Culture For The Non-Cultured

James De La Vega is an artist that tags New York’s sidewalks, doors, even the discarded mattresses you see below –with whimsical, inspiring little pics and murals.  He often signs his art with a fish and his name.
New York is a gritty city; De La Vega brightens it up.  (Picture thanks to the wonderful Dave [...]

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I don’t know if you could completely see this ad for Gold Peak Tea, but you can see the large feet in the corner, right?  The words next to those large feet are “The Way Tea Should Taste.”
It’s really hot outside.  I don’t know about you, but I could go for a refreshing gulp of relaxing male [...]

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Click in the box below for a video I made in about 10 minutes, with the help of my new favorite site called Animoto.com and members of Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup who took pictures of some of the cultural events we have been on in New York City over the past 2 years.
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Some of my favorite art just appears not in galleries, but on random street corners, like in the photo below.
According to the photographer, Dave Beckerman, “in the early morning light, these menus at the local Jackson Hole Burger joint look (to me) like an exotic flower.”
Don’t you agree?
(Picture is from Black & White Photos of [...]

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(Full cover and photo credits are given at the very end of this blog)
They say a photo is worth a 1,000 words, and this particular New Yorker cover, first shown to the world in 1976, does inspire at least that many. It depicts what the artist saw as a typical New Yorker’s view of [...]

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