19th Aug 2008
Poetry or Vandalism? For the Love of Graffiti
There’s a family story about my cousins’ first visit to New York. After having taken a few subway rides, the kids were ushered into a brand new subway car, clean and gleaming in its stainless steel perfection. One cousin spoke up: “How come this one doesn’t have pictures?”
You do get used to the sight of graffiti on New York City subways. These days the cars are all graffiti-repellant, but there is still opportunity, and in New York, there is no such thing as an opportunity not taken.
At Written on the City, people post photos of interesting graffiti by the city in which it’s drawn:
And at Pictures of Walls, there are both wordy walls, such as these, and artsy walls:
There’s a family story about my cousins’ first visit to New York. After having taken a few subway rides, the kids were ushered into a brand new subway car, clean and gleaming in its stainless steel perfection. One cousin spoke up: “How come this one doesn’t have pictures?”
You do get used to the sight of graffiti on New York City subways. These days the cars are all graffiti-repellant, but there is still opportunity, and in New York, there is no such thing as an opportunity not taken.
At Written on the City, people post photos of interesting graffiti by the city in which it’s drawn:
And at Pictures of Walls, there are both wordy walls, such as these, and artsy walls:
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