Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Photo: One of These Things Ain't Like the Others

For your consideration: an ordinary wood board on an ordinary street in New Westminster, perhaps covering a broken door or window. Graffiti has been left on it, as graffiti tends to be. Given the experience of the last few years, I can understand why some would be attracted to brutally simplistic economic solutions and new political modes... and then there's the "Harry Potter Rules" at the bottom.

Kind of a departure from the previously-established theme.


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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Photo: Not Your Average Canvas

For better or worse, San Francisco is easily the single most graffitied city I've ever visited. Graffiti is practically everywhere there, it seems - on the buildings, on construction equipment, on the roofs of the buses, carved into the windows of the streetcars, and on the vehicles. This particular cube van, which I found parked on Fulton out by Golden Gate Park, was just the most striking example I came across.

I've gotta admit, it certainly is one way to make your average cube van a bit more distinct.

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Monday, October 19, 2009

PDP #118: Revolt in Leafs Nation

The way I see it, the Toronto Maple Leafs are the Chicago Cubs of hockey. Though they never take home the prize at the end - their last Stanley Cup victory was in 1967 - they still command fan loyalty and regularly play in arenas filled to the rafters. Or, at least, that's been the case for most of the last forty-two years. After a four-decade streak of mediocrity, it seems that Leafs fans are starting to get fed up with the team's status as perennial losers.

I found this graffiti on a Maple Leafs sidewalk ad yesterday at the corner of Queen West and Bathurst. The Habs are the Montreal Canadiens, the Leafs' traditional rivals and a team far more likely to win the Stanley Cup.

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