Thursday, May 7, 2009

Late-night Storll

last night I decided to go for a walk and it ended up being a crazy adventure in the shadows of suburban columbus... when i got home at 3am my shoes, socks, feet, and jeans were soaked and muddied. but it was a fun time lurking between buildings and subdivisions to find some good graf on the rails:

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Reasons why I love ABOVE

~5 pictures and their captions from ABOVE'S website, goabove.com ~


5:
Visualize yourself in ancient medieval war times.
The spray can is your sword and you opponent is the wall.
This tag is the trace of your swift, agile, and fierce power moves.


OSLO, NORWAY
2006






4:
RI >>>CHPOOR
(stealing from the rich and giving to the poor)

The good intention excuses the bad action
-PORTUGUESE PROVERB

LISBON, PORTUGAL
2008





3:
When I was 17 I would skateboard with my friend Larry.
He swore that I had Tourette's Syndrome because I used the 4-letter word a lot.
I didn't believe him then, but now I see what he was talking about.
"GENIUS IS 1% INSPIRATION, AND 99% PERSPIRATION."
-Thomas A. Edison
*WATCH THE VIDEO*
BARCELONA, SPAIN





2:
"HIT/MISS"
Warsaw Poland has an unfortunate history of being devastated by war.
In 1945 Warsaw was about 85% demolished by bombings.
HIT/MISS is a comment on the thousands of Bombshells that had been aimed at Warsaw.

WARSAW, POLAND
2006




... and #1, a series of photos exploring one particular project:
Writing on walls dates back to pre-historic cave men. Every race of humans have the innate tendency to write on walls. Even our very first learning experiences as children in school train and teach us to write on walls.

Can you blame us as we get older that we keep doing it?

LISBON, PORTUGAL
2008








"The skool of easy knocks"








"The skool of hard knocks"
Undeserved punishment is better than that which is deserved
-CLASSROOM PROVERB









"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression: in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
-Albert Einstein








"PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT"