I love graffiti!

Graffiti is the chameleon skin of the urban landscape. Equal parts public art and vandalism, virtuosity and subversion, it is among the most ephemeral forms of human expression. Graffiti walls are repainted frequently, as different writers compete and collaborate on the public canvas. A given piece may last years, weeks, or mere hours. For graffiti writers, this is expected and in fact fundamental to their process, which they perceive as an ongoing dialogue. However, most city dwellers experience this constant change only at a subconscious level.

Graffiti Archaeology (grafarc.org) captures this process of constant change and makes it visible. Grafarc.org is an interactive, timelapse collage of photographs of certain walls, taken over a span of months or years. The photos are precisely superimposed, so that by moving through the layers, you experience a compressed version of time passing, as old tags are submerged beneath new ones. You can see how one writer’s style changes over the years, or explore the dialogue between writers as they paint over each other’s work. The project also functions as a living archive, since most of the pieces on the site no longer exist in the real world.

Of course we can’t miss Graffiti.org.

Here are again some graffiti samples for you.

The following pages showcase GRAFFITI & other Street Art : good ones, cheap ones, Stencils, Walls, Scribbles, Scrawls, Cut-outs, Stickers, 3D Objects …+ Graf Links.. (All Photos from the streets of Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Barcelona / 1988 - 2005).
To be continued….

Very nice graffiti…

Some real nice and interesting graffiti from London, Baghdad and Palestine.