more modern writing...

Dude... you sign your name and the year... someone's gonna be mad... at least it sticks with the theme.

the Fly on the wall

lyrics from U2's "The Fly"

Melbourne is a haven for street art...

...cool. no?

abducted web image...

I'm stealing this because it's so cool;

I think it's a painting... but I'm not sure

Image credited to Joe Baran

Dolls are scary...

Funny thing is I never noticed this one until Halloween day this year...

Where should you be?

Where some of us should be... others say we shouldn't

Questions of the Day

What is our mayoral hopeful trying to proove?

(photo credit; Troy Holden via SFist.com)

Since when is grafitti good publicity?

Is spray paint the new baby-kissing?

Does Gavin here think this gives him "street cred"?


--Ugh! Vote Jerry Brown instead.

Politics like the Kennedy's

"No one should be allowed to talk politics except on all fours. Hey now baby, get into my black car, I wanna just show you what my politics are..."

Have I posted this before...?

Executive Privelages

This mark is currently covered by a strategically placed cork board since it's in a slightly more public venue, and not "historic" as some... I like it anyway.

Do What thou Wilt...

Learning to count...

San Francisco helps education with civic art... tee hee

Insanity...

To boldly go...

I love this tiny Enterprise. It's only an inch tall. The vast space that concrete provides is oddly perfect.

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...

Arte Guerilla por el districto Mission

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...

I'm seeing spots...

Street art in the Mission District;

Paper and Brick

Street art in San Francisco's Mission district;

Wealth Inflation

a joke...

Jack & Life

This is stoner logic at it's peak... something that sounds profound until you think about it...
so Jack and the beanstalk...
Life is the thing that comes from the folley created from you screwing up and selling the cow for crap?

Or is life that thing that you climb in order to steal from people who have more than you?

Or is life that thing we cut down so that we can get away with stealing all that crap and kill those who try to reclaim it.

yea... life Is like a beanstalk afterall...

The 5th Beatle

The real "5th Beatle" was Stuart Sutcliff... I assume this is a loving homage to a lost friend.

Teeth Graffiti

These toothy faces are all over my town... I'm not sure who is responsable, it's reminiscent of Shepherd Fairey... but I'm not sure. More research is required... they are fascinating though.

Spiritual Experience

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are Spiritual beings having a human expirence."

Marx on the Wall...

... and from the greatest hits of Karl Marx;

a faded "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

... yea and everyone knows the first two sentences of Hamlet's 'to be or not to be' monologue, doesn't mean you know anything else about it... we are non-plussed but still feel the need to document the wall as best we can.

Peunguin on the Tele

Wha?...

Sidewalk Chalk

--found on a Berkeley sidewalk.

Tattoos

Walking down the street in San Francisco the other day I noticed a sad hobbling man.  His ankles were swollen, his feet were too deformed to have real shoes so he wore rubber swim booties instead.  As he ever so slowly crossed the street I took note of his tattoos and thought about how they were probably markers of a better time.  His shabby clothes and mussed appearance made him look truly down on his luck.  Just as I let out a small sigh of pity I noticed a flash of blue and red on his calf... it's Shephard Fairey!  Rather, it's Shepherd Fairey's famous Obama poster, on this guy's calf.

So this fellow within this past year paid a couple hundred dollars for a three color tattoo.

Money that could have been spent on medicine, healthy food or orthopedic shoes was spent on a tattoo. 

I'm still not sure what to think about it.   Appearances are deceptive, perhaps my impressions of how badly this fellow is doing were wrong.  Perhaps his priorities are as twisted as I imagine.  Perhaps he has a tattoo artist friend who did it for free... all possibilities make my head spin a bit.

Grateful Dead?

Truckin' on the Kaufman wall...

this one is right next to my door, and I'd never seen it before today... humm.

Life is...

...a little optimism for you today.

The moon in the Pond

I asked my facebook friends for clues about what this might mean... I got the answers of Narsisis, Aesop's Fables, a tale called "The duck and the Moon" and a tale by Chinese poet Li Bai... what do you think?

Question the Moody Blues

Berkeley drug culture on the Wall

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

Rock n' Roll isn't Dead...

...It just smells Funny.

I have no idea what the Censored box is alluding to.  I looked up California code 473 and it said this;

473. Corporations may consolidate. Publication of
notice. Copy to be filed. Any railroad corporation incor-
porated under the laws of this state may consolidate with
one or more railroad corporations incorporated under th

laws of this state, or under the laws of any other state
or territory of the United States, its capital stock, prop-
erties, roads, equipments. adjuncts, franchises, claims
demands, contracts, agreements, obligations, debts, lia:
bilities and assets of every kind and description, upon...

Perhaps it was something different in 1971?

Way before Obama...

A man without...

Building on Building

In the Castro district is a fantasy world that has surfaced on the side of this old San Francisco Building...

It is a city of chaos, inhabited by buildings of all sizes and animations... of elephants,

and birds...

... someday it may break free of this wall and reach out into the sky...

Free O-boy

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

Monster! Strikes agian...

R.D. Laing

Words of Scottish "anti-psychiatrist" R.D Laing appear along with so many song lyrics, at first I thought he might be a musician... it's amazing with how much the Scots seem to chop up language that they're so good with words.