Yo, note the supermarket just past the bank that the purple reign of terror, the Evil Empire of the East Village wanted to evict. I feel like NYU evicted me at least partially by torturing me with the tear down of St. Ann's and 7 day a week construction and late nights. Still feel ill -- I have purple reign of terror-itis. I feel ill when I see an NYU shirt or the ubiquitious purple flag.- Anyway on to happy topics and that is this one of the most popular Jim Power mosaics and a homage to the Filmore East. I am showing you a close up of the homage to Janis Joplin who I love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Janis had supersized passion and you have to have supersized passsion, speak up in the face of tsunami that feels like "very organized crime" and either has every law book protecting it or no one monitoring the builds. How slick. It was all done very fast, and so much it would take mega billions for the city of NY to monitor what what going done and up.
- Just glad to see Jim's community planter 9-11 memorial back in place after Cooper Union, NYU junior, did their nasty deed...as if they didn't have enough property to place the tribute of Honest Abe Lincoln and Peter Cooper.
Jim Power has to be one of the most hard working and prolific artists in NYC and most of his work was created under the harshest conditions living homeless with Jesse Jane, not the porn star but his emotional seeing eye dog.
He can really draw which poser artists cannot do. Jim Power's mosiacs are one of the most photographed series of art works. You can constantly see tourists stop and take photos!
We need to landmark protect Jim and Jesse Jane.
