Martha Cooper Takes In the Annual Welling Court Mural Project
This article was posted by Martha Cooper 11 months, 1 day, 7 hours, 13 minutes ago.
The weather gods smiled this weekend as 60+ international and local artists converged on the cozy Queens community of Welling Court under bright and breezy skies. Organized by Ad Hoc’s Alison and Garrison Buxton, the event has become an annual art bash.
Residents volunteered their walls and gates, hosted the artists with barbeques, music and dance, and became an appreciative audience as the art progressed. Rollers, aerosol, stencils and even an extinguisher were deployed for pieces that ranged from classic graffiti to cutting edge street art. It was great to see so many artists collaborating with each other and the community.
Quite a few walls from 2010 and 2011 have survived in good shape including ones painted by Lady Pink and Roa. If you have a free day, put a field trip to Astoria, Queens on your summer excursion list.
Olek 'if u c smthg say smthg'
Wane COD
Caleb Neelon & Katie Yamasaki
Katie Yamasaki
Chris Stain and Billy Mode
Zam and Esu
Subtexture - YOU ARE WHAT YOU SEE & OPEN
Toofly
Ozbe
Ellis G & Vintage car
SPAZE CRAFTE
Fire Extinguisher action
PETER PAN POSSE
Skewville
Tony Bones tattoo
Dark Cloud
Queen Andrea - Because I Choose to Use My Infinite Potential
Rrobots
John Fekner & Dan Leicht
John Fekner
Cost
Keely of Pandemic Gallery
Stormie Mills from Australia
Alice Mizrachi & Kuky from Spain
Kuky
Most JBCB
Sheryo from Singapore
The Yok
Logek
Flying Fortress from Hamburg, Germany
Brian Life on left & LMNOP
Veng RWK
Dancing in the street!
Cekis from Chile
RIP STAY HIGH
Seeone
Sinned
Warz
Cern
Cern installing
Text and Photo: Martha Cooper
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- Katie Yamasaki,
- Caleb Neelon,
- Chris Stain,
- Billy Mode,
- TooFly,
- Dark Cloud,
- Peter Pan Posse,
- PPP,
- Sheryo,
- the yok,
- Most JBCB,
- Cost,
- Flying Fortress,
- Cekis,
- Veng RWK,
© Martha Cooper & 12ozProphet - Monday June 18, 2012 at 05:00 PM
There are 6 comments...
Oh me oh my. This is possibly the worst shit I’ve ever seen. Peter Pan Posse, get the fuck outta here. I hate the fact everyone feels like it’s ok to put their horrible shit on walls. Even worse is when they think they’re above it and do extinguisher tags over throw ups. These kind of mother fuckers try to get their 5 minutes of fame and get a show in NY as graffiti artists. They should be shot on site.
Editors Note: Martha Cooper consults each artist before taking and posting any photographs of the individual.
FreshpaintNYC, shut the fuck up. No one is looking for any of these guys! Unless they’re planning on doing a legal wall bust, i think majority of these people are safe. Don’t make me sign you up for more gay websites!
ps. did you get your blackbook signed at the event? i’ve always wanted a bunch of legal wall jokers to fill up a black book to de value the 12 dollars i paid for it. get a life already
Damn FreshPaint, you on the rag? Crying like a little bitch on here. Were you the kid in class that talked to the teacher about other kids distracting you from your studies? Please senior editor, they’re bullying me :( Shit talk is part of the game, if you don’t like, pick a new sport, sport! I don’t work for FBI or CIA but I can pretty much guess who’s high priority on the task force list and none of these people are it. Just concentrate on your own failing graff career and don’t worry so much about being the spokesman for people who could give a shit about you. You’re not the next roger gastman, so get a lemonaid, put on some mood music and chill the fuck out.
Wow FreshPaint, thanks for letting us know you were “there” in the trenches at this epic street art event, and that you “chill and shoot flicks of” super cool famous street-art-guyz “on the regular”. Teh internetz is very impressed by your popularity in teh street artz world. I’m glad you are “out there”, and also up in here, to let us all know how “real” shit is. What would the Peter-Pan-Posses of the world do without you, I wonder…
Oh wow, more deleted comments on 12 oz, what a surprise. I wonder how much FreshPaint had to cry to mods to get all the posts making fun of him taken down. Or maybe he just threatened to press charges, like his boy Cope2 did to Serg MUL last week. Either way, bitch made. Oh well, I guess that’s what screen caps/google cache is for….
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