Elbow-Toe’s Divine Hammer, placed in Union Square in Manhattan, is derived from Rembrandt’s Monk in the Cornfields
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Archive | September 2, 2009
Late Night in the Bedroom – An Introduction
A side project of Torontos’s Whippersnapper Gallery, Late Night in the Bedroom is a new interview series filmed before a live audience in a residential apartment and then edited and broadcast on the web. The goal is to provide emerging talent in and around Toronto (artists, musicians and community organizers) with a venue to discuss their work and reach a larger audience.
The first episode features the work of Che Kothari, The Poster Pocket Planters and The boys who say no.
Check it out below…
Old news but new to me
Who could have done this piece 
It’s old news now but yesterday I went to take a look at the highwayman up on the roof of the Great Western Studios complex near Westbourne Park. The location of the piece itself is quality – it’s situated between the snarled up elevated section of the A40 London artery and the main rail line into Paddington (and clearly visible from both). As a high traffic spot to get seen there’s few better locations (the fact that it was visible to anyone attending the Notting Hill Carnival is also an added bonus)!
Highwayman on the A40 ‘Westway’
There’s some clever work going on here that may not be instantly obvious. First up the circle in the centre used to be the sign for the Great Western Studios (which are now relocating). It’s been repainted to match the colour of the tower and coincidentally looks like a setting sun or moon behind the figure. The stencil itself neatly ignores the fact that there’s a recessed window behind the horses head. That’s a nice trick to pull off. The sheer scale is also something else. Whilst the figure and horse is similar to a Zorro image the face resembles more of a traditional highwayman – with the addition of a paint roller… On the reverse of the building a simple text slogan is painted in pink reading ‘Live Fast, Drive Slow’.
Highwayman (picture taken from the nearby rail line)