June 16, 2008
Street Artist Wants Photos of You and His Girlfriend
A street artist named Ry (aka Olympia) emails in asking for a little help with his girlfriend's birthday present, seems he needs the community's participation to yield successful results.
Here's the story: My girlfriend moved to Connecticut from Greenpoint last year. She misses it terribly, and constantly pines for the days spent with friends in the neighborhood. So, for her birthday this weekend, on Sunday night I installed a life-sized cutout of her at the southeast corner of Franklin and Noble Streets in Greenpoint. I am asking anyone who can to go to Greenpoint and photograph themselves with the Birthday Girl, and then, email or pix message the photo to birthdaygirl08 (at) gmail (dot) com. Soon she will have an entire album of images of herself and many, many friends partying in Greenpoint!A very...wishful idea, with good intentions, but we're guessing this piece is going to end up with some not-so-nice birthday messages on it by week's end. Will the effort get the girl back to Greenpoint, or will the street artist be left with nothing but a wood cutout? Either way, keep up with the progress as photos are posted at this Flickr account.
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This is just asking for trouble.
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This was totally ripped from gawker!
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Splasher, where art thou?
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"This was totally ripped from gawker!"
No, I've seen it on three blogs so far. Obviously he emailed every one he could think of.
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Unfortunately I will not be able to make it to the "thunder thighs" convention and photo op this weekend but hopefully others will.
Her move to Connecticut had nothing to do with "Ry (aka Olympia)" street artist's inability to pay his share of the fucking rent did it?
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How very naive Ry (aka Olympia). You have too much faith in humanity, this is gonna end in tears.
Also if she "constantly pines" for Greenpoint, just move back there! Jesus.
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The bar "Pencil Factory" is in Greenpoint isn't it? Sean O'Rourke owns it if my memory serves me right
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Don't feed or tease the street artists. leave them to Animal Control.
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How soon until it's cappa is detated?
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This is a cute idea! You people have problems with everything.
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This doesn't have to end badly. I imagine "birthdaygirl08" is not her actual e-mail address. It would be easy enough for this dude to go in and collect the photos from folks who do this properly and then present them to her somehow, without her having to see responses from people like Snoopy.
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Just want to point out that the purpose of munging an email address to something like "birthdaygirl08 (at) gmail (dot) com" is completely defeated if you make a valid link out of it.