Here ... where we run out of continent *

 Los Angeles, February, 2014, photographs of a visit by Tom Eubanks

*words compliments of California saint, Joan Didion

The state of things

Century City

As God is my witness ...

Because the system can't tap birds ...

Paramount Sky-drop

Forest Lawn Cemetery

in graffiti veritas

Edward Hopper Ground Zero, Greenwich and Avenue of the Americas

The more things change, the more the past reveals itself to us ...

Good news: No more insufferable Marc Jacobs signs, hand-painted with irony, on this wall.

More good news: No more insufferable 9/11 hand-painted clay squares tied to the chain-link like some maudlin kindergarten project gone bathetically wrong.

Bad news: MTA architects will decide what replaces this corner, which, like the rest of this asterisk-shaped intersection (former home to the stately Loews) & the length of (preserved) Greenwich Avenue, continues to be haunted by our greatest nostalgic New York painter.

--Tom Eubanks, Greenwich Avenue/Avenue of the Americas/11th Street, 2/13/13

Signs in the City, episode 22

"butt 'n' mushroom," Greenwich Avenue & 10th Street

"Smokin' Camel Toe," 18th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues

"Pimp," Avenue of the Americas

"What *do* you really want?" 8th Avenue & 17th Street

"You *are* amazing," Jackson Square

"THE KEY: You Are Not Alone (Unicorn Meat)," 12th Street

--All photos by Tom Eubanks

 January,  LUCKY '13

New York Scrawl

As the area code gets more expensive, the graffiti becomes more expansive.

Tom Eubanks

Saturday signage

13th Street & Ninth Avenue

Gansevoort Street

15th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues

Manhattan, November 30, 2011