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Hi,
My entry for IF, "Superstition" subject.
A graphical work inspired by fantastic Turkish cartoonist Turhan Selcuk.
Best,
BBrother got written up in the Taiwan Journal way back in May. And here it is November and I'm just getting around to seeing it and stuff. Still, this remains Taichung's best English-language graffiti blog written by someone born in New Jersey. photo by Chuang Kung-ju
There are a couple walls that I've seen in Taichung in the past two or three months that have been marvelously painted, and I do see new stuff popping up from time to time here and there. I'm running ragged 6 days a week, though, and in getting from point A to B I have no time budgeted to stop and capture what I see to share here. I have a week's holiday or two coming to me in January, I think. I'll see what I can scrape together then.
In the meantime, check out this green graffitti in Brooklyn. It's not going to grow on me anytime soon, but I'll bet it would do well here.
I have no idea what made me do it, but I channel surfed over to Taiwan's MTV this evening. Saw some guy with a green mohawk break dancing and felt like watching for a bit. My students like to try their moves at break time. I looked a bit closer and the studio graffiti in the background was done by Bobo and Same. There's video on the MTVchinese.com website where you can sorta see it in the background if you know what you're looking for. Hip Hop, Break Dancing, and Graffiti all represented in one neat little package. Don't make me wanna go hippity hop, but there you have it.
The same fine folks that bring you Oldies Franks, have a noodle shop within spitting distance called Noodle Noodle. And between the two is this parking lot. Saven/Same hooked up with the guys from The Seventh Letter when they were in Taipei a while back and is now spreading their name and notoriety too.
Near that B&Q on Beitun Rd there's an abandoned newspaper factory. Apparently, there's a lot of graff inside as well. I hope to get back if it ever stops raining.
Saw Fast at breakfast one morning and he drew me a map to this great old public housing project which was built to house military families. The whole place is tucked into an area the size of a football field and consists of 12-15 buildings, I think. They were abandoned a little over a year ago and left quite a mess behind. Thank god for the graffiti guys to come in and spruce the place up a bit.
These are all from a neighborhood near Beitun, almost as far as Chungde, I think. I'll try to map out the site. Might not be much use, as I was crawling over the fence which surrounds this place, a neighborhood busybody informed me that they were going to be tearing the buildings down within a few weeks.
