neckface – does anyone know anything about this artist?? I really find his work interesting and of substance here in nyc.
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This is crazy, I love octopussies, or is it octopie? I’m going to tell my friend Bashir Eustache all about it next week!
–Hilarie Lloyd
yo i ever catch one of these toys in the street im taxin their paint and sending them home .
you are all total jackasses. these are not neckface pieces. they are marco pieces – and marco is a total loser and a putz