If you're going to be in the Big Apple in the near future you should check out at least a piece of Momo's newest piece. The boy has traced his name with paint from one side of the island to the other. You can see the video in quicktime. From the press release-
More than a reinvention of New York's most famous export, the one-liner tag also serves as a path leading pedestrians astray through landmark neighborhoods and city parks.
Its 2006 and respect for Old School is everywhere.
Aware that he's referencing Adam Purple's 1989 Footprints, MOMO adds: "I was in the 5th grade and came to the city for a wedding and wandered off, following these purple feet. I've thought of them ever since. Such a cool work. It gets further into how we live; it follows us, or we, it. Very clever. I assumed what I'd seen as a child was obscure and lost forever under two decades of 8 million New Yorkers, but google pulled it right up."
(thanks wooster collective)
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