WAR! via Instagram user Zexo Bushwick might be hot enough to be the world’s seventh-coolest neighborhood, have shitty hotels “inspired” by it and get SNL and SantaCon to take a look at it, but that doesn’t mean it’s Park Slope. Bushwick can still be ravaged by WAR, although in this case it’s a graffiti vs. street art civil war that ANIMAL found, as spray paint can holding brother is turning against spray paint holding brother in a defacement battle over authenticity and gentrification. We haven’t enjoyed a Bushwick story like this since the one where Droid907 was interviewed sitting in a ditch and waiting to hop a freight train. So OK, it’s not a shooting war, unless the people on both sides are making “Pew! Pew!” sounds as spray paint comes out of their cans, and why not do that. Instead, it’s a running battle between the street artists of the Bushwick… Read More
WAR! via Instagram user Zexo Bushwick might be hot enough to be the world’s seventh-coolest neighborhood, have shitty hotels “inspired” by it and get SNL and SantaCon to take a look at it, but that doesn’t mean it’s Park Slope. Bushwick can still be ravaged by WAR, although in this case it’s a graffiti vs. street art civil war that ANIMAL found, as spray paint can holding brother is turning against spray paint holding brother in a defacement battle over authenticity and gentrification. We haven’t enjoyed a Bushwick story like this since the one where Droid907 was interviewed sitting in a ditch and waiting to hop a freight train. So OK, it’s not a shooting war, unless the people on both sides are making “Pew! Pew!” sounds as spray paint comes out of their cans, and why not do that. Instead, it’s a running battle between the street artists of the Bushwick… Read More