[HN Gopher] The Lost Cat Art of Ithaca, NY ___________________________________________________________________ The Lost Cat Art of Ithaca, NY Author : jdsleppy Score : 11 points Date : 2021-08-01 20:59 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.lostcatithaca.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.lostcatithaca.com) | varelse wrote: | My favorite Ithaca moment was a t-shirt in a t-shirt store there | that made fun of a New York State lottery ad campaign about what | people would do with their lottery money that stated "I would buy | a mountain of crack and live in a whorehouse." - Joe Blow | | Never change, Ithaca! | smolder wrote: | I think it's a little weird to go to the effort of cataloging a | low-effort serial graffiti like this, but I suppose the | frivolousness is part of the fun. | dtompkins wrote: | This is super neat but I think understates the absolute scale of | this set of graffiti. I live in Ithaca and it is just everywhere. | | My favorite is the one near Sweet Melissa's (here called Large | Fence Cat: https://www.lostcatithaca.com/cats/10/large-fence-cat/ | ) | TedDoesntTalk wrote: | I went to university here, but lost cat did not exist at the | time. What is this about? Can anyone provide background? (The | Website does not, as far as I can tell) | pcurve wrote: | lol typical Cornell alumni response. We don't mention school | name... instead, we'll say, "I went to school upstate". | | I guess it dates back a few years. | | https://ithacavoice.com/2017/11/introducing-ithaquestions-lo... | | Visually, they're clearly done by several different people. | Some related, some probably not, as a copycat. | dtompkins wrote: | I go there now - It's a set of graffiti images that resemble a | stick-figure cat with sometimes square features. They're | usually on the back side of signs and things like that. There's | quite a bit of it throughout Ithaca now | TedDoesntTalk wrote: | Thanks. Do you know how it started? | dtompkins wrote: | No idea! It was here when I moved (2018) | davmar wrote: | i love it. this is brilliant. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-01 23:00 UTC)