Last night I was checking out CC’s amazing Brooklyn shop Fille de Joie and what do I see stuffed behind a couch? The long lost Fafi piece that was stolen from Bedford Ave!
Don’t worry. She didn’t steal it. What happened was Fafi got a call from some gay dude who saw it half hanging off the fence and grabbed it before it blew off. Apparently, somebody was trying to steal it but got sketched out and left it hanging.
Fafi called CC because all Parisians in New York know each other (and CC is Futura’s ex). CC’s going to hold on to it until Fafi gets around to picking it up which, ideally will be never.
Here’s the progress of my Nancy Drew adventure.
First Supertouch posted a thing on it.
Then Gnarlitude showed the progress from rough sketch, white background, to finished piece, to gone.
Everyone who saw it missing thought to themselves, “Fuck! Why didn’t I steal that when I had the chance. It was on a fucking fence for fuckssakes. All I needed was a screwdriver. Goddamnit.” Then, KABOOM, it’s sitting behind a couch while CC prepares the front window for a more permanent display. I felt a huge sigh of relief after seeing that. Not because the piece was safe, but because someone HADN’T managed to rip it off after all and I DON’T have to feel bad about myself for not stealing it. Phew.
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Yes! Epic detective job, Gavin! So happy she is holding onto it instead of some random.
11.19.08 at 11:47 am
BORING. What is this, hypebeast? Yawn.
11.19.08 at 11:52 am
Don’t give that furry sharpe the credit. I’m the one that found it.
11.19.08 at 11:52 am
Oh oops he just e-mailed me about it. And here I thought Gavin regularly shopped at McGurr’s! Awesome.
11.19.08 at 12:18 pm
Meh, not bad.
11.19.08 at 12:45 pm
I can finally get a good nights sleep.
11.19.08 at 5:25 pm
new york sucks.
11.19.08 at 5:58 pm
quick, call the Pepsi marketing department! some new funky fresh hip hop street graffiti marketing art etc etc cartoon paintings by grown ups of little girls with big eyes and big heads revolutionary and groundbreaking. can we not just call this stuff fashion illustration and be done with it?
11.19.08 at 6:41 pm
who cares about some terrible cartoon bullshit anyway?
11.19.08 at 7:13 pm
I like the KATSU better.
11.19.08 at 9:50 pm
who the FUCK cares. other artists are out in the world doing up the street 10x harder and, frankly, better than this. why the fuck did this even get this much coverage in the fucking first place? sick of the fake sophistos trying so fucking hard to be in the know and jump in on street-art. suck at art but wanna be an artist? post shit up in williamsburg, surely the “photographers” in that area will take photos of your work. hell, they’ll even publish it in their “Street Art Photography” books and sell it back to you.
11.20.08 at 9:59 am