{"id":11650,"date":"2013-03-29T12:49:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T12:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=11650"},"modified":"2013-03-29T12:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T12:50:58","slug":"a-bit-of-new-york-on-the-move-around-brixton-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-bit-of-new-york-on-the-move-around-brixton-london\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of New York on the move around Brixton, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"new-york-brixton\"<\/p>\n

Seen moving along Atlantic Road at a\u00a0surprisingly\u00a0sprightly rate was this large poster of Times Square, New York.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"new-york-brixton-1\"<\/p>\n

I didn’t get to see the owner of the print, but I did note he was keeping himself refreshed as he perambulated along with a large can of cider.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

The scene really reminded me of when I was in New York in the late 1980s – there was an artist there who could regularly be seen walking around Chelsea and SoHo with huge oil paintings strapped on his back.<\/p>\n

I saw him every day, almost always with a different painting, so I wasn’t\u00a0sure\u00a0if he was just transporting them around or if he acting as a human billboard<\/a> for his wares.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

[New York street scene – you’ll have to imagine the bloke in the scene!]<\/em><\/p>\n

I thought the\u00a0paintings\u00a0were a bit rubbish, mind, but \u00a0for all I know he may be an internationally recognised colossus of the art world now. Anyone know what happened to him?<\/p>\n

I never managed to grab a picture of him (in those days, cameras tended to be purloined very quickly on\u00a0the streets of New York), so at least I’ve managed a finally bag a similar\u00a0view closer to home, albeit decades later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seen moving along Atlantic Road at a\u00a0surprisingly\u00a0sprightly rate was this large poster of Times Square, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,194,56,17,193],"tags":[34,576,10,1199],"class_list":["post-11650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-london-features","category-new-york","category-photos","category-places","tag-art","tag-atlantic-road","tag-london","tag-new-york"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/new-york-brixton.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-31U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11658,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions\/11658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}