Rochester, New York artist Dave Pollot transforms paintings from thrift shops by adding pop culture characters and objects to old paintings. He incorporates new elements and tries to keep the original integrity of the painting.
Posts tagged as “New York”
It's been a crazy year for snow in 2021. The New Yorker once again illustrates the sentiment across the nation. The snow out there will come and go, but snow in here, we know. So we will put this snow away and play with it another day.
I think I smell a rat. Well there goes the neighborhood. If you are savvy to the latest trends, the pizza rat is now a…
One day you will be able to drive from New York to London by car. Most people will think it might be by an underwater…
Coffee? This handy subway map of almost all of New York’s coffee shops will keep your coffee addiction closer to your favorite supplier of the…
I still love NY. Designer-artist Sebastian Errazuriz’s New York city studio was paralyzed after Hurricane Sandy. Unable to work and tired of watching the disaster…
The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy worries me. Jason Kottke got me thinking when he posted this on his site today. He is so right about…
Batman and Jesus Christ chilling out on a roof top in New York City in 1972.
You would think kids only bully other kids. You would be wrong. Here are a pack of kids bullying Karen Huff Klein a bus monitor…
Summer is around the corner and so is the new Chris Ware New Yorker cover.
Once you listen to the Ramones you never go back. Johnny Ramone, the Ramones’ unheralded guitarist etched a place in the human collective for many…
I am getting dizzy just looking at this. Imagine cleaning windows outside the Empire State Building dangling just by a strap. Forget scaffolding, that’s how…
Is chalk lettering a dying art form? Don’t tell that to Dana Tanamachi, a graphic designer and custom chalk letterer who lives in Brooklyn, New…
Mundane afternoon turns into a frolic for park spectators as Improv Everywhere group entertain park residents at New York’s Bryant Park.
And where is the Batman? These two jokers got married and commissioned a Dark Knight inspired cake called Joker’s Revenge created by City Cakes NY.…
Paris and New York City share something in common. They both have Statues of Liberty. Everything else is up for grabs. Vahram Muratyan shares with…
Many New Yorkers will tell you that Dom DeMarco makes the best pizza in the world. It's more than a pizza. It's art. The Best Thing I Ever Done by MargaretEmily MacKenzie examines not the pizza but the man behind the pizza. Dom DeMarco is a little fraction of the mosaic that is the fabric of New York City. He relies on his senses to make pizza, he is driven by instinct. These little pieces define a people within a great cosmopolitan sea of bodies that wash up at Dom's door to taste a piece of the past on a crust of bread.
Finger painting has morphed into a whole new meaning. Forget the preschool notion of finger painting. Finger painting belongs now to mobile gadgets that allow…
<img src="https://sandboxworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/pop-tarts-toaster-pastry.png" alt=”Pop-Tarts Sushi and Other Fine Foods at the new Pop-Tarts Cafe” title=”pop-tarts-toaster-pastry” width=”320″ height=”320″ class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-7795″ /> Only in New York in…
The moose is on the loose. You see these oddities all over North America. Some sculpture wannabe plants one of these on their lawns or…
If you plan to be in New York around June 7th-14th, 2010 you better pencil yourself in for the Internet Week New York. Already on…
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9679622&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1 A day in the life of New York City, in miniature created by Aero Director/ VFX artist Sam O’Hare. What appears to be a…
In the later part of the 19th century till the advent of the automobile there were close to 200 000 horses working in New York…