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I just received word from the man himself:
Hey omen-affectionados,So, do what you have to do. Click on this here link and fill in the form. Now, this is the tricky part...
Please be sure to vote oMEn as "best graffiti Crew" in the Mirror's best of Montreal. I know I'm not a crew but they don't know that...shhhhh...
They ask that you vote in at least 25 categories, so we can't all just go to vote for the Best Graffiti Crew then high five each other and go home.
I have very little knowledge of Montreal, so I wouldn't know how to vote. If I still have any readers from the Montreal scene, please feel free to leave suggestions in the comments. Not that I'm inviting anyone to tell anyone how to vote and thus bring North America's last great democracy crumbling to the ground...but still. ... wait...Montreal has a king, don't they?
This is a rather ham-fisted combination photo of a mural that must have been done a while back on Fuxing Rd on the other side of the train tracks.
This piece in Taipei's Ximending is unmistakably Omen even without the tag. I'm not sure about the blood, I think that may have been added later. I remember seeing the Curly tag in Taichung before, and DABS was all over the place in Ximending. Omen's work is understated and bold. He is a suitable counterpoint to the other guys in 4Crew whose work is usually pretty extravagant. Omen is grounded and damn near omnipresent.
Sorry, time constraints and computer woes kept me from finishing this group of pictures last week. The ingenious piece above is adjacent to a ... ummm... no idea what it's called so I'll label it a "Disco Park." Sue me if there' s a better word for it. This is where folks from the neighborhood go every morning to have ballroom dancing classes. It is truly an experience. When I went to take pictures of 4Crew Live in Concert (sort of) there was an older man there practicing with a younger student. "Student" " ? " And so forth and so on. I thought it would be a nice shot to include them in front of this piece. I smiled and pointed to my camera. He smiled back and did his best to keep out of my way. (Af) fair enough.
One side or the other or underneath the tracks. This is so groovy, how could it be wrong? Apologies to Omen for monkeying with the color on this one, but the shadows were not cooperative. 
These pieces are all in a pedestrian underpass (except for this one just above) about a kilometer north of the train station in Taichung. Thanks to KatieKalie for pointing them out to me a few weeks ago.
I'm not gettting out as much as I would like to to find new bombs. If anyone has seen any new work in the Taichung area, please let me know so I can get out to record it. Thanks, you're beautiful, I mean it.
