Guerrilla Art Street Installation Project: Halloween Last Blast Before the Cold

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Halloween Last Blast Before the Cold

Guerrilla Ghouls

What better night for camping out in the woods & taking a stroll through a ghost town cemetery?!

First priority of the day:

Tree #21: 1777 trail, Harriman State Park, NY, 10/31/08, 13:20

Knick-Knacker

From a souvenir keychain & a gargantuan bolt nut, both found in the city streets (& a cardboard tube from a nice bottle of scotch ;)- )

The trees were all out in full Fall splendor

The views were spectacular

Guerrilla gang group photo

Guerrilla ghouls, ghost town cemetery at the witching hour, Hallow's eve

Tree #22: West Mountain shelter, 1777, NY, 11/01/08, 09:30

Hubba

For the campsite it had to be the tags from my Hubba-Hubba tent (the yellow circles)

Tree #23: Seven Lakes Dr lot, NY, 11/01/08, 11:20

Spook

A last reminder of Halloween

P.S. Expect some exciting new locations in far away places, coming soon! Guerrilla Trees is finally going international!!!

1 comment:

Caustic said...: Heyo!
wow, i found this site while researching other guerilla art projects in the country and i think that what you guys are doing is fucking rad!
Its funny because this summer some friends and i also got together to do a guerilla art project here in portland where we collected old boards and trinkets people were throwing away, painted them, and hung them around town as a sort of guerilla open art gallery. We also took unused newspaper boxes and turned them into "free boxes" where people could leave things they didn't want that others could use. We made one that looked like a little tree house i called "free" house, one that was a "free submarine" and i even put a propellor and parascope in it, shit like that. It was such a liberating experience and now i want to get involved with groups all over the country!!!

Anyway, im headed to new york sometime in april and would love to be apart of the guerilla tree art project! I will be with a few friends as one part of the "watch it grow" national art tour, and we would love for this project to be one of our collaborations!
This email is getting real long, so here is a link to the tour blog as well as my blog that has a post about the guerilla art gallery we hung this summer. Check them out and lets party and make art in NYC!!

tour: www.watchitgrow.info

blog: cutitoutcaustic.blogspot.com

thanks for the inspiration,
-Ashley; January 28, 2009 at 5:08 AM

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The Guerrilla Tree Project

We are a fun loving partying group of friends who have gotten together this summer '08 to start a guerrilla art project around the city. We're always looking for a good excuse to party & have fun! With this guerilla art project now we have a way to share some of the fun with all of NYC :-D

How's that? So you're walking along amid all the hussle and bustle and maybe stop for just a second to notice the little things and...

Is that tree looking at me?!?!

Spreading a little silliness on the streets of NY, we are putting up eyes on trees in different neighborhoods around the city. Using found items made out of natural materials we are sharing some amusement but also a good message! Without being too preachy about it, it is a reminder of trees as beings, silently watching over us.....

But it is only worth it if it's FUN !! :-D

Calling All Guerrillas!!!

Anyone in NYC who is interested in this street installation project is welcome to contact me and come on out to party with us! :-)

There have also been some soft murmurings from people in other parts of the world about maybe taking this to thier cities.

Tree Eyes Around The WORLD !!! Woohoooo...!! :-D

Do it! It's Easy. And super fun! ...Just be sure to send in a picture for the blog!!

It's a simple enough thing that someone could do by themself but could be a lot of fun to get a few friends together. Make a party out of it! Keeping with the green message we focused on reusing found items, natural, biodegradable materials, and not defacing or causing any damage to the trees. Some of the materials we used included a lot of cardboard (colored cardboard was useful), oyster shells, wine corks, beer tabs, bottle caps, beads, found trinkets... The simplest way we've found to put the eyes up without hurting the trees has been using twine to tie the around the tree.

I dunno what your city's like but some passerby or another will take the tree eyes if they're accessible to reach in this city. The eyes need to be tied up high enough so you'll need something to stand on.

When your done don't forget to take a picture of your guerilla art piece! Try to get one close up of your work and one from further back getting in the tree and the background. Remember to note the exact location, the street it's on, the nearest cross street and city (also mention if it's a landmark location), with the date and time of the installation.

Send your pictures to me or send me an email you to add you to collaborate on the blog!

Look forward to hopefully getting some emails soon...!! :-)

Guerrilla Art Street Installation Project

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Halloween Last Blast Before the Cold

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