Best of April 2008

Cabeza

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Wet Sex Street

author: Peter : New York, NY Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The Murals of Leslieville

author: Elicar : Toronto, ON Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Ben's Deli

author: EvilGentleman : Montreal, QC Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Walking Home

author: Elicar : Toronto, ON Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Help Wanted (Only Girl)

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I'm Going to Miss This Place...

author: Picturian : New York, NY Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Jack Is Nimble, Jack Is Quick.

author: Elicar : Toronto, ON Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Fuck Police!

author: Elicar : Toronto, ON Monday, April 7th, 2008

Graf on the Tracks, Pt. 3

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY Monday, April 21st, 2008

Leslieville & Riverdale

author: Michelle : Toronto, ON Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Lost Robot

author: POWcityblog : Toronto, ON Monday, April 7th, 2008

No Parking Pls

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

How Much Is That Pussy in the Window?

author: Montrealbunny : Montreal, QC Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Open House

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Graf on the Tracks, Pt. 1

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY Monday, April 21st, 2008

How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?

author: EvilGentleman : Montreal, QC Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Nam Wah Tea Parlor

author: Peter : New York, NY Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Construction and Congestion in Soho

author: jack : New York, NY Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Time-Lapse Graffiti Door

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY Thursday, April 17th, 2008

So Toy Graf

author: Catherine Penfold-Waxman : Queens, NY Monday, April 7th, 2008

Nice Penny, Nice People

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Scenes from Winter 2007

author: Montrealbunny : Montreal, QC Monday, April 14th, 2008

Clean Canvasses?

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

No Standing Anytime

author: Peter : New York, NY Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Hockey Victory Riot

author: EvilGentleman : Montreal, QC

Montreal has an odd little tradition of rioting after major victories during the NHL playoffs. Usually it is after winning the Stanley Cup, but this time, the riots began after the first round of playoffs. Thousands of jubilant fans poured out of the Bell Centre and began celebrating in the streets after the Montreal Canadiens defeated their arch-rivals the Boston Bruins 5-0 in game 7 of the conference quarter-finals. A little after midnight, I became aware of the riots finishing up downtown. Naturally, I went down to have a look-see,...

Cabeza

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

I've been watching this pig's head rot in that spot in an empty lot at the corner of Central Avenue and Suydam Street since at least October. It was very fleshy when I first saw it. I bet it'll be bleached white by the end of summer. This is the entire empty lot... Bushwick, Brooklyn...

Wet Sex Street

author: Peter : New York, NY

An edited Wet Paint sign makes for an edited Essex Street sign on the J train platform... Lower East Side, New York, NY...

The Murals of Leslieville

author: Elicar : Toronto, ON

The murals at Leslieville all have something in common: Graffiti Transformation Fund, Mural Program, Grant Thornton Centre. Both the Graffiti Transfomation and Mural Program fall under Neighbourhood Improvement Grants given by the City of Toronto. "Graffiti Transformation Employs youth for removing graffiti and replacing it with murals, through grants to community organizations. Mural Program Business associations, including community groups that include strong business participation, can receive one-time funding for street banners or wall mural projects that help promote a local theme and facilitate commercial neighbourhood identity." www.toronto.ca/grants/grants_dir . . . rectory.htm#neighbourhood Ralph Thorton Centre on the other hand, is a centre established in...

Ben's Deli

author: EvilGentleman : Montreal, QC

Sometimes, landmarks do not survive. This is the unfortunate case with Ben's Deli, one of Montreal's best-known and beloved smoked meat deli restaurants. Founded in 1908, Ben's was a Montreal institution that generated so much devotion from their clientele, that many previous attempts to buy the building and tear it down, in order to develop the extremely valuable downtown real estate it sits on, were met with protests and outrage. For years, Ben's held the real estate developers at bay, a little island of the old Montreal surrounded by office towers. In the end, it was the unions that did Ben's in. Unable...