Good Use For Old Graffiti Stickers?

Michael Anderson is a collector of graffiti stickers - the ones that you can pass on the street almost anywhere in NYC. What he did, however, is rather unusual. He would carefully peel them off and save them. Started in the early 1990's, Anderson has what he terms as the largest collection of graffiti stickers ever. Who can argue when he has over 40,000 of them?But then, what do you do with all these salvaged stickers? Enter the Ace Hotel on Broadway and 29th Street. They had a commission for a mural so Anderson tooll 4,000 of his stickers and transferred the designs onto silk paper to make a patchwork quilt of sorts for the walls of the hotel. The effect is fantastic.