Friday, February 24, 2012

My entry for graffiti








Dear Em Ci, fellow PNEH and friends,

I went in search of Greg Brown's murals to shoot this afternoon.
GB is a local artist known for his whimsical trompe l'oeil scattered
all over Palo Alto.  It was like a treasure hunt :-) There are more than 
a dozen and I found 3 so far, so here you are:

1. Boys gone fishing (on the side of the Post Office wall)
2. Alien on a spaceship (on the side of CoAmerica bank)
3. Alien in a garbage man's can (at the corner of a street)

I think I'll wait for HLan to go find the rest :-)

I don't know if the last one qualifies as graffiti, it's a drawing of
the future area being reconstructed...

I had fun shooting them and I hope that they will bring you 
a bit of the local flavor of my neck of the woods :-)

Have a great weekend,
BT

5 comments:

  1. Dear BiTi,
    Thank you for making the trip in search for those awesome grafitti/trompe l'oeil to share with us. My most favorite is the first one; it looked so real that it took me a whole minute to realize that the window was also part of the trompe l'oeil.
    MC

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  2. Thank you Em Ci Twin. I found out from google the 'official'
    names of the murals as: Boy with Fishing Pole Stuck on Window Grate and Alien Saucer Crash
    It's interesting too to see other people's photos of them. I think
    the shade of the trees in mine added a bit more confusion.

    XOs
    BT

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  3. TRAM OI , III ' M COOOMIIING ! WAIT FOR ME ! I ' M NOT SO FAR FROM YOU ! YOUR GRAFFITI ' ENTRIES ARE SO INTERESTING , I LOVE THE FIRST ONE TOO BIZ HL

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  4. Thank you Lan, ok I'll wait for you but hurry up and don't you bring
    any snow or rain :-P

    Biz
    BT

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  5. BiTi,
    The first one is also my favorite!
    M-U

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