Brain Break: Graffiti Love
June 29, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I love graffiti. I know it’s rather late 80s-early 90s-ish (not to mention Fresh Prince of Bel Aire-ish), but I’m like a graffiti junkie.
Couple that with one of my favorite ways to give my brain a break – photography! – and you have this week’s Brain Break.
Last month, I went graffiti hunting. I found two abandoned buildings way on top of a nearby mountain. While it’s definitely not the best graffiti in the world (most of it was either foul or your everyday peace signs), some of it was interesting.
Jesus Saves (at Big Lots, that is).
Does this read “Live Like Blood”?
More after the jump (and caution: the graffiti artist used the “s” word, but it’s an interesting note…)
“I Have No One
But My Kids and My
Grand Kids I am
all a long [sic]
What a crock of s—
I Love you with all my
heart mind body and soul”
(I don’t know if the same person wrote this entire message, or if one person started it and another answered.)
For more (interesting) graffiti viewing pleasure, check out these sites:
- Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
- CTC Magazine: Graffiti Pictures
- Robots WillKill Graffiti Galleries
- Graffiti Sites
Hi Alicia!
This post of yours reminds me of a trip to San Fran I took in early 1990. The closer we got to Berkeley (sp?) College, the more far out the graffiti became. Just awe-inspiring artwork. Not so much graffiti as alternate masterpieces of weirdness.
I still have the pics but have yet to scan them. Really tripped out murals and stuff on the sidewalks (to include little Frankenstein heads every four feet for three bocks at one point.)
The city promoted it. But it was all beautiful stuff!
Ken
Scan and share with the class, Mr. Jensen! I’d love to see them. Every now and then, a train passes through that has some seriously talented work on it. I always wonder where it came from, who did it, etc. Unfortunately, I never seem to have my camera when they do, ha.