Big up Clark Kent!

NHTVSN is a multimedia project founded in 2007. Currently, two projects fall under the company umbrella: a clothing line and an online video magazine. The clothing line’s graphic inspiration draws heavily from music, film, and pop culture, and is distributed at some of the best street boutiques worldwide.

NHTVSN Episode 2 Part 2.1 from NHTVSN on Vimeo.

A headless Chairman Mao statue stands guard on a Park Avenue island, heralding the Asia Society’s show on China’s art (well, propaganda) during the revolution.

The Mao show continues through Jan. 11. There’s also a related film series, with an installment set for this Saturday.

– Rolando Pujol

Via AMNY.Com’s urbanite blog.

The unassuming pop up installation by Banksy is located on 7th avenue  between Bleeker and West 4th street.  And is not exactly what you would expect from the street artist, check out some video footage here.

Check out this article New York Magazine published about the fight to keep the 1520 housing building in the Bronx in the hands of the working class community.  The Building is the birth place of hip hop, where Kool Herc first spun some break beats at his sister’s back to school party in 1973.   Things have never been the same.

Is that Jeezy puttin’ up frank151 stickers?? Big up to Jeezy, the new isht is banging!

Photographer JR, who has been traveling the world putting up wall installations of his work has finally come to New York in collaborative with Outsiders New York exhibit.   To follow up with a previous post where we showed you JR working his magic in the favelas of Brazil and more recently  he’s turned some of London’s walls into art.  For more peep Canned Goods.

By Rocco Parascandola, Newsday
October 3, 2008

NEW YORK — New York police Lt. Michael Pigott turned 46 on Thursday, but before the sun rose, he slipped out of his home, drove to his former command in Brooklyn and fired a single bullet into his head, police said.

Pigott, a respected 21-year veteran, was declared dead at a hospital. He had been tormented since Sept. 24, when his order to Taser a psychiatric patient led to the man’s death, according to police officials and sources.

Via The LA Times

NEW YORK (AP) ― A New York City transit agency says it plans to unveil its first subway car to be fully wrapped in advertising. Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials say on Thursday they’ll present a midtown Manhattan shuttle train ensconced in advertising for The History Channel.

Via WCBStv.com