© Frank H. Jump
This was across the street from where we had the Fading Ad Gallery for a brief time on Myrtle and Bedford. They removed the awning and exposed this storefront lounge. I believe it is a kosher butcher now.
March, 2008:
Hello Dolly Backdrop – Design & Internet Research by Art Yelton – Photoshop Design & Layout – Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
This collage was used as a backdrop for a revival of Hello Dolly in 2001. My dear friend Art Yelton was the director and musical director. Yelton found all of the source images on the Internet, printed them out, and designed the basic cut and paste layout by hand (and fortunately saved all of the URLs). After receiving the prototype, I downloaded all of the digital files (mostly from the Library of Congress website) and created a digital version on Photoshop. This job was done during the time I was undergoing chemo and radiation therapies and kept me out of trouble. It was a labor of love. Enjoy. The reproduction for the backdrop was twenty by forty feet. Click on the image above for a close-up view.
Keuffel & Esser Co., Drafting Materials, Surveying Instruments… Hannes Taylor Co (Adv) – Ann Street, South of City Hall – NYC
New Oranges & Old Plums – Lenny Kravitz & Rosario Dawson @ Plum – May 18, 2006
© Frank H. Jump
Recently I saw this poster in Little Italy of Lenny Kravitz with the oranges lining the street and thought about Vitamin C. I had heard he was sick with bronchitis and had canceled some of his tour dates. When I took this shot, I remembered the crazy night when we were all out celebrating Rosa’s birthday at Plum (formerly Nell’s on Fourteenth Street), that infamous night Tommy Hilfiger punched Axl Rose (I missed the whole thing- I was having too much fun dancing and annoying the paparazzi with my flash). It was a media circus. I have some really fun shots of that evening and will share some perhaps on the second anniversary of that night now that I’ve located the files. Pardon the non sequitur.
Sunday's Feature Fade: Miss Heather's Greenpoint Ads
Syrup of Figs – Franklin Street & Greenpoint Avenue
Men’s Clothes – “119-125 Walker Street” – Hannes Taylor Advertising – Manhattan Avenue
“Warner…Floor Lamps – Silk Shades” – Commercial Street © Miss Heather, newyorkshitty.com
Miss Heather publishes the wildy eclectic and brilliantly excretory Greenpoint blog New York Shitty. Miss Heather sent me some of these images of fading ads she took when she wasn’t aiming down. Keep looking up Miss Heather!
