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Gimme Ur Loot! (Grafitti II)
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As I've said before (White Car Tailing White Bug (Grafitti I)), there is boring grafitti and there's cool grafitti. This example is an example of the latter.
This is no mass-produced paste-on, this is a unique work of art. Hand-drawn, this figure is ready to assault you from a defunct pizza parlour in Toronto's Parkdale area (see the notes to Modern Ruins on TrekLens).
This image is a tribute to one or two of my favourite villains, real or fictional, including:
Batman's the Riddler, played with such panache on the old television series by the late Frank Gorshin. Who can forget hearing the immortal words, always uttered with such glee, "Riddle me this Batman"?
From Star Trek, Khan Noonien Singh, a ubermensch you had to admire while you nonetheless waited for his inevitable downfall. He appeared in the original series episode "Space Seed" and in the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," and was played in a wonderfully over-the-top manner by Ricardo Montalban.
Finally, the alien of the Alien movie series. Designed by H.R. Giger, there had perhaps never been a more terrifying cinematic monster.
More grafitti to come. |
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Some interesting grafitti here. I am interested in the old NYC grafitti that used to cover every subway car back in the day..unfortunately I was a kid and didn't get to shoot any of that myself. I like your photo here. One suggestion might have been to crop the entire surrounding so you just see the door which would create a frame.
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