Graffiti

Snapped this quick picture at the same location as this one, a warehouse complex near Venables and Clark. The graffiti is so over-the-top it almost looks like a movie set - but it isn't one.

Post title from this song by Digable Planets.

Olympics

Stumbled across this stenciled bit of protest graffiti about six months after the 2010 Olympics had come and gone. It was on a curb outside a warehouse where I was picking up my share of a local wheat harvest. (44 lbs of flour!) The website is no longer operating, but in one way they got their wish. It's not 2010 anymore.

Post title from this song by Ben LB.

Meat

About two blocks away from where I grabbed this photo, there was more graffiti on the same bike route. This one slightly more sinister in nature than the whimsical tone of the first one. Here the bicycle rider has a chicken on a leash, and the words "Slave Meat".

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

Post title from this song by Robyn Hitchcock.

Corrupt

Woke up a few mornings ago to find this graffiti in my quiet residential neighbourhood on a few of the streets. It says "BC CSIS corrupt". I have no idea why it's been written in bright orange paint in the middle of the street. CSIS stands for Canadian Security Intelligence Service - basically our national spy agency. About two months ago there was quite a stir about the Canadian government being infiltrated by spies, but whether this graffiti is connected to that, and why it would only appear in the last week is a mystery to me.

Post title from this song by Depeche Mode.

Vandal

When I took this photo this morning on Cordova Street near Abbott (across the street from this photo), I had no idea what Vandal Team Supreme was, I just thought the sticker looked odd and interesting next to the fire department connection on the side of a building. Google tells me it's a group of graffiti artists. There is a tag on one of the connections - maybe it has to do with that.

I just thought it looked kind of cool.

Post title from this song by YUNYU.

Send Your Love

Today while bicycling through Strathcona again on my way to meet some friends for coffee in East Vancouver, I passed this bit of graffiti/poster stuck to the side of the on-ramp to the Georgia Street Viaduct, adjacent to the Adanac bicycle route. I have no idea who put it up or why, but it got my attention and made me stop to fish out my camera from my bag. It wasn't until I pointed my lens at the wall that I really noticed the "ghost" of an old vine that must at some point have been torn down by city maintenance crews.

Post title from this song by Sting.