Crouching bunny, hidden frog

giant bunny street art, williamsburg, brooklyn, nyc
There’s a run-down old building over at Skillman Avenue and Manhattan Avenue and that’s been undergoing renovations since the time we moved into this neighborhood, and for some reason there’s always tons of new graffiti/street art going up all around its walls all the time. This neat-o bunny is the latest addition.

Also, not exactly New York-related, but a nice daytrip from the city: My girlfriend and my sister and I drove out to the New Jersey Botanical Garden on Saturday. The place is beautiful and quiet, and a lot more outdoorsy than other botanical gardens I’ve been to like Longwood Gardens or the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. It’s also free! I posted a few pictures of a tiny frog we found, over in my LiveJournal.

I pity the fool

Haha, if you eyeball this blog once in a while you might have figured out that my neighborhood (Williamsburg) is overrun with wacky hipster art students who’ll decorate anything in sight with some sort of weird street art project or other, expressing something funny, or something really heavy, or sometimes not really expressing anything at all. This morning on the side of a bus stop down the street I saw what I thought was a hilarious fake poster for a movie about the A-Team! With some big photos of guys’ faces who are not the A-Team on the tv show, presented as the characters! Some hipster’s hilarious Photoshop project, no doubt. I got closer to try to see the faces better and figure out if they were politicians or something, and ascertain if there was an underlying meaning or message or joke, and I quickly realized (of course) that it was a real poster. This is how I find out they’re making an A-Team movie? Seriously, if I’d lived in just about any other neighborhood in America I wouldn’t have suspected the professional advertising I was looking at was, like, a clever fraud. A clever fraud of an A-Team poster. That’s what this neighborhood has done to my relationship with images on public walls.