Graffiti

Someone is trying to tell you something

In Berlin, Communication, Graffiti, Language, Screens on 21 November 2007 with 1 comment

Someone is trying to tell you something: written on the city.
Language in Common posts snippets of conversation found on urban screens. Is most graffiti in English? I remember riding around Berlin and seeing a disproportionate amount of graffiti written in English. Maybe English looks better scrawled across a brick wall and German looks better in [...]

The Unconscious Art Of Demolition

In Architecture, Art, Graffiti, Photography on 9 November 2007 with no comments

Introducing: The Unconscious Art of Demolition Flickr group. The discussion page appropriately quotes Paul Auster’s City of Glass:
“Every once in a while, he would suddenly feel what it had been like to hold the three-year-old boy in his arms - but that was not exactly thinking, nor was it even remembering. It was a physical [...]