The Hearts Unite

Dan, you're my hero!!

Dan found a cute way to have Heart 2.0 "up".


Now 2.0 has a Big Brother to look after it. I love it. I'm sure it will raise a few eyebrows and get some chuckles.

The Heart 2.0 LIVES!

So Heart 2.0 lives in photos. Yay(!)

The Heart 2.0

I had a pretty traumatic experience today. Dan accompanied me to put up 2.0, and as we walked away accomplished, we saw that the teenagers who watched us put it up with joy and excitement had ripped down the Heart. I yelled at them. I was so upset and angry because they had destroyed a beautiful thing that belonged to someone else. A woman from the neighborhood acknowledged us for putting up a beautiful artwork on a building she considered "ugly" (a new condo/apartment construction), and the teenagers watched with curious and excited interest. I don't know why the teenagers did what they did, except that they are (fucking) jerks who don't know that what they did was a (fucking) asshole move after they expressed how "cool" it was that we were doing such a thing.

Talk about irony. Teenagers are "rebellious" and here they are supporting THE MAN by ripping down a street art. What the fuck is that about? I guess those kids love authority. Maybe some years down the line, they might just have a cathartic moment in which they figure that that what they did today hurt someone else and their actions took something unique and fun away from the neighborhood. Anyways. You live, you give, you learn.

So this is the Heart that Miss Sandy gave to Mister Frank.
I ♥ YOU BUDDY!!


The simple quick sketch.


Complete in black and white Sharpie marker.


I hardly use color like this. Special!!


Finishing it with a bit of hairspray.


"IT COMES WITH FRESH FRUIT! FRANK"
Frank, you get it right?


On the corner of Hollywood and Middleton Road in the Bronx.


Asshole kids pretending to admire only to tear the heart down after we leave. FUCK YOU. It was terrible to hold the remains. THE AGONY.


The Heart 1.0 UPDATE


The Heart 1.0 LIVES!! Dan shows me all the ways it has evolved to "belong" to the neighborhood. I like it.


Dan never saw his name on the Heart. It was ripped off before he could experience it, so he tagged his own. ♥

Miracle Morning

Every day is a miracle because we're not always granted another day.
"So whatever you are, whatever you created, never compare, accept, acknowledge, make the most out of it...Perfect!!"
~ Frank
It is what it is.

Happy New Year

It chewed up my arm. Free money, food, and love—why not?