Thursday, August 27, 2009

graffiti


Yes, I encourage children to help me take pictures of weird things,, and while we were in Europe I took quite a few pictures of the graffiti which was pretty much everywhere in the old east. "Kill Maim Burn" is at a monument where we would do some urban rock climbing. It was on the hilltop in the neighborhood park right across the street, and what is written in the stone translates roughly to "the war dead implore peace"; so it has a different tone than, "kill maim burn". There were also some pretty talented stencil artists around town.



This was one of Kristi's favorites in Jena. better run nazi scum. It took me a while to see the anime eyes



No, Ben did not carve his name in a spanish cactus, but he did get a charge out of seeing his name. I think this counts as graffiti.

Czech for "We passed in a dream"



I still haven't done the research on this place, but there are a couple recent times in east German history when Ha Ha game over is appropriate and unser freude eure toter means:
Our joy your dead


Loved these guys


These two go good together


This was real vandalism, broken glass and all, that showed up one day on our bank.


1 comment:

  1. I miss walking down the creek and checking out the wall. Graffiti or not, there were some very talented artists and it added a lot of "colorfullness" to my days.

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