Love is the bulldozer

i studied bell hooks for my Masters degree.

a cupcake IS NEVER just a cupcake, freud.

“I am carrying all my hatred and contempt for power. its laws, its authority, its society. and i have no room for guilt or fear of punishment.” -diego rios

freedom to move, right to stay, right to return = perfect immigration laws.

amen, sister.

if only that were true.

anarchist posters erected all along dundas west.

a large part of me thinks the main reason i’m such a graffiti and street art nut is because i am not-so-deep-down an anarchist at heart. SMASH THE SYSTEM.

Sealed with a kiss

Where is my mind?

Occupy Existence

Found another one of these Occupy Economics. The more i see it, the more i think the person is referring to a class he’s forced to take in high school, rather than our actual federal economy.

i love back alleys.

Where does my heart belong

Might As Well

“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away – yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth’s orbit ————————— and wanted to shoot myself.”
— Soren Kierkegaard (Journal Entry for March, 1836)

Hands Without Eyes

so i’m walking along bellvue near college street, across from the firehall, and i saw this out of the corner of my eye. i almost walked right by it! time for further inspection.

cool! a stencil of hands! at first i thought it might be sign language, but upon further inspection …

IT’S SHADOW PUPPETS! that’s a wolf or a fox or a jackal or something. wicked cool.

 
then a little bit west on college in an alley, more fun with hands! there was this massive piece – it’s an old-timey hand icon thingy that they used to put on elixir labels in pharmacies and advertisements in newspapers …. i’m drawing on memory here, considering i’m sickly-old.

this old hag likes this.

March of the Penguins

back in the autumn, i found and photographed a stencil of mother-and-child penguins. this is actually a recreation of the dvd cover for March of the Penguins.

i found another instance of it! yay!

i really like this piece because not only is it emotive and delicately done, but it’s rare to find street art that reminds you how AWESOME and lovely animals are.

aw, pookie-bums! so snuggley!

found in an alley near dundas west and denison.

fedora upside down

if you’ve been paying attention around town, you’d have noticed that the Fedora Upside Down sticker is on every single lamp post, phone booth, street sign, and traffic light. i never photographed it because my familiarity with it bred a disinterest. also, i wasn’t really sure if i liked it or not. the sticker is literally just the hat and the saying. but i found this full-bodied wheatpaste near dundas west and denison and now i have an affection for it.

sorry for the bad angle, there was a pickup truck parked right in front of it that i had to lean against to get a somewhat good shot and lighting. STUPID HORSELESS CARRIAGES.

Creature Entity continued

i found this huge heart painted on the side of a house near dundas west and bathurst. looks like the green break was added by someone else afterwards. i was about to jog on when i looked down and found a stencil underneath this massive heart.

it’s very small and, as you can see, very badly damaged. which makes me think that it’s probably been there for a few years. yay long-lasting street art!

too bad i can’t exactly make out what the image is depicting. are those balloons the dude-with-wings is trying to pull down? or are they other people? is that a tree?

WHAT IS GOING ON?

looking at the style of piece, i think the artist is probably the same person behind this mural on queen street west that i photographed last year.

next to it was this stencil, also badly damaged, but i think that says TOWANAH, which is how someone might pronounce TORONTO if they had a speech impediment.

that looks like a tomato and a railroad track.

errr…

WHAT IS GOING ON???!!!!