Jason Polan has set out to draw every single person in New York -- sounds crazy, but then, this is the guy who drew
every work of art in the MOMA:
I am trying to draw every person in New York. I will be drawing people everyday and posting as frequently as I can. It is possible that I will draw you without you knowing it. I draw in Subway stations and museums and restaurants and on street corners. I try not to be in the way when I am drawing or be too noticeable. Whenever I have a new batch of drawings I will post them on this blog. If you would like to increase the chances of a portrait of YOU appearing on this blog please email me (art@jasonpolan.com) a street corner or other public place that you will be standing at for a duration of two minutes (I will be on the corner of 14th street and 8th avenue on the North-east corner of the street from 2:42-2:44pm this Thursday wearing a bright yellow jacket and navy rubber boots, for example).
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There are eight million NYC residents.
If he draws 1000 people a day, he can complete the job in 22 years, if I calculated correctly.
and of course your calculations are only Joe if exactly the same 22 million people stay in New York for those 22 years. No one can be born or move to the city in that time. As I am sure there are at least 1000 new people in NYC every day, his task is impossible.
Another great artist lost to insanity.
Next he's going to insult the universe. Each person individually, and (and this is the part he gritted his teeth over) in alphabetical order.
ZOMJ! some guy with a suspiciously similar style drew a picture of me on the subway back in like 2003 and handed it to me. it said "tip if you like it" or something. i think i gave him five bucks. it looked just like me. i framed it and gave it to my mom for mother's day.
nevermind. i checked it and it was a dude named "orin". there's a village voice article about him here:
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0629,lalli,73917,15.html
Not gonna happen....unless every single person in NYC happens to pass through the Taco Bell on 14th street.
I love crazy artists.
the area of Williamsburg between kent and driggs should go pretty quik.
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When the project is completed we will all have a get together." This guy is NUTS!
That's so awesome...
So, any hoity toity art critic come up with a name for this whole hyper-prolific craze yet? Millions of unique shapes, hundreds of hoboes, a skull a day, and now a portrait of every single New Yorker. This whole art meme of mass-produced hand-made is kind of fascinating and sad at the same time.
"Advertisements for Myself"
a good book title by Norman Mailer.
Yah gotta have a gimmick if yah wanna
get ahead.
An artist that cannot self promote
is a lonely human unless they are perhaps
a Buddhist monk practicing the glory of
art and solitude and the fleeting of
living,the purity of non-signature.
I tend to like artists that make art
where one says"What the Hell is it"?
I loved the Hoboes project and the Skulladay. I think it's what a lot more artists should do, Chris- consistently producing forces creativity and learning. The brain's a muscle like any other, and the muse needs to be worked just like a mule. Else both start getting lazy.
I'm sure the powers that be appreciate his effort, but wouldn't CCTV be more efficient?
I drew every person in NYC in one day. Truly spectacular... as long as you don't mind I did it from a distance of 720 miles. They all kinda blur together into what the uninitiated might call "a dot," but, trust me... they're in there.
They all kinda blur together into what the uninitiated might call "a dot," but, trust me... they're in there.
So, pointillism.