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…