Animafitti?

Check out this for an amazing work of imagination - stop motion animated graffiti - made in Buenos Aires and Baden.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Meanwhile, at a secret location near a large urban centre, in an undisclosed country...

ADICT has been busy.



Smurfs rule!!!

The Pit May 11, 2008

Nothing new at the pit this weekend (too cold, windy rainy, +/- police presence for IHAA traffic control). Since my last post, a new piece by ENDER and ?CEAS has gone up (and HIERO added some red highlights to his gold piece)

Underpass Pillars

The pillars under the Chain Lake Overpass offer some space to put up graffiti undisturbed, perhaps allowing newer writers to try out bigger fills and start towards larger pieces.

SAOS and BEAM both seem to have been taking advantage of this location recently, which has had a fair amount of turnover since I was last out there.

Wheatpasting

Wheatpasting is an art form related to graffiti, that derives from posters put up in public places with wallpaper paste - ie: flour and water, ie: "Wheatpaste"

The subject matter is often more artistic, or shaped, compared to the old flybills that were(are) put up for advertisement. Recently wheatpasting has been growing in popularity, and has been cropping up more frequently around town.

ACEs Low

I saw the tag above on a daily basis for weeks, without any desire for a picture of it. When I asked myself why - the obvious reason was that it has to be the single ugliest tag I've seen, not to mention that it is on a private residence, which crosses a line.

But then I wondered why the owner hadn't painted it over. The house was repainted a year or two ago. Surely there is some leftover blue down the basement. Maybe the owner knows what a lousy piece of work this is, and figures that the tagger should continue to see it and hang his head in shame as penance. Or maybe the owner just can't be arsed...

EHYO on the Right, HIERO in on the left...

The blank spot at the pit was filled in with a second HIERO piece, and at the far right - 3 new pieces from VA went up Sunday afternoon when the sun finally came out.

Under Construction at the Pit

ADICT's North wall has been painted over - with a promise of things to come. ZEAL neatly salvaged his defaced piece by re-working it. Today VA was busy at the south end, but it was too dark for any shots - maybe tomorrow.

You Tubed

I was looking at some video of graffiti in Halifax on YouTube, and much to my surprise, found my shots set to music, by c16green - check them out


ADICT


SAME


APER


ENDER

Oakland Road Railbridge

Here's what under the bridge as of April 2008.

These are a few of my favorite things...

Here are some of my favorite photos taken during the time I have been shooting graffiti around Halifax.

WSC/ACV

WSC is a crew tag "Weed Smoking Children" that was associated with 3 tags - SAOS, DEAR and PRIME. Recently WSC seems to have morphed into ACV "All City Vandals" - SAOS and DEAR again, with FAET rather than PRIME.

A walk down Quinpool the other day shows just as Blue is the new Black for 2008, SAOS is trying hard to be the new SAME.


PRIME


DEAR


SAOS


FAET

Eine, zwei, drei, vier... SYS

EINE/SYS is a tag that I first noticed after seeing SYS sprayed in the Old Infirmary parking lot, replacing the FYPT that had been there for agse until the wall was repainted. I had been seeing EINE/SYS around, mostly in marker/paint marker, then this week EINE has been popping up as a blue stencil almost daily in the South End.

Dartmouth Cove - April 2008

Dartmouth Cove is an excellent spot to easily see some great graffiti, especially the "Spirited Away" wall, which at present is the best themed wall up in town. Easy access, and always plenty of parking!

GHOST

GHOST is an older graffiti around Halifax, usually seen as a large painted ghost, but occasionally as a smaller cut-out ghost sticker. The stickers are interesting, both for their simple and effective design, as well as for the fact that two of them have the 'Cradle' logo associated with Town Pride. Are 'GHOST' and Cradle the same, or does it show a connection between GHOST and Town Pride? Who knows, but here's a selection of Ghosts from around Halifax.

Repairations at the Pit

Usually when a piece is defaced or damaged, it is replaced quickly, but clearly sometimes repair is an option (if someone's fast enough)

March 19, 2008

April 9, 2008

April 12, 2008

To see the rest of the graffiti at the pit click here .

Under Tower and Young Bridges

I hadn't been down to the end of the tracks for a while - about a year. This end of the line seems fairly static - maybe it's watched more closely given the presence of trains, or maybe it's just not safe to spend the time needed to put up a proper piece.

Here's what's up under the bridges...


Young Ave


Tower Road

Smog Rolls In

Among new tags around Halifax this spring, there was one that I thought of as 5-Nov, and one (a drawing of smokestacks) that I thought of as Smokestacks. I had not made any association between the two, until a found both on a piece of rail in a bright yellow paint marker. The final piece of the puzzle was one of the Town Pride stickers which had both tags, and 'SMOG' written on it.

Looking at the pictures I had taken over the past few months, the story I came up with was "SMOG', a member of Town Pride, starting out with tagging SMOG, then the modified SMOG (5MOG then 5MoooG) and finally SMOG(smokestacks). A perfectly sensible evolutionary theory from my perspective - except it's likely wrong. Looking back at older photos I find a 5MOG at Dalplex in October 2006, and a big Smokestacks at the Pit in April 2007, long before the first simple SMOG's in March 2008.


Evolving SMOG

Nonetheless - SMOG is an interesting tag - the '5MoooG' tag is one of the wittiest I've seen, and Town Pride seems to be an interesting bunch - more graphic - like AOD(Army of Darkness) at this point, rather than tags/fills. More on Town Pride later...

Mumford Mall Wall

The back wall of the Mumford Road mall is a little harder to get to, but now is a good time as it is heavily treed, making it hard to photograph in the summer. Here it is as of early April.

2007 Awards - My Favorite StreetArt Graffiti

There has been lots of good stuff around, but the best I've seen was this older piece by THESIS - truly spectacular.