Who would deface this face?
Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Tony Arranaga in Featured, News
Or at least that’s the theory behind this new artwork at Downtown Phoenix Asian fusion restaurant NINE 05 (Roosevelt light-rail station). Chef Jay tells me the restaurant, like many businesses in the urban core, is seeing a rash of graffiti vandals. In fact, so much that the restaurant couldn’t keep up with painting over the all the ugly. Chef Jay says local artist David Michael Little has some serious street cred, and no tagger in hi/hers right mind would touch this masterpiece. I think this work is fantastic and wish more businesses would do this in Downtown Phoenix. What do you think? By the way, NINE 05 has open mic night on Thursdays, and fab food every day of the week. Check out the menu here and see more of my recommendations of 8 places you should try along the light rail here.
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Kate Bart
06. Feb, 2010
Bravo Tony for bring this story to the light of day! Brilliant solution, Chef Jay and Nine|05,for an ugly problem! I would rather see art graffiti compared to the alternative. Reverse Graffiti is famous in San Francisco: http://bit.ly/4d713Z; Tucson has its murals: http://bit.ly/bj3MZ5
Tony Arranaga
09. Feb, 2010
Great find, Kathleen! The video is pretty cool. I love how graffiti adds character to the city landscape. I wish more businesses would embrace the concept… and more taggers would show what kind of mad skills they really posses.