I pulled up in my 64' Impala...

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As many of you may or may not be aware, I am something of a homey gee. When I am not chilling with my peeps on various stoops in various countries, I can be found wandering the streets aimlessly, cassette boom box on shoulder, blasting the likes of Jazzy Jeff and the occasional track from Kool Herc and the Hercoids. Growing up on the mean streets of Regina taught me the importance of vandalism and grafitti, and though not much of an artist my self, I became a local afficionado of Saskatchewan's up and coming grafitti scene. From the aerosal cans of K-Pas, T-bone, and UK came inspired tag's belonging to the 'quantity over quality' school of street art. I was a convert, and remember being immensely impressed by the notion that these people were capable of reproducing their tags en mass. When I moved to Valencia, I became exposed to a world beyond the shabbily written queen city tags. Valencia has some of the best graffiti I've seen. And though the spanish don't seem to be big fans of my shoulder casette boom box, the richness of the street art culture can not be denied. I decided it important to expose you to a small sample of some of the fine work being produced in this town. Dennie and I spent a lazy afternoon searching the streets for cool grafitti. Heres a Sample,
Peace Out.

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Photos

one the strange creatures
who occupy space on random valencian streets

Down on the corner
the corner of my block looks like this

the side of a building
near our house

crazy eighties
grafitti

a wildly painted shop
in carmen

strange drug induced
dream grafitti

Comments

[Robyn]

Very cool! I did the same thing in Venice!! GTS!

[Al]

Word up, hommies.
Together Special K and the Double D, Cheezier than the Mac in the KD. Checking the tags on the streets of Spain, Wish I was there instead of covered in rain. But I'll keep kickin it old school. Miss ya in Regina like chump fools. Proper. Dj Nala. Peace out.

[randomValencian]

more grafiti
There is one wall I really like at the begining of calle Cádiz (or was it Sueca) very close to Gran Via.

[Amanda]

nice collection! I should do something of the same...

[Collette]

deadly! I didn't find much in Vancouver when I was there in November, but I think I needed to walk down more back alleys.... or ask the kids at Emily Carr where I should go. I wanted to, but I chickened out.

[blair]

I like the norval morrisseau one.