street art

The other day, the Sartorialist posted this photo from Berlin:

I love this photo: the sassy-sweet pose of the girl and the dotted outline with the tiny scissors in the lower corner. I also love the simplicity of the black and white. Even on the already tagged up wall, the girl dominates the space like she owns it. I think its cool how the rest of the graffiti is black with the exception of the bright blue letters and the remnants of the hot pink poster. Street art and graffiti has always been interesting to me. Though there are definite cases when graffiti is a pain in the ass and totally disrespectful (like when my third grade neighbor's house was tagged), there are also times when its obvious the maker went to a great length to create his/her piece. I can across a book once that was all about the LA graffiti of the early 90s. There was some AMAZING stuff in that book. Where ever I am, if I come across some that I find interesting, funny, meaningful or just plain cool, I'll photograph it. Below are some of my favorites.

There's something about the face on the left that draws me in. She looks almost sad.

Fort Funston, SF.

I loved Calvin and Hobbes as a kid.

Was really surprised to see Hobbes on a wall in Arles, France.

I found this one on the interwebs a while back.

Not only is it a really good motto, I love the dripping paint.

I'm thinking "town" was intentionally misspelled, but I thought it was funny nonetheless, especially since it was right at the start of one of the main streets that goes through China Town in NYC.