
Hello happy owls from ryan darragh's flickr site. Love you truly! Especially the delightful contrast between the flat spray paint on plaster wall and the sassy shine of the metallic. Happiness abounds!
I love these photographs from tal bright. I love the color, the randomness, the unintended collage. These images just make my heart sing!
I'm a pretty big sucker for graffiti. Yesterday I stumbled on this graffiti focused flickr site by ceethree that absolutely blew my mind. Not only does it focus on the type of graffiti I love best, but it does so with an amazing eye and disipline. These photos are an exercise in the beauty of consistent framing and skillful cropping. Each image is spectacular in it's own right but I'm sorry, the collective grouping of them literally brings tears to my eyes. This stuff is worthy of a book, an exhibit, something. It's just plain incredible as far as I'm concerned!
I'm loving this graffiti shot from jazi TZP geneva's photo set from the 2007 kosmopolite graffiti festival. I love the color and pattern and exuberance of the piece. I only wish I knew who actually painted it because it's so wonderful and they deseve the credit!
This is just a hand painted sign but it looks like a painting or collage to me. Lovely!
Found on little pretty's flickr site.
I'm sorry but I don't speak french so I'm not sure how this artwork by roxana zegan was actually done. My guess is that the surfaces revealed between the cracks in the road were painted, but as I said, I'm guessing. Regardless, how fabulous is this? LOVE!
What a wonderful piece of street art by Yarok82 of the alco-zomb from Belarus, via the blog wooster collective.
This is a lovely set of images called danby frieghters that I recently found on flickr. I love the soft, worn colors of age, the graphic symbols and type from a working past as well as the overlay of billowy, present day graffiti. It's like time is erasing one use and culture is finding another. Very nice!
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