Yep, that’s a car covered in gallopping, laughing, blue horses.
I love how the car says “Easy does it” and “keep it simple,” offering some advice the artist chose not to take.
So this is fun. The first picture is a close-up of one of the political murals on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, where someone put a sticker up that makes the girl look like she is wearing glasses. Then the next day I saw another one in the Mission, in Clarion Alley. Another full-sized mural with sticker-glasses stuck on the dog in the corner. In graffiti art, the work itself often is the signature but what is fun is that the artist here seems to require someone else’s art to give it context. Instead of just sticking them everywhere, they are deliberately adding the glasses to the art already there.
You could go make some stickers like that, and carry them everywhere. But yours should be something else: A ring? A weapon? a pepper spray cop? What would you add to the murals and signs and billboards in your city?
Holy crap that’s a fly ride. Spotted on BART…don’t suppose this could qualify for Lowrider of the Month.
Have you seen these ads yet at the train station? I saw this one in Oakland, maybe it was the 12thst BART station. The pretty paintings are sandwiched between the ads for dating sites and the diet pills targeting men with AID’s. The ads in the station are big enough to read from the seat on the train.
They always show someone riding the train and reading a book written by someone from the Bay Area. They’re subtle and beautifully executed, more of a print of a painting than an advertisement. The world of the book takes over the train, as in this one where the dogs from The Call of the Wild run by the man reading Oakland-native Jack London. There are (at least two) others, one for Amy Tan and one from Dashiell Hammett.
Did you ever notice that the streets of Chinatown are covered in these pretty flower designs? Who says Oakland isn’t beautiful? Answer: people who don’t live in Oakland.
Guarding an estate in Oakland’s Chinatown. I love these Chinese guard dogs and see them all over town. Does anyone know what they’re called?
Protesters cling to the back of a van that blares music for the the Occupy protesters. See, protests are fun!
