Rap Mystck

Denture glue?

Walking home...

Someone was deeply influenced by early Keanu Reeves...

I really love this.

Naked Men

I found this new addition in Berkeley yesterday...

It reminds me of old Samurai illustrations;

Faithless

Rainbow Buffalo

This appeared on what used to be a Ritz Photo shop. It is somewhat reminiscent of Banksy (who I should write more about and will soon). Although the image is layered and politically interesting, I think that Banksy manages to capture essence of intent with less ambiguity. Banksy is a British street artist who I equate to the Beatles; all of their work is so simple and so perfect it leaves the world stunned that it's never been done before. This artist is taking on a lot in one graphic (the American Bison, the crippled military? the tie dye...) are they saying that the American military is defunct, or that the hippies are? It's intreguing... and at the very lowest explination "cool", but I'm not really sure of what's going on.

Hygenic Dog Food

I love this old relic of the past. The building stands all alone... and the name is so antiquated. Now we're overrun with slick advertising and clever business names that I don't think hygenicdogfood.com would ever work these days...

... but then perhaps that's why this building stands unoccupied today.

Signs of the Past

Once was a building with windows... before 1927... bricked over thereafter...

Once was a billboard of sorts, for a family business, for a plumber...

commerce before the great fall of '29,

before the fall of '08

and all the little stumbles between...

These bricks have seen marching in the streets...

possibly arrests, stolen kisses, drunk students...

Paint fades ever so slowly, overlapping itself,

waiting for the new

as the past bleaches in the sun.

Christianity on the Kauffman's Wall

"Let he who is without aim, throw the first stone"


This is a cute take on the Christian "fish" but I must put up a link here because I think that the origin of the ICTHUS is really cool if you don't know it...

Civic poetry

On Addison Street in Berkeley the sidewalk is covered with poems... usually too long to stand there and read, but sometimes I get the chance and find a few that are quite lovely...

Sidewalk Chalk

--found on a Berkeley sidewalk.

Berkeley drug culture on the Wall

yea... er happy 420 to all of you who care.

Free O-boy

I have no idea what to make of this cartoon... but it fascinates me.

Monster! Strikes agian...

Gordon Liddy

Sometimes these quotes on the Kaufman's wall are amazing little snaps reminding you what was going on...
That Watergate thing...  Gordon Liddy; he's that jerk on the radio right?  Oh yea, he was a jerk in the Whitehouse first...

Still despite how the country was going to hell in a handbasket, gotta focus on the positive (like a "good rumpin'" ).  Seems like something we can still relate to.

Swallowed...

Homage to the company store

I get the feeling that the Fabricland workers were less than enthralled with thier jobs... many of the marks left indicate;
futility

a general sense of "poopiness" (see the foreground of the company logo)

and ironic devotion...

The Kaufman's Wall

In downtown Berkeley, a small theater company set up its abode in what used to be Sheaf Bakery and Kaufman's Fabric warehouse. The workers left a long hallway of scrawl that the theater decided to keep. I've fallen in love with the wall and hope to document it all...

There Must Be Another Way

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