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A mix of some of our favorite wet paint sign anagrams.

Photo by Brayden Olsen

Reginald Marsh, Why Not Use the “L”?, 1930

The folks over at F.A.T. have developed a new tool in the fight against irksome, uninteresting subway advertisements. Meet Sub Pixel, a custom slicing tool made from laser-cut acrylic, rubber bands and nine razor blades.

From fffff.at:

In two quick swipes, it transforms a small patch of subway advertisement from a “one-way, unending flow of shit” into an 8×8 grid of pixel stickers, ready for two-way interaction with the public.

Keep an eye out for ads with a single pixel removed to indicate that it’s been ‘prepared’ by a Sub Pixel!

F.A.T. or Free Art & Technology is a group “dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies”. Many of their posts include D.I.Y. instructions and Sub Pixel is no exception; you can download the files required for laser cutting your own right on the site.

Sketching people on the subway shouldn’t be a foreign idea to readers of Subway Art Blog. Artist and psychiatrist Peter Bulow takes this concept to the next level. Dr. Bulow makes clay sculptures based on people he sees on his commute.

In an interview with NY1, he describes his experiences sculpting on the subway:

It’s thrilling. I feel like I’m connecting with people somehow, but also really calm within myself,” says Bulow. “It takes a lot of concentration. You have to get their expression, it has to be beautiful, it has to look like them. It has to be three-dimensional all the way around, has to be a composition. You have to do all that in a minute or five minutes or whatever you have. It’s like riding a roller coaster. You have something forever, of a person you once saw.

To date, Dr. Bulow has created over 400 of these mini portraits. A small selection of these works are being shown at Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan through June 30th.

Images via JavierSoriano.com

Meet “The Bride,” a new collaboration by artist duo Enzo & Nio and subway artist Jilly Ballistic. According to Jilly’s flickr, the gun-toting newlywed lives in the Church Ave-bound G train platform at Nassau Ave.

Photo courtesy NY Daily News

No free rides? Occupy Wall Street disagrees. Members of the movement claimed responsibility for chaining open the emergency exits at 20 subway stations this morning.

Members also posted the service advisory posters pictured above; one  encouraging straphangers to walk in without swiping and one advertising the general strike planned for May 1st.

Check out OccupyWallSt.org for more on the fare strike!

John Sloan, Reading in the Subway, 1926

Her feet beneath her petticoat

Like little mice peeped in and out,

As if they feared the light.