Another Walk Downtown

This all started with a walk with my camera downtown, while waiting for one of my kids. A little over a year later, waiting again, I walked around the downtown and took these shots - check out the great (Commissioned) THESIS piece from Barrington Street near CDPlus.

Spirited Away in Dartmouth Cove

A great new wall is going up in Dartmouth Cove - all themed from Hayao Miyazaki's amazing film - "Spirited Away".

Here is a preview of what's going up - make sure that you check Yubaba, Sen, No Face, Boh et al out in person if you have the chance - it's well worth seeing from the graffiti point of view alone, and if you haven't been to Dartmouth Cove for a while, it's worth going down there to see how industrial/public space are interacting there.

I've now uploaded some more shots of the final products.

SPACEd Out

SPACE(ADICT) has a great Halloween themed piece up at the Pit currently. Whether it's a celebration of Canada(Cannibis) Day, or an Easter coloured tyrptich, SPACE sometimes rises to calendar themes, with memorable results.

Here are some SPACE pieces from various locations over the past year.

RIP BC Silver

Sadly BC Silver School is in the process of being torn down. It was a great place to see good stuff, which turned over pretty regularly, but at the same time, lacked some of the 'hate' that seems to crop up more often at the Pit.

Below is the sum total of the shots I've taken there over the past year or so - 81 at BC Silver, 5,097 shots overall, 1,748 of them up here, but who's counting ;)

Dartmouth Cove

HRM recently was looking for some people interested in painting a wall (with the city's OK)in Dartmouth Cove. I don't know if anyone submitted any graffiti designs, but none were chosen for the final cut (having to submit a sketch, along with name rank and serial number, as well as a phone number, may have deterred some writers)

The chosen paintings are of the bar mural/maritime theme variety (though I did like the train and the boat/cello). They cover about half the wall, which had been a busy site for graffiti in the past. Half the wall remains uncovered. After one week, none of the paintings had been touched, although there were some comments on the wall.

The area is picking up - with a walking/cycling path, and more foot traffic. It's too bad that this didn't become another 'legal wall' where people could be exposed to some good pieces, if they were open to seeing them...

A New Thesis on Streetart

I had blogged previously about Thesis - a graffiti artist who has an incredible and distinctive style. I was driving past the Commons Skatepark and noticed a new piece - and sure enough - it was a Thesis piece.



I had a similar experience while going through an art gallery earlier this summer. A painting caught my eye - and I said "This is by Thesis" "No", I was told, it was by a particular artist.

His stuff is spectacular - both the art and the graffiti - show check it out! You can argue all you want about whether or not graffiti is art - but not in this case - it is! Maybe there are others in town who can turn a pastime into a career ($750 a piece!!!)

Has anyone else seen any Thesis around Halifax? (or the HRM to be politically correct)