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Mystery of the Orange Lines SOLVED

Remember those orange paint lines that turned up a couple of months back all over downtown? It turns out they form a giant MOMO tag! Check out the video above-- apparently the project took two nights to paint, but eight weeks to document.

A high quality Quicktime version of the video can be found at Momo's site-- don't miss the presskit, which includes the full tag-map and a comparison of the project to other large "earth-works" like Smithson's Spiral Jetty:

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  • bob

    STOP WITH THE GRAFFITI WORSHIP ALREADY. Sheesh.

  • zincink

    momo is slang and considered an insult...

    maybe they would be willing to share some of the trust fund with us poor bastards lol!

  • Not Amused

    Personally I think it would have been better if they would have done it using the length of the boro. Seriously this is yet another case of someone crying out for attention . Some lonely soul crying to be noticed, So sad that they had to go this route . I heard recently that someone else was copying this stupid trick . It's just a matter of time before the police get a wiff of this and the news outlets get there hands on giving it the coberage it doesn't deserve . Maybe that was the end result here . The real question is, Why did Kellogg's stop making the Apple poptarts ? Can anybody here tell me why ?

  • JGNY

    pensive, I agree that there is a certain amount of egoism in the work but most street art, if not all is very self-centered. Many respected artists spent most of their time painting pictures of themselves. The reason this is interesting is because it works on two scales; first the very large which requires a technology other then our eyes to see and the other is very minute, a small line on the ground. Look, I am not saying this kid is a genius, but I do believe there is potential there.

  • pensivepuppy

    Just because it's on a large scale doesn't mean it's not lame. This project is one step away from a fraternity prank.

    This has more to do with this idiot's ego than with "art". He got some attention, woohoo.

    Even his name (momo) is lame.

  • JGNY

    I like it. It certainly follows a trajectory of landscape artists who work on a large scale. While it is not as aesthetically appealing as a Goldworthy, Smithson, or Chirsto I do applaud the rigor and effort.

  • disconnec

    i think it's pretty neat.

    so nyah!

  • anomalous

    momo not MoMA.

  • PJ

    It's a cool idea, but the execution is really boring.

    And having a website about it.. hello, is this the police?

  • Let me get this straight if some inner city kid does this to the city THEY CALL IT VANDELISM...but if its for the MOMA its called Art.

    Nice. I call it pointless and vandelism...Did MOMA clean this shit up or does that not matter. While hundreds of today's youth are shaken down for felt tip markers and spraycans.

    I call this bullshit.

  • dceverist

    that was a complete waste of time. it's not like you could even see what it spelled from above... pointless...

  • lani

    There goes 2 minutes and 45 seconds of my life I can't get back. AWESOME!

  • Dude

    I am totally underwhelmed! The city should charge him for the cleaning tab.

  • anomalous

    do we know that momo is a trust fund hipster? maybe he (is momo a he?), is hipster without a trust fund, or has a trust fund but isn't a hipster. Oh, the permutations!

  • E rock r

    Very uninteresting.

  • zincink

    I'll admit its different..but since when is destroying property art.

    Deconstruction-ism.

    ism's

    Does this person know what a momo is?

  • Chris

    The map looks like the work of someone who tried to write their name on an Etch a Sketch.

  • Rodney P. Sweetchops

    Art? Are you joking? Come on Gothamist, a bunch of orange lines drawn by some trust-fund hipster is hardly "art".

  • kz

    Wow. So powerfully pointless.

  • Dan

    Durn it! I was meaning to map this out for weeks since I first noticed it, I kept telling my girlfriend 'i bet it spells something'. Theres a blue line now too, at least on broadway.

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