Brooklyn artist Craig Anthony Miller has used Brooklyn as his personal canvas just as we use the Nordecke as ours:




I was flying back from the NAIA Soccer Championships in December and I was reading Airtran Airways tacky GO magazine. But, there was one good story about this writer who visited New York, and met all these different artists and art galleries; one guys artwork really caught my attention as very soccer ultra-like, this Miller guy.

AirTran's Go Magazine Article and Picture of Miller's artwork:


Here's a video on Miller.

His story in that magazine inspired me so figured why not shoot him a message on facebook, as most mom's give as advice, "you never know until you try." So sent him a message:



The guy added me on facebook. But, no reply. Possibly if some others who have done artwork in the Nordecke sent him there stuff.

But, doesn't have to be this guy.

Instead I think it wouldn't be a bad idea for the Nordecke to search out local artists here in Columbus, Ohio and send them some artwork from European crowd displays, along with our attempts.

Could be a win-win. They see an outlet where they can display there artwork, we say will help them with manpower and half of costs as long as they make it about the city of Columbus or the Crew or both; or if it's a really cool piece of art, just tell them to make it mostly yellow and black (then we make a railing banner to go with it or something).

There are some artsy types and art galleries on High Street.

That could be an efficient way to make a crowd banner for once that covers the entire Nordecke. We have had good attempts in the past but just haven't had the money or time to make one that covers the whole section or half of the section. So, you put our time and money as supporters groups and combine it with the time and money of Craig Anthony Miller's collective or a similiar collective of artists in Columbus and we have a beautiful, ultra banner to start the 2012 season off with.