Bathroom advertisements #1

Alrighty, welcome to a new series at Vitamin C4 where we investigate and review bathroom advertisements. From the varied stickers, tags or hand written links we take a chance and roll the dice. Think of all the times you were taking a piss or poop at an establishment and stared at something that was on the wall and wondered what the hell it might be for. You tell yourself that you will look it up when you get home, but you always forget. Well, we here at Vitamin C4 will be your guide to the weird, obscure, good and bad shit that is smeared, stuck or inked on the walls of NY bathrooms.
For the first Bathroom Advertisements, we will be looking into:

http://www.1990-1997.com on the wall of The Charleston bar

This being the first review, the random link turned out to be quite a gem. Admittedly, I thought this would be a link for a band, some up-and-coming short film or local organization with a hipstery means. But, I was very surprised/pleased to find this is the site for, what I would describe as, a avant-garde digital artist Zak Loyd. With a series of audio-visual pieces, images, gifs, html links and live performances this artist’s statement is to “revisit the bliss through artifacts and memory” and to “seek internet magic”

Through a digital medium and throw-back style, Zak uses relatively out-dated tools and basic modes in this art form that remind us MS paint and intro html code can still be modern. Granted his still images seem to be the tawdry product of boredom, Zac’s Statements page, various A/V works and HTML links are rather STONEY. If I were a bigger digital art fan and stoner I could easily find myself being lost in the dozens of digital art pieces provided by this site.

This bathroom advertisement was an awesome and obscure find, and at least worth five minutes to marvel at the weird shit this kid makes.