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A fellow named the Splasher has been splashing paint on street art around NYC over the past few months. Here's some of his, er, work. Well-known street artist Shepard Fairey (the Splasher has targeted several of his pieces) opened a show last night in DUMBO and two guys tried to set off a homemade smoke bomb at the opening, leading to speculation that one (or both) of them was the Splasher. Gothamist has more. Jake Dobkin has photos from Fairey's show, which looks pretty nice.

Update: The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that DJ 10 Fingers subdued the suspected Splasher before he could light his stink bomb. (No, seriously!) The would-be stink bomber is facing a possible 15 years in jail.

 Jun 22, 2007  •  tags: shepardfairey jakedobkin graffiti art splasher crime nyc dumbo

Jake's got some photos of the in-progress development of the High Line in Manhattan. Lots of concrete. Here's what the High Line looked like a few years ago when I was up there.

 May 24, 2007  •  tags: nyc highline jakedobkin

I've had this photo up in my browser for a few hours now and every so often, I'll sneak away from what I'm doing and take a peek at it. I love the feeling of motion and its capture: the boy and the pigeon captured by the camera, the pigeon's shadow captured by the sidewalk, the momentum of an unseen car captured by the now-bent steel of the firebox.

 Apr 23, 2007  •  tags: photography jakedobkin

Jake's featuring a photo today of some NYC street art by Bloke, who does paper-plane pieces. I'm a sucker for dashed lines.

Update: More stuff by Bloke here. (thx, daniel)

 Apr 20, 2007  •  tags: jakedobkin photography nyc graffiti

Nice symmetry to this photo taken by Jake Dobkin of some people walking in front of graffiti.

 Sep 25, 2006  •  tags: jakedobkin photography graffiti

Slightly surreal panoramic shot of the Guggenheim in NYC.

 Jul 31, 2006  •  tags: photography jakedobkin guggenheim museums

Aerial photos of cities taken by Olivo Barbieri with a tilt-shift lens look like scale models. I'm familiar with the tilt-shift (Jake noodled around with one awhile back), but didn't imagine you could use it to achieve such a convincing optical illusion. (via bldgblog via waxy)

 Jan 24, 2006  •  tags: photography jakedobkin architecture olivobarbieri