New APER at the Pit

APER has been busy, tagging Spring Garden Road, painting at the pit, even posing for a photo in today's Chronically Horrid (Suitably hidden behind a respirator).



The Pit - Currently

QE2 Hospital Goes for a Record

Some graffitis go up and are then covered over fairly quickly, while some stays up longer. Usually graff on businesses seem to be among the former, rather than the latter.

The Queen Elizabeth Health Sciences Center seems to be trying for a record with this throw-up on the Bethune Building, University Street wall, which seems to be over a year old. (I'm sure the work order is in the mail...)

Bus Shelter WallpAPERed

This bus shelter on Spring Garden Road has been treated to a multimedia redecoration by APER - spraypaint, paint marker, sticker and scratched.

Context - Part 1

Imagine you are walking down the street, in broad daylight, when a man pulls out a can of spray paint and begins to deface the sidewalk. No one says or does anything. More than a month later, the paint remains untouched for all to see, throughout the Downtown core/ Spring Garden Road area. And it's not like there has been any sign of sidewalk repairs either.





It certainly is ugly, and yet there are no shrill cries for it's removal, no concerns of dropping property values, no councilors spouting soundbites for reporters. Clearly, in this specific case, the medium is not the message, or to paraphrase George Orwell, All graffitis are equal, but some graffitis are more equal than others.

I'm just saying...

A Reading Challenge

One time I asked one of the ADICT guys what a particularly cryptic piece he was painting said. He replied (very Kung Fu master-like) "when you open your mind to it, you will know what it says"

Anyone's mind (or Chinese-English dictionary) open enough to read this one?

The Pit as of August 22/2007

Things change at the Pit very quickly, so trying to get a current set of photos shot and posted, before they are outdated has been tougher than I thought it would be this past week.

Here, as of August 22/2007 is what's up at the Pit (The Water and Morris Street Parking Lot)