Ok folks, prepare for something totally different. A Wandering Mind stumbles on a quiet scoop at the forefront of urban trends reporting. Some newly emerging street style phenomena are documented and presented for your viewing pleasure. Check this out...
First of this lovely set of three is the metallic ivy, took me straight back to little school and home made Christmas decorations made proper with a unifying coat of the magical aerosol. At that time it was controlled by the responsible adult. Now it has been liberated and this is the result. It's way more sophistacted than tagging a tree, this is spray can art gone botanical, nature and mankind waging an unwinnable war, etc.
Next up is a bit of canalside graphic action. New bricks and mortar frame a stubby barge post (if that is what they are called?), dashed on it's fresh white top is a dual colour, criss-cross effect two second gesture. It seems to mean something. Blurs the boundary between official 'marking out' and unofficial 'pissing post'. It references a kind of funky burberry. Maybe. Have you seen one of these? Probably Not. New Trend, oh yes.
The winner by a nose, in this little trio of surprising mark making, is this example of graff on glass, how glamorous! Better still it's a car wash so it is enhanced by a modest light show and misty watery effects on a regular basis. Wonderful calligraphic quality, deceptive spatial game playing, exciting use of colour. But 'Moans', though? Is that a cool street name? Its like the influence of those 'grumpy old man' programmes on tv has filtered down to the hood.
Anyway, just remember you heard it here first, yeah? Plant paintin', post toppin' and car wash crashin' Oh yes.
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