This graf-covered building on MLK is frequently changing. Got a few pics of this new mural, because I’ve been looking for a DJ-themed piece to use as the background for my hip-hop radio stream.
Shittypanties, huh? You can choose any name in the world, and you go with “Shitty panties”? Well OK then. We’ll call you Shitty Panties.
“End racist violence” mural in process on MLK Drive in Oakland. This is on the side of a commune in Pill Hill (between Macarthur and 40th). They have a big garden and a whole room full of free stuff.
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?
Lots of great Bay Area photos over at http://drmakwa.tumblr.com.
Battery Mendell, Fort Barry. Marin Headlands.
