3 little birds on my Cape Town doorstep

Three little birds                          ...

on my doorstep

...                       singing sweet songs

all lit up in green neon

except for the one      ...    the one that got away

and flew

flew away

somewhere else 

down there

in Cape Cape Town

it was a one way four way way day

but don't worry

that there little bird

has

   still

       got

a           mes    sage

for you

                and you

Yo Heads Up this is Cape Town

Yo

Welcome to Cape Town South Africa

Mad Yo

There by city centre M3 to Gardens centre

City bowl YO

Heads up

SOLO ONE

2010 Cape Town Mzansi Wam' 

Heading outta the city M3

Hola!

Don't pay the securities

they not always there

they just want your money

and to keep you in fear...

here:

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Flow bro bordeaux logo

so there you go

no logo bomb

in bordeaux

the flow bro's

just round the corner from this:

hoarding heading 

out of the inner to the docks

there where them flow bro go

les freres coulures

dropping right there round the corner

tags and their tile them some such thing 

Down there in Bordeaux there is a social funded semi autonomous zone skatepark doo dah doo dah

there in front of 'em, laid out at the 
confluence

of key brands, quai des marques, getting krusty and shit...

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Ahwe in bordeaux a social space

quasi-autonomous as longas you want to (can do?) ride all four parts of it...

skatepark bordeaux

for free because 

there in the gentrifycaterers

laid down is a whole part of

social city allow

in there near where is the final heroes

of city planning

allowed

these no-comply's deserve their whole own mad thing so 'nuff said . . . 

apart from

dah . dah . dah . dah . doo dah , doo dah

...extra skateparc/k BD, coming up

selection by MrQ 

Stickers for life : Street art for good

Sweet! Life is good when you see these kinds of sticker paste it up, art on the go, for those in the know.

This little gem I found in an alley way just off of Rue Saint Ferreol in Marseilles.

Just round the corner is a corpo extravaganza street, with nary even a tag in sight, bleached walls with only corporate art allowed, everything else scrubbed clean and pristine by the people paid by the powers that be.

Then in the side streets and alley ways the city comes alive again with all sorts of cool stuff rearing it's collective head.

In the funkier alley ways and lanes behind and off the its a drag shopping drag there are even some shops that have adapted street art into themselves, perhaps as a much needed antithesis to all the corpo crap in the sanitised and official part of the the city.

The side streets also have much more interesting shops, although their prices reflect the posh rents they pay.

This is a pic of a shop which uses spray art for its logo. (Just say no kids)

Masked Man of Marseilles : Graffiti France Street Art

I found this beauty just off Avenue Jean Lombard in Marseilles, France.

It's such a killer bit of street art showing what can be done with graffiti that I decided to use it for my title page also!

The piece is fairly old already, it's dated '05, and there were a few other great graphs around the corner from it, but the powers that be, have obviously got a bit wise since then 'cos there is a big slobbering doberman protecting the site now!

Marseilles has got a wide range of styles of graffiti, most of it visual pollution tagging (omer you know who you are ;) but there are some really vibrant marks that take graffiti into art and make the cityscape a better place to see.

Seeing as how this blog starts off in Marseilles, France, here is a little bit of homage to the local football team Olympique Marseilles.

Alles L'OM or Go Olympique Marseilles.

The day that I shot this photo they kicked their big rivals Paris in the derby so plenty fun that night in Marseilles!