In a city that can often easy look cold and utilitarian, New York City Street Artist Tom Bob sees the potential beautiful bold colors have for making our city spaces look silly and fun.
His work involves transforming unsightly โstreet furniture,โ like utility boxes, poles, pipes and sewer caps, into quirky cartoon-like creations that liven up city streets with lightheartedness.
His work is definitely smile-inducing and makes the New York City a chiller place to be.
I mean how happy would you be if you saw a boring old street sewer turned in to thisโฆ
So happyโฆ the answer is so happy!
Hereโs the artist himself high above 9th street spraying painting a mural in the East Village.
Tom Bob has been likened to other streets artists like OaKoAk who also transform seemingly ordinary things into extraordinary things.
Unlike some popular street artists, Tom Bobโs work isnโt too political in nature. Itโs mostly just straight up FUN.
Well, mostly. A few political jibes have gotten thrown in here and there, according to the posts on his Instagram page.
Regardless, weโre definitely picking up what heโs putting down. Including this โsweetheart street art.โ
Lots of his stuff is kid friendly, like this cute little Tweety Bird.
But some of itโฆ not so much.
He was among the featured artists at this yearโs Governors Ball Music Festival. His work was also featured in Wear Where Wellโs list of best NYC street muralโs in SOHO, Nolita, and Chinatown for his emoji mural.
We just really love the way Tom Bob sees the world.
And how he could turn something boring and ugly like thisโฆ
And turn it into something as awesome as this.
Just imagine what our world would look like if artists could freely roam our cities and have their way with it.
We think the results would be pretty darn joyful.
I mean how could you walk around a colorful world like that and not be happy? It would be pretty hard.
We think Tom Bobโs work is out of this world ?!
And we want to live in a world filled with art where our trash cans look like pirate robots.
And air vents that look like kids with braces. I mean, who wouldnโt?
This guy simply loves brushing his teeth.
You can see more of Tom Bobโs happy and whimsical pieces on his Instagram page here.
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