Graffiti and street art...

[fajrdrako]

I've been enjoying looking at pictures of some British street art by Banksy:



I found this and more at this site, with information about the English graffiti culture. And then I segued on to read about Blek le Rat.

Now, I've always thought Ottawa had some pretty spectacular graffiti artists. (And it does.) There's a few intersting pictures in a blog here by Robin Kelsey, and I think I need to go out with my camera and take some downtown graffiti pictures before it's too cold - because looking at these sites, I realize how ephemeral graffiti art is. The graffiti of 2008 is not the graffiti of 2209.

Then there's a whole other topic of art on walls or in public spaces that isn't graffiti, but put up by the owner of the place - there's some really nice stuff in Westboro and this bench outside the Second Cup coffee shop is only a couple of blocks from my place, where we have more coffee shops in a half-mile radius than many independent countries do, I'm sure.



Some graffiti is ugly stuff but I love seeing random acts of art.