{"id":3002,"date":"2011-06-06T20:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/06\/the-art-vandal-underground\/"},"modified":"2011-06-06T20:10:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:10:29","slug":"the-art-vandal-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/06\/the-art-vandal-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art-Vandal Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

A Chronicler of the Art-Vandal Underground<\/h1>\n

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Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times<\/p>\n

Mr. Seelie, center with camera, shooting Lightning Bolt, a punk band, in April.<\/p>\n

by\u00a0ALAN FEUER<\/a><\/p>\n

In the windy darkness of a recent spring morning, 30 people of an arty, mostly Brooklynite persuasion gathered after midnight for an illicit get-together in a maintenance shed, high atop the Williamsburg Bridge. Billed as the \u201cThird-Annual NYC Undercover, You-Might-Be-Arrested, Clandestine Errantry Trespassing Adventure Party,\u201d the event attracted members of a distinct, risk-taking subset of the New York art world \u2014 heights-loving writers, courageous painters, a devil-may-care guitarist, a guy lugging bongos and the Williamsburg photographer, Tod Seelie \u2014 all of whom had been quietly invited to the late-night affair by its pseudonymous organizers, Agent Verde and Agent Rojo.<\/p>\n

After scrambling over a 10-foot-high security fence, the partygoers climbed a steel staircase \u2014 the lights of Manhattan glimmering below \u2014 as part of a vertiginous, invigorating trip that culminated in a catwalk, a ladder and finally a narrow hatchway, leading up to a low-ceilinged room of riveted metal plates. There, for more than an hour, the group made music and unauthorized public art. Light was provided by votive candles and flashlights. Mr. Seelie, a bald man sporting tattoos and a Fu Manchu mustache, camera at his eye, stood taking pictures in the middle of the room.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a trip takes this much effort,\u201d he said, \u201cthere\u2019s usually something worthwhile at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

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