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.

Bayer's Road Railbridge

Another nice day in Halifax, so at lunch I dropped by Bayer's Road, Belmont and Oakland Road, not having been down there since the winter started.

Mumford Rail Bridge

The Mumford Bridge is the easiest to get to, accessible without any climbing. Here is what's there as of early April.